Today Women’s Wear Daily asks their readers if they know why Andy Pemberton sacked as EIC of Spin after only two issues? Our initial reactions: because he took a vacation a week after starting an EIC job? Because his new staff thought he was a total ass? While those guesses maybe things which are true, they may not be the exact reason he was let go.

The exact reasons lie more in the fact that his last issue of Spin was, uh, exactly the same as his last issue at Blender where he just happened to be the EIC.

A few of the noted similarities.

Blender:

* Front story in Burner: The assassination of Proof and Pig Hawk, two rappers and friends of Eminem.
* Signature colors: Red and yellow.
* Number of Pete Doherty cameos: 1
* Headline for feature on Gnarles Barkley: Who are these masked men?

Spin:

* Front story in Barometer: The assassination of Proof and Pig Hawk, two rappers and friends of Eminem.
* Signature colors: Red and yellow.
* Number of times Pete Doherty appears: 1.
* Headline for feature on Petey Kimble: Who is this man

Gotta’ hand it to today’s contributing writer, Jacob Bernstein, of New York magazine acclaim. Maybe he’s on deck to fill Jeff Bercovici’s shoes?

Parallel Universe [Jacob Bernstein, WWD]

• How fun would it be to throw Donald Trump into the Les Moonves vs. Howard Stern brawl? [Page Six]

• Orioles pitcher Kris Benson sells his wife to FHM. [Mediaweek]

• In the economics of magazine exchange rates, three years of Blender equals one year of Cargo. We wonder how many Details you need to make a GQ? Like, 3.75, maybe? [Ad Age]

• We didn’t believe anyone wanted it at first, either, but, Keith Kelly’s “exclusive” of the day tells us what we already know. One last time, everybody, Hartle Media bought Spin. [NYP]

• Franklin Foer somehow managed to change jobs without loosing any blood. Amazing, because he seems kind of like a guy who would get punched in the face a lot. [NYT]

• Governer Rod Blagojevich doesn’t really get Jon Stewart’s humor. But to be fair, us Illinois natives never claimed to understand much of anything. [AP News]

• American Media is in much too much debt, leading nerdy math kids to beleive that the tabloid bubble, like Katie Holmes‘ bump, will actually burst someday. [Economist]

• Mischa Barton tames her claws for the totally new and super awesome Jane magazine. [Socialite’s Life]

• Today’s “why Steve DeLuca got fired” theory: a fight over the color of the bev naps for the 1,000th issue party, which may or may not be actually taking place. [NYP]

• Well, he hasn’t finalized his investment in the widely neglected Spin magazine, but publisher Tom Hartle is still trying to lure in former Blender-er Andy Pemberton for the EIC spot. [WWD]

• Some have the audacity to call the Peter Jackson’s upcoming King Kong – at three-hours long and costing $207 million — bloated. [NYT]

• What’s worse than reading the live-blog of Patrick Fitzgerald’s Valerie Plame-related indictments? Reading the live-blog of Patrick Fitzgerald’s Valerie Plame-related indictments when there, uh, aren’t any indictments. [E&P]

• For a newspaper that’s supposed to represent freedom of information, Boston Metro sure makes it difficult to get interviews with their staff. But perhaps that’s because their “staff” is composed of wire report copy and pasters. [Boston Phoenix]

• Both Spin and Vibe magazines are on the sale block, but don’t tell anyone about it. We’re also pretty sure this is where Nick Denton issues an announcement that Gawker Media is not for sale. [Radar]

• Cookie magazine may look a little too similar to Child magazine with its fur-wearing fat baby on the cover, but rest assured that when the new Conde Nast baby title debuts next month, the baby will have had some liposculpting. [WWD]

• Jann Wenner isn’t just a magazine publisher, he’s also an interior decorator. And, like everything else he gets his hands in, he’s quite the anal interior decorator. [Lowdown]

• Will & Grace’s top act Megan Mullally has secured distribution for her upcoming talk show in the country’s top four markets. Unfortunately for viewers, her whiny, high-pitched Karen voice is not actually how she speaks. [AP

• Sean McManus will not eat, sleep or breathe until he pulls CBS News out of third place. [AP]