<![CDATA[Jezebel: live blogging]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: live blogging]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/liveblogging http://jezebel.com/tag/liveblogging <![CDATA[The Twits: Behind The Scenes At The Blog]]> April 23 marks the 15th anniversary of a lovely American tradition: Take Our Daughters To Work Day*. To celebrate - and because none of us have kids - we're taking our readers to work.

We're often asked what our days are like, and, because a FAQ can only say so much, we figured that this Thursday would provide a great opportunity to celebrate the "holiday" by liveblogging the details of our day. (Shorter: Unwashed clothing; artery-clogging lunches; complaining; bad jokes.)

How it'll work: All of us (including some of our contributors), will post short missives on our work Twitter accounts for the entirety of our work day. Those interested in following our progress can follow (and respond) via their Twitter accounts.

We're not promising anything revolutionary - or even remotely interesting - hell, it'll probably be a horrific disappointment. But we hope you'll join in, if only to stop and admire the wreckage.

Below, links to our work Twitter accounts:

Anna
Dodai
Tracie
Megan
Sadie</>
Margaret
Tatiana
Anna North
Hortense
Katy

See you Thursday?

*Boys also allowed.

Related: Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work [Official Site]
Earlier: Jezebel FAQ: You Ask, We Answer

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<![CDATA[ANTM Premiere: We're Smiling From Our Eyes Down To Our Vaginas]]> We've had to wait almost three months, but tonight we're finally blessed with the return of putting inexperienced models through impractical challenges, where they learn contradictory lessons on everything and anything Tyra Banks deems ratings-worthy. Cycle 11 introduces the first time the woman-born-woman requirement has been thrown out the door. Anyway, let's get this party started. Right?

10:00 Next week, sexy lesbians and cute racists!

9:58 Tyra's advice for the girl who lost: "You have to be real." Said by the woman wearing a wig and about 12 lbs of makeup, who also gets about 12 lbs of flesh removed with Photoshop.

9:54 Marjorie's photo was not the best photo. Not that the prize is any big deal or whatever. "Ooh, we're hang a picture of you in your house."

9:44 Tyra actually gives a really good, useful tip! Model the opposite of what you're wearing.

9:30 Damn, those girls are really mean to Isis.

9:24 I really want to make fun of Clark-with-no-E for not knowing what "bureaucracy" is, but I wouldn't even know how to convey it in a picture while wearing a cocktail dress either. Shit, I couldn't even spell it when I was typing it here.

9:20 Ooh, modeling and politics. LOL @ "voting is sexy."

9:13 I never thought I'd be so happy to see Jay with his Gotti brothers hair.

9:02 Holy fucking shit! That's why her name is McKey? Forget about Isis. Can you believe the balls on Tyra for making those girls change their names?

9:01 Marjorie makes me feel uneasy.

8:53 How long do you think Marjorie will coast on the Agyness Deyn look?

8:52 BTW, we're up to 7 on the fierce/fiercely count.

8:51 I dunno. I think Tyra is trying to be a woman more than Isis is.

8:43 He's being just as blasé about "Tyrabot."

8:41 Jay just said "metallic catsuit" like it's the most normal thing in the world.

8:38 Jay's hair is getting grosser.

8:37 Tyra thinks she's so smart for knowing stuff from her high school reading list.

8:32 So Whitney's my life as a Cover Girl commercial is one of the best ones so far.

8:31 Elina is coming off as a L.U.G. to me. She's a little too Angelina wanna be.

8:25 Sheena has the best bod in this whole competition.

8:19 Yeah, what does happen if Isis has to do a nude shoot? BTW, love that that model referred to it as a nude "scene."

8:18 Pre-op!

8:14 It is beyond clear to all of us that Tyra doesn't pick friends based on understanding their hair. Because seriously, look who she's sitting next to.

8:13 I can barely breathe after Annaleigh's story of getting tricked into being a whore.

8:12 Since when are blue eyes and blond hair "exotic"?

8:05 Another thing I love: When girls say that they want to go on Top Model so they can be an inspiration to people. How is being on a reality show where you will be mocked by assholes like me in a muumuu at all inspiring?

8:03 I love how nothing has been toned down. It's all been pushed over-the-top even more.

8:01 I love that one of the models said "it's even some guys' dreams to be in front of the Jays."

8:00 We have our first "fierce" within the first minute. Also, is this whole season gonna be in L.A. again?

7:58 I'm thinking I'll be doing a "fierce" count tonight.

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<![CDATA[Miss USA 2008 AKA America's Next Top Shanna Moakler]]> The Miss USA pageant has always been the basic cable version of the iconic Miss America pageant, but after the "make under" that the latter received this year, the trash and flash of Miss USA is so totally welcome. Case in point: The pageant just started and there are so many sequins all over the place. Let's get ready for two hours of camp.

10:58 Miss Texas it is! My birthday is coming up. Maybe she can plan the party? I'd like to request someone to make balloon animals. Except instead of animals, I'd like x-rated balloons, like boners and stuff. I'm going to sleep!

10:56 This has been pretty boring. I guess I did miss a big part of the show when I was vomiting though.

10:40 Remember when beauty pageant contestants would talk about helping the impoverished and starving children? Now they want to help Britney Spears.

10:37 Donnie Osmond just gained my respect for saying "such as" to Lauren Caitlin Upton.

10:30 Miss Texas's company does motivational speaking and birthday party planning?

10:14 New Jersey's dress...oh my.

10:06 Are they just gonna play the whole Rihanna album?

9:57 Ha! Miss Tennessee just touched Miss Mississippi's boob by accident, and moved it.

9:55 I just puked. A lot. I missed the entire segment when the band was playing.

9:28 Loving that we're getting to know the different girls via glamor shots of them all.

:21 Miss Indiana was smiling so hard with her eyes! It didn't make me feel any less nauseated though.

9:16 So I had this horrible knot in my shoulder and went to get a massage at this shady massage parlor by my apartment, which caused me to be a little late to this live blog. Anyway, the guy, for some reason, put some kind of Icey Hot thing all over my back and it feels weird and horrible and the smell is killing me and I think I'm probably going to need to vomit very soon.

9:13 I don't like Donnie and Marie making sexual innuendo-y jokes about each other.

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<![CDATA[Liveblogging "Letterman": All-Mulatto Edition!]]> Tonight we'll be live-blogging the appearance of Barack Obama and Halle Berry on The Late Show with David Letterman. Why? Because, like Barack and Halle, we're also half-breeds with divorced parents! (Well, actually, Moe is blonde and has parents who still love one another. Aww!). We're also secretly hoping for a Halle Berry/Michelle Obama smackdown, seeing as Halle arrived at the Late Show studios earlier today wearing a full-on fuck-me outfit of black stilettos and leather pants (see photo above). Will Barack be able to resist? Will Halle bring up the suicide attempt she claims is old news but reportedly keeps rehashing anyway? Check back in later to find out; the festivities begin at 11:35pm EST.

(Live blog begins after the jump)

•David comes out to complain about the weather; makes some lame jokes about the Yankees and Barry Bonds.

•First mention of Barack. "He wants to make two major announcements. Once he wants to announce his plan for ending the war. The next he wants to announce his plan for canceling The View."

•Halliburton joke.

•Mention of Halle Berry receives 1/3 more applause than Barack's name-check.

•It really IS mixed-race day at the Ed Sullivan Theater! David mourns Tiger Woods' loss at the Masters the day before.

•Back from commercial break: The Top Ten List — "Things I Can Say Now That I've Won The Masters" — as presented by tournament winner Zach Johnson. By the way: What is up with David's tie? Ug. Ly.

•Johnson is appealingly nervous. Number 6: "Even I've Never Heard Of Me!" Cute.

•Quick commercial break. Here comes Barack. Nice suit! Barack claps along with the audience as he walks out, and hey! He's even taller than Dave is! Dave asks him about his smoking. Barack admits that he's terrified of wife Michelle. Barack won't answer the question about how long he'd been smoking. Dave says it might actually be cool if we had a president who smoked. "The gum's working good," says Barack. "I could use some now."

•Discussion of bills, vetos, Republican congressmen, and phasing out of Iraq. "We're going to have to be much more aggressive with diplomacy in the region, both inside of Iraq and outside of Iraq," says Barack. Whoops! Barack tries to stifle a burp. He gets applause after saying "You don't go to war based on faulty intelligence".

•More Iraq-talk. Barack is gesticulating a lot with his hands, making the wedding ring on his left hand in the close-up shots very, very visible. Michelle, no doubt, is in the green room shooting Halle pointed looks.

•Barack says he thinks the U.S. is the "last best hope on earth."

•David loves Barack's suit! "This is a tremendous suit you have. This is a beauty. That is an electable suit. I would vote for that suit. A good-looking suit."

•Back from commercial break. Time to talk about campaign funds! And David Geffen/Hillary flap. "I don't think there was much to that. I have to say that the folks in Illinois or Iowa were really worrying about David Geffen getting in a spat with the Clintons." Hear that, Maureen?

•Barack smiles at mention of Kucinich. Now we've got full-blown laughs: David has mentioned a Barack-Hillary Democratic ticket or a Hillary-Barack Democratic ticket. Barack prefers the former, natch.

•David laughs a little too hard at Barack's anecdote about his kids. Dave winces when Barack admits that he's away from home so often that Michelle has taken to referring to him as "my first husband." Halle! Here's your opening!

•Halle's here. Girl looks good.

•Snooze. Golf talk.

•David asks Halle about Barack. "I love him. I got to meet him at Oprah's house." She also likes his suit. Reticent, are we, Halle?

•Is Halle dumb? Shy? Nervous? Humorless? This interview is just inching along. Put us out of our misery, David.

•Our prayers are inexplicably and quickly answered. David tells Halle how gorgeous she is, and then we're off. G'night everyone!

[Image via SplashNews]

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