We can barely scratch our collective ass around Gawker HQ without opening our inbox to find another hilarious PR email regarding Chris Noth's HIGHLY PUBLICIZED TRIP TO ISRAEL, THE COUNTRY HE LOVES!!! We were genuinely happy for Chris and Israel — it's not often that two brooding hunks find each other like this. Why, then, were we banned from today's CHRIS NOTH RETURNS FROM ISRAEL press conference? We were, like, seriously going to get a few drinks in Midtown and head over for some "reporting."

I swear, one minute they're begging our friends to go to Israel on an all-expenses-paid junket, the next minute they're calling our publisher, banning us from the press conference. That consulate really runs hot and cold!