Because you need more help, and because we were being inadvertently sexist:

'New Yorker' Cartoon Caption Contest [Daily Transom]

The Washington Post's discovery of Michael's — it's a midtown see-and-be-seen power-lunch spot, apparently — is so boring and late and unoriginal (and cringingly headlined) that there's nearly no need to mention it. Except for this one bit: Finally, there's an explanation of why in God's name the restaurant allows Laurel Touby to skulk around the place with a seating chart and a notebook:

So you've got 10 years of experience as a manager in an editorial environment. You've got top-notch editing, editorial evaluation, managing, and business development skills. You want nothing more than a good opportunity to liaise with a publisher. And yet you're sitting at home, alone, unemployed and unfulfilled. You're checking the Mediabistro job boards regularly, looking for that perfect gig, but it just doesn't show up. If only, you despair, there were some special, secret job that's much too important too post on Mediabistro. But there's no such possibility, you know: Everyone posts their jobs on the 'Bistro.

Not to say we told you so, but here's what was posted on Mediabistro this morning:

On the one hand we're astonished there's so little real news in the sixth borough that this made the Philadelphia City Paper. On the other hand we're a bit surprised this sort of thing doesn't happen more often.

If you're anything like we think us, you're lazy as hell. And we're certainly not going to spend $15 dollars of our hard-earned smack cash just to learn how to unlazify ourselves. Thus we sent poor Intern Neel to last night's performance of Mediabistro on Ice:

An alert reader points us to this event, posted on Mediabistro: