There's something new in ideas, at last, announces Salon: "First there was Horace. Then there was Juvenal. Now there is David Kamp." My goodness! You see, this fellow has invented the "aspirational satire" with his new book, "The Food Snob's Dictionary." Except then Salon goes on to say he sorta didn't? "By targeting two distinct kinds of readers—those who read one of the Snob's Dictionaries to learn the information it contains, and those who read it to congratulate themselves that they already know it—Kamp is following a trail blazed by his fellow Spy magazine alum Lisa Birnbach. Birnbach's 1980 'The Official Preppy Handbook' is the ur-document of aspirational satire." Mmm, take-backs.

At Half King last night, luminaries of the magazine world came together for a reading of selections from The Best American Magazine Writing 2005. Vanity Fair's David Kamp was there to read "American Communion," his piece for VF on the relationship between Def Jam's Rick Rubin and the late Johnny Cash. After he was introduced, he walked up to the podium and said, "Hi, everyone, I'm JT Leroy."

Have they no decency? Quicker than Art Cooper's tears can dry, the media commentators are handicapping the race to succeed him as editor of GQ. Keith Kelly is offering odds.
· Dylan Jones, editor-in-chief of British GQ: 2-to-1 favorite
· David Zinczenko of Men's Health, although he's taken himself out of the running: 5-to-1
· Michael Hirschorn, past editor of Spin: 10-to-1
· Kurt Andersen, resting at public radio: 35-to-1
· David Kamp, a VF editor: 35-to-1
· Maer Roshan, if Radar doesn't fix: 50-to-1
· Glenda Bailey of Harpers, because SALTYT thinks it's time a lad's mag had a woman editor.