Jersey Shore is really the best thing that's happened to me in a long time. Whenever I'm all like, "I wish there were an interesting story to write about today," the Shore delivers.
Up now: Snooki's war with Domino's Pizza. Hey, you guys, remember back in April when those Domino's employees posted a video of themselves doing gross things to your pizza? (The video's been removed from YouTube due to a copyright claim by Kristy Hammonds, one of the people doing gross things to the pizza in t...
Lady Gaga performs her new song, "Speechless," live. [popbytes]
PETA is putting together their worst-dressed list -- who gets your vote? [Celebitchy]
Heidi Klum does some ice-skating. [Celebslam]
The Ten Movies That No One Has Mentioned on Any End of Decade List. [Pajiba]
Check out the trailer for James McAvoy's new flick. [INO]
Um, a monkey peed on Kim Kardashian. [PotP]
/>Lady Gaga performs her new song, "Speechless," live. [popbytes]
PETA is putting together their worst-dressed list -- who gets your vote? [Celebitchy]
Heidi Klum does some ice-skating. [Celebslam]
The Ten Movies That No One Has Mentioned on Any End of Decade List. [Pajiba]
Check out the trailer for James McAvoy's new flick. [INO]
Um, a monkey peed on Kim Kardashian. [PotP]
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I thought about writing a story bringing you all up-to-date on the Charlie Sheen domestic violence business, but, ya know, I'm already over it. Here's the summary: They're both drunks and he's still a jackass. More here if you care.
Instead, I'm going to write about this Ke$ha chick. I hadn't heard her first single, "Tik Tok," at all until I came out to Scottsdale in the beginning of December. But they play it, like, every other song on the stations out here, and I know that should annoy me, but instead my love for it grows deeper with every play. Her full album comes out in January, but you can listen to most of her other tracks on YouTube. I don't know much about her, and I think it's unbelievably declasse to spell your name with a fucking dollar sign, and she's terribly unnatural on camera, and this is one of the worst music videos I've ever had the displeasure of watching, but I'm really into her music. Wikipedia told me she's been working with Max Martin, who produced a lot of Britney Spears songs, so maybe that's why I love it so much. But I just wanted to share my love for this song and let you all tell me what terrible taste I have in music. />
I thought about writing a story bringing you all up-to-date on the Charlie Sheen domestic violence business, but, ya know, I'm already over it. Here's the summary: They're both drunks and he's still a jackass. More here if you care.
Instead, I'm going to write about this Ke$ha chick. I hadn't heard her first single, "Tik Tok," at all until I came out to Scottsdale in the beginning of December. But they play it, like, every other song on the stations out here, and I know that should annoy me,...
Hi guys. Happy Monday!
Not today, not tomorrow, and not next week, but eventually we are going to be hiring around here. No, nobody's getting fired, but we're continuing to expand and we'll be looking for great writers. And I know that this blog attracts a lot of freelance writers and/or people who would really like to be freelance writers.
After hiring, firing and working with freelance writers on a blog for some time now, I have come to the conclusion that I am no longer going to give any serious consideration to freelance applicants who don't have their own personal regularly maintained blog or a long-established history as a primary writer on a blog. Nick Denton over at the Gawker empire laid down this rule years and years ago, and I continued to ignore his lead, and that was dumb of me. Because, you know, that music review that you wrote for your college's newspaper three years ago? It doesn't give me any insight into how you can write, without an editor, on a regular basis. It gives me no concept of how well you'll be able to hold an audience day after day, when you have twenty minutes to write that piece and not three weeks, and when no one's going to be there to fact-check. That newsprint piece comes with no warning on how many weeks it's going to take me to teach you how to properly resize and upload a photograph or embed a video snippet. The seven pages of your short story are equally useless in this regard. So I'm putting my foot down on this issue, and I have a feeling other managing editors on blogs and websites will be doing the same.
So here's the career advice: If you're one of those journalism or writer-y types who wants to, you know, get paid to write in the foreseeable future, start a blog. Write in it more than once a month. Writing once a day, at least, would be ideal. Write about whatever you want, but try to use the tone and, to some extent, the subject matter that you'd like to be writing about professionally. If you can also do things like properly embed videos and photos of the correct size, create galleries, etc, that's a GIANT, ENORMOUS plus to an editor like me.
If you'd like additional little gems of knowledge as to what you might want to touch upon here and there in your nascent blog if you maybe, in the future, want to write for one of my websites specifically, jump inside.
I'm disallowing comments on this particular post, because this isn't open season on the existing writers, all of whom are still working here because they know how to do all the shit I just mentioned. If you have questions about the meat of the post, you can email me directly at evilbeet@gmail.com.
xoxo
Beet
Read More />Hi guys. Happy Monday!
Not today, not tomorrow, and not next week, but eventually we are going to be hiring around here. No, nobody's getting fired, but we're continuing to expand and we'll be looking for great writers. And I know that this blog attracts a lot of freelance writers and/or people who would really like to be freelance writers.
After hiring, firing and working with freelance writers on a blog for some time now, I have come to the conclusion that I am no longer going to give any...
Jude and Sienna Splashing Around on Vacay [popbytes]
A Very Slipknot Christmas [cityrag]
Nick Cannon Plays Workhorse for Mariah [Celebslam]
Hollywood is having the best week ever. [Pajiba]
Alessandra Ambrosia is here to heat up Christmas. [IDLYITW]
Ivana Trump gets kicked off an airplane for acting like a psychopath. [Celebitchy] />Jude and Sienna Splashing Around on Vacay [popbytes]
A Very Slipknot Christmas [cityrag]
Nick Cannon Plays Workhorse for Mariah [Celebslam]
Hollywood is having the best week ever. [Pajiba]
Alessandra Ambrosia is here to heat up Christmas. [IDLYITW]
Ivana Trump gets kicked off an airplane for acting like a psychopath. [Celebitchy]...
Gaboure Sidibe, star of Precious, visits the Duracell Lab in Times Square for a little photo shoot.
I have to say, I finally managed to download a real torrent of this movie (legal note: I'M TOTALLY KIDDING!), and, while I wasn't like, "OMG this is the greatest film of all time," I was completely and totally blown away by the caliber of the acting. Everyone was absolutely brilliant, up to and including Mariah Carey. I smell lots and lots of Oscars.
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The day after Christmas, a raven-haired Nicole Richie did some shopping with baby-daddy Joel Madden. It feels like these two will NEVER break up, and it's getting to be a little frustrating. I know, I know. It has to happen sometime. I just need to be patient. Sometimes I wonder why they haven't up and gotten hitched yet. Is there a combined 150-pound weight minimum for married couples in this country that I don't know about? I mean, we do tend to be haphazard with our legislation in that area. ...
Designer Marc Jacobs and his boyfriend (rumored husband) Lorenzo Martone soak up the sun, and a little bit of each other, on St. Barth's Christmas Eve.
Okay, who's got the hotter St. Barth's boyfriend: Marc Jacobs or Avril Lavigne?
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I've been living in Scottsdale, Arizona for the past month, and word on the street is that one AWOL Tiger Woods has been hiding out in nearby Wickenburg being treated for sex addiction. I'm not entirely sure how one goes about treating sex addiction, and I have a feeling that Tiger doesn't want his "sex addiction" "treated" so much as he wants his "endorsement money" "back," so I'm guessing he has a lot of time on his hands. I hope he is spending that time writing thank-you notes, specifical...
Nobody -- the photo agency included -- seems to know who this dude is, but the recently divorced Avril Lavigne spent the week looking awfully cozy with him on St. Barth. I have to admit, this guy looks sexy. Douchey, but totally do-able.
I ran into her ex-husband, Deryck Whibley, a couple months ago at a party. I'd never seen him in person before. I always thought he looked kind of odd in photographs, but sometimes people are much more attractive in person than in photographs. Not so of Deryc...
Jess still looked pretty damn good as she ran errands around NYC with mom Tina, eventually heading to see sis Ashlee in Chicago on Broadway, where she's reprising her role as Roxie Hart.
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Second verse, same as the first. When you're the kind of person who considers violence as an option when it comes to settling domestic conflict, you are always going to be that kind of person.
Charlie Sheen was arrested early Christmas morning on domestic violence charges. His wife, Brooke Mueller -- who gave birth to the couple's twins sons in March -- was not named in any of the documents, but she is assumed to be the victim. She did not need to be hospitalized. Authorities originally sa...