two-twenty

funny but not funny ha ha

A quick sex-scandal-that-very-nearly-was update: Wonkette relays the fact that Lloyd Grove used Alex Polier's Friendster page as a "source". Two-twenty would like to mention that we found THE PAGE, like, ages ago and actually didn't use it because it felt kind of, well, creepy. If you have ever wondered about our ethics, perhaps here is a clue to their nature: when it stops being funny and starts being creepy, we're out. Unless there's a lot of money involved, when we have been known to cross the good touch / bad touch line. Metaphorically speaking, that is. Perhaps we've said too much.

Also, an abridged late night television report, scandalous edition: Letterman made one off-hand remark along the lines of (this is paraphrased), "some Kerry intern thing that may or may not have happened, we don't know." Conan made a full-on, Monica-referencing intern sex joke in his monologue, but it was so lame we have forced ourselves to forget it. Related news: Nicole Richie was on Jimmy Kimmel, and she is still totally nuts. In response to a female audience member's heckling Nicole threatened offered to 'preg test' her (a reference to when Nicole shoved her arm elbow-deep in a cow's hoo-ha on The Simple Life, remember?). We have decided that her face looks oddly Picasso-esque, like things aren't quite put in the right place in an effort to add a third dimension to what essentially is a two-dimensional image.

Sorry, a little Nicole tangent there. Here's an interesting article in the Observer about the whole Polier cewebrity (groan) phenom: Alex Polier, Insta-Celebster. The story uses Polier's Friendster page as its primary source, but somehow their fancy talk and big ideas give the story a veneer of non-creepiness. Still, publicly announcing that Polier's favorite movies include "Die Hard" and "Jerry Maguire" does seem a bit mean-spirited. Dammit, now we've done it too. Maybe she was being ironic?