It was mellow today at Michael's. Several interesting pairings and sightings: Michael Caruso (former ed of Men's Journal) was there with Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko (do we see bigger abs in the works for Caruso?). Glamour's Cindi Leive was there with two boys from Slate (do we smell a syndication deal?).

mb's Editorial Director, Dorian, and I had lunch with Gil Schwartz, and not just because we knew he could get us a good table, but also because we thought he would be interesting company. Boy, did we learn a lot. For those of you who don't know Gil, he works as the chief corp comm guy at CBS; on the side, he writes under the pen name Stanley Bing. Anyway, more on Gil later, here's the list of folks who were there today...

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