Some Gawker Stalker reports are worth their own entry (aka "slicing the bologna"):

New York Times Public Editor Dan Okrent muses on God's work being done from West 43rd Street.

In the midst of the terrible tsunami tragedy in Asia, Matt Drudge reminds us that the Bible is a living, breathing document.

Did everyone bask in a global feel-good vibe on Christmas Day like blogger/Conde Nast exec Jeff Jarvis? Was there a moment, say right before the youngest family member catapulted a fork across the room, that you thought "nevermind the election, war politics, and existence of Fox News — it's all gonna be ok"? Good, now pluck that fork out of the ceiling and jam it into your ear. NYT's Thomas Friedman wastes no time in getting his Scrooge loose and reminding us how we're all still totally fucked.

From The New York Times' 'Corrections: For the Record':

The last reports of holiday office parties are straggling in:

...In the festive colors of the season.
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The 'Post' features an ad for Barnes & Noble in the form of an article that suggests the book behemoth is the best place to find a date.

New York Daily News, Dec. 20, 2004.

Contrary to popular belief, Gawker's Team Party Crash was NOT invited to the Cond Nast assistants' holiday party (yes, we too were shocked and, well, a little bit hurt). Held in a festive conference room at 4 Times Square, the annual assistants' lunch was a classy and expensive affair, featuring 20 minutes of cocktails followed by a undoubtedly stunning chicken buffet. For dessert, everyone donned red reindeer noses (certainly against their will) and posed for pictures.

It's one thing to run the media, but now they're rubbing it in our faces.

The palpable loss of innocence, best demonstrated through the use of italics.
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None of the above. But we do have some nice heirloom tomatoes.
Online Survey [NYO]

TO: All @ Gawker
FROM: Editorial
RE: Our Byzantine Ovaries

At the wee age of 25, David Haskell has made a name for himself as the editor of Topic magazine, an old-school, anti-glossy magazine that publishes nonfiction writing and photography on only one topic at a time. In this exclusive IMterview, David tells us what it takes to be a takes media social climber (lots of gay coffee dates, apparently), how to survive a childhood without John Hughes, and of the superior singles scene in Barcelona.

Buried inside Tom Scocca's "Off the Record" report on the sale of 'Slate' to The Washington Post Company is a heartwarming little story about a 15 year-old 'Slate' editor Jacob Weisberg working as a Congressional page under Cliff Sloan, currently his boss once again as general counsel of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive.

New Harry Potter tops book chart [BBC]

· Jack Newfield passes; His old employer remembers him as "a dean of New York City newspaper columnists." (In 2000, he said, "To my amazement the [New York] Post gives me more freedom than the Village Voice did at the end.") [Newsday, VV, Eve's Mag]
· 'Slate,' like, totally sells out. Now it's gonna be all corporate and shit. [Slate; sis has the memo]
· James Wolcott really, really hates Tucker Carlson's guts. [James Wolcott]
· Why can't Cargo get any love? The Washington Post's Peter Carlson calls it, "The dumbest new magazine of 2004... a guide to shopping for men. Cargo is stupefyingly stupid but it did one thing right: It hired an associate art director with the coolest name on any magazine masthead: Tahiti Starship." We're betting Tahiti has mixed feelings right about now. [Washington Post]

There's another amusing casting call on Craig's List for a show allegedly on MTV:

According to the profile of The Aviator star, Leonardo DiCaprio, (and his director, Martin Scorsese) in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly, the actor had an rather unpleasant encounter with celebrity scourge (and Bush family member) Billy Bush at the premiere of his film: