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NYC Women Will Play You Like a Naughty Fiddle

Jessica · 09/13/05 11:27AM

The front page of today's Post boldly proclaims that there's real sex going on in our city — which got our attention, obviously, because we didn't think it counted if it involved something purchased at Toys in Babeland. As it turns out, you dirty little minxes are humping more than just the plastic stuff:

Good Taste, May It Rest in Peace

Jessica · 09/07/05 08:42AM

At first, we saw today's Post and were a little shocked at their blatantly unfortunate front page layout.

The Exquisite Wit of 'New York Post' Copy Editors, Maybe

Jesse · 09/06/05 05:00PM

The Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi has, of course, been ransacked by Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath of Katrina. Here in New York, we're heartbroken by that loss, we're incensed at the government that allowed this humanitarian disaster to occur, and we're also reminded of our good fortune — our health, our happiness, and our ability to go outside and enjoy our current, perfect late-summer weather. And so we're sure it was with these conflicting realities and emotions in mind — awareness of the devastion down south, appreciation for the natural beauty here in the north — that a brilliant and nuanced Post headline writer came up with the unquestionably perfect title for a travel-section piece today on foliage-viewing hikes less than two hours from the city: "Walking on Sunshine," which is also the title of the one hit by one-hit wonders Katrina and the Waves. It's perfect synchronicity.

It's Not Easy Being 'Columnist of the Year'

Jesse · 09/02/05 10:31AM

It's a tough week for all Americans. And it's a particularly tough week for braying Bush-apologist rightwing nutjobs — like Post columnist Andrea Peyser.

Remainders: OMG, Could This Be a 'Laguna' Spoiler?

Jessica · 08/29/05 05:35PM

• Some hot Laguna Beach gossip for you kids: At a VMA after-party in Miami, Jason was seen holding hands and locking face with LC. And if you've no idea what this means, you're so much better than us. Really.
• Our congratulations to urban redneck Steve Cuozzo, whose contempt for the Pakistani Pride festivities is admirably unrivaled for its sheer racism. [NYP]
• If Target buys online wedding planning service TheKnot.com, does this mean we'll never have to deal with another Tiffany's registry? Please, oh please. [BW]
• Some women will go just too damn far to be on Oprah. Rest assured, their children are ashamed. [Oprah]
• It's not murder, but something just as sinister: A gay catfight over litterbox duty. [Towleroad]

Breaking News: J-Student Breaks News

Jesse · 08/25/05 09:23AM

We're typically like Uncle Leo, ready and even eager to find anti-Semitism anywhere. But, still, we just can't get ourselves worked up about a scoop in this morning's Post, that Bronx Democratic chief Jose Rivera charged that Assembly speaker Shelly Silver made a deal with Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz because "blood [was] taking care of blood." See, Rivera meant that as a compliment. "I learn from 'em," Rivera also said. "God bless 'em, you know what I mean. What's good for them is good for me and my people."

Media Bubble: All the World's a Town Car

Jesse · 08/22/05 01:00PM

• The HuffPost is like a town car, says Simon Dumenco. And he likes Town Cars. [Ad Age]
• Who'd have thunk it: Al Gore TV ain't so bad. [NYT]
• The newsweeklies are dying, apparently. Of course, the newsweeklies are always dying. [USAT]
• Lizzie Grubman, muse. [NY Mag]
• One vote for Charlie Gibson as the new Peter Jennings. [B&C]
• TK soon in Septmeber GQ: "Supreme Court Justices: They're Just Like Us!" [WWD, third item]
• Remember how the Post said the Bancrofts want to sell Dow Jones? Well, the Post also said Dick Gephardt would be running for vice president. [NYT]

'Post' Catches State Pols Abusing Power, Grammar

Jesse · 08/22/05 09:16AM

Today's Post has an exclusive that is uncharacteristically both actually exclusive and, even better, actually true: Someone gave the paper a tape filled with about 45 minutes of secretly recorded conversations among Gov. Pataki, his wife, Al D'Amato, and some top political advisors. There's lots of stuff about patronage appointments, lots of Libby Pataki bitching about her schedule of events and the fact Donna Hanover Giuliani got more attention at those events than she did, and, finally, what to us is clearly the most scandalous bit, from a conversation between D'Amato and a Pataki aide about a patronage job:

NYP Login Hell: Keep the Faith

Jessica · 08/15/05 10:20AM

Frustrating as it may be, you have to admit that encountering login troubles for the Post online is kind of like getting spanked by an old friend — it hurts, but the familiarity of the pain is strangely comforting. A reader writes:

Can't Break Free From the Things That You Do

Jesse · 08/10/05 05:00PM

Yes, the dude who jumped/fell from the Yankee Stadium stands into the netting behind home plate is a doofus. But we finally read the article and realized it gets even worse. He created a situation in which we kind of like the Boss, who had a great comment on it:

Who Is This Nut?

Jesse · 08/10/05 09:20AM

We wondered yesterday who'd be the third famous media figure to go this week — because these things always come in threes — and we're afraid this is it: Insane parking-garage magnate Abe Hirschfeld, who owned the New York Post for about two weeks in 1993, died yesterday.

And Why Not?

Jessica · 08/09/05 07:25AM

Finally, leadership in sync with the product.

Martha Stewart Gets Another 3 Weeks of Bedford Gray

Jessica · 08/04/05 09:31AM

As the psychics at Page Six predicted yesterday, Martha Stewart spent her 64th birthday getting smacked with another three weeks in home confinement. Having spent the past five months serving out the remainder of her sentence from the dungeons of her Bedford, N.Y., uber-farm, Stewart became inexplicably naughty and attended an illicit yoga class in Bedford Hills, then furtively stopped by a neighboring bookstore. When the Post published a picture of Martha driving a cart to engage in these questionable activities, federal probation officials saw cause for additional punishment — sadly, she would have otherwise been free as of next Wednesday.

New Techniques in Media Relations

Jesse · 08/03/05 10:31AM

Find letters to the editor and demands for corrections insufficiently blunt instruments for airing your grievances with a media organization? Consider taking a page from GlobeTel Communications Corp. (or, at least, a big fan of the company with a lot of time on his hands).

Happy Birthday, Martha Stewart!

Jessica · 08/03/05 10:10AM

Just in time for her 64th birthday today, post-incarceration domestication machine Martha Stewart is looking at more time under house arrest. Stewart — whose stint in the slammer has been rewarded with two upcoming television shows — is allegedly facing punishment because of a Post report that Stewart had violated the terms of her house arrest by taking yoga classes in town with her daughter Alexis.

Rupert Murdoch Takes Over as NYP Publisher

Jessica · 08/03/05 09:05AM

Just days after our media lust-object Lachlan Murdoch resigned as publisher of the Post and, in turn, from his father Rupert's News Corp. media behemoth, Rupert himself has announced that he will take over as publisher of the Post. Official mouthpiece Howard Rubenstein says the move shows advertisers Murdoch's faith and commitment to the paper, although for Post staffers who have had to deal with Murdoch's constant tips ("I've told you dozens of times: You must use a derogatory adjective when referring to Hillary Clinton!"), Murdoch's new position really isn't much of a procedural or editorial change. The only actual change, we imagine, is yet to come:

NYP's Steve Cuozzo Gnaws on Limbs of 'GQ' Staff

Jessica · 08/03/05 08:43AM

Post writer Steve Cuozzo has set some sort of record, having nearly 1000 words in the otherwise concise-ish Living section. The topic meriting such space? A rebuttal to GQ's "4 Best Cities on Earth (To Eat In)" feature, in which New York is not included. In fact, GQ includes a NYC sidebar to express that our tomato sauce is "crappy" and our scene is "obnoxious." Stupid jerks.

NYDN Throws This Week's Gauntlet to NYP

Jessica · 08/02/05 09:45AM

The second we saw the lede, we knew it was going to be good: "By the time you've watched just one hour of the Fox show 'American Idol,' Rupert Murdoch has lost $7,990 on the New York Post." We're surprised it took the Daily News this long to issue the requisite taunt in light of Friday's resignation of Post publisher Lachlan Murdoch, but now that they have, we're anticipating some daily ankle biting from both papers' business desks. To make the inevitable retort run a bit more smoothly, we've gone ahead and taken the Daily News bitchslap and edited it so that the Post can easily slip it into tomorrow's paper: