Pete Doherty, rock musician and skinny little skeleton full of drugs, recently played a child's birthday party. He is apparently so hard up for cash since his split from model and smack mama Kate Moss, that he accepted a mere £100 for the gig, the equivalent of $4 million US. I mean $200. He was such a hit that now other parents are asking if he'll do the same for their lil' lasses! Never mind that his band is called Badboy Babyshambles or that one of his super smash hit number one jams is called "Fuck Forever." British people are so weird! [Showbiz Spy]

Former New York "It" boy and Paper magazine blogger Fabian Basabe writes on his blog today that the supermodel turned TV personality, um, soiled herself at Fashion Week. Basabe was filming an interview in the W suite at the tents, and suddenly a whole cadre of people barged in and kicked him out. The reason? Tyra needed to change her clothes. Because of the incident. Apparently they had a spare change of clothes all lined up which makes him wonder if it's happened before. Obviously we have no real confirmation on this. I'm not really sure if Tyra Banks pooping herself is newsworthy, but maybe Basabe's continued usage of the icky term "messed herself" is? Apologies. [Fabian Basabe Blog]

Page Six reported yesterday that the faaabulous fashion designer is rumored to be fooling around with porn star/escort Erik Rhodes. You'll remember that Jacobs' current (past?) boyfriend Jason Preston was also a rent boy before the pair got together. Evidently all three met when Jacobs and Preston invited Rhodes over for a threesome. Rhodes doesn't deny the rumors that the pair are hooking-up on his personal blog. GaySocialites.com speculates that Jacobs is just trying to get back at Preston for doing the same thing. This is all really filthy and tacky and sort of terrific. After the jump, an extremely NSFW video of Rhodes at the RentBoy.com awards last year, at which he won the best Porn Star/Escort award. If you can, please watch it. He's wearing a shirt that says "Hooker" ("designed by my brother") and says that he doesn't usually enjoy the sex he does in "the porns." Le sigh.

Last night, the D.C.-based Atlantic magazine celebrated 150 years of thought at the Kimmel Center Loading Dock at N.Y.U. In a striking display of awful judgment, the VIPs (Arianna Huffington, Moby, the Mayor) were allowed (forced) to mingle on stage. The poors sat in chairs in the auditorium and watched. Jared Kushner was either wryly funny or a dick. Porn queen Robyn Bird went unrecognized by Robert DeNiro and Boykin Curry claimed he doesn't rent his island paradise to whores. God, 'Ad Age' even turned against local goddess Patti Smith. Richard Blakeley was there to tell us what social apartheid looks like. That's satirist P.J. O'Rourke trashing the party from the stage, by the way. Welcome to the social disaster of the season!

5W, the world's greatest ever PR firm in the history of PR firms (headed by hot bachelor Ronn Torossian) would like to pitch you the best damn disaster and recovery expert working (or "consulting") today: former FEMA director Michael "Brownie" Brown, the man who single-handedly saved New Orleans. In the dark days of Hurricane Katrina, as various black people looted things and Alex Chilton went missing, America stood as one with our President in praising Brownie's "heck of a job." And Ronn has not forgotten!

For six long days, wildfires have raged across southern California, displacing thousands, destroying millions of dollars worth of property; they still threaten tens of thousands of homes. Seven people are confirmed dead and an area twice the size of New York City is a charred wasteland. But the magazines must go on. According to Folio, the fires "have affected countless numbers of staffers at the region's magazines, publishers there say, but have yet to disrupt magazine production."

We remember it like it was a few minutes ago: We were breezing along, eleven windows open, chatting with all our friends about "The Hills," when suddenly, for no reason, everything went dead. The last thing we saw was "i think audrina is, literally, retarded," and then, boom, disconnected! WHAT A NIGHTMARE! We almost had to go to gchat! Then, when we got back on, we heard that like it happened to everyone else too! OMG! Where were you during the Great Seven Minute IM Outage of 2007 happened? How did you survive? We want to hear your stories.

You've probably heard about the hurricane that may be wending its way toward our city. CBS News reports that the storm—now in its infancy over the Atlantic—may very well turn into a category 1 hurricane before it lashes our shore over the weekend. While experts are still unsure as to whether the storm will maintain its position long enough to gather the necessary wind, we're of the opinion that it's better to be prepared for the worst. We don't want you to panic, obviously, but this is how things will play out.

"Authorities have suspicions about what may have caused the blast, Guerrero said, but he declined to disclose them."
— San Jose Mercury News, reporting on an October 31 explosion at eBay's PayPal headquarters

Firefighters rushed to eBay's San Jose headquarters last night after an explosion in a four-story eBay building. First thought to be a transformer, the cause is now being reported as a bomb.