Rosie O'Donnell pranced over to The Today Show to discuss with Meredith Viera her upcoming (and ill-advised) variety show that is scheduled to torment your television sets this week. Naturally, the two former View moderators discussed Rosie's latest feud with Barbara Walters, which is likely not going to end anytime soon seeing as how Ro just can't keep her mouth shut.
Yesterday marked the end of an ear-piercing, tween-infused era, thanks to the final episode of TRL airing last night — and it was live, which is more than we can say about it over the past couple of years. Has-been Carson Daly hosted the finale, which is fitting because the years he ran the show were the Glory Days for not only Carson but TRL itself. After many years of pimping out boy bands and Britneys, the show took a turn for the worst, no longer filming live, losing host after host, offering a haven for sad tweens who eat their hair — and making life miserable for Mollygood editors who braved the masses for their favorite singers.
How much do you love Anderson Cooper? He's a great news anchor, making a valiant attempt to stay neutral and simply report the news instead of bullying his guests into submission (ahem, Bill O'Reilly), and he manages to take time in his day to enjoy what really matters: reality TV.
Cord Jefferson proposes: a moratorium on saying "fuck the haters." Because you probably are one. [Mollygood]
Cord Jefferson, editor of Jossip's celebrity blog Mollygood will return to New York City this week after a not-so-brief stay in Saudia Arabia, where he went to donate a kidney to his father.
So, that’s that. I’m in more pain than I’ve ever felt - kinda easy since my entire history of real physical trauma consists of fracturing my foot playing tennis in sixth-grade - but in an uncharacteristically tough-guy move, I swore off narcotics two days after surgery because I didn’t like the way they made me feel. Now it hurts to eat, sleep (yes, it’s possible) and scratch my back. And I’ve had to turn off both Sixteen Candles and Police Academy because they were making me laugh, which is agonizing.
I can’t believe people go through this shit in order to have slightly smaller noses. [Kidney and the Kingdom]
After weeks of blogging about it, our own Mollygood editor Cord Jefferson, off in Saudi Arabia, had his kidney removed and placed inside his dad. We'll let you know more when we do.
Still fuming in the stink of an iodine shower, an IV drip in my right hand making my typing difficult, I’m buzzing from a sleeping pill and thinking about what’s right to write when one will be waking up to a whole new life.
How about this:
I am not scared, because every last little thing was worth it.
The annual Maxim “Hot 100″ was released in full today, further imbruing the cultural landscape with rampant mediocrity and offensive thoughtlessness. At number one is a blond woman with disproportionately large breasts. Number two? That’s right: a blond woman with disproportionately large breasts. The list also includes Britney Spears, saying that she “oozes genuine sexiness.”
Here, we again attempt to combat lad mag idiocy with our own list of beautiful and sexy women. Click through for a Simpson sister-free zone.
• The winner of Mollygood's Someone Haiku:
Pride in being a
Family, not just for cats-
For pinnapeds (sic) too.
• Duke Lacrosse players get their litigious revenge. Maybe Duke can hold a wrongly accused charity ball.
• The gays behind, or in front, depending on their mood, of Obama talk to Queerty.
• Bubble watch: We wrote about the John McCain story four times today. Currently, the most emailed New York Times story is "More Americans Are Giving Up Golf." Really makes you think.
• Bonnie Fuller realizes her kids aren't like famous people's kids. Looks like stars aren't just like us. That one also really makes you think.
• The adoption of Pax is finalized. After all that thinking, now you can finally rest easy.
Dear Reader,
What's up? Oh, just surfing the web, killing time between meetings? Wow, that's actually exactly what we're doing. Just fucking around between posts.
When you think about the economy of the internet, we exist to serve you when you're bored or lazy. Friday afternoons, the days proceeding long weekends, when your boss is out of town, that's when you need us more than ever.
Sadly, even though we work from home, often in our pajamas, blogging is still a job. By Friday afternoon, just when you demand that we entertain you, our brain is starts to feel like oatmeal too. Okay, so it's only Tuesday, but the point remains.
Anyway, to keep you entertained, here's a video that's sort of cool:
Related to slow news day, Mollygood is making an open call for secrets. Our favorite so far: "I cried when my cat died, but not when my grandpa died." We have a similar secret related to our dog and grandmother.
When the internet first started, everyone was like, "blogging is a medium for self-absorbed cat lovers." But then internet journos did real things, like exposing potential fraud committed by the DNC's chief of staff. But for this week's Jossiping, we kick it old school, and interview our very own cat lover Whitney Little. The former Jossip intern is now a full-time at Mollygood and an office favorite. We gchatted about New York, cats and getting teased by the gays at Jossip HQ.
Yo, let's start this interview.
Oh goodness! I hope I answer everything correctly.
So, Whitney, tell us about yourself
Well, I grew up in Abilene, Texas, and lived there until I went off to college. I decided that I wanted to move to New York City, so I moved here after I graduated from Texas A&M without a solid job and (almost) without a place to stay … I found an apartment a week before I moved. CONTINUED »
BACK ON THE HORSE, OFF THE WAGON Party! Lindsay Lohan is drinking again. Friends warn not to "overexaggerate" the situation and claim she still has it together. Okay, we'll just exaggerate the situation and say Lindsay Lohan is beginning her slow re-descent. [Mollygood]
FYI, LESBIANS STILL GET STDS Spotting lesbians is a bit more complicated than recognizing gay men, but our general theory is that if a woman doesn’t get emotionally invested in her relationships with men, she’s gay. Incidentally, Paris Hilton was spotted at Falcon, a lezzie Hollywood night club, this weekend. [Mollygood]
• Breaking: Iraq is dangerous.
• Hey, you know what would be really awesome? If politicians stopped invoking Martin Luther King. CONTINUED »
• Devo from Saturday Night Live. No, not "Whip It."
• The Directors Guild, not the Writers Guild, reaches an agreement with the alliance the producers. Does this mean we'll find out what happens on Desperate Housewives?
• Winner of the Someone Haiku from Mollygood:
Tom Cruises By Puke:
Don’t Cry Over Spilled Thetans,
They Go To Venus.
PLAYER PLAY ON In 24 hours, Lindsay Lohan hooked up with three different guys in Capri. And they say feminism is dead. [Mollygood]
If you’ve ever woken up on a Saturday morning and thought, “thinking isn’t for me today” and spent the day watching MTV, you know that Stephen and Lauren of Laguna Beach hooking up again is a big deal.
We’ve had that experience; our colleague Cord of Mollygood has not. And yet he has used all our witty rejoinders about the recent re-pairing on his website. Our resolution for 2008 is to get our revenge.
[Photo Credit: WireImage]
Cord Jefferson may think a certain Jossip editor is a jerk. And that certain Jossip editor may be writing in third person at this very moment to adhere to the constraints of Jossip style.
And still, we must take a moment to acknowledge Cord's lament on the suburbs. Namely, that the suburbs suck. And they do. We grew up there.
Usually, Cord's misanthropy is directed at washed up celebrities, which is funny and all, but making fun of Victoria Beckham is like shooting fishing in a barrel. Making fun of the suburbs, however, is like shooting fish at close range.
STATURORY-RAPED UP? Fuzzy math is the least of Jamie Lynn Spears’s problems right now, but it seems like BF and soon to be baby-daddy Casey Aldridge might have been too old in some states to be impregnating a 16 year-old, even though it was consensual. We’re all for free love, but we might have to agree with Louisiana on this one. [Mollygood]
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