• Media Guy Simon Dumenco goes down the dark path we traversed last week: Jared Paul Stern’s Skull & Bones clothing line. [AdAge]

• ABC is getting pretty damn good at screwing over its affiliates. [B&C]

• With EIC Gregg Lagambina on the way out, Filter second-in-command Chris Martins has this to say to his staff: “Filter Magazine is hurting right now.” It nearly rivals the way Celebrity Living motivated its own troops. [FBNY]

• Reason No. 5421 we heart Details‘ Dan Peres: He doesn’t follow his own magazine’s fashion tips. [WWD]

• Learning from the mistakes of Cargo, Giant’s editor-in-chief Smokey Fontaine is going on a mad dash to redesign the mag. [WWD]

• When the Boston Globe’s Eileen McNamara found out she won the Pulitzer Prize, she was trying to finish cooking her kids spaghetti. [E&P]

• Celeb weeklies aren’t the only mags seeing circs disintegrate. Teen titles, as evidenced by Elle Girl’s shuttering, are suffering too. Yep, even Seventeen is on that list. [Mediaweek]