You schmucks who use ridiculous journo-terms make me crazy! Finally, someone is willing to speak out against the use of “lede” in public. Because, ha ha, sucka, there’s no reason for it! (Plus, MOST OF YOU ARE JUST BLOGGERS.) So: “’Lede’ is an…

You should know that it’s subscription-only at the New Yorker, but Janet Malcolm on the photographer Thomas Struth is really right-on: it winds eventually and carefully to the heart of his strangely warm photographs that should be cold. A wee excerpt, in the classic Malcolm…

The Great Netflix Freakout

Everyone is losing their minds over Netflix’s announcement that they’ll split into two companies: one that does…

The best part of the GET READY FOR GAY DIVORCE stories are the anecdotes, like this couple who shared “a love of fur coats and gold jewelry”: “The two are now in the messy process of untangling their lives — a web that has grown to include four purebred Rhodesian Ridgebacks, three houses…

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I don’t know that I have ever seen a video that has less to do with the song it accompanies than this new one from Frank Ocean. Apparently, I mean. You never know the inner…

AM New York’s Disastrous Sex-Pun Front Page

Oh no. This is not actually how the “tabloid pun headline” is done. I will come over…

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No, an actual one! Eeeeeeek! (via Sam Sifton’s LEDE-ALL Twitter)

“The Manhattan meter would have turned 60 on the day of its demise. The cause of death, officials said, was an acute case of obsolescence.”

Is this the world’s heaviest onion? Sure, why the hell not.