The first time I was ever published in a book was 1997. It was because I'd found Roger Ebert's email and asked him a…
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Carly Simon has apparently revealed the subject of "You're So Vain," and it's David Freaking Geffen, who is gay.…

Even losing the world's most famous YouTube fight won't stop anyone from making the most of their 15 minutes. (And…
Last Time I Took Ambien, I Had A Weird Dream About Scarlett Johansson And Axl Rose Playing Ping Pong
"On Tuesday of this week...[J]ohansson was seen playing pingpong with Rose at SPiN. "They were laughing the whole…
A student at NYU's Stern School of Business sent a complaint email to a hard-headed professor about his class's…
Now, remind me again, which aspect of this ad for a dating website was supposed to entice women? Was it the sideways…
We've had icy sidewalks here in New York lately. Hazardous, but entertaining. Here's an excellent montage of a…
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Here's an interview with Tom Slick himself, where he provides an expletive-laced background to the infamous bus…

Awesome video shot earlier this week at the Phoenix International Airport. Although Epic Beard Man would…

In other scandal-ridden relationship news, Gary Coleman overcompensates for his short stature by telling "The…
PR people are stupid. Not all of them, just some of them. Like this person, who just sent this pitch to me...because…

As noted earlier, the punchy old man who likes to deliver beat downs on Oakland bus riders appears to have been…

Word to the wise: When a (possibly racist) 67-year-old man wearing an "I AM a motherfucker" t-shirt gives you guff…
Stories That Don't Suck: Death On The Track, Ebert's Silence, NASCAR's Backlash Ethos, Bubba In Love
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Let's hope she doesn't agree to appear on the cover of Madden 2011. [BrooklynDeckerTwitter]
That is all. (Thanks to Gamboa Constrictor for his citizen journalism.)
PR people are stupid. Not all of them, just some of them. Like this person, who just sent this pitch into our tips…
Every week, I'll excerpt a handful of stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime —…