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Comments aren't always that idiotic. The comments on Gawker, a Manhattan-based media and gossip blog that I will probably (no, definitely) be made to regret mentioning, can be incredibly mean, but they're also often funnier and cleverer than the posts they comment on. Last August Gawker ran an item about the rapper Foxy Brown, who was accused of hitting a neighbor with her BlackBerry. The commenters spontaneously generated an entire mini-subculture consisting of variations on this single item: "This is like the time Spinderella stabbed me with her Treo." "MC Lite [sic] beat me about...
...Gossip Whirl Can "Obama shred the rumors" [June 23]? Sure, but should he be distracted and waste his time and energy doing so? The best response to untrue and exaggerated blather is to simply say it is not true and let the accusers expend and frustrate themselves trying to prove otherwise. Ron Blackmore, HAMILTON...
...college and high school friends, who often remain in the South), she retains the smiling, friendly demeanor so characteristic of her native region. As our barely older intern coordinator, she dances the line between protective and authoritative—still unable to resist updates on the inevitable intern gossip and drama. Like many of us, she does not hesitate to tell P.D. exactly when he's being ridiculous. Though at times this causes her to slip from her place of authority, I frankly prefer it and am glad she hasn't lost her youthful enthusiasm and sense of humor...
...promotional material for the book hints broadly at the romantic revelations ("Here, too, are her relationships with men - in and out of her marriages - and with her friends, co-workers and rivals," reads the Alfred A. Knopf catalog copy); the Brooke affair was the chief headline of virtually every gossip column item on the book; and Walters herself talked about it freely on shows like Oprah...
...shorter when you're working them, especially since you get to walk around and drink free cocktails. As a passenger, I used to spend my flight ignoring the flight attendants' seat-belt speech and wondering if they had been hot in their 20s; as a flight attendant, I could gossip about passengers and compare restaurants around the world with my co-workers. No one was going to knock on our lavatory door if we didn't want them...