Awl contributor Tom Scocca just blew my mind by IM’ing me this sentence, from this coming Sunday’s fairly interesting New York Times Magazine cover story about gay kids: “By far the most common usage of the word…

Earlier we were discussing celebrity attorney Marty Singer’s letter-writing skills. Here, for instance, is one for you to read! It is a response he wrote after the Demi Moore-Perez Hilton dustup, in which Demi called Perez a…

There’s a hullaballoo afoot in a Dorset prison where inmates have been found getting shitfaced on anti-bacterial hand gel provided to combat swine flu. Prison brass are fuhreaking out and it’s slightly confusing since it’s not like these enterprising fellows…

Essex is obviously a really classy place where there’s a ton of pressure to be perfect at all times, innit? The Daily Mirror, which is where I get all my truly reliable news and life affirmations, reported that Andrew Hudgell, 26, from Chelmsford in Essex, had a moob reduction…

Fast Company has a nice-to-look-at and informative “trend watch” photo essay about large-scale installation art. I like Anish Kapoor’s tower of shiny metal balls at London’s Royal Academy of Arts best. (I love his famous…

Holy crap, Sweden! “With cinematic flourish, the masked robbers dropped from a helicopter onto the roof of a Swedish cash depot before dawn, broke into the building through a glass pyramid, set off explosions to get to the millions inside and…

It’s another setback for beleaguered British Prime Minister Gordon Brown: “The White House today attempted to shore up Gordon Brown’s global image after it emerged that the US president, Barack…

Japan’s economy may be in a funk, and its new government unsteady as it finally takes the reins of power, but you’ve got to hand it to the country’s perverts: They are always finding new ways to get hot teen upskirt shots. “The Japanese are tops in most…

Big Baby, Big Issues

Everyone’s talking about the giant Indonesian baby, but no one is giving a thought to the regular-sized baby they posed…

It’s still a bit early, and who knows what the afternoon will bring, but it’s going to be pretty hard to top this for favorite headline of the day. And extra points to “reality TV star Holly Clements” for putting a little extra effort into what could have been just an ordinary knife crime.

Deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, currently ensconced in that country’s Brazilian embassy, claims that Israeli mercenaries are trying to poison him with radiation and toxic gas. “Israeli government sources in Miami said they…

Good Luck, Pittsburgh!

The G20-to be “the world’s main economic governing council,” according to Gordon Brown, did you know that? Yes, it is…