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drowning in the shallow end

How lame to re-enter the blogosphere by linking to a Page Six item that has already been linked to by Gawker, right? Baby steps, people.

The whole Abigail (Spath) Vona / Doug Dechert train wreck nearly roused enough righteous indignation to prompt a post, but we were laughing too hard to type coherently. Nice one, Doug, you're a real gentleman. As a good friend of mine is fond of saying, "Sleaze is so in this year." Speaking of which, Salon follows up last week's slavering review of Jenna Jameson's new book with an interview with the Miss Vona in question.

Sorry, back to the Page Six item in question... does there exist a sentence more vile than the following?

"Not even the drowning death of a crew member on a yacht where Usher's mom, Jonnetta Paton, hosted a "Welcome to Miami" party for her son could dampen the high spirits at the MTV Video Music Awards in Miami."

Oh, wait, there does exist such a sentence(!):

"No one noticed he was missing until the morning. Rochel's body was discovered Saturday afternoon about 100 yards from the yacht, washed up on the rocky shore near the chichi Fisher Island Beach Club, where diners had eaten lunch unaware of the nearby corpse... When PAGE SIX's Tom Sykes asked Usher about the death at his post-VMA party at Ian Schrager's Shore Club, the star said he didn't know anything, and added, 'I'm not responsible.'"

Yeah, yeah, that's three sentences, so sue me. Doug Dechert probably will.

Drowning Mars VMA Bashes | NY Post (via Gawker)