Point the first:

On her MySpace page, Ms. Dupré writes of her “odyssey to New York from New Jersey through North Carolina, Miami, D.C., Virginia and Austin, Texas;” public records show that she lived in Belmar, N.J., in 2001, and in North Carolina in 2003. She owns a company, created in 2005, called Pasche New York, which her lawyer said was an entertainment business designed to further her singing career.
Music is her first love, and on the MySpace page, Ms. Dupré mentions Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra, Christina Aguilera and Lauryn Hill among a long list of influences, including her brother, Kyle. (She also lists Whitney Houston, Madonna, Mary J. Blige and Amy Winehouse as her top MySpace friends.) In

On the Web page is a recording of what she describes as her latest track, “What We Want,” a hip-hop-inflected rhythm-and-blues tune that asks, “Can you handle me, boy?” and uses some dated slang, calling someone her “boo.”

When the Times is cooler than you, it's time to pack it in.
SEK | Homepage | 03.12.08 - 7:25 pm | #

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Yes, I should've closed the blockquote.
SEK | Homepage | 03.12.08 - 7:47 pm | #

Apparently the Toronto Sun disagrees with your hotness standards:http://www.torontosun.com/FrontPage/ 2008/03/12/4987151.html

If they didn't, she wouldn't be on the front page. Of course, they cropped their version a bit lower.
old | 03.13.08 - 1:03 pm | #

that link again: http://www.torontosun.com/FrontP...12/ 4987151.html
old | 03.13.08 - 1:04 pm | #

But wouldn't she have had to be impossibly hot to fit the story? That's the real reason why all these news-things seem sordid, cos they're never perfect.
Infinite Thought | Homepage | 03.13.08 - 7:23 pm | #

Er, or something.

Erm...going to sleep now, rather than non-anonymously trolling your blog...eeek...sleep...sleep! (This should be done as part of usual interiority. Mechanism has broken).
Infinite Thought | Homepage | 03.13.08 - 8:16 pm | #

p.s.it's not '8.16'. It's actually 1.16, which is quite a good time to go to bed, rather than what it says according to your clock.
Infinite Thought | Homepage | 03.13.08 - 8:17 pm | #

Lauren Berlant's op-ed in The Nation:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/200...0080324/ berlant
... | 03.13.08 - 11:42 pm | #

I would have thought her hotness was objectively measurable: how much did she charge?
Dominic | Homepage | 03.14.08 - 9:10 am | #

Tsk, tsk, Adam. This thread is kinda obnoxious.
bitchphd | Homepage | 03.14.08 - 10:45 am | #

No, sorry, that was just me.
Dominic | Homepage | 03.14.08 - 12:13 pm | #