L.A. is going bust, but you'll still need plastic surgery to land that new job. Kimora Lee Simmons is selling something and Peaches needs a new dress, but won't you send some cash to Michele Bachmann for her birthday first?

Today in #tips, destruction cuts through our Cadbury haze as we find that murder is aimless, California won't stop earthquaking, and it may be better to fake death than to date Olivia Newton-John.

Your Gawker editorial team has largely vamoosed (though there'll be some posting over the next two days) but that doesn't mean there's nothing going on here. We're creating the tagpage #crosstalk where you can spend the whole weekend chatting.