Every year, I ask myself: am I going to read anything that is made-up this year? For 2010, I am not so sure. The invented seems so unrewarding. Still! Here is a preview of the first half of the year in mostly-fiction. Can you believe people have the gall to turn blogs into books? Like that crazy kid José de Sousa Saramago, the author of Blindness? Sheesh, some nerve. 7
Are 13-Year-Olds Taking Our Jobs? @4:20 PM
"You know that feeling when you're sort of floating around like a ghost and so exhausted that you consider drinking the Lola perfume in your goodie bag at Marc Jacobs? No? Me neither. Except this one time when I went to New York Fashion Week and it was sort of crazy."
Gah. I want to douse the flaxen-haired author with superspicy haterade, snatch her bag, smash the perfume behind me like a smoke bomb, and go legging it down the block cackling like a maniac—but can't. Because Tavi Gevinson, the writer, is a fashion blogger who's been featured in Teen Vogue, the Times magazine, graced the COVER of the POP magazine relaunch and IS A CHILD. Like a teeny wee baby person, who can't feel all that good to maul. Or at least it would feel FUCKING FANTASTIC but, like, only for a second. READ MORE 54
A Friendly Chat: Michael K, Web Entrepreneur, Blogger, Pottymouth @11:50 AM
Michael K runs and writes the website Dlisted, which gives a rundown on the day's celebrity comings and goings with crude humor that often verges on the vulgar (though he disputes this point). Our 3 p.m. conversation took place between a post that featured some pap photos of A-ha! singer Morten Hackett ("For being almost a half-a-century old, dude is….still doing things to me. Take on my no-no, Morten!") and one that questioned the authenticity of Soulja Boy's Twittered pic of his groin ("Is that a bottle of Strawberry Suave in your boxers?"). Michael K lives on Manhattan's Lower East Side with a roommate and a chihuahua named Elvie (he admitted the breed with sigh: "it's such a gay man's dog," he said). READ MORE 31
Nikki Finke: Her Litigious Nature @10:15 AM
The lawsuits that divine Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke (I refer to her in that fashion because getting emails from her is just too intense, and also? She is rather divine) has filed, according to today's front page (!!!) New York Times mini-profile:
1. "The New York Post, the News Corporation and the Walt Disney Company" for wrongful termination.
2. A class action suit against E*Trade for non-disclosed recording of phone calls.
3. A contractor working on her house, because she injured her foot.
4. A car dealership, over an extended warranty.
WHO WILL BE NEXT? Maybe you! 7
Business Policy Institute Very Much Against Taxes @3:30 PM
A bunch of finance bloggers are passing around a chart from the "Public Policy Institute of New York" that shows, with data from up to 2006, that New York's personal and tax burdens are the highest in the nation's, and also the state spends a lot of money! OMG! "New York To Become Ghost Town After Largest Tax Hike In History?" asks a blogger! Taxes Bleed New Yorkers Dry, claims Clusterstock! READ MORE 0
