All hail the Musto. We can think of no other New York gossip who has had as powerful an influence on this meta clusterfuck of an industry.

Well, our lovely neighbors to the north, the Canadians, heart Michael Musto, too. And they can really pick up on those hidden subtleties in his writing. Hence the Toronto Star's apt observation, "His column has a gay subtext."

Wow, did Musto realize that other people could pick up on that tone he works so hard at burying? (Emphasis ours.)

"When I realized I could write politics, fashion, celebrity and be openly gay about it I thought, `Wow, I can make a living out of it.'"

Oh, we guess he did. This must have prompted the reporter on this story to realize, "wow, I can prove my talent for picking up on the secret gayness of the Village Voice and enforce stereotypes of oblivious Canadians in one shot."

The Hunter S. Thompson of snark [Rita Zekas, Toronto Star]