While trudging through last night's moribund and unfunny home foreclosure-themed Simpsons episode, we suddenly got to wondering... Is it possible to laugh about the looming New Depression? OK, so there was a funny Peppermint Patty is a lesbian laff. But other than that, we sat through 22 minutes of ...

HarperCollins is paying Nick Douglas a five-figure sum for Twitter Wit, a book of the Gawker alum's favorite Twitter posts. Is getting paid for aggregating other people's "tweets" as lazy as it sounds? Because it sounds somehow even lazier than making a book out of your mom's email messages, a schem...

Kiss bassist/serial entrepreneur Gene Simmons got wind of yesterday's post about his all new Canadian-artists-only record label, and he is not pleased! He took to the blog of his recently relaunched Simmons Records and went off, calling the person who penned it (a.k.a. me) "an amateur who's achieved...

So Idolator is up for Best Music Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards, which are not to be confused with the Bloggies, or for that matter with the AVN Adult Movie Awards. Since I'm trying to be more "assertive" in 2009 I'm going to use this opportunity to suggest that you click over there and vote for us,...

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This past week has given me the opportunity (not enjoyable, but then things that spur us toward growth often are not enjoyable) to revisit something I've come upon before.  How people miscommunicate is not something that we seem to understand enough about.  Or at least that's tru...

When 2008 started, I was sure it was going to be awesome. "It's going to be two-thousand-great," I told anyone who would listen, ignoring the various signs (MTV ringing in the New Year with Tila Tequila, hints of economic collapse, etc.) that things wouldn't exactly go as planned. Or even be much go...

They are the worst....

After two years of playing footsie with Valleywag, I've finally been hired full time to write for what these kids call The Olds — that means winning over Fleetwood Mac fans and Fortune subscribers. Waist-high ace reporter Kara Swisher goaded me to start my first full day today with a journalistic ...

I promised I wouldn't take another vacation. The last time I did, all hell broke loose. Larry and Sergey turned a Nasa base into their private jet hangar, Six Apart dumped its CEO, and Kevin Rose broke his iPhone. I dread the notion of leaving the Valley unsupervised for a week. But since September,...