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June 5, 2008
Call of Booty
Salon editor—and somewhat of an oversharer—Sarah Hepola recently bemoaned the ease of the late night text message booty call, writing "My drunk self really doesn't need new and improved ways to stay out later, to get into more trouble, to do things I will ultimately regret. Maybe it shouldn't be so easy to get into someone's bedroom at 2 a.m." Though she compares herself to Andy Rooney, she is not, however, a complete Luddite. Hepola has a unique understanding of the place of the SMS come-on in our society. She compares it to the art of the long-form love letter, which allowed earlier generations to "be their better selves, the clever/unflappable/devastating people we all want to be in the calamitous first throes of love." Well, who doesn’t want to be devastating?
Media
June 4, 2008
Esquire Backs Bill?
Bill Clinton got into yet another melee with the media this week, directing his wrath at Vanity Fair for publishing a story, rife with anonymous quotes, detailing his connections to a group of billionaires with—how to put this—dubious sexual mores. Unsurprisingly, he managed to pin it on the media's supposed pro-Obama bias, calling it "another way to nail Hillary for Obama." But Bubba may yet have one fan in the Fourth Estate: Esquire.
Media
June 3, 2008
Know Your Heroin Slang
The new advertising campaign for Lexus, "The Power of h", touts the technology of the hybrid car. Unfortunately for Lexus, and the agency behind the campaign, Team One, it also sounds like it's touting heroin. "H" is one of the most common street names for the drug. But Lexus could hardly be blamed for inadvertently using a slang term for heroin when so many words from the English dictionary have been co-opted for that purpose.
Media
May 27, 2008
Practicality is a Sacrifice!
Memo to the New York Times: The TV show Friends was not an accurate representation of real life. We kind of thought everyone knew that, and we certainly thought the nation's premier newspaper knew it, but apparently we were wrong. If you are going to continue in your semi-obsession with New York's hip, young, and white, please keep that in mind.
Media
May 22, 2008
Jonesin' for a Fix
In a segment on CNN Newsroom, correspondent Brianna Keilar reports, "Indiana Jones addicts can get their fix when the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull premieres on Thursday." Gelf was struck by how casually journalists use the debilitating monster of addiction as a metaphor for the most mundane things. We're not too far away from seeing commercials that declare: "Can't get enough of Obama, McCain and Clinton? If politics are your nicotine, then CNN is your cigarette. We'll infect you with the lung cancer of up-to-date information."
Media
May 20, 2008
It's Not You, It's…
If you're urban, single, and prepared to mingle (and, presumably, have some disposable income), a minefield of potential rejection awaits you. And not just because of your esoteric sense of humor, or your outdated wardrobe, or the fact that you eat your peas one at a time. As Gelf pointed out last week, you can also be rejected for having the wrong sheets in your bedroom, or a stuffed animal. But, it turns out, that's not all.
Media
May 19, 2008
I'd Rather Be Playing Video Games
We'd like to issue a correction of sorts. Last week, we wrote that the New York Times seems preoccupied with the problems of the, if not rich and famous, then the almost-rich and pretentious. The paper's business section, however, appears concerned, for at least one article, with the problems of the not-rich and probably-not-pretentious. (Though we must add that the photo accompanying this piece is of a guy who "stays at the Hampton Inn rather than the Hilton when he travels." We recommend the Travelodge, or a hostel.)
Media
May 14, 2008
Newscasters Gone Wild
Sue Simmons, WNBC’s longtime anchor and a grandmotherly fixture in New York’s local news scene, snapped during a teaser for the 11:00 news. The blurb began innocently enough, "At 11, paying more at the grocer but getting less. We'll tell you how to get the most." But then, Simmons hisses at an unknown irritant, "What the fuck are you doing?" NBC has been tight-lipped about what made the 64-year-old anchor lose her cool, and Simmons issued a contrite apology later in the broadcast. But the cat was out of the bag, and playing piano, and a new internet video sensation was born.
Media
May 13, 2008
Rich People's Problems
It's getting tougher and tougher out there to be a rich urban sophisticate—especially if you have kids. The New York Times reported last week that New York City public schools are facing severe overcrowding issues, leading to the waitlisting of hundreds of kindergarten students zoned for the city's top schools.
Media
May 8, 2008
Cutting Corners at The Times
Readers of the New York Times health section were recently treated to an alarming article titled "The Growing Wave of Teenage Self-Injury," which claims that the cutting and other forms of self-abuse are on the rise and that the main culprit behind that increase is—you guessed it!—the internet. Because there are exactly zero statistics in the story to back up either of those claims, Gelf decided to take a closer look at the story.
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