Quickies: Don’t believe the hype

• After all that love and affection and African Debt Relief — one of my favorite bands, by the way — you knew that the organizers would just go out and sue Trimspa, didn’t you? Apparently Anna Nicole was drunk backstage — a shocker! — and Trimspa didn’t pay some sponsorship fee. Because nothing says “sponsor or benefit concert for Africa” than “diet pill that doesn’t work.” [Inky]

• Back in my day we didn’t have iPods and podcasts and computers to do our work for us! I had a class where we were forbidden to type our papers; we had to write them out. One class is using technology to make music for karaoke, though, so that sounds about the level of intellectual stimulation required for grade school. [Inky]

• These are celebrities in Philadelphia: Pat Gillick and Abraham Nuñez eating in Center City, as reported by Dan Gross. Even I barely know who these guys are. [DN, last item]

• Middle-classers are pissed that the public housing is nicer than theirs! Eh, I don’t even know what to say to that. [Inky]