Hey, remember the Huffington Post? Maxim UK EIC Greg Gutfeld is continuing to wipe his hilarious drool all over the high-minded blog, and his latest post outlines his "new line of environmentally friendly sex aids." Some examples:
• Our favorite ex-pat Greg Gutfeld dons his labcoat and, after extensive scientific research, comes up with the latest medical scare, Huff-Lag. So that's why we feel sick and depressed whenever we read the HuffPo for too long. [HuffPo]
• On the NYC singles scene: "It's a fashion-y, power, kind of who you know and what you know kind of city." Yeah? And who the fuck are you? [Forbes]
• Precious indie rocker Bright Eyes gets wasted at Glastonbury, talks shit on stage, loses respect of Number One Fan Jonathan Safran Foer. [Buddyhead via Goldenfiddle]
• We remember people hating on capri pants back in 1998. Apparently, they're still hating. Listen: If it's hot as hell outside and you don't like your upper thighs, you don't have a lot of options. Lay off, dudes. [IHateCapriPants]
• Ah, good, now we're not the only website editors with BJ victims around town. [OiNY]
• And there's only one way to end a day like today: What. The. Fuck. [Craigslist]
The NYT takes a look at Greg Gutfeld's tenure as editor of Stuff, and his abrupt departure earlier this week. Gutfeld contends that his bosses just didn't get his sense of humor. Gutfeld, who got kicked out of grade school for lighting firecrackers in class, continued with the pranks through most of his editorial career. Stuff featured public mockings of other magazines such as having then GQ editor Art Cooper's handwriting analyzed, responded to letters sent to Entertainment Weekly (an oldie but a goodieSPY used to answer letters to the New Yorker), and running a "correction" that said, "In last month's issue of Esquire, we thought we read something pretty interesting; turns out, we were just staring at a wall." Gutfeld's off-the-page stunts were even better. He sent a group of dwarf actors to disrupt a magazine panel and wore a bearskin rug to a fashion show. I know Gutfeld's a pain in the ass, but I think Stuff is going to be incredibly boring now. Then again, if he's looking for things to do, we could always use another unpaid intern.
A publishing pest moves on [NYT]
Greg Gutfeld has been "promoted" at Stuff to the newly created role of Creative Director, Brand Development. (Greg Gutfeld, if you remember, is the guy who hired midgets to disrupt a media panel a while back and had then-GQ editor Art Cooper's handwriting analyzed. He also made fun of other Dennis Publishing publicationsMaxim in particularwhich probably didn't go over too well with the boss.) From the pre-emptive press release that I can't find online: "[Gutfield will] be spending a great deal of time lounging in executive suites, swanky bars, swimming pools and yachts, fiddling with scripts and consulting his 'little black book.'" Promoted, firedsame thing.
Stuff and Maxim get new editors [Ad Age]
· Stuff Editor Greg Gutfeld hired three midgets posing as Stuff writers to crash the American Society of Magazine Editors forum on "What Gives a Magazine Buzz." [Page Six]
· Director Kevin Smith is furious that the media is confusing his "Ben and J-Lo" movie Jersey Girl with that other "Ben and J-Lo" movie Gigli. [Page Six]
· Kelly Osbourne, biting the hand that feeds her family's reality TV show: "MTV makes me sick to my stomach...MTV only plays 35 videos a week. They used to be all about breaking new artists." [NY Daily News]
· Calvin Klein hasn't been seen in the office in a month and blindsided Philips Van Heusen execs by announcing at his February show that it would be his last. Maer Roshan's new magazine, Radar, is set to launch April 22, and immediately takes a shot at Vanity Fair. [The Word]
Rival editors make suggestions about where the newly editorless GQ should go from here: Keith Blanchard, Maxim Editor: "I d change the title to LPFQ: Lesbian Pillow Fight Quarterly." Greg Gutfeld, Stuff Editor: "First I'd invite it over for a slumber party. Then I'd do its hair! We'd stay up talking about boys and call Esquirebut get nervous and hang up!"
Man's work [NY Mag]
· Stuff Editor Greg Gutfeld arrived at the Phat Farm show on Thursday wearing a bearskin cape complete with head, claws, eyes and teeth. Said Gutfeld, the bear's name was "Skittles . . . and he lived and died for fashion." [Page Six]
· Imitation of Christ reps were spreading rumors that Jeremy Scott's show was cancelled, fearing that it would interfere with their after-party. [Page Six]
· Fox News put an ad in a cable business publication that read "We report. You golf." It featured a figure chipping a golf ball toward a cup with a CNN flag. [NY Daily News]
· The $700 sale price of Calvin Klein to Philips Van Heusen breaks down to $430 million in cash and the rest in PVH stocksignificantly lower than the $1 billion-plus asking range in 2000. Only four designers showed up to Laura Bush's "Red Dress Collection" benefit for heart disease Friday morning. Michael Gross writes, "Zac Posen, at least, had a good excuse," and goes on to explain that Pretty-Boy Prima-Donna Poseur Posen was up late the night before partying at the Four Seasons with assorted models and celebs. [Ed. noteIf getting wasted with the fashionably emaciated the night before is a "good excuse," isn't it fair to say that at least 80% of the designers who didn't show up had a "good excuse"?] [The Word]
Stuff Editor Greg Gutfeld: "That thing about [GQ Editor] Art Cooper coming out against Iraq and people calling him daring, that s just bullshit...That s just an example of how idiotic journalists can be. I was going to buy him a ticket to Baghdad, but I m too cheap...If he were to come out in favor of war in front all those left-wing editors, that would have shown real balls." Cooper responds: "I just think this guy shouldn t criticize real magazines when he editshowever you want to define whatever junky little thing he does."
At the Journal, identity crisis on page one [Observer]
