From the Admin Desk: Week 21

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From the Admin Desk: Week 21

Lady Gaga

WHO AM I: Singer

Hiya, all you little monsters! How are u guys? Been to my Monsterball tour? No? What do u mean, no? Dude, u didn’t want to watch me tear off my clothes? R u gay? Hey, I support gays okay, I’m like ur biggest fans. And if u r a les and didn’t come to watch me, then u r not a true les, baby. Have fun this Christmas, kiddos, live it up, Gagas-style!

Lady Gaga

Taylor Swift

WHO AM I: Singer

This world is after me. I’m such a great singer, I’m beautiful, I’ve got more X Factor than Mr X himself, and still, people are so cruel to me. The world sucks!

Taylor Swift

Jennifer Lopez

WHO AM I: Singer

Hey, this blog looks atrocious! Didn’t I say I want a soothing white background, with all text written in size 14 Zapfino font and use only the PNG images I give you (DON’T edit them, I will sue you for defamation). Go change it, RIGHT NOW, or else I’m not typing another word. And yes, I want a thousand white tulips, a Cavalli gown and a box of Knipschildt chocolates delivered within the next 24 hours. If you don’t, I’m bringing in an injunction to stop this piece from being published.

Jennifer Lopez

From the Admin Desk: Week 20

Christmas is a musical occasion. And so, we thought we'd have three of the hottest ladies of the musical world write for us. It was a difficult task, to say the least, especially when JLo (yup, we got her!) made enough demands to build a new Taj Mahal. And pretty little Taylor was off "caroling" with Jake (is it still Jake, or someone else?), and you know how difficult it is to separate two, er, carolers. And Gaga was off somewhere being as delicious as ever, and to get her to accept a keyboard as more than a new costume was tough. But we did it, and the results are here to show.

Enjoy Christmas. Party hard, but not too much so as to end up next to a person you don't remember talking to.

From the Admin Desk: Week 20

From the Admin Desk: Week 19

Aaah, vacations! Finally! Thank God! This year has been a really hectic one, what with work, more work, and a blog, that I was despairing that I'd live till Christmas break. But I did, and I'm off. On Wednesday. To London, to visit my wonderful sister and her new baby. My co-blogger is going on a beach vacation with her boyfriend to the sunny sands of Malaysia. Don't worry, we have the whole Christmas thing scheduled, but the Twitter feed may be dormant. Anyway, check back for updates, coz your fav celebs have a lot to say this Christmas.

From the Admin Desk: Week 19

Bill Keller

WHO AM I: New York Times editor

I understand everybody’s fascination with Assange: he’s a master hacker who has brought a world to its knees. But I think we at New York Times deserve greater accolades. Assange has managed to escape crucifixion by his James Bond hiding tricks (though now he’s cooling his heels in jail), but we’re out in the open, under full view of the U.S. government, a very pissed off U.S. government, I may add.

Bill Keller

Julian Assange

WHO AM I: Whistleblower

Note: This post was submitted before Assange went and got himself arrested.

Do you know how difficult the life of a super-spy is? I move around constantly, my suitcase is filled with disguises and fake identities, I sleep with a new woman every night. Hell, who am I kidding? It’s an awesome life! And I get big governments to grovel before me and fill my Swiss bank accounts with money in hope that I will not leak any more stuff. 

Julian Assange

Barkha Dutt

WHO AM I: Journalist

I’ve done the self-righteous angry journalist railing at sneaky media establishments destroying the reputation of venerated journalists who have worked hard at exposing the guilty for years. But it doesn’t seem to be doing me any good. Everybody seems to be on the side of that prick Vinod Mehta and that obnoxious Manu Joseph. I’m going to try a different tack: be repentant and apologetic and quietly tell my side of the story.

Barkha Dutt

From the Admin Desk: Week 18

The last couple of weeks were big news weeks. Wikileaks orchestrated cablegate, which demonstrated that everybody hates everybody else. In India, the 2G spectrum scam took down a minister, a corporate lobbyist and a bunch of journalists. To celebrate this explosion of news, we decided to feature two headline makers. One is the now-famous elusive white-haired commander-in-chief of Wikileaks, who hacked into our account, created his post and then deleted all traces of his visit. Another is the rabble-rousing Barkha Dutt, who is now embroiled in quite a mucky bit of rubble. The third, well, we'll find a third guy in the news who's associated with the news, or else we'll just ask Linds to write for us again. Not that she has anything better to do.

From the Admin Desk: Week 18

James Franco

WHO AM I: Actor

That’s Dr. Franco to you, jerks. As you’re reading this, I’m jetting back to Yale to present my grad school project: 127 Hours. Yup, I get to make million-dollar movies as part of my PhD. Suck it up, losers. You have to pore over eight obsolete textbooks to come up with one sentence for your 987-page graduate thesis; I just submit my latest movie.

James Franco

2010- in pictures

Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

For the readers of this blog is a very special gift, a photo montage of this year's most momentous events and memorable people, a flashback to 2010. If you like it, you're welcome to share it and display it on your blog. All we request is that you linkback to this blog.

2010- in pictures