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10
Mar

Anthony Bourdain’s Delicious Second Helping of Hypocrisy

Anthony Bourdain, the chain-smoking bad boy of the Travel Channel’s Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, has a few choice words for all you food bloggers out there: Just eat it.

Apparently, despite Bourdain making a fortune as well as a name for himself trotting all over the globe documenting and analyzing all manner of foodstuffs, there’s something really wrong with bloggers who do exactly the same thing — only with smaller cameras and thinner budgets.

Confused? Me too.

In last Monday’s episode of No Reservations, Bourdain tags along with several food fanatics/bloggers including eGullet’s Jason Perlow and Steven Shaw, and Opinionated About Dining’s Steven Plotnicki. Gawker’s Mike Byhoff reports:

[In the episode] Bourdain claims that these three men are so obsessed with food, it’s come to the point of disillusionment about what food actually means. And in the middle the interviews with the each blogger, they each took out their cameras to photograph the food. This is where Bourdain, for some reason, berated them. He voiced serious disapproval when it comes to taking pictures of their food for the purposes of posting those photos to their blog.

Now you’d think Bourdain would be able to appreciate the passion these fellow food-fixators have for their subject matter. After all, this guy is seriously food-obsessed. You’d have to be to subject yourself to consuming such unfathomable dishes as unwashed warthog rectum and fermented shark. Or crazy. Or on drugs. Or both.

But apparently while it’s cool for Bourdain to scrutinize the exotic cuisine of cultures around the world while his Travel Channel camera crew documents each and every delicious or disgusting bite, when food bloggers do it (with their little notebooks and digital cameras), the process is suddenly akin to “keeping a diary while having sex,” as he put it.

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05
Mar

Jon Gosselin and the Angry Inch

That pinnacle of journalism Life & Style magazine is reporting that Playgirl has offered dad-of-eight Jon Gosselin $20,000 to reveal his Little Jon in a centerfold:

If Playgirl ever asks Jon Gosselin, 32, to pose nude, he may be a little insulted by the offer. “We discussed it, and we’d offer him only $20,000,” Playgirl rep Daniel Nardicio tells Life & Style exclusively. “His star is extinguishing, and he’s not very [well endowed]” — as Jon’s exes Hailey Glassman and Kate Major both recently revealed. “Honestly,” says Nardicio, “it’d be more of a novelty than an actual sexy shoot.”

But since no one thought to ask Jon for a comment and he can’t afford a publicist anymore, he offered this on Twitter:

So wait. Is he saying he would never stoop so low, or no one has asked him yet? ‘Cause for a minute there, it sounds like he’s about to make a moral argument about how his good Christian values would preclude him from doing such a thing, but then he gets all “your people haven’t called my people to work this shiz out.” Maybe he realizes that twenty grand can buy a whole lot of Ed Hardy.

04
Mar

PETA’s Newest Model Dave Navarro Gives Treats in Tweets

I think new “Ink, Not Mink” PETA model, Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro, is confused.

Yesterday, his PETA campaign debuted. Last night, Navarro went on to perform wearing leather…on his guitar strap…his belt….his shoes.

In fact, he busted himself by tweeting the picture to the right. Consider him yet another manimal celebrity who thinks fur comes from animals and leather comes from the leather tree.

Not only that, but here’s what he once had to say about falling in love with Carmen Electra:

“She had on this white fur coat, her hair down, and her eyes pierced my heart from 20 feet away. The first thing I did was buy her 1,200 pairs of sunglasses to cover up those eyes. I couldn’t risk anyone else having the same reaction.”

So Dave Navarro falls in love with Ms. Electra over a fur coat? Now he’s “reformed” and all that, but he still wears leather? Worst PETA spokesperson ever.

According to Navarro, it was “several years ago” when he saw the footage that affected him so deeply.  Then why did it take him “several years” to sort out his feelings. Perhaps he just needs some attention, and gettin’ naked for PETA is one way to do that.

Want a few more images of Navarro rocking the leather from his concert last night? Click on the jump.

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26
Feb

Lily Allen Won’t ‘Pick On’ Crazy Courtney Love…Much

Ex-neo-Luddite and former (?) pop star Lily Allen is super annoyed at professional trainwreck Courtney Love’s insinuations regarding Lily being a Chanel-hogging diva. Like most of Lily Allen’s feuds, this one started over some bullshiz about Lily wearing Chanel to some awards thing, and Courtney was forced to dress in burlap because of it. Or something.

So to prove that she isn’t a diva, Lily swore she would take the high road in their Twitter war:

“She’s upset because she has got it into her head that i put a lock on some dresses for the brit awards. She’s made no secret of this and, when i saw her at the NME’s she tried to talk to me and i told her to shut up and stop spreading stupid rumours about me.

“And thats pretty much it. I would never fight with her, as a rule I don’t pick on crazy old ladies.”

And just when you think Lily Allen has developed a molecule of manners, this immediately followed:

it’s the sort of thing a paranoid drug addled lunatic might come up with.

Ah, well. Turns out Lily Allen couldn’t find the high road with a GPS.

This would also be a good time to remind Lily that when it comes to drug-addled lunatics, she’s one to talk.

19
Feb

Hollywood’s Alec Baldwin Double Standard

I’m glad Defamer still exists in some form because once in a while, they publish articles like this one that hit the Hollywood nail square on its gilded head.

Alec Baldwin’s poor anger management has landed him in his fair share of public gaffes — like calling his teenage daughter horrible names in a leaked voicemail and attacking a photographer last week — but never quite to the extent that his career ever required a comeback tour. And now, with multiple 30 Rock Emmys in hand and coming off the unlikely success of baby-boomer bonkfest It’s Complicated, he’s co-hosting the Oscars with Steve Martin next month.

So why is he so forgivable when someone like the similarly tempered Mel Gibson is not?

I almost feel bad for excerpting extensively but Brian Moylan puts it so eloquently I might as well:

Baldwin isn’t nearly as bad as Gibson, but it seems like his personal life can’t affect his professional life. Why? Because everyone fawns over his work and he is such a supporter of liberal causes that the conservative Page Six has forever labeled him the “bloviator.” Welcome to the party, darling, treat your children however you want! The success of million-dollar enterprises such as movies and television programs are based on something as intangible as whether or not the audience likes the star. And the power firmament’s decision whether or not personal behavior will affect career performance is just as fickle—it comes down to the fact of whether or not you’re in favor. But if a star is in favor, his personal failings will fall by the wayside in the hope that his professional successes (which stand to make a lot of people a lot of money) won’t be affected.

Granted, there are no sacred cows on Deceiver.com. (See also: the Alec Baldwin archives, which is about the same length as the Mel Gibson archives.) But Moylan has a point: Are politics why this double standard is so ingrained?

17
Feb

‘The Real William’ With Royally Fake Hair

The U.K. tabloid industry is intensely competitive, and Hello! scored itself quite a coup when Prince William agreed to pose for its latest cover. And it was pretty cool of him to donate his interview fee to a homeless shelter and suggest a photographer who, until very recently, was homeless.

Not so cool, however? The Hello! editorial board’s decision to very conspicuously give him a fuller and more lustrous head of hair.

Us Weekly investigates:

Prince William’s thinning hair got the royal treatment on the cover of Hello! magazine.

The British star, 27, appeared on the tabloid’s cover with an unusually dark, full head of hair, likely added by lighting and some clever Photoshopping.

(The prince sported his traditionally dark blonde locks in photos inside the magazine.)

I mean, come on. Everyone knows what Wills’s encroaching forehead looks like, so juxtaposing this fictional version of him with the headline “The Real William” is dodgy at best.

I’d still pull a Wallis Simpson for him in a hot second. Princess Holly sounds super nice, right? (Just kidding, Mr. Won’t!)

15
Feb

Captain America Not Welcome at This Tea Party

So, is it just me or do some people have trouble — a lot of trouble — with the whole concept of the First Amendment? ‘Cause from where I’m standing, we shouldn’t even be having this discussion. But then again, I feel like that a lot.

What by all rights shouldn’t even have ranked as a skirmish in the endless war between (choose your epithet) Liberals and (choose your epithet) Conservatives has grown into a full-fledged battle. At the center of the debate? Not health care, education, energy, taxes, or anything else that matters, but the latest edition of Marvel Comics’ Captain America.

True/Slant’s Rick Ungar explains:

For those who may not have followed the brouhaha, Marvel got in trouble with the Tea Party this week as a result of a Captain America episode where Cap and his sidekick, The Falcon, are investigating a right wing, anti-government militia group called “The Watchdogs.”

In the offending scene, the two heroes are watching an all-white, anti-tax rally taking place below their vantage point high above the crowd. Captain America wants to send The Falcon, who is African American, into the crowd by posing as an IRS agent. Falcon isn’t too keen on the idea, saying “I don’t exactly see a black man from Harlem fitting in with a bunch of angry white folks.”

Meanwhile, a panel revealing the crowd shows them holding signs very much like those we see at Tea Party rallies.

Now, you just know that ain’t going to go over well with a certain demographic.

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08
Feb

Meghan McCain. Boob Cop.

Remember this?  Because I sure do, even though I never really made it past the picture … so who knows what it says? But now Meghan McCain is complaining about… big fake boobs?

…lately I’ve noticed a more celebratory and mainstream acceptance of women who undergo augmentation surgery versus those of us whose breasts come from nature.

I guess she was upset with People magazine because they put Heidi Montag and her new magnificent breasts on their cover. Because, as she put it:

Growing up, I always thought of People magazine as the classiest of the tabloids.

Really? People?

And then Meghan got a little miffed by New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn, who wrote about Christina Hendricks — the chick in Mad Men (that hit TV drama that I can’t be bothered to watch):

As one stylist said, “You don’t put a big girl in a big dress. That’s rule number one.”

And then Meghan is all, “Would Christina Hendricks still be considered “big” if she had fake breasts instead of real ones?

Yes. I saw the pictures, and yeah she’s got some big boobs, but I hate to break this to Meghan: I think that was a nice way of saying you don’t stuff a size 15 into a size 10 dress. If you want my opinion, and you know you do, I think Meghan’s biggest problem is that you can now buy a gift from God. You don’t have to be born with it.

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05
Feb

Pachauri Reveals the Softer, Smuttier Side of Climate Change

Warning: If the mere sight of Dr. P already makes you want to vomit in your boots, I recommend not reading any further. No, really. This is disgusting stuff. Also disgustingly hilarious.

But seriously, fair warning.

Over the past several months (hell, days) Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri has been working hard to secure his status as a bona fide international laughingstock by warning us about the not so rapidly melting Himalayan glaciers, using Climbing magazine and a student’s dissertation as “peer reviewed” sources for IPCC reports, and — Oh! — telling the Financial Times just yesterday that climate change skeptics:

are people who deny the link between smoking and cancer; they are people who say that asbestos is as good as talcum powder — I hope that they apply it (asbestos) to their faces every day.

Isn’t that sweet?

So in a brave move to salvage what’s left of his tarred and feathered, Mel Gibson-esque reputation, Pachauri thought it would be an awesome idea to release … wait for it … a smutty bodice-ripper novel. Based, oh-so-transparently, on his own life.

The Telegraph reports:

In breathless prose that risks making Dr Pachauri, who will be 70 this year, a laughing stock among the serious, high-minded scientists and world leaders with whom he mixes, [Ed. -- Too late!] he details sexual encounter after sexual encounter . . .

“Sanjay saw a shapely dark-skinned girl lying on Vinay’s bed. He was overcome by a lust that he had never known before . . . He removed his clothes and began to feel Sajni’s body, caressing her voluptuous breasts.”

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05
Feb

Gun Enthusiasts Heidi and Spencer Now Totally Into Yoga

When I found this in my e-mail this morning, I didn’t know whether to be flattered or suspicious:

Heidi Montag followed suit a few hours later, so now my suspicions are confirmed: Heidi and Spencer are reading about themselves on Deceiver, y’all. (Trust me — it’s not because I’m wildly popular on Twitter, probably due to my penchant to only tweet about what I’m about to order at Starbucks. But to my nine followers: Love you guys.)

So anyway, it didn’t take long to find an angle to make this worth blogging about and add more content to their resume here. The Pratts seem to be on some kind of Kundalini yoga kick, with Spencer dropping new-age wisdom bombs like the following:

“The awakening of the inner Kundalini is the true beginning of the spiritual journey” Swami
1:16 AM Feb 3rd from Echofon

Ah, so true, young grasshopper. Which clearly does not explain this photo:

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