You're with some friends and they begin to maliciously gossip about one of your friends. What do you do? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Apr 26, 2009 - 36 answers

I need a lawyer in Los Angeles to look over my gossip blog, can anyone recommend someone? I recently started running an anon gossip blog that covers my industry (not entertainment). I post blind items, things I "heard", etc. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Feb 21, 2009 - 7 answers

45 year old literary blind item - can you identify the subject? [more inside]
posted by moxiedoll on Sep 16, 2008 - 19 answers

Why do so many of the celebrity/gossip blogs use the same phrasing for post titles (ex: "Lindsey Lohan is Cured", "Tyra Banks is Angry", "David Duchovny is Addicted to Porn")? [more inside]
posted by deern the headlice on Sep 4, 2008 - 11 answers

How to deal with relentlessly negative carpoolers? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Apr 17, 2008 - 29 answers

How do you deal with extremely nosy neighbors? [more inside]
posted by tumbleweedjack on Feb 11, 2008 - 18 answers

What are your favorite celebrity gossip blogs?
posted by barrakuda on Nov 28, 2007 - 36 answers

Say your friend told you a year ago he's gay. Is it ok to pass that information along to a mutual friend, a year later, with whom he has not had direct contact? No one in this equation is afraid of gaiety.
posted by M.C. Lo-Carb! on Oct 31, 2007 - 37 answers

Please point me to resources on the sordid underbelly of Hollywood. [more inside]
posted by Bookhouse on Sep 3, 2007 - 15 answers

How can I stop gossiping and repair my image? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jul 8, 2007 - 20 answers

I know where to go for gossip within my own academic discipline, but are there canonical blogs (on moves, hiring, graduate apps, big books, occasional meta-discipline discussion, etc). or rankings in other disciplines? The Chronicle and Arts and Letters Daily are more general. I'm looking for more discipline specific stuff. [more inside]
posted by ontic on Apr 25, 2007 - 6 answers

I have recently seen a map of Congress that listed the number of Representatives that had been indicted, seen war, had been divorced, etc. What kind of public records are available about a landmark building like the Hancock Tower in Chicago and how can I get a hold of them? [more inside]
posted by krautland on Apr 20, 2007 - 5 answers

I have a taekwondo nemesis. How can I deal with her? [more inside]
posted by Brittanie on Apr 17, 2007 - 34 answers

Someone who I consider a very close friend recently told me in an off-hand way that she gossiped behind my back “all the time” to our mutual classmates/friends while we were in a very intense graduate program together a few years ago. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Apr 2, 2007 - 25 answers

Does anyone here remember an incident that may have happened during the filming of Titanic? I remember a story that I read in the newspaper around that time saying that several people were taken to hospital after unknowingly ingesting a hallucinogen at a cast party. [more inside]
posted by alltomorrowsparties on Oct 28, 2006 - 4 answers

I'm looking for tales about the dark side of Hollywood, showbiz, and the gossip/tabloid industry. I've read "Day of the Locust" and "The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up", seen "All About Eve" and "Sweet Smell of Success" and "Showgirls", am halfway through Julia Phillips' "You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again", and am planning on reading Joe Eszterhas' "Hollywood Animal: A Memoir". I'm not looking for gossip, per se, as much as I am looking for explorations, whether first-hand or fictional, of how screwed up the cult of celebrity is. Suggestions for books, movies, musicals, blogs, or whatever would be welcomed.
posted by Asparagirl on Jan 1, 2006 - 35 answers

How do you stop a rumor from being spread about you once its started? [more inside]
posted by anastasiav on Mar 6, 2005 - 19 answers

I read an article many years ago about a scientific study that said that people tend to psychologically associate criticism with the critic, and not the object or person being criticised. ***** For example - given Persons A, B and C, Person A says to Person B, "You're an uncritical thinker." If you asked Person C at a later date, "who was the uncritical thinker?" they would tend to answer "Person A". Even though Person A was criticising Person B, Person C would associate the criticism with Person A and not Person B. ***** Well, I've tried to find the research online but have reached a dead-end because I just don't know what combination of words to search for. Has anyone else come across this research? [more inside]
posted by PigAlien on Dec 17, 2003 - 4 answers