<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, samantha ronson]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, samantha ronson]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/samantharonson http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/samantharonson <![CDATA[Shopping with the Enemy]]> A purged BusinessWeek-er ran into the leader of the new guard; Loren Feldman heckled some oversharing newlyweds; and a celebrity devoured a whole McRib thing. The Twitterati swallowed the awkwardness.

After being caught in the bloodbath after Bloomberg took over BusinessWeek, Shirley Brady bumped into the editor installed in said purge and proclaimed him a "nice guy." By which she presumably meant, "did not lay me off a second time." (So awkward.)

New York new media jester Loren Feldman sent his regards to that groom who updated his Facebook and Twitter status at the altar. The belligerence was its own gift, really.

San Francisco arts writer Louis Peitzman has half a mind to form a gang or some shit. A gang comprised entirely of humans.

Starlet Holly Madison confidently put herself forward as a culinary role model. Or whatever the opposite of that would be.

She may be known primarily for dating Lindsay Lohan, but DJ Samantha Ronson is still important enough to have her tweets edited, by Twitter Inc. Wait, what??



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<![CDATA[Yahoo Lap Dances Get No Applause from Twitterati]]> The co-founder of Flickr helped lead a chorus of criticism against Yahoo over strippers; an NYU professor liked a sex-blog post; and Sarah Silverman spotted a very gay gym activity. The Twitterati had sexuality on the brain.

Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, who sold her company to Yahoo, objected to having lap dances on stage at a Yahoo programming conference. This is the sort of patriarchal BS you get with a male CEO.... err, nevermind. (Pic in top graphic via)

The Frisky's Jessica Wakeman got a sex-related inquiry from a professor we might have confused with Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini, except that even Roubini would never do the "r u" thing.

DJ and Lindsay Lohan ex Samantha Ronson already has enough to talk about in therapy, Yankees!

Comedian Sarah Silverman mocked you, gym rats.

Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg went to NASA's, err, "base" in Mountain View. Ask them to show you the Google air force, Randi! And the secret lasers. Be sure to wink on that last one.



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<![CDATA[Lindsay Lohan's Real First Girlfriend]]> Wenn5175239-1So remember how heiress Courtenay Semel made out with reality TV star Tila Tequila in a bar recently, and famous lesbian couple Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson sat there laughing at them the whole time? No?? Your loss. Anyway, the whole thing is sort of funny in retrospect, because it turns out Lohan dated Semel before she famously edged out of the closet recently with public displays of affection for Ronson. And Ronson kind of stole Lohan away, according to a salacious British tabloid report:

At one stage, the friend added, both Courtenay and Samantha were separately visiting Lindsay at a rehab unit called Promises.

The pal went on: “By now Lindsay was sending ‘I love you’ notes to Samantha and signing them ‘Lindsay Ronson’ but telling Courtenay she loved her too."

By October, Courtenay appeared to have the upper hand. She and Lindsay moved into a rented house in Beverly Hills. “But still Lindsay brought men back,” the pal added. “Courtenay would throw fits of rage, writing her hundreds of angry e-mails from another room in the house.

“The sexual attraction between them was electric though and they’d still kiss and make up."

Eventually, Semel moved out and Lohan ended up with with Ronson. In this light, Semel's makeout with Tequila could be seen as kind of a sad attempt to get attention from her long-rumored ex.

The truly sad part of the tabloid report, though, is its assertion that Lohan devolved into drug addiction amid her relationship with Semel because she didn't know how to cope with her lesbianism. Her father Michael, from whom she is estranged, is a devout Christian and skittish about homosexuality, which might have left Lohan without a support network. Against this backdrop, Lohan's recent defacto coming out looks both genuine and necessary for her health.

[News Of The World]

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<![CDATA[At Cannes Microsoft, Yahoo party on yachts, in penthouses and with Lindsay Lohan's girlfriend]]> "Microsoft has quite a boat over here in Cannes," says AdWeek's Brian Morrissey, reporting from the 2008 Cannes Lions advertising festival. He writes:

[Microsoft] upgraded from last year’s more modest Wally B to drop at least $300,000 for Parsifal III, a 158-foot sailing yacht that sleeps 12 in five staterooms bigger than my apartment. There’s also a jacuzzi. The owner is a Danish coffee-maker magnate who owes his success to the Scanomat machine that can brew coffee and froth milk from the same appliance. Useful.

Not to be left out, Yahoo's partying on the Riveria tonight, too.

It's right now holding a party in its swank penthouse with Lindsay Lohan's girlfriend [Samantha Ronson] DJing. Sadly, I'm missing it. Technically the party is tribal ddb's, but it's at the yahoo penthouse. Funny enough, it overlooks the water where Microsoft's huge yacht is front and center.

(Photo by Steve Peters)

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