Gossip Girlfriend

The oh-so-clever use of “gay” as an insult did not sway us: Gossip Girlfriend is back for one last hurrah. Yes, last night was the season finale, and since Sarah and I can’t plan anything past, say, this weekend, we’re declaring it the end of the feature youse all love so much, Gossip Girlfriend. But not before a recap of last night’s episode!

(Note: If you actually like the show, or hate it, or something, New York pretty much owns the Gossip Girl recap genre; one of the co-writers of NYM’s blog is Jessica Pressler, etc., etc.)

After the jump.

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Another Day That Will Live In Infamy

From Tsunami Tuesday to making fun of Ron Paul’s impending death, people just love to get offended on the Internet.

And now, Metro’s daily caption contest has offended people due to a tragedy I’ve never heard of from 50 years ago:

In England, the opposing teams sometimes boo just to cause drama and blah blah blah. I would love to hear some American fans boo a moment of silence; the sports media would cover it like the Black Plague. Oh, sorry, did I offend anyone there?

Thanks to Chrissy for the tip; PWD’s regular commenter has a letter in today’s Metro making fun of some other letter writer. Whoa, meta. (Are you a commenter who’s done something special? Let me know!)

She also requested the following: “If you’re going to write about it you need to end it about how Man City are a superior team anyway.” I take it these Man City chaps are playing Manchester United this weekend? Oh, it shall be such an offensive day of world football you’ll think the Baker Bowl stands just collapsed.

Barbaro, America’s Favorite Zombie Horse

As you may have seen, a battle between rival Barbaro factions has been raging in the comments section of my latest post about America’s Favorite Horse.

It began, as usual, with defenders of Barbaro — FOBs, or Friends of Barbaro — rushing to the comments to point out how evil of a person I was for beating a dead horse. (I was actually kind of hoping it would actually be fans of “Buzz” Bissinger coming to defend the writer, but apparently he does not have a fan messageboard.)

Most of it is pretty normal, but I did kind of enjoy this one:

If we played a drinking game where we took a sip whenever you wrote something clever and profound, we’d all remain eternally sober.

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