Intending to have some Christmas swag for pals, we printed up a limited edition Gawker T-shirt. But we don't have any friends. So, instead, we're selling them off. They're 100% cotton, made by American Apparel, and we made our interns print the designs by hand over Thanksgiving. Just kidding—actually, we got a referral from Kathie Lee Gifford for a great sweatshop.
Remember Generation X? You know, Slackers? The thirteenth gen? The first generation of Americans to do worse than their parents? Gosh, this was way back in the early nineties, around the time of a Gulf War, a Bush presidency, and widespread joblessness: A time completely unlike our own.
Desperate for the kind of star-power that would inject new life into The Hollywood Trial of the Century and cloud the minds of the media, lawyers called Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier, a Disney director at the time of Michael Ovitz's hiring, to deliver a soliloquy about his life (and, time permitting, to defend the company's brief employment of the former superagent).
Better late than never:
This week's Entertainment Weekly features a promising exposé on how plastic surgery is destroying Hollywood.
All I want for the holidays is an acknowledgment of my existence:
Everyone thinks we're miserable, cynical misanthropes, but we have a confession to make: We have a raging case of wedding fever! And if there's a cure, we don't want it.
We hate to be the bearers of bad news, but it's not like not mentioning that 750 AOL employees were laid off two weeks before Christmas will un-lay off those unlucky worker bees.
·Metropolis Daily Planet editor 'Perry White' writes humorous staff memo to Jim Romenesko. When did his site become the new "Shouts and Murmurs" page? [Romenesko Letters]
·Smart aleck Simpsons writers mock corporate cousins FOX News. [Lloyd Grove]
·New Yorker writer Jeffrey Goldberg taken to task for "said to be" abuse in 2002 article. [Under the Same Sun]
·David Carr meets all 5-foot-10-inches of Suede editor Suzanne Boyd [NYT]
Every week, the Strategist section of New York magazine features the Look Book, in which they flag down a completely random New Yorker and talk to them about their personal style. This week, they've grabbed "modern-day gypsy" and artist Agathe Snow. How and why they choose these people, we don't know. In order to better understand the Look Book, Alexis The Intern took to the "streets" for reader input. After the jump, The Black Table's Eric Gillin, Fleshbot Intern Matt Schneier, and Nylon's Danielle Nussbaum analyze Agathe's nuanced style.
As you may have already heard, CBS is expected to announce that Scottish actor Craig Ferguson will host The Late Late Show. It'll be hard for us to muster up enthusiasm for a new host we've never heard of for a show we've never watched, but we are sad that Michael Ian Black won't be filling the venerable seat vacated by Craig Kilborn earlier this year.
From today's Corrections:
Some people are so sensitive! You accuse them of a brutal murder with ritualistic overtones on the cover of your tabloid and they get all bent out of shape! Sheesh!
Whoa, bra. We were totally gonna post this photo from The New York Daily News website of some lady smoking a huge fatty promoting—get this, dude—'Health Central.'
