Award winning journalist Laurie Garrett has decided to resign from Newsday and has written an impassioned resignation memo that Romenesko has printed in full today.

We definitely think it's awesome that The Rock is on the cover of Out this month. But couldn't his people negotiate right of refusal for all coverlines? The Rock can't be happy to have his smiling mug just below "UNHUNG MEN: HOW THEY COPE."

Women's Wear Daily reports—well, repurposes the press release—that The Harvard Lampoon will be creating a standalone spoof of Premiere:

We weren't even aware of The New York Sun's existence until this morning (with all those free papers being handed out near the subway, it's hard to keep up), but apparently it's a real newspaper.

Who said journalists aren't helpful? Sometimes when a writer interviews someone, there are statements that are left unsaid or implications that linger between the lines. It's up to the writer to either clarify those statements or let the subject dangle on the end of their own ill-chosen words.

Have you heard? British newspaper and magazine editors are coming to New York! Their arrival is so important, American editors have to run articles about the phenomenon every few months. Oh, and they have to use the lede "The British are coming!" It's the law.

We may have spent a good part of yesterday focusing on Kevin Federlust, but the heart is unpredictable and today we've fallen for another man. Jerry Oppenheimer, who already earned our admiration with his brilliant Anna Wintour biography Front Row, has earned our loins' favor with his two-day stint over at The Black Table. He might not be hot in the filthy way that Federline is, but we love him for his mind, you shallow assholes. In recounting the juiciest bits from his storied collection of unauthorized biographies, Oppenheimer reveals that Barbara Walters might be a bit of a racist, Rock Hudson continued to sleep around after he was diagnosed as HIV-positive, Martha Stewart threw nude pool parties, and Hillary Clinton like the phrase, "fucking Jew bastard." (In Hillary's defense, we frequently refer to ourselves with the same epithets.) The only disappointment is that Oppenheimer still won't reveal the details of the Jerry Seinfeld goat-fucking incident, but we're sure he'll put out by the fourth date.
Tell All King Drops The Bomb On Everyone, Parts One And Two [Black Table]

Author and blogger Dennis Perrin offers this bit of video store clerk brilliance in the second of his series of heartfelt Hunter S. Thompson tributes:

In this week's New York Press, Matt Taibbi expresses his love for Kurt Andersen in the only way he knows how: by ripping the guy a new asshole.

Let it never be said that Michelle Malkin isn't one of those "cool moms"—you know, like Amy Poehler in Mean Girls.

In mandatory 'Gates' news, New York Magazine finds a novel approach to the city's most written about public art project: how do 'The Gates' impact dogs? Apparently dogs actually urinate on Christo's masterwork (and some dogs even crap on The New York Times!), and, like philistines, they're afraid of them.

Hunter S. Thompson killed himself yesterday, as readers of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the frantic late-night emails from their most self-styled 'degenerate' friends knows.

Today's mandatory 'Gates' post is a photo from National Geographic that shows the work from outer space.

This week, The New York Press runs a letter from Larry Penner about the Brooklyn Nets stadium:

Would you rather quaff Ken Auletta or sip Larry Flynt?

It's after 3PM and we haven't done our court ordered mandatory 'Gates' entry for the day. In today's Times, Nicholas Confessore reports on a widespread cultural theft the likes of which the world has not seen since Iraqi looters pilfered a bunch of dusty old junk. ("My goodness, were there that many vases? Is it possible that there were that many vases in the whole country?," a wise man said at the time.)

Did Harper's editor Lewis Lapham change jobs without anyone telling us?

Former Parks Commissioner Henry Stern lightens up his opinion on 'The Gates':

Heartfelt "Get Well Soon" sentiments to Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau, who will be out of commission for six to eight weeks after his skiing accident last week. According to The Times 'Arts, Briefly,' that means reprints will run in place of his syndicated comic strip.

IWantMedia runs Michael Wolff's opening address from the 2005 SIIA Information Industry Summit in New York. Since the Michael Wolff fansites have been abuzz and our inbox is flooded with thousands of requests to run an exceprt, here's a selection wherein Wolff dissects how The Wall Street Journal went from the best paper in the country to irrelevant: