• Village Voice editor Don Forst is resigning from his post, effective Dec. 31. Nice ouster, New Times. [Gawker]

• Speaking of indie mergers, we seem to have missed the New York Blade getting together with HX. Gay marriage, at last. [NY Blade]

• To save Bryant Park from miscreants, the city formed the nonprofit Bryant Park Resotration Corporation. Funny, then, that the place is now being run like a business. [NYT]

• In-flight magazines are not, as it turns out, merely glorified sky malls. But they are in danger of going down without landing gear. [Mediabistro]

• Somehow, Simon Dumenco continues getting paid for screaming at his TV. [AdAge]

• Thanks to designers willing to let socialites borrow party dresses, the B-list never has to wear the same thing twice. [NYT]

• With the creation of “verified” circulation, magazine publishers receive the affirmation they’ve been looking for: to grotesquely inflate their readership numbers. [Folio]

• With ex-WWD scribe and alleged Halloween rapist Peter Braunstein being spotted throughout Ohio, all those sightings in NYC (like that Brooklyn cafe) are being labeled wishful thinking. [NYDN]