The Devil Wears Prada, And Has A Landline

Apparently people still have land lines. Do you remember those things? "Hello, this is the operator, I am making an emergency breakthrough…"

Landlines were pretty cool, but you can't Twitter from a land line. And as NYC The Blog randomly discovered by chance the other day while Googling for Liza Minnelli's version of New York New York, Google, good for all manner of things, is also good for finding publicly listed phone numbers of people who have publicly listed phone numbers for a land line. People like Anna Wintour and Liza Minnelli. Does Liza have one of those red lips phone? We bet she does.

At this time, though every number in the screen shot shown here rings, NYC The Blog has only confirmed the phone numbers for Anna Wintour, Andrew Krucoff*, and the Hammersteins of Salem NY. (those Hammersteins must be the famous ones right? Their answering machine message sounded famous).

Contacted via email for confirmation on the phone number, Andrew wrote, “oddly enough, i just disconnected it two weeks ago.” The Hammerstein Home in Salem NY had a cheery voice mail. “Hi, you’ve reached the Hammersteins! Please leave a message.” Upon reaching the home of Anna Wintour, we asked to speak to her. A young woman answered the phone, her daughter maybe? and informed us she was not in at this time. Asking for our name, and where we were calling from, I identified myself and sta, sta, stammered before I hung up the phone. Sorry Anna I didn’t mean to crank call you but I was unprepared! Had I not been, I would have liked to ask you if you were happy that fashion week was over, and if you are really getting replaced by that lady in France?

If anyone would like their information removed from Google Phonebook, you can go here to do so. Unfortunately Bernie Madoff's number is not listed.

*Andrew's address has been obscured because he's not really famous irl, just on the internets.

NYTimes' City Room Blog Removes Young Manhattanite From Blog Roll

Poor young Andrew Krucoff. The "richest man in town", "media maven", Jew, philanthropist, and proprietor of the beloved blog Young Manhattanite, has been snubbed by another powerful media concern in NYC. Having already been escorted out of NYC's exulted media concern Conde Nast -when he was fired for leaking a memo- he was once again shown the proverbial door after the NYTimes' City Room blog removed him from their blogroll.

While browsing City Room's extensive and NYC centric blogroll yesterday, YM's absence from it was noticeable. Krucoff has chastised his underlings at YM in the past for picking on City Room blogger Sewell Chan...Could the removal of YM from the blogroll be belated payback? What happened in the backroom ICQ channels that caused the Times to snub YM?

NYC The Blog called Arthur reached City Room by email, and asked them if YM was indeed removed, and why. They quickly responded, and though you could hear the stammering in their written response, we can only take them at face value when it was claimed that there "must have been a glitch, from when we migrated to a new platform...but we'll make sure that one is visible again."

And just like that, not an hour later, Young Manhattanite was back on the General Interest section of the blog roll at City Room.

When contacted, Andrew admitted to noticing the absence of his blog and professed, "Frankly, I'm surprised it was there in the first place. I thought maybe they removed us after YM contributor 99 unjustly attacked Sewell Chan - http://gawker.com/5002044/is-times-favorite-sewell-chan-an-ass+covering-comment-nazi - but you'll notice in the comments how quickly I threw him under the M15. After all, Sewell Chan is more than the NYC blogosphere's magic bus; he's our subway system, congested streets, speedy taxis, slow-poke pedestrians and pot delivery guy. As far as the blogroll, I'm just happy to see the 92Y Blog still on there."

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