Leftovers: The Coste With The Most

• The NYT profiles Chris Coste today, revealing that not only did Coste not earn a varsity letter in high school but that you can “not walk three feet” in Moorhead, N.D., without hearing Chris Coste’s name. Awesome. [NYT]

• Zulima Farber has resigned as New Jersey’s attorney general because she went to help her boyfriend avoid the long arm of the law at a traffic stop. It’s all in the exciting new non-fiction work, “Concerning the May 26, 2006, Motor Vehicle Stop of Hamlet E. Goore.” Huzzah! [Inquirer]

• Oh, yes, it’s media mayhem as Jennifer Weiner (or her lawyer) tells Phillymag to shove it only about a year after the piece about her — by, naturally, Jessica Pressler — ran. This one is good, people. [Philebrity]

• What you didn’t know about Philadelphia rowhomes, from Sgt. Tom Rehiel: “Rehiel said some suspects occasionally fade into their neighborhoods and can hide out for months. ‘You get into a neighborhood like that (in North Philadelphia). You get all these rowhouses,’ Rehiel said.” [Metro]

PR Guy Drops Drama, Pressler Reference On ‘CP’ Letters Page

Let’s delve into this, shall we? On today’s Letters page of Citypaper, the PR guy from Delilah’s chews out Paper Doll!

Right. I’m not sure what a sex columnist/editor could do to piss off the PR guy for a strip club, but apparently David Witz didn’t like her coverage of the Diamond G-String Award competition, which you may remember from the advertisement in the sidebar here.

His letter reads (the bolding, when you get to it, is most certainly ours):

When Ashlea Halpern volunteered to be a judge at “Delilah’s Diamond G-String Award 2006,” we were delighted to accommodate her. But we had no idea that she’d arrive with daggers hidden in her notebook. Her mean-spirited “Paper Doll” recap of the event ["Hustled," July 27, 2006] may have been a misfired attempt at humor, but the professional choreographers, dancers and stage technicians that worked their “rock-solid bods” off to put on a spectacular show deserved better than her insults, inaccuracies and accusations. At one point, she refers to the show as “Cirque du Soleil — but naked,” a lovely compliment that could cost the club its license (at Delilah’s, toplessness is legal, nudity is not).

Two journalistic tips for Ashlea: You can’t fact-check just by leaving a voicemail, and you can’t become a murderously funny writer just by sitting next to Jessica Pressler.

David Witz
Advertising/Promotions, Delilah’s, The Gentlemen’s Club and Steakhouse
Ed: Our columnist used the word “naked” as a figure of speech, not to imply that the dancers were nude.

Oh snap! I think my head just exploded.

Judge Dreaded [Citypaper]
Hustled [Citypaper]

Quickies: Now with extra snark!

• Congratulations to the Daily News‘ Jenice Armstrong, who managed to get the artist who recorded “Gold Digger” — that’d be Kanye West — incorrect in in the first sentence of her story yesterday. And congrats to the DN staff, who even put a photo of Ludacris with the story. [DN]

• Jessica Pressler and Phillymag discover the secret to a No. 1 bestseller: Write boring columns that your colleagues don’t like, get a cute doggy, write book about him. Instant profit! [Phillymag]

• Hey, how about those Phillies! In their first exhibition game, the Fightins beat the Yankees, 6-3. [AP/Yahoo!]

• Look out, Bucks County: The Bloods are coming! From Trenton! [Bucks County Courier Times]

Quickies: Short bus

• The reason local boy Johnny Weir finished fifth in the Olympics? They changed the bus schedule. Or maybe he was secretly worried about how he was looking in front of his new pal Vai Sikahema. [ESPN.com]

• Geeze. I can’t believe that Jessica Pressler quoted a girl saying that Jennifer Aniston “was sooo nice.” That’s made me angrier than anything else she’s written in the Times! [New York Times]

• In Bucks County, they’re doing what’s important, i.e. passing resolutions saying a certain video game sucks. Oh, yeah, and they want to ban it from being sold in America. Sigh. [Bucks County Courier Times]

• Don’t bother playing Powerball, because I have it on good authority that I already bought the winning $365M ticket. [AP/Yahoo!]

Blogicized: I’m giddy with anticipation

• An ex-Phillies bench guy played this year for a team in Korea called the “Lucky Goldstar Twins.” Geeze, that’s almost as ridiculous as Phillies. [Beerleaguer]

• A question from the city’s Quizzo master: “Jessica Pressler ruffled some feathers when in a New York Times article she called Philly what?” One of the answers he got: “The Fifth Borough.” [Johnny Goodtimes]

• I’ll be buying 15 of these t-shirts later today. [Jossip]

• More sports, but come on: Rick Fucking Tocchet is the new coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, at least until Gretzky comes back! Whoo! I’ll be growing my hair long and elbowing somebody into a wall in celebration! What’s Peter Zezel doing? [Metroblogging Philadelphia]

• And tomorrow, the Dover intelligent design case decision will be announced. A commenter is “on pins and needles already.” Uh, okay. [Speaking Freely]