• There was a big gossip reading planned, and all the gossips pulled out. Except Ian Speigelman and hostess Deborah Schoeneman of course.

• Guess which magazine sells more copies when their EIC is off having babies? No, really. Guess.

• Blueprint magazine has a new editor in chief, with a very difficult name.

• CBS says a dry-eyed goodbye to Dan Rather.

• We're all left wondering why the hell we gave up hours of our lives on Wednesday night to listen to Anderson Cooper interview Angelina Jolie. Well, at least it was aesthetically pleasing.

• There are now only 7 more days left on Bonnie Fuller's contract. Yeah, we're counting.

When we found out yesterday that Blueprint snagged a new editor, we were thrilled. And today, Keith Kelly gives us a bunch of details we didn't know, such as her age and where she lives.

Blueprint, the new Martha Stewart magazine that lost its launch editor even before the first issue came out, has raided Real Simple to find a replacement.

Susan Humphreys, who was editing two special issues per year of Real Simple as well as editing the Real Simple cookbook, is the new editor of Blueprint.

Humphreys, who is all of 31 years old and living in a studio apartment in the West Village, seems to fit the demographic that Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia needs to caputure -24- to 45-year-old women.

Great job, Keith. Except, we're pretty sure her name is Sarah Humphreys … not Susan. And "caputure" is spelled capture.

Though, maybe it's not entirely his fault. We didn't realize the Eat the Press headline we linked to yesterday labeled her as Susan, with the press release reading as Sarah. (Someone's reading the blogs!) Though in about the four seconds it took to do a Google search, we found about 100 results for "Sarah Humphreys Real Simple" and none for "Susan Humphreys Real Simple."

Yes, we know, we sometimes make mistakes and spell things wrong and screw up names, too. The only thing is that the Post actually has fact-checkers to comb over the one thing Keith Kelly writes every day.

MARTHA MAG GETS AN EDITOR [Keith Kelly, New York Post]
New Blueprint Editor: Real Simple's Susan Humphreys [Eat The Press]

An era has ended. Martha Stewart is leaving Connecticut. She finaly put her three bedroom Turkey Hill colonial on the market at a $8,995,000 listing price.

Y'all know we love our Martha, and think her home (complete with pool and converted carriage house) is gorgeous. Except for one thing. Wallpaper?

Um, we really don't think Blueprint readers would be very inspired by this disgusto tree wallpaper. It's just a bad thing. A very bad thing.

Martha Puts $8.9M CT Home On Block [Fishbowl NY]

As our regular readers know, we have been waiting for Martha Stewart's new magazine Blueprint to hit stands ever since we heard that MSLO decided to pull a real Budget Living move — instead of buying Don Welsh's mag, Martha just decided to try for the DIY.

Finally, today, the shelter mag for young families is released onto newsstands everywhere. And because we care much more for talk shows that news, we decided to tune Martha to see what she had to say about her new project. After the jump, Martha's big intro to her little home mag that not only could, but most likely definitely will.

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Saying that Martha Stewart is uptight or over the hill, or that she's still a control freak, is so passe. For us, M Diddy's new style is all the rage.

Lately, Martha's been catching the eye of the younger gals, who don't relate to the hos on South Beach and, while she's funny, find Ellen a little lame.

Just today, we giggled with Martha while she gossiped with Fran Drescher about her new beau, and dating younger men. Her weeks of incessant flirting with David Letterman (which include baking him cakes and running audience polls to see weather he should cook or craft) as she tries to lure him onto her show, make her audience feel like they are passing notes in study hall.

Ok, so The Apprentice is a little sell-out-ish. Still, we are psyched about M taking her new attitude to Martha Stewart Omnimedia's latest magazine launch, Blueprint. (We know, you can totally call the nerd patrol on us.)

Blueprint will come out in May and August 2006 … It will be edited by Tom Prince, a former editor at Time Inc.'s Real Simple, and is aimed at women 25 to 45. It intends to tell them everything from how to decorate and dress to how to entertain and to organize their lives.

Whether it was her time in the slammer or her new, fun celebrity friends, Martha's most definitely our home girl now. And without all of Oprah's "get a face lift, read a fake book" stuff.

MARTHA DRAWS BLUEPRINT FOR HOME & LIFESTYLE [Keith J Kelly, NYP]

• If BlackBerry maker Research In Motion can't reach a new settlement agreement with patent holder NTP Inc., we could all be facing a sudden reason to celebrate: no more instant email. [Reuters]

• Judith Miller is "deeply sorry that the [WMD] stories were wrong," but don't think that means she's apologizing. [BBC]

• While Fairchild's fashion trades must stick to Conde Nast's new rules regarding gifts from clients, consumer titles will keep their schwag free for fall. [Gawker]

• Cable companies are freaking out over the FCC's suggestion they offer consumers a la carte pricing models rather than package deals. You might not expect it, but we're actually big fans of the package deal — where else could we get a dozen and a half home shopping networks all at once? [AdAge]

• Now that Maureen Dowd is sitting comfortably as the New York Times most famous female, it's time to forget about that Judith Miller person. [Texas Monthly]

• The timing of Martha Stewart's Blueprint magazine comes suspiciously close to a similar project that was pitched at Time Inc. Unfortunately for our media obsession, it looks like there's no malintent here — just poor minds thinking alike. [WWD]

• Congrats to Lachlan Murdoch and his wife Sarah, who are expecting their second media mogul offspring. [News.com.au]