Malcom Gladwell managed to take the fun out of getting blackout drunk. Really, man? Really?

What will $200,000 get you at Neiman Marcus? Eight cupcake cars, or Dinner with American Literature. Really: Neiman Marcus is selling a $200K dinner, replete with America's literature and arts luminaries. Who do you get for all that cash?

Remember hairdo'd Malcom Gladwell's pop philosophy bestseller Blink? It was all about the power of the mind or something, and now they're making a bizarre-sounding movie out of it. Starring the increasingly bizarre Al Pacino.

A story in Canada's National Post about how Canadian journo Clive Thompson is secretly jealous of more famous Canadian author Malcom Gladwell made brief mention of "a Canadian mafia of print journos that exists in the Manhattan magazine world." There are more Canucks in the New York media world than you might imagine, and nearly all of them hold positions of terrifying power. Do you know your Canadian Mafia members? Join us on a trip through Manhattan's dirty underbelly with the Molson-guzzling old time hockey aficionados who secretly run the media.