The R.E.M. piece has been getting some major play. Billboard and the BBC both wrote their own articles around the visit (and the BBC even quoted me, well, quoted my blog entry)! And just for the record, I was joking when I said I would go through Michael Stipe’s bag. I wouldn’t do that. I may be a lot of things, but honestly I’m not that kind of girl. Seriously, I’ve had plenty of opportunities to snoop through people’s drawers, and it’s just not something I do.

And is the NY Press just playing dumb? Apparently Claudia Lonow, their “edgy” new sex advice columnist may not actually be playing. I mean in her first sex advice column she didn’t even bother to make up her own fake questions. Instead she “borrowed them” directly from a 2006 Dan Savage column. You can read all about it here. I don’t want to blame the editor, especially since you never know when you may need work, and maybe he just had no idea that his sex columnist didn’t have a column, but really, that’s low, oh, and lame.

UPDATE: She resigned saying she didn’t know she couldn’t steal someone else’s column.