Daniel Nardicio on the Levi Johnston Media Circus @1:50 PM
Playgirl's Daniel Nardicio (who, for the record, does indeed throw a really good party) very graciously responds to former Playgirl editor Jessanne Collins', who wrote here yesterday that his slagging off of the since-fired staff of the magazine was out of line : "I shot off at the mouth about them and it was childish and they deserved better." Related! His thoughts on the Levi Johnston nude modeling brouhaha: "this whole media circus is one crazy, fun, mind altering baby step in the right direction for Playgirl and frankly, for me." Oh this modern age! 1
Congressman Insincerely Apologizes to Flowers @2:20 PM
Jeff Flake [R, Arizona] went for a week to a deserted island because he was feeling like a "pansy" in modern society, what with the plumbing and cars and real life all around him. "Congressman Flake didn't realize that that word can have a negative connotation. He simply meant 'wimpy.' He apologizes if anyone took offense to it." —Jeff Flake's spokesperson. 18
Elements of Stale, with Luke Mazur: "Sorry" @2:20 PM
I always considered David Letterman a sort of father figure. With two baby boomer parents, I basically have two moms: first, my dad who blogs and reads Sufi poetry and cooks with ghee and wears bright colors, and second, my mom, who is saint for signing up for this. And so, growing up I depended on late night talk shows for the little genderizing that actually happened to me. Letterman, his shoulder as cold as the notoriously freezing Ed Sullivan Theater, represented for me a sort of fucked-up machismo. Where you come to work hammered and laugh at your own jokes and swallow your ailments and anxieties and hurt so that the only part of them we see is the times you're mean to that Hello Deli guy. You don't blog. You don't wear pink. READ MORE 11
