The president of the Black Student Union when we were in college, a native of Southern California, used to comment that in Los Angeles, "When white people do it, it's a melee; when black people do it, it's a riot." We were reminded of that aphorism today by Jewblogger Steven I. Weiss, who looked at local press coverage of a, um, disturbance in Brooklyn last night.
Wait, something was wrong with the old one, "Happiness in a Little Ziplock Baggie"?
A fine set of lingerie, however? La Perla could cure cancer.
• We're honored to be included in this year's Most Loathsome list from the New York Press — it's like being told by a tranny hooker that you wear too much makeup. One point of contention, though: we are not more loathsome than Andrea Peyser. That's just crazy talk. [NYPress]
• After being arrested this morning for assaulting her assistant/maid/slave, Naomi Campbell emerges from the Midtown North Precinct wearing a poncho — hey, it worked for Martha! [TMZ]
• For their "Green Issue," Vanity Fair planned on using recycled paper — but it's just too hard, caring about the environment and shit. [Muckracked]
• Tim Zagat has no idea his little survey books are irrelevant. [NY Sun]
• Grups — New York magazine's new term for the dude in the Sleater-Kinney t-shirt pushing a stroller through DUMBO — are advertising demographic gold. Duh. That article was sponsored by Rogan. [AdFreak]
An emailer directed our attention to this "Breaking News" article on the Daily News AP feed:
The board of directors of American Media — the publishing company that brings you such joys at National Enquirer, Star, Bonnie Fuller, and a CEO named David Pecker — is meeting in New York today, and apparently there's all sorts of financial tension going on: New board members, problems with bondholders, even commercial flights (gasp!) for the execs. Of course, all this we had to learn from Nat Ives' Ad Age story on AMI. In the Post, we got no further than Keith Kelly's subhed:
Disappointingly, it seems it wasn't thrown at her.
A recent news alert from ABCNews.com:
And finally the Democrats are in a stronger position than the Republicans — Ted Kennedy, after all, simply cannot be killed.
Well that's not very nice, Yahoo. Yes, well all know he looks like a decomposing corpse, but he isn't technically "remains" yet. (On the other hand, though, it's generous of you to consider him human.)
An article in yesterday's Times:
And, sadly, his videos are just as disappointing.
Then the president traveled to Capitol Hill, where he kicked several Democratic legislators in the shins. Just because he could.
At right is the cover of last week's Newsweek. And here is the correction from this week's Newsweek:
We were disappointed — thought not, truth be told, particularly surprised — to click through and discover this article was not in fact about hand sanitizers with bad attitudes, cutting school and hanging out by the train tracks to smoke cigarettes with kids from bad families. Transgressive hand sanitizers seemed so much cooler and more interesting than usual. Sigh.
Vanity Fair, issue dated April 2006:
