Posts by Pareene
Flotsam & Jetsam
Spain’s Goth First Daughters Embarrass, Embarrassed By Dad
6:06AM Pareene | Here’s Barack and Michelle Obama with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his family. The State Department uploaded it to Flickr. (What an unlikely sentence!) Whoops — no one in Spain has ever seen Zapatero’s Goth daughters before! More »
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Happy Dan Brown Day
3:01AM Pareene | Hooray! Today you can finally buy Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, a new interactive novel about a heroic professor with a mullet who fights Catholics and Masons. It will save publishing, and ruin Washington DC. More » Advertisement
Swine Flu Imperils Times Trend Piece Topic
Is the Times getting cute with us? Months after warning us of the teen hug epidemic they are now asking if teen hugs spread swine flu. More »
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Gross Text Messages Between Married Journo And Mistress
7:40AM Pareene | Yesterday, we innocently repeated a Page Six blind item about a married former newspaperman carrying on an affair with a single reporter. We don’t have names. But we do have some of the newspaperman’s text messages to his ladyfriend! More »
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Carrie Prejean Suing Everyone
3:50AM Pareene | Noted wind victim Carrie “Miss Opposite Marriage” Prejean is suing three Miss California USA officials for firing her because of her religions beliefs, even though that is not actually why they fired her. More »
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Levi Johnston Wrote A Piece For The October Vanity Fair, Everybody
3:17AM Pareene | Ugh. What a terrible cover. “JACKIE: HER LONELIEST BATTLE,” really? Was she furious that Audrina sided with Heidi? Did Brad stop calling her? Oh, but wait! Levi Johnston wrote a piece for the issue? Double really? More »
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Why Didn’t Annie Sell Her Fancy Houses?
6:58AM Pareene | Annie Leibovitz should probably just file for bankruptcy before her $US24 million loan to Art Capital comes due. But could she have repaid the loan already, if she’d just sold her damn houses? Bloomberg thinks so! More »
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Berlusconi To Sue Every European Newspaper He Doesn’t Own
1:07AM Pareene | Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is suing a left-wing newspaper in Italy, along with papers in France and Spain, and he’s looking into a couple in Britain. Why? Because they keep asking him slanderous questions about his ridiculous private life! More »
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Did Vanity Fair Scoop Dominick Dunne’s Family?
4:46AM Pareene | An odd line in the Times obit of Dominick Dunne seems to suggest that the late writer’s family wanted to delay the announcement of his death in order to make sure it wasn’t overshadowed. More »
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