We're supposed to be uniting now? Shit. That's gonna make things so much less fun for Krucoff.

And later today, Mickey Kaus will stake out the unexpected and counterintuitive pro-olive oil but anti-balsamic vinegar stance.

Oh, look, it's another discussion on blogs and journalism:

• At Advertising Week in September, the headline event will be Jon Stewart interviewing four yet-unnamed prominent magazine editors. We really hope it's Newsweek chief Mark Whitaker. We hear he's a laugh riot. [AdFreak]
• "[B]logs are often just a way of making oneself appear on the Internet," observes NYT editorial. No word on whether newspapers are a way for making oneself appear in print, of if TV is a way for making oneself appear on TV. [NYT]
• More on the Murdoch Family Feud: It wasn't that Rupe couldn't let go, it was that Lach just didn't care enough. And dad was very disappointed in him, young man. [Economist]
• Top flack Peter Costiglio to leave Time Inc. at end of summer. Also, EIC Norm Pearlstine could hand over the top chair to editorial director John Huey around then, too. Ah, they grow up so fast these days. [NYP]
• Army Archerd to end column, but not leave Variety. [NYT]
• Will Fairchild honestly name a new editor to take over Jane within the next week? And does this new editor actually exist as of yet? [Folio]

• Jake Bronstein, the jackanapes known for making a mold of his penis and bathing in Bryant Park, wants to marry you. He's sadly serious, too — go on, you know you've always wanted to marry someone from Road Rules. [TMI]
• After 52 years, Variety gossip Army Archerd calls it a day and ends his column. [Reuters]
• Shape editor Anne Russell abruptly resigns (which is code for "gets canned" according to WWD), thus creating yet another mini-crisis around the AMI offices. They just can't seem to get enough of those. [Mediaweek]
• Our sincere condolences to the Times' Lola Oguinnake, who was forced to touch Janice Dickinson's lifelike breasts. [NYT]
• The art of reporting celebrity pregnancies. [Radar]
• Hipsters, unplug your kitsch-fabulous Christmas lights and cancel band practice: The LES is being asked to conserve energy. [Gothamist]

• Time Warner sets aside $3 billion to settle lawsuits resulting from the Worst Merger in History. Sadly, it's not coming from Steve Case and Jerry Levin's personal bank accounts. [NYT]
• Newly arrived OK! doesn't look much different from the competition. [USAT]
• Judy Miller fits in fine in jail, warden says. And, if not, they have vays of making prisoners "fit in." [WP]
• Howard Stern to go uncensored on video-on-demand TV. [NYP]
• "All that press coverage of the blogs, and the audience is just minuscule," a Forrester Research veep says while releasing a new study. And how big's your audience, Forrester? [Boston Herald]

The L magazine is out with its oddly punctuated "Best! (and Worst) of NYC" double issue. The results come from a reader poll, and we disagree with almost all of it, from their sexiest newscaster (Matt Lauer? Please. Hasn't Pat Kiernan ever read the L folks the paper?) to their best tree-lined block (a host of cute West Village blocks kick Jane's puny ass, beginning with Bank and Commerce) to their best burger (um, guys, if you like Jane Street so much, can we point you to a bistro on its corner?). And let's not even get started on their taste in NYC blogs.

We received an interesting email late yesterday afternoon from the good folks at Radar. Seems they're not pleased with our reports that the magazine, contrary to Maer Roshan's claims, is actually not sold out.

No, we didn't not make this up. The Poynter Institute's six-figure media blogger Jim Romenesko has a dorky little secret. It's an old blog entry, where readers could go to share fond memories of their favorite "news bloopers." Like, remember back in 1988 when the Savannah Morning News made a dummy box that actually went to print?! Ah, good times, man.

We're amazed that Arianna Huffington still lets Maxim UK editor Greg Gutfeld post on her group blog — but thank God she does, because Gutfeld's finally addressed some of our lingering HuffPo questions:

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Bonnie Fuller's upcoming memoir will be titled The Joys of Much Too Much: Go For the Big Life — The Great Career, The Perfect Guy and Everything Else You Ever Wanted (Even If You're Afraid You Don't Have What It Takes), as Jeff "Big Lug" Bercovici reported last week in WWD.

• Al Gore, media mogul, is set to launch Current TV a week from today. [NYT]
• Jann Wenner and Kent Brownridge are the lovable rogues of publishing. Unless you have to work for them, in which case they're not so much lovable. [NYT]
• Another launch: Quick & Simple, Hearst's first weekly service mag, will his stands next week. Only $1.49 per issue. [Mediaweek]
• Simon Dumenco reveals all his off-the-record secrets, including the sweet nothings Jacob Bernstein whispered to him at summer camp. [Ad Age]
• New public-radio program, "Open Source," will be blog-based radio. Because that's what bloggers need: More opportunities to yammer. [NYT]

• NYT Arts & Leisure czarina Jodi Kantor gives up the big job for a reporting slot at The Way We Live. "After a couple of years in the building," she says in the memo, "I'm dying to get out and actually report some stories myself." Sure. And Willy Loman was dying to drive from city to city and make no sales. [Romenesko Memos]
• The removal of the couch shows that Jon Stewart is trying to take on Ted Koppel. Or something like that. [LAT]
• Fairchild interns think Fairchild's new dress guidelines make no sense, reports Fairchild's WWD. [WWD, fourth item]
• Like the Catholic church and sinners vs. sins, Seventeen chief Atoosa Rubenstein doesn't hate blogs. Just the no-longer-anonymous bloggers she nearly hires to work for her. [Jossip]
• More fun with maybe/once-anonymous bloggers: Hot on the trail of Imaginary Socialite, Daily Transom builds us to a great climax. Then, natch, it doesn't finish. Sigh. [Daily Transom]

Nadine Haobsh, aka the writer behind blog Jolie in NYC — who, after much speculation, was outed as a beauty editor from Ladies Home Journal — dropped us a line yesterday. As we mentioned before, we had simply emailed Haobsh months ago asking where she worked and, when she said LHJ, we shrugged (plus, she said she couldn't get us any Creme de la Mer). She writes:

Formerly anonymous beauty-mag blogger JolieinNYC, whose identity had been the subject of much speculation over at FishbowlNY, was inadvertently outed on Monday by, natch, a beauty publicist.

• Howard Stern announces Adam Carolla and David Lee Roth will take over his timeslot once he moves to satellite radio. Unless, of course, he was just kidding. [LAT]
• In All the President's Men, reporters were movie heroes. Now they're always slime. Not unlike what real people think of reporters. [NYT
• Breaking: Supreme Court nominee will be fair game for bloggers. Thanks for the permission, USA Today. [USAT
• "When a Man Dies in a Sex Act With a Horse — What's a Reporter to Do?" Man, if we had a nickel for every time someone asked us that question.... [E&P]

By popular demand, we're doing our best to focus for more than 2 minutes and direct our attention to this weekend's Modern Love column in the Times. We wanted desperately to take the side of the nanny, who was fired after her employers had enough of reading about her not-unusual exploits on her blog — but that would've been too easy, to simply side with the little guy, maligned by rich, nanny-employing overlords. Instead, Helaine Olen's essay about reading her nanny's website had us thinking a few things:

• A play based on writer (and insanely rich Fresh Prince of Bel Air creator) Andy Borowitz's 1994 New Yorker Shouts and Murmurs piece "Pavlov's Brother" debuted at the Toronto Fringe Festival, where it was dubbed "serious and funny and heartbreaking and weird," which was meant as a compliment. [emdashes]
• In Williamsburg, do not run, jump, throw bottles, or make a documentary. [TOTC]
• It's not particularly fascinating news, but, still, it's tough not to be intrigued by a game show in development in which "contestants battle other players and dolphins in the water." [Felber Frolics]
• Shocker: Beauty editors and beauty publicists kind of hate each other. (We, on the other hand, love magazine publicists, of course.) [Jolie in NYC]

• Moby delivers CD in Chelsea, plays with dogs. [Towleroad]
• Why Al Gore invented the Internet: Liveblogging Brian Lehrer on WNYC. [The Local]
• We may or may not agree that Vanessa from Six Feet Under was robbed in the Emmy nominations, but we nevertheless find this Tyne Daly pic oddly, and frighteningly, compelling. [You Can't Make It Up]
• Blogger obsessed with the Post's "Meet Market" meets a Meet Marketer. And, interestingly, the world doesn't collapse on itself. [Lectern]