We could not be more proud of those whores over at Jezebel, who offered a $10,000 bounty for the best unretouched cover image of a celebrity from a lady magazine. The winner—a doctored Faith Hill job from Redbook—has resulted in a ton of publicity for the fledgling chick site, all of it well deserved. But it got us thinking: On what could we burn ten grand of our publisher's apparently limitless fortune? We've put together a quick list, but nothing seems to quite fit the bill. If you've got an idea for what might be worth $10,000 while garnering us oodles of publicity and attendant traffic, please leave it in the comments or send it to the tip line. Should your suggestion actually be approved by the Publisher himself, we'll buy you a breakfast at Balthazar with some of the cash we're going to skim off the top. (A breakfast made of gold bars!) Can you do better than these?

  • Anna Wintour getting out of a limo, serving up a full Vogue spread.
  • Handwritten letter from Graydon Carter trashing one of the following: Kurt Andersen, Tina Brown, or Si Newhouse. We'll toss in an extra grand if the word "cocksucker" is included.
  • Wig (or merkin!) made from the pubic hair of CollegeHumor stud Ricky Van Veen. [Of personal interest to Publisher.]
  • Picture of Julia Allison refusing to have her picture taken.
  • The actual stuffed moose thrown on the conference table by Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., during that infamous staff meeting.
  • Howard Rubenstein's soul.
  • Photo or video of Gawker obsession Lindsay Lohan fellating Gawker obsession Rupert Murdoch. (Uh, maybe $20 grand!)


Let's go, people, think of something better. That ten grand (minus, uh, operating expenses) is practically in your Paypal account!