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The Morning News' Choire Sicha (also of East/West) relates his attempt to convert an art-hating dot-commer to a Chelsea gallery gawker. The plan backfires and Choire gets converted: "I stood in the middle of the empty Mary Boone gallery, the most pristine money mill in the world, surrounded by a sold-out show of half-a-million dollar paintings. The impeccable staff were clicking their pens and answering their phones and I wanted to scream. Had it always been so awful?"
The complicated art of Chelsea [TMN]
The Morning News, on the propriety of last year's men's fashions for this year's Spring and Summer: "Bowling or gas-station shirts are good for bowling or gas stations, or demonstrating the only known proof for the argument irony is dead. Did we mention Hawaiian shirts are now being shown in the Smithsonian? Leave them there, unless you're surfing. And don't think we're ignoring a discussion on the merits of oversized silk shirts bearing dragon images or popular comic-book heroes. We simply think anyone who wears these types of shirts, and wants to have a discussion about them probably will explode from the sheer mind-fuck of multiple universes of logic co-existing in their cranium."
Men's fashion: Spring [TMN]
The industrious editors at the Morning News have been spending their time inventing things designed to meet the needs of the lucrative "New York" demographic. Among our favorites: the "Times Wiper," which takes all the "annoying blocks of text" out of the NYT, leaving readers with the comparatively pleasant ads; the "Transit Forceps," to hold open subway doors; and the "Shopping Cleats," to spike anyone that get in your way at the Manolo sample sale.
New York inventions [TMN]
The Morning News' Maggie Berry offers the definitive guide to dressing like a slut and enjoying it. "If you don't wear daring clothes because you worry about your cattier girlfriends snickering," she writes, "I suggest you lose those particular girlfriends and replace them with a buttery pair of understanding leather pants."
Women's fashion: part V, releasing your inner slut [TMN]
The Morning News' "Non-Expert" thinks he's found the perfect pick-up line. The caveats? "1) It works better in large cities, where women and men are more likely to be dressed up; 2) It does not work at the gym, unless you're gay; and 3) It will fail if you say it like you're telling a joke, or seem like you have no idea what you're talking about, or are clearly lying and just want to get laid, or don't follow it with decent conversation."
The perfect pick-up line [TMN]
I think I was subconciously avoiding the dapper be-suited Messrs Baldwin (Rosecrans, The Morning News Editor) and Rojas (Pete, Gizmodo Editor and closet fashionista) because I was secretly afraid that their painful hipness would crush my painful non-hipness. I, by comparison, was complimented on my "very '80s" attire by HereIType, who I was forced to inform that it wasn't intentionally an '80s look.
The Morning News's Sarah Hepola writes about interviewing celebrities and rightfully slams the "junket whores" who "famous around these parts, [were] journalists who leapfrogged from one movie to the next, from The Beach in Hawaii to Anastasia in Paris, traveling in packs, like wolves. Their endless arsenal of celebrity gossip, what Leo looked like, how Julia smelled, what Russell drank, surely made them the smash of every cocktail party."
Starfucker [TMN]
The Morning News analyzes the definition of "New York movie" and breaks the component parts into categories with appropriate examples. After all, it's hard to argue that NYC isn't the center of the world when you constantly see your backyard on the big screen.
An extremely incomplete taxonomy of cinematic New York [TMN]
Fiction writers may want to note the Morning News' article on the New Yorker's fiction policies with regard to unsolicited pieces under new fiction editor Deborah Teisman. Says Teisman, "Someone who s submitting themselves directly to the fiction editor probably isn t all that savvy about publishing and probably not about writing either." Says the Morning News, "complete and utter ignorant, elitist moose-shit."
Among the Unsaavy [TMN]
