The ‘V’ Mag Mario Testino Swimsuit Issue

OMG, V #59, with the Mario Testino-shot summer swimsuit section, is out. Go look! Love…

Also make sure you don’t have sex with any men in front of your bossy, annoying, lesbian alcoholic sister.

The Hipster Grifter Was A Patsy

You don’t want to know just how far the Hipster Grifter Conspiracy goes.

[Graphic Artist: Todd Grantham]

Ad Age’s Ken Wheaton
directs us to this rather amusing collection of bad local realtor ads. Worth a click if you’re bored.

Dennis Publishing Chair Felix Dennis, that bizarre poetic amalgamation of tycoon and buffoon, says that magazines are nowhere near dead and now is the perfect time to create new and innovative publications. Oh, he also claims that Maxim has generated more than $3 billion in profits…

Historical trivia! Among the ten U.S. states to have never enacted anti-miscegenation laws: Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and the District of Columbia (technically not a state but whatever). Among the ten states to first overturn anti-miscegenation laws: Iowa, Massachusetts, and Maine. In other news…

What’s on your reading list these days? I’m in between books right now, but I think I just discovered what I’ll be reading next: the new one from author/California Bar member Richard Wanderer. It’s got ARROGANT MAGAZINE EXECUTIVES and WITCHES!

THE HOLIDAY PARTY is a…

In an assessment of Perez Hilton’s oeuvre last month we suggested that the legendary draftsman’s best days were behind him and, furthermore, that he had always lacked a facility for penile composition. There’s an important lesson to be learned here: It is always too early to render final judgment on an artist’s career.

Here is a terrible story from Russia about a woman who killed a traffic cop while driving drunk. After striking the officer with her Toyota, the 22-year-old woman pulled over to text her boyfriend. The message?

Bernie Madoff liked handjobs.

Here is your insane person rant of the day. It starts by saying that the children of those who protested against torture “are most likely to end up in rehab for drug abuse because their parents wouldn’t lay down the law at home when their children needed to be disciplined.” Then it gets really crazy.

There is a new Kindle reader. It is larger than the previous one. It will cost $489. You can pre-order it now (sorry, “reserve your place on line”), although it won’t be available until summer. Will it save the newspaper industry? Too soon to tell. But so far it has certainly done…

U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Michael W. McConnell, a George W. Bush appointee, is leaving the court for a job at Stanford Law School, another indication that conservatives realize it’s going to be a long time before they have another chance of moving up. I guess if you’re…

“AMERICA leads the world in incarcerations, both in terms of the total number of people it puts inside and in the proportion of its citizens that end up behind bars.” Suck it, Russia and China, we still rule!

Attn New York Parents: Do not take your children to see Stephin Merritt’s musical adaptation of Coraline. He will eat them.

UK immigration policy is now being set by the lady who played Patsy on “AbFab.” Kind of awesome.