“Face it: you went into PR because you wanted to be a superstar.”

I am kidding! This is actually pretty good! Do not click “close tab.”

An incoming text message! “Holy shit go get Eileen Myles’ new book of essays so immediately.” Okay! We will do so, and will report back to you in short order. Myles is working the west coast this month, by the way, if you go there.

Q. “When two men get married and one takes the other’s last name (rather than creating one of those hyphenated thingies), how do you refer to his former last name?” A. “Slave name.”

Today I accidentally found a Twitter feed that merely rebroadcasts all tweets that-pardon my French, please!-use the words “vagina,” “pussy” or “twat” in them. I don’t know whether to hurt myself or all of you. I guess you could say I’m disappointed, but not surprised.

Historian and Laurence A. Tisch Professor at Harvard University Niall Ferguson, writing in the Financial Times:

President Barack Obama reminds me of Felix the Cat. One of the best-loved cartoon characters of the 1920s…

It’s hard to tell who’s working whom in this tale of MTV and its Times Square lease. (This would be the problem with real estate writing in general and in the specific.) I am pretty sure it is the landlord working on the tenant, however, as the landlord is…

This love letter to Paula Abdul is rather wonderful, containing as it does this bit: “Not since Joan Crawford appeared, preposterously, as her young daughter’s replacement on the soap opera The Secret Storm has a woman on TV performed with such catastrophic bravura.”

In a post noting a hysterical Investors Business Daily editorial suggesting that “scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless”…

President Obama will hold a town hall meeting on health care in Portsmouth, NH, this afternoon. Will we see a civil and reasoned debate or the typical thuggery to which we’ve become accustomed of late? I’m betting on…

The late Budd Schulberg would have enjoyed this: “The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, which was created in the 1950s to break the mob’s grip on the docks, became its own bastion of…

The Wall Street Journal picks up the story of Benson the carp and investigates five possible reasons for the giant fish’s demise.