gay power couple

Mark Zuckerberg's college roommate and current owner of The New Republic, Chris Hughes and his butch boytoy Sean Eldridge have a huge loft in Soho they use for parties, but live upstate on a former Vanderbilt estate. They are rich and powerful and married and I am jealous. nymag nytimes 

beyonce says: "48 days until the election"

last night Beyonce and Jay Z hosted a $40,000 per plate fundraiser at the 40/40 club last night

President Obama had some high words of praise for his hosts at the party, as well, joking that he's actually got a lot in common with rap superstar, and new dad, Jay. "Jay-Z now knows, you know, what my life is like," he said. "We both have daughters. And our wives are more popular than we are ... So we've got a little bond there. It's hard, but it's OK." 

He also noted that first lady Michelle and his daughters Malia and Sasha were mad at him because they could not make it to the fundraiser on a school night. Obama thanked both stars for their generosity toward his children and singled out Beyoncé for being a good example to the girls.

"Beyoncé could not be a better role model for our daughters because she carries herself with such class and poise," he said. "And has so much talent."

who is Robert Pera?

The question on the minds of Grizzlies fans tonight, just who is this young self made billionaire who just bought our beloved team?

Well, let's start with the obvious: he is 34 years old, rich, and moderately attractive (the rich part makes him more so). He is the founder/ CEO of Ubiquiti Networks, a wireless technology company. He has a blog that looks like it is just starting out, and there is an unused twitter handle that may or may not actually be him. I read somewhere that he loves basketball, and plays 5 times a week. He was a hardware engineer at apple, and quit when he was 25 to start his own company, see how that turned out.

He was born in St. Louis, but grew up in the Bay Area, and splits time between Taiwan and Silicon Valley. Two quotes that give me hope for his chances of improving an already vastly improved team:

“I quit my job because I wanted to have more success faster”

 “I am excited about the opportunity to build on the work that has made the Memphis Grizzlies a highly competitive NBA team,” Pera said. “I look forward to getting to know the Memphis community and to continuing the team’s success in Memphis.”

scrabble doodle dandy is worth a lot of coins!

Zynga, the company known for ripping off well-known games and calling them their own, is buying OMGPOP, a company that broke into the big time by ripping off Pictionary. And who can blame them? In the month since it launched "Draw Something," OMGPOP has gone from a relatively unknown mobile gamemaker to one of the hottest commodities in Silicon Valley.

AllThingsD's Peter Kafka confirmed the $200 million purchase on Wednesday and called Draw Something "astonishingly popular" noting, "the iPhone app sits atop iTunes 'top paid' and 'top free' lists, which is very unusual. Even more unusual: It is also the top grossing app at iTunes, based in large part on in-app purchases players make." Kafka adds that his sources say OMGPOP is taking home $250,000 a day. That sounds pretty popular! You know what else is really popular? Pictionary. (via)

last chance!

don't forget to enter your bracket into starla's charity case pool!!!

you have until NOON EST!!

that. just. happened.

Kylie,

(redacted) is producing a series called AMERICA CAUGHT ON CAMERA: NEW YORK CITY, which will air on The Travel Channel. The series will focus on New York and will be comprised of clips that focus all the different aspects of life in this city; “weekend warriors”, street performers, unique weddings ceremonies, partygoers who don’t know when to stop, to amateur dare devils willing to risk it all, to vacationers in situations that were definitely not on the itinerary, we are left in disbelief by moments that range from comedic to dramatic.

We would like to license the video of the Man cuddles and spoons a chicken on a busy subway train in NYC. We are offering a fee of _Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00).
Please send me your full address and phone number, and I will draft the applicable license agreement, and email it to you for signature.

Best regards,

(redacted) 

i'm RICH!!!!

he as a lot to hide, obviously

tennessee's new governor oil gazillionaire bill haslam made his first executive act an order that allowed himself and top aides permission not to disclose how much they earn in outside income.

this is the complete opposite of the first executive act of his predecessor phil bredesen. weird.

cidade de deus : rio de janeiro

did you ever see that brazilian drug movie city of god? you should totally netflix it. one thing i learned watching the wire is that drug dealers exist and are richer that you are. check out the rest of these pics of rio's war on drugs. they are trying to clean up in anticipation of the olympics in 2016.

highest paid teen actor

jacob from luna nueva is going to be in a new movie with tom cruise, and is being paid like a billion dollars.

In Taylor's role with Cruise, the athletic teen will play "a gifted, young, aerobatics pilot who faces off with his controlling, billionaire father and falls in love with a gifted, female pilot."

ctmol

UPDATE: nvm

lessons i learned from mtv this morning.

don't get pregnant. or it will rain.


unless it's with 50 cent. then you'll be rich.

99 cents doesn't buy a metrocard

ruth madoff, wife and assumed co-conspirator of ponzi chief bernie madoff rides the subway. like a bitch she sits in the middle of three seats, naturally discouraging anyone to sit to her left or right.

she reportedly snapped at the photographer, "Are you having fun embarrassing me - and ruining my life?" shut the fuck up dyke.

how did this happen?

it's come to my attention that this was just spotted in our ads that google picks for us and puts on our blog:

Cord Blood Banking Leader
Learn the Benefits of Banking Your Baby’s Cord Blood. Free Info Here
www.ViaCord.com/Cord-Blood-Experts

all i'm gonna say is, google, you better cool it.

thx macb!