From last night's CITY party at the Soho Grand, where John McDonald's magazine was feted for churning out 50 issues, comes this line when a photographer began snapping away: "I'm a model. I can't take a flash."

And that about sums up the evening.

"Ok, so Janice Min is making $1.5 million a year. [Ed: Potentially $2.5 million, with bonuses.] And she's supposedly moving a million copies a week on the newsstand. Meanwhile, In Touch is kicking its ass with some 200k more issues sold every week, and what do you think [In Touch EIC Richard] Spencer is earning? Not even close to that."

"Something's up with the new Details. Something with the design." — Lowly staffer at a men's magazine, whose informal job description includes keeping tabs on the competition.

[Ed.: We agree, there are changes afoot, but we don't know the proper fancy layout terms needed to describe it.]

Have you heard? It's hot out there. In our re-imagined exact quote, MSNBC's Jinah Kim explains it this way: "Imagine if you turned on your oven to 125 degrees and crawled in."

Ahh, oven jokes in the media! Always good for daytime.

"So that's what CNN had in mind when they thought they'd Economist-ize their brand?" — A staffer in the online division of a competing 24/7 news agency