Eavesdropping
Overheard in New York
www.overheardinnewyork.com
Amusing verbatim accounts of stuff people say to each other in public. Anybody can submit; just email your (brief) transcript to the editors for consideration. Overheardintheoffice.com is equally hilarious. Warning: on both sites, some material is not suitable for children, and profanity, stupidity or bigotry is generally kept intact.
Cars
Jalopnik, Autoblog
www.jalopnik.com, www.autoblog.com
Crazy about cars? Between these two blogs, you should be able to feed the beast within. Jalopnik’s scribblings have more personality (“Volkswagen continues to tease us like the self-hating louts we are, releasing another teaspoon’s worth of details on its yet-unnamed convertible….”) while Autoblog delivers industry news straight-up (“Hybrids are Hot: Honda sells 100,000”). Bonus link: 10 Hot Vehicles for Techies, from the new cars.cnet.com.
Celebrity Slams
Go Fug Yourself
gofugyourself.typepad.com
A daily shredding of the sartorial choices of Hollywood stars, complete with photographic evidence. To wit: Parts of Courtney Love’s new, larger body “are sort of sloshing around, uncontained, like a Big Gulp spilling all over your gear shift when you take a turn too fast.” Chloe Sevigny proves “high-waisted pants are the spawn of Satan’s sewing machine.”
