Cord Jefferson, editor of Jossip’s celebrity blog Mollygood will return to New York City this week after a not-so-brief stay in Saudia Arabia, where he went to donate a kidney to his father.

So, that’s that. I’m in more pain than I’ve ever felt - kinda easy since my entire history of real physical trauma consists of fracturing my foot playing tennis in sixth-grade - but in an uncharacteristically tough-guy move, I swore off narcotics two days after surgery because I didn’t like the way they made me feel. Now it hurts to eat, sleep (yes, it’s possible) and scratch my back. And I’ve had to turn off both Sixteen Candles and Police Academy because they were making me laugh, which is agonizing.

I can’t believe people go through this shit in order to have slightly smaller noses. [Kidney and the Kingdom]

Around Jossip HQ, we’ve taken Stereohyped’s lead in wasting time by plugging our faces into The Face Transformer, changing our editors’ races and, in one instance, humanity (hello, manga!). Whitney at Mollygood did it over here. Below, Jossip’s own David Hauslaib transforms into West Asian, an old man, East Asian, a Manga character, and a black man.

Was it a show of goodwill on Friday night when Keith Olbermann cited a Jossip report – regarding Bill O’Reilly’s whining about not booking Scott McClellan before NBC got him – on Friday night?

We were a bit surprised to see Mr. Countdown plug the site, given our nearly regular reports from inside 30 Rock about his behavior, both on-air and off.

But given the context, perhaps we shouldn’t assume too much: A chance to engage O’Reilly in a tete-a-tete trumps any other agenda. Video below.

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For the record: Yes, that is the Church of Scientology advertising with Jossip.

About that rumor: Being that we traffic in gossip, perhaps we should be the least surprised to hear the suspect news, that we’re being sold, from another publication. Wouldn’t it be more amusing if the truth were the exact opposite — that we’re closing up shop? Facts are hard!

Mollygood editor Cord Jefferson is now contributing to Stereohyped, the same day Rebecca Aronauer is no longer working with Jossip. (Word has it she’s going to be contributing to another media blog.)

We at Jossip are always shooting our mouth off to our gay little brother, Queerty. And one of our ideas about blogging made into his interview with Avram Finklestein, the guy who created the logo above. To be honest, the rest of the interview is more interesting than our little Web 2.0 theory. [Queerty]

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So, uh, click here to take our survey.

The website BigThink.com has scored its share of video interviews with impressive notables: Tom Freston, David Remnick, David Patrick Columbia, Patrick Byrne, people with the names David and Patrick, and “unidentifiable” striking writers.

Yesterday, they were among a number of outlets who asked us to sit down for a chat. We discussed the business of celebrity, which is all of a sudden relevant again following Heath Ledger’s death.

CULTURE WAR AT JOSSIP HQ While we thought Bell X1 was lowest common denominator indy crap, our gay little brother over at Queerty loved it, and made it his morning aural. Queerty’s editor lives in Park Slope and occasionally writes for the Huffington Post. We have bangs and are wearing stripes. Also, we told Andrew about VSL in the first place. Whose taste do you trust?

• Courtney Cox doesn’t have the much of an ass.

• Coco Chanel probably never planned on Pamela Anderson wearing her designs or anything she made being shown in Vegas.

• OK! continues to be the magazine of choice for stars not secure enough with their career prospects to abstain from selling wedding pictures to pay for their future children’s college education.

• Smart thinking: Slash wouldn’t let his kids near Michael Jackson.

• Celebrity babies: People find them interesting!

• Jossip’s New Year’s party in pictures, with pink stars.1

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It seems like only yesterday that I first set my alarm for the ungodly hour of 7am, spilled piping hot coffee all over my impractically thin sweater* and introduced myself as your brand new Jossip editor.

As expected, I was greeted by a predictable deluge of “Hello Newman” jokes, a litany of detractors and a relative minority of staunch supporters, whose generous praise – or at least intermittent approval – was only slightly undermined by their stubborn insistence on referring to me as “Corynne.”

And while I had my share of missteps – an unnatural fixation on a picture of Hillary Clinton eating a sandwich, an ill-advised confrontation with a would-be heckler, and an overzealous response to a crazed Jared Leto fan – I prefer to focus instead on the brief, shining flashes of mediocrity.

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“Enjoy your blog,” writes a tipster, who then adds, “Thought you might be interested to know that you are being censored at DIA [Denver International Airport].” And she’s right—we are interested!

Although we can’t say we’re exactly surprised.

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There’s no better cure for the Mondays than looking for jobs, and no better cure for hating your job than reading job listings. Each week, we remind you that as bad your job is, it could be a lot worse.

Last week, there was some debate at Jossip HQ over just how bad of a gig freelance porn criticism is. Some of us take a less ironic approach to professional ambitions than others.

But here’s one thing we can all agree on: taking your four to six years experience as an editor to launch a sister magazine for World Wrestling Entertainment, The Magazine would suck. Even for those whose idea of a good time is adding dek heds to pictures of men with shaved chests on steroids, the job is split between Stamford and New York City, which only would be semi-convenient if you lived in Westchester.

Full listing after the jump.

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Is Heidi Montag (who will now forever be known as the chick from The Hills who bared her soul—and her giant fake boobies—on the cover of Us Weekly under the validating headline “Revenge Plastic Surgery”) a victim of circumstances or a shameless self-promoter?

Two Jossip editors discuss, while simultaneously watching the crappiest music video in all creation.

Jossip Editor 1: it seems like being a celebrity is a pretty miserable existence
Jossip Editor 2: agreed, but that also explains why it attracts a certain breed of pathetic wannabe
case in point, my next story (sends link to heidi montag music video)
Jossip Editor 1: I’ll never get those two minutes back, right?
Jossip Editor 2: never