Posts tagged as You Don't Say
Crazed Designer Michael Bastian to Stop Selling $540 Shorts!
"At some point during the last five years, it occurred to Michael Bastian that $540 was a lot to charge for a pair of khaki cut-off shorts, even if some men were willing to pay." READ MORE
Breaking: Young People Do Things Differently
The future is now: "Last year while writing about students entering their first year of college I made an interesting observation: these newly commissioned freshman don’t use wristwatches. In fact, the wristwatch is so alien to this group of late teens, that even the mere action of pointing to a wrist to ask someone the time is akin to speaking an unfamiliar foreign language. (They use mobile phones and laptops to tell the time.)"
Lawyer-Smacker Gets Life
In an unsurprising news update, the New Jersey man who smacked his own lawyer in front of a jury convened to determine whether or not he was guilty of a number of violent crimes has been found guilty. He will now be sentenced to life in prison. Because of all the prior bank robbing and stuff.
The Celebrity Weekly Industrial Complex Creates Its Own Reality
"'The question is: how can we construct a story around a set of emotions that our readers are going to relate to? It can come from a genuine tip, or a photo. Or it can come out of our ass,'" says a gossip magazine editor speaking anonymously to the Guardian's Oliver Burkeman. Burkeman has a lengthy piece on celebrity weeklies and their flexible concepts of truth and reportage. READ MORE
