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Obama has bought a whole half hour on network primetime TV a week before the election. Now, a smart network would also sell the commercial breaks during Obama's ad. (0) 10/10/08

Feeling comfortable with the concept of trillions of dollars? Slate says get ready to hear about quadrillions of dollars. In losses, that is. (0) 10/10/08

Desperate Wall Street employees reconsidering their godless, heathen worship of the golden calf. Church attendance at Trinity up by 100%. (0) 10/10/08

Axl Rose, Dr. Pepper fairy. Dr. Pepper says they will honor promise to give everyone in America a free soda if Chinese Democracy is released this year, which might actually happen. (0) 10/10/08

Banksy installation exhibit opened in the Village: animatronic processed meats hop and swim around like the animals they once were. Sounds funny and sort of unnerving, like his best stuff is. (0) 10/9/08

The moderator for an upcoming debate for Puerto Rico's governor election is Daddy Yankee. Lil Wayne says he's ready to step in for next week's presidential debate, and will totally hold them to their time limits. (0) 10/9/08

Kid who hacked Sarah Palin's Yahoo account was "head and shoulders above everybody else", according to middle school history teacher. In 7th grade, the same kid guessed password of the school server and accessed it. He got detention. (0) 10/9/08

Scary Times article about names being illegally removed from voter rolls in 6 swing states. [via esskay] (0) 10/9/08

Sarah Palin thinks being on SNL with Tina Fey would be fun--"to meet her, imitate her and keep on giving her new material." Yeah, because the next 4 weeks are your last chance to be on national television. (0) 10/9/08

Josh Brolin made his George W. Bush character a compulsive eater. Brolin ate 15 sandwiches in one scene in W., claims the real Bush eats "like 2 or 3 tins of Altoids a day." (0) 10/9/08

Times finds a few restaurants (I use that term loosely) where you can still get food for $1. Hell's Kitchen or Chinatown, basically. (0) 10/8/08

Manohla Dargis's review of Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla. Eh. He's abandoned all the best cliches of British crime dramas, except that the characters wear suits. This one has "crustacean-involved torture," so at least there's that. (0) 10/8/08

Neiman Marcus will make a life-size replica of you in Legos. For $60,000. (0) 10/8/08

Michelle Rodriguez offers the world another magnificent quote, this one screamed at her girlfriend who had locked her out of their hotel room. "If you don't open up, you're not getting your vibrator back!" Or: maybe she said "dildo". Even better. (0) 10/8/08

Video: Let's Learn Judo With Vladimir Putin. Russia's saggy beefcake prime minister has already been photographed hunting and fishing shirtless. (0) 10/8/08

Prankster made a realistic missile with a "Viva Viagra" logo, drove it through the Midtown tunnel and past Pfizer hq. And what did he get arrested for? Trademark infringement. Not bringing a missile through the tunnel. Describes himself as a CRJ: "crazy redneck Jew". (0) 10/8/08

Somehow, AP got an amazingly candid interview with Bill Murray about his divorce, career, new movie, purpose in life. Divorce hit him hard, but now he's back: "I want to work. I want to get going. I want to do a few things at once. I want to bounce off like a pinball." (0) 10/7/08

Campaign killed by Twitter. A CT congressional candidate's spokesman posts about how bad the campaign is going. "Told you it was a lost cause," he wrote. World needs a remedial lesson on what the internet is. (0) 10/7/08

Times goes on eating tour with Calvin Trillin as part of New Yorker Festival. "Do you have a trick for getting everything in your mouth?" someone asked. "Mouth twisting," said Mr. Trillin. (0) 10/6/08

Good AP piece on congressional grilling of Lehman Brothers CEO, Richard Fuld. Asked about the $480 million he's made since 2000, "Fuld took off his glasses, held them, and looked uncomfortable. He said his compensation was not quite that much." (0) 10/6/08

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