Hey, we're not the only market that's currently on a downward spiral. Sure, we may have caused a world-wide economic crisis, but at least America is now in good company (we wouldn't want to be the only country living in Shantytowns, now would we?)
The problem? Unlike America, what with our McDonalds and Salvation Armys and two-for-one PBR nights, people across the pond are still mere neophytes when it comes to trying to pinch pennies. Especially if they happen to be Queen Elizabeth, who finally got the carrier pigeon memo that said she might have to reduce spending.
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Queen Elizabeth has her own YouTube channel, which makes her approximately four hundred times better at the web than John McCain, who still thinks Google is something you do to yourself to relieve stress before a debate.
Here's the Queen visiting London HQ of the Google opperations, wearing the most amazing outfit in the world. If you are queen, you get clothes designed out of mermaids. Awesome:
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• Again, the BBC is really, really sorry for making the Queen look like a royal bag.
• But not sorry enough to quit, apparently!
• Former television columnist Gail Shister demoted reassigned to the metro desk. Next in store for Gail: The local traffic beat.
• HBO execs in total denial over those giant piles of hate-mail from people still livid over the Sopranos finale.
• Meanwhile, HBO starting to face the reality that, without Chris "Bruiser" Albrecht at the helm, they've got zero new hit shows.
• Magazine ad sales come in "flat" by dropping 0.5% since 2006. "But if flat is the new up," writes AdAge, "a decline smaller than 1% can certainly be called the new flat." Or, in other words, no news is good news.
• Miss New Jersey shows us some ostensibly embarrassing pictures of herself that really just make us wish we were more bendy.
• Alright, fine. The Queen didn't really storm out of her photo session with Annie Leibowitz. She just threw a shitfit on the way in.
• Has anyone ever noticed that Shaun White and Carrot Top have never been in the same room, at the exact same time?
• Nothing against the power of cosmetics, but we're thinking maybe Sarah Michelle Gellar really was born with it.
• From CNN: "I'm no terrorist, grinning serial arsonist says."
• Queen Elizabeth throws a shitshow temper tantrum and storms off set after photog Annie Leibovitz asks her to pose for some tawdry pics without her crown. Reportedly, Leibovitz's attempts to cajole QEII into cooperating included telling her "all the royals were doing it" and reassuring her that it would be "tasteful, for the sake of art."
• BBC apologizes for accidentally airing footage of the Queen storming off; explains away royal temper tantrum as "a documentary clip [that] had been edited incorrectly."
• "I don't want to be remembered as the guy who killed David Halberstam," worries the Guy Who Killed David Halberstam.
• You know what sucks about working at Bauer? Everything!
• The NYT has the non-exclusive on a magazine that already folded three days ago.
• Like, seriously guys, Lindsay Lohan wants us to take her acting seriously. We told you Linds, have a baby, and we'll see your movie. [ET]
• Did you know Queen Elizabeth and Hugh Hefner are the same age? Too bad she can't have six hot ripply boyfriends. [Vogue]
• Paris Hilton decided to bet her Bentley away in a game of poker. Actually, it was a game of strip poker, but everyone at the table had already seen her naked, so they took the car instead. [Superficial]
• Jamie Foxx knows how to spend money, sing, and most importantly, screw around [3am]
• Because Gem and Barbie weren't dirty enough, we now have The Pussycat Dolls dolls. The perfect gift for that special little 11-year-old whore in your life. [TMZ]
• Rached Sklar thinks being right is more important than being first. To which we say "psha!" [Mediabistro]
