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ASSME founder and president Aaron Gell created the organization on a fateful day in November 2009, not long after the demise of Radar magazine, for which he served as executive editor. He is currently (just between us) employed as the editor-in-chief of Hemispheres magazine, but remains shitcanned at heart. He is a contributing writer for Elle, and has written for Vanity Fair, GQ, Details, New York, The New York Times, The New York Observer, O, the Oprah Magazine, Maxim and plenty of other magazines that no longer exist but shone brightly in their day and live on in our hearts.
Eyjafjallajökull blows off steam
What’s in a name? Eyjafjallajökull is the Icelandic glacier that erupted yesterday closing the airspace over Great Britain. Who knew the apocalypse would be so hard to spell? By the way, the last time this happened, in 1821, it apparently lasted more than a year. On the plus side, the lines to see Big Ben [...]
Herb Cohen’s Reality Report
Herb Cohen is an expert in negotiation, who’s advised the Departments of State and Justice, the FBI, the CIA and Presidents Carter and Reagan. He helped shape the government’s response to the Iranian Hostage Crisis , the skyjacking of TWA Flight 847 and the seizure of the Achille Lauro. He also played a role in [...]
Qatar to U.S.: Get lost!
Allvoices.com is reporting that according to a source, U.S. citizens are being asked to leave Qatar within the week. All because we wouldn’t let one of their diplomats, Mohammed Al-Madadi, spark one up on a plane without making a federal case out of it! (You’d want a ciggie too if
Love freedom? Kill your iPad
I’ll admit to feeling a certain thrill last week when, tucked in to a back table at a grimy pizza place—a table so secluded, in fact, that the kitchen guy would eventually kick me out so he could scarf down a slice—I pulled an iPad from its box ahead of the launch date (do not [...]
American Apparel Rummage Rampage
Wow, those Brits are sure all about fashion. Longtime Mediaelites patron and admitted corporate crush object American Apparel held a “rummage sale” in a pop up store on Brick Lane, and, well, it was extremely popular! Some 2,000 people showed up and went nuts (for comparison’s sake, 12,000 attended a similar event at SXSW over [...]
Twitter, are you toying with me again?
Update: Don’t actually fly to London to try to hook up with MIA. Plans changing on the fly…
Lt. Dan Choi chains self to White House
Update: Lt. Dan Choi and infantryman Jim Pietrangelo have been arrested. It’s really exhilarating to see some civil disobedience that involves more than joining a Facebook group. Holy shit. Lt. Dan Choi, the Arabic-speaking linguist and Iraq War vet fired under the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law, has chained himself to the White House fence [...]
Televised autopsy proves science can be creepy
We consider the human body to be fascinating, natural and even, dare we say it, beautiful. It’s also kind of terrifying and icky, especially when flayed open, live on TV, by a cadaverous, fedora-wearing German. When Channel 4 in Britain posted clips from their groundbreaking series Anatomy for Beginners on the internet, they wisely required [...]
Snakes chase out St. Patrick (McCarthy)
The news that Patrick McCarthy, editorial director of the Fairchild Fashion Group (W, WWD) for Conde Nast is on the way out at the end of the year is making me a little wistful (yes, again) about the fate of magazines. I spent four years as an editor at W, despite knowing next to nothing [...]
Treme trailer looks good! Except…
Five years after Katrina, New Orleans is bracing for another catastrophe. I speak of John Goodman (Roseanne, The Flintstones). Goodman has his fans. I’m not one of them. I can’t get past the aura of rage and hostility that emanates from him like an over-application of Axe. To me, the presence of the Coen Bros. [...]
Product Placement Goes Gaga!
What with all the bulldykery, ripped catsuits and pop genius, “Telephone,” the epic Jonas Akerlund video starring Lady Gaga and Beyonce is such an insane pastiche, it’s hard to keep track of the many product placements. Then again, the various companies featured in the video didn’t pony up all that dough merely for the sake [...]
Somebody doesn’t like Emily Gould
Emily Gould, the former Gawker girl who turned TMI into a well-paying franchise with a much-discussed Times Magazine cover story and then a much-envied, possibly $350k book deal, is reaping the expected Schadenfreude. Her essay collection, And the Heart Says Whatever, which will be published by Free Press in May, is reviewed (scroll down) in [...]
ASME shut-out for Rolling Stone
We’re going to go out on a limb and say the offices of Rolling Stone are not a cheerful place to be right now. The mag was conspicuously absent from the National Magazine Award nominations, released today. Worse, Paste, informally known as “the magazine your mom might subscribe you to if she’d ever heard of [...]
The slick new mediaelites
No, it’s not our hair. You’re right though. Something’s different. So perceptive! Yes, the website. Exactly. It’s new. Okay, we know it might take a little getting used to, but now our external self matches what we always felt like inside. At last, we can actually be ourselves. We can breathe! Many thanks are in [...]
Herb Cohen’s Real Housewives Report