• Jessica Alba doesn't work out. Doesn't diet. Doesn't prevaricate. Ever.
• Don't bee afraid of using your cellphone at those fancy garden parties. It was actually a virus that was killing all the bumblebees.
• Breaking: Another conservative Republican candidate is formally opposed to same-sex marriage.
• Amy Winehouse's father generously offers to take control of her bank account.
• Former underwear model Antonio Sabato Jr. is looking for a lovely lady who doesn't mind getting up early, giving up alcohol and riding on the back of a Harley.
With the Jessica Cutler/Robert Steinbuch case raising wide-reaching questions about a blogger's protection under First Amendment rights—which, in Jessica's case, means the right to publicly document her romps in the sex and potentially ruin her bedmates' reputations with particularly damaging details about their bedroom—everyone is waiting with bated breath to hear what the Supreme Court has to say.
And if Justice Samuel Alito's recent remarks are any indication, then the fate of the First Amendment has never looked better.
Apparently, not every sex writer has managed to equal the shoe-loving (and Dave Zinczenko tolerating) TONY columnist, Julia Allison. We're hearing reports that Jessica Cutler, best known for documenting her (frequent!) Senate sexploits in now-defunct blog Washingtonienne, hasn't a cent to her name.
Which is a shame, seeing as Jess (unlike Ana Marie Cox) also happens to be named as a defendant on a substantial—and rather high profile—lawsuit..
NY FindLaw has the scoop, as well as an informative recap:
Jessica Cutler, the former Senate aide whose online sex diary landed her a book deal and a Playboy photo spread but got her kicked off Capitol Hill, has filed for bankruptcy.
Cutler, a former aide to ex-Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, created the "Washingtonienne" blog in 2004 and began posting racy details about her sex life with six men, including a Senate colleague and "a few generous older gentlemen" who she said paid many of her living expenses.
But her story doesn't end there.
For those of you worried that former Wonkette (and current Time editrix) Ana Mare Cox would be silenced—or worse, fined—over the Jessica Cutler sex fiasco, you can rest easy tonight.
(Optional recap: Jessica Cutler is the slutty "Washintonienne" who chronicled her sexcapades with virtually every man in D.C., including—but by no means limited to—attorney Robert Steinbuch. However, the in-depth blog entries, featuring uncomfortably detailed records Steinbuch's sexual preferences, didn't really gain public notoriety until Cox—the then-editor of Wonkette—picked up the story, at which point Cutler and Steinbuch were promptly fired, and the latter proceeded to sue all the above.)
Which pretty much brings us up to the present day, when a judge was asked to decide whether or not Cox could be found liable for publishing reprinted content.
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• Finally! The grainy proof that Britney Spears gave birth to a second mistake lovechild before taking up with her new seaman.
• Rachel Evan Wood drastically alters her appearance so as to more closely resemble the freakishly pale Goth chicks Marilyn Manson usually dates.
• If a tree falls in a Rhode Island school cafeteria that's banned conversation of any kind, will anybody hear it? (Answer: yes, yes they will).
• MSNBC's Chris Matthews to play hardball as a judge at this weekend's Miss America pageant.
• Win a night out with Jessica Cutler, and see your awkward first-date sexual experience plastered across the internet for all to enjoy.
• We'd like to offer a hearty congratulations to Queerty, for scoring a 2007 bloggie award nomination. Don't forget to show your love—cast a vote for them today.
• Gideon Yago to leave MTV and become just another struggling screenplay writer in need of lasik eye surgery.
The legal battle between Jessica Cutler and Robert Steinbuch is really starting to heat up in what CNN calls, a real-life, "digital version of …Sex and the City."
In this episode, the role of the Annoying Writer Type (typically acted beautifully by Sarah Jessica Parker) will instead be played by blogger Jessica Cutler. The part of the New Guy With Bizarre Sexual Preferences (which basically sums up the plotline for the entire series, or at least Kim Cattrall's character) will be portrayed by the now-disgraced attorney Robert Steinbuch (who, contrary to Cutler's claims, bears zero resemblance to George Clooney).
The two first met and started an affair back in 2004 when they both worked for former Senator Mike DeWine. Then Cutler started blogging about their romps in the sack, detailing Steinbuch's predilection for "submissive types" and aversion to all things Trojan. Next thing you know, the whole story ended up on Wonkette, Cutler was fired, and Steinbuch left his job in disgrace.
Now, fast forward a couple years to the present.
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The ongoing lawsuit against Jessica Cutler, brought by Robert Steinbuch (one of Cutler's many conquests) is gaining weight faster than Britney Spears. Steinbuch, who is suing for "invasion of privacy and emotional distress" has added former Wonkette Ana Marie Cox to the defendant list.
Cutler responded that she only shared her blog with four friends and did not perpetrate its broader airing. So Steinbuch is now seeking to add Cox and the as-yet-unnamed person who turned her on to Cutler's blog to the suit. Cox, now a columnist for Time, declined comment last night.
Look, if you don't want people to write about banging you on their sex blog, you have two options. Stay inside and never get laid, or make everyone you fuck sign a confidentiality agreement that they will never talk, write, or blog about it. Sure, maybe it kills the mood, but at least it will prevent innocent bearers of truth like Cox from getting sued for spreading the good word of gossip to a dreadfully boring city.
Steinbuch's Suit Has Room to Grow [Reliable Source, Washington Post]
• How long did it take Lizzie Grubman's intern to want a complete change of career? About three months. Too bad she didn't discover bloggers first. [Gawker]
• We wish were alive back when condoms were called scumbags. Whispering, "hey, you have a scumbag, right?" would just be awesome. [Slate]
• Sounds like Jessica Cutler may actually not get screwed. For once. [Wonkette]
• Walter Cronkite isn't the only one with a Katie Couric crush. We even think Jim Romenesko might have a chance. [NYO]
• Do people have to really, really, try to get into Harvard? Yes. They also need about 40 grand worth of "preparation services." [NYT]
• And just when you though perfume couldn't get any better than smelling like Britney Spears or Paris Hilton, Mariah Carey graces us with her shower spray. [Pop Sugar]
Gael Green, the Jessica Cutler of the 60's, mixes her passion for food, fucking, and helping the homeless in one saucy package — her latest novel Insatiable.
Yes, we all read the excerpts printed in her former place of employment, New York, and we all felt nauseous when she talked about bedding Burt Reynolds. But (and we didn't think this was possible) old lady sex just got grosser. Because Gael's old pal James Brady weighs in on the loose lipped food critic. (Yep, we went there.)
Gael "tells all" so often and so charmingly that you wonder if she's auditioning for the lead in a touring company's, "The Lady Is a Tramp."
Gael is a delicious writer with a knack for nailing a character in a few swift brush strokes. And she writes wonderfully of the sensuous passions of eating and drinking, for a nation of foodies. But must we really know everything about Gael's love life?
Um hello? She's competing against other femoirists like Stephanie Klein.
And while Gael may have Elvis and Clint Eastwood, Stephanie has her own secret weapon: a pussy full of Pam. And it's pretty tough to out-slut that.
But Can Gael Greene Be Trusted? [James Brady, Forbes]
PRIMETIME.COM [Mandy Stadtmiller, New York Post]
Update: Thank you nit-picky readers for pointing out that the Pam may have actually been used for, ahem, other purposes. However, we don't feel that would make our conclusion necessarily incorrect. And now, if you'll excuse us, we have to take our 15th shower of the day.
A few of you might need to grab some napkins from your office kitchen before reading the tales of a drunk fem-blogger pillow fight at the Byrant Park Hotel.
Seven of NYC's hottest bloggirls got together in their PJ's, all giggly and holding wine glasses, to dish about how pissed they are when editors have no idea who they are.
Puking at Schiller's, running for coffee in a trench coat, and having random people obsessed with you? Just another day in the life of an anorexic girl tied to her lap top.
Whether they blog for their 15 minutes, or just to expunge their neuroses to the world, Rachel Sklar, Jessica Cutler, Brooke Parkhurst, Melissa Lafsky, Mimi Foe, and Heather Hunter spill their blogguts to ring leader Nadine Haobsh.
It turns out to be a pretty fun article, and from what it seems, a happenin' little soiree. It's just so fabulous that these girls can afford to "eat" at Da Silvano, wear DVF, and drink K1 and Starbucks on their blogger/stripper/lawyer/daddy's credit card salaries.
Who knew there was more to a blogger's life than sweatpants and forties?
Blogger Pajama Party [Nadine Haobsh, The Daily]
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