Hue and Frey: An Op-Ed-Like Summation [Galleycat]
It hardly seems necessary at this point, given that Oprah went on national television to validate James Frey's commitment to truthiness over historicism, but Anchor's going to put an author's note on A Million Little Pieces. Yeah, that'll fix everything.

SE Man Arrested for Rosenbaum Murder [FishbowlDC]
Police arrested a 23-year-old Southeast man last night for the murder of David Rosenbaum after he turned himself in following release of surveillance tape photos.

CNN's Jamie McIntyre: The Third-Funniest Reporter On The Planet! [TVNewser]
CNN senior Pentagon correspondent and "stand-up comedy virgin" Jamie McIntyre is the third-funniest reporter on the planet!

Skin Deep Launch: Party, Pics and Plastic [FishbowlNY]
On Tuesday night Fishbowl was in attendance at at Bruno Jamais on the Upper East Side at the launch party for Skin Deep, a magazine that unabashedly celebrates lookin' good by whatever means make you happy and bills itself as "the ultimate image enhancement resource."

LAT Sunday magazine relaunches, renames itself [FishbowlLA]
This has been brewing for a while, but now it's official: the LAT Sunday Magazine will be re-launched on Feb. 5 with a new name (West, which, it turns out, was the name of the LAT magazine section during some of the sixties and seventies) and a bunch of high-profile people on its masthead...

Straight from The Cheese Monkeys [Unbeige]
A terrific discussion/book review/batch of links going on over at Design Observer more about signs made by hand, without thought of design or typography (see: what nearly everyone on the planet does).

The Eight People You Meet at Writers' Workshops [MBToolbox]
While writing workshops can be a great benefit, you'll meet your share of pretentious and otherwise colorful writer characters. Lesley Hershman at Absolute Write goes over the eight different types.