Entertainment Tonight last night sent its blackest reporter out to interview every African American celebrity he could find. Lucky for him, many of them had converged on Denver's football stadium to watch Obama's speech.
Did you know celebrities are all friends? They are! Oprah was hugging Mary J Blige! Kanye was answering questions for Oprah! And then Forest Whitaker came out of nowhere to use words like "pride," "humanity," "beautiful," "core" and "destiny."
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]
A long time ago, in a kingdom not so far away, a young Jossip editrix named Corynne decided it might be fun to interview her gossip, media and PR peers in a semi-regular (and uncharacteristically earnest) feature she creatively entitled “Jossiping.” In honor of our predecessor, we’ve decided to bring back the tradition, one informal sit-down at a time.
This week: raronauer catches up the guy behind Down By The Hipster.
To the green New Yorker, “open bar” may sound like the two sweetest words in the English language. But with experience and an extensive rolodex comes cynicism. After all, not all open bars are created equal. The people behind Down By The Hipster, a hospitality and nightlife blog, know a few things about free drinks.
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A long time ago, in a kingdom not so far away, a young Jossip editrix named Corynne decided it might be fun to interview her gossip, media and PR peers in a semi-regular (and uncharacteristically earnest) feature she creatively entitled “Jossiping.” In honor of our predecessor, we’ve decided to bring back the tradition, one informal sit-down at a time.
This week: Debbie Newman catches up with Fafarazzi co-creator Todd Galloway.
Do you hate sports and non-famous people? Have you ever feigned an interest in deep philosophical issues, global warming or the presidential elections while secretly dreaming about filching your little sister's collection of celebrity weeklies? If so, Fafarazzi is here to help get your priorities straight. Meet co-founder and 27 year-old Cleveland native Todd Galloway.
If you find the Drudge Report boring, you probably won’t find Matt Drudge’s interview with Sky TV in England any more interesting. The interview has gems like "I find myself updating hundreds of times a day. Hundreds of times a day!” and “You have to really read a lot of varied sources."
Still, it’s always nice to see Matt Drudge fedora-less every once in a while.
It was so hard to pick the single most vomitous portion of this interview (which aired on Sirius yesterday) between Barbara Walters and Inside The Actors Studio host James Lipton, that we've picked the top three moments, in order of ascending grossness, instead.
First, we were bemused:
BARBARA WALTERS: 1968 was my first year at The Today Show—trust me—I would not be floozying around in Paris…this is a disgrace!
Then slightly uncomfortable:
BARBARA WALTERS: What profession would you like to attempt if you weren’t doing this?
JAMES LIPTON: I would like to be a classical dancer, but what this provides, though Barbara, that I would be forever young and never injured.
And finally, borderline queasy:
Being on call 24/7/365 is absolutely rattling. I feel like my laptop is eating my face, chomping away at my brain like Mrs. Pac Man on a tear.
The pace is absolutely relentless. You have to be out of the gate with your commentary fast — before you have a chance to full read or digest whatever it is you're commenting on. It's a little toxic, the news cycle now. It's making us all paranoid workaholics.
–Dan Savage, gay American sex advice columnist/media pundit, addressing the Internet's "most unnerving" effect on journalism and describing the potential downside of the information age.
**For more on Dan Savage, check out his interview with Queerty**
Although we can’t seem to shake the nasty habit of writing in the royal we, occasionally one of our editors decides to shake off the cloak of anonymity to write a short, pithy statement long, rambling diatribe about a topic of their choice. Today, Debbie Newman is that editor.
Earlier today, we told you about a bogus Craigslist ad conservatively titled "I will blow you for genesis tickets." Based on convincing circumstantial evidence, we incorrectly inferred that the author of the post—and the tipster who alerted us to its existence—were likely one and the same, and concluded that whoever wrote the ad had a disconcerting affinity for crap 80's music and juvenile humor. As it turns out, we were only half right.
Thus, in an effort to restore our tipster's good, albeit anonymous, name, we snooped around and managed to uncover the identity of the real poster. [Ed: Or, if you want to be "technical" about it, said individual graciously stepped forward, unmasked himself of his own accord and allowed us to ask him some impertinent questions about the whole experience.]
But who is he? How does he really feel about Genesis? And, once and for all, is he ambiguously gay? We get up close and personal with the "intellectually lazy" prankster (whom we've cleverly nicknamed the "Genesissy") after the jump.
Much to our utter chagrin, Fashion Week is apparently still going on. And aside from trolling the tents for free goodies [Ed: Word to the wise, avoid the DHSL cookies] crashing parties and snapping photos of the fashionably impaired, we also had a chance to chat with Rag & Bone designer, Marcus Wainwright (above, left).
As it turns out, Marcus (with whom we are, obvs, on a first name basis) is a frighteningly charming and debatably handsome British man with a dazzling accent and somewhat predictable answers to our equally as predictable fashion questions. So in an effort to contextualize our brief but enlightening sit-down (er, stand-up) with Marcus, we've decided to include our own somewhat more revealing answers along with his.
We hope you enjoy the oddly juxtaposed result.
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