Yesterday’s Bad Poetry crossword puzzle by Alex Pareene was disturbingly difficult! Here at last are the answers.

Inside Yayoi Kusama’s Magic Box

Oh yes, you need to go see the Yayoi Kusama show. In the back of Gagosian on far West 24th Street in…

It turns out that Britney Spears-or at least her brand manager-is something of a cyber-stalker? According to leaked screenshots of Twitter’s admin interface, she is blocked by 3855 users. For contrast, pop singer Lily Allen is only blocked by 184. Leave me alone, Britney!

NYPD’s New Business Cards

Bowing to pressure from outside agitators and money-hungry trial lawyers, the NYPD is now handing out explainer…

Tired of swine flu? Good news! “A patient who saw a doctor in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, is suspected of having contracted a new strain of influenza, Nagoya city officials said Friday.” Before everyone runs off half-cocked in all directions, can we just agree right now that we’re going to call this one “Aichi Breaky Heart”?

Maybe if Van Halen had gone with their original logo I would have learned algebra instead of spending all my time in class trying to draw that frigging VH.

Duly noted and agreed with, from our business manager David Cho on Twitter: “The hipster grifter is the ultimate example of white dudes thinking a girl is more attractive than she is bc she’s azn.”

So there’s this:

“The medical term was gynecomastia, but around the clubhouse they called them “b — — t — -” or “man boobs” — and heaven help the player who sprouted them in the middle of his career and then took his shirt off in the locker room,” the Daily News reporters wrote in…

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The joke here is supposed to be that Florida congressman Alcee Hastings is reading out a list of sexual fetishes on the floor of the…

Your daily outrage alert: Black woman wears expensive sneakers!

According to NPR, David Souter is retiring from the Supreme Court. Rumors began when he didn’t hire this season’s clerks. According to Andy Cooper on the CNN, a “source close to Souter” confirms it. What can we say? Thanks for waiting beyond January 20, 2009! Also now you can…

Attorney Mark Levy, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Clinton administration, killed himself yesterday. Earlier in the week Levy had learned that he was to be one of the 24 attorneys in his firm to be laid off; his 20-year-old son found “a note in his home saying…

Mark Penn, chief pollster for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, tells ABC that had John Edwards chosen not to run because of the whole affair-and-babymaking thing, “it would have been a very different race,” because Edwards voters were “focused on demographics” and Hillary…

What does yesterday’s announcement that Disney would become a full equity partner in Hulu mean for CBS, which is now the only major network not to stream its shows on the video portal? Nothing: Old people don’t watch TV on the computer.

CNN: “Several members of the Republican National Committee are miffed at Newt Gingrich for claiming that they’re a small bunch of egomaniacs who need to be coddled by the party chairman.” Well, of course they’re miffed. It’s gotta sting, right? I mean, who would know better?

Extra special thanks to our columnists this week, and if you are bored this weekend, why not go read them? There’s Mr. Wrong, our House Apologist, our Answer Lady, our Puzzlemaster, that guy who hates rich people, and Macho Sporty Spice, a chick with an ax to grind, that…

“Even though I am California’s ‘top cop,’ 2 of my tires were stolen. No matter. I got 2 new ones and I’m rolling again!” What’s less surprising to you: that Jerry Brown drives a hybrid or that he’s on Facebook?

Dead Portfolio Gets Meta

From the recently-shuttered Portfolio’s homepage. Nice to see that someone over there was able to maintain a sense of humor.