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please, people, talk amongst yourselves

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So I spend 64% of my time pretending to be wise, intellectual, and just generally not woefully unprepared for graduate school. However, I spend the other 26% of my time reading gossip blogs and telling people about Brangie's new vacation spot in Cabo. (I spend the other 10% drinking.) Yes, yes, it's true. I am a fucking trash-media junkie. So now that it's all out in the open, I can tell you about four of my favoritest gossip hotspots ever, in obsession order. 1. If People Magazine were the Queen Mother, Hello! was the unceasingly irrelevant girlfriend of whichever son, and UsWeekly was the poor showing of Camilla, Dlisted would take over England, fire them all, and hire on Michael K. to do its writing. Dlisted is some serious coolness - it's clever, catty, easy on the big words but hard on the pop culture references, it manages to be trashy without seeming trashy, and it's a definitive source for all things Hollywood (and beyond!). It's also an equal opportuni...

i'm back, bitch!

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OK, so sorry about yesterday - I was too sick, no post. Which means you get a double whammy today: a retroactive cool post, and an Awesome Blog of the Week (tm) post! You can go to Overheard in New York to submit weird, funny, crazy, insightful, and faith-in-humanity-destroying quotations that people next to you say on the streets! It gets updated about 6 million times a day, so it'll even keep up the most boring day at your desk ever. Tip: Also check out Overheard in Athens , one that's a little more suited to the college crowd, and Eavesdrop DC , for all you snooty Districtarians. Then, if you are not in a library/funeral/the cubicle closest to your boss' office, you can check out some movie trailers over at Apple Trailers: From the same fine folks who screwed you on your iPhone purchase. Last, but not least, here's some coolness for my engineering/architecture/computa sciencez friends (shout out to the Bill Collector!): Go here to design your dream home, settle p...