Halloween 2008 was indisputably the year of The Sarah Palin costume. 2009? The Snooki. What faddish, "au courant" costumes will we see everywhere this year? We have a few guesses... More»

• Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Big Brother [HuffPo]
• Speaking ill of B-Rock?  You must be on the dope.  Drug test!  [Wonkette]
• Now former Jet Blue employee, Steven Slater, could face jail time for his love of the inflatable slides on airplanes [Salon]
• Confirmed: former Alaskan senator Ted Stevens DID die in that plane crash yesterday [WaPo]
• Hooray for liberals who fared will in last night's primaries [Politico]

• Infamous flight attendant Steven Slater was hopped up on "Blue Juice"... [TMZ]
• Ed Westwick and Jessica Szohr are so in love that they can't be bothered to make appearances they've been flown out for [Post]
• Google's CEO believes in privacy, but not anonymity, on the internet [HP]
• They still haven't identified that body found in Malibu Creek State Park [KTLA]
• Alanis Morissette is pregnant with her rapper husband's baby [PE]

[All pictures by Nick McGlynn from Thrillist] We sent GofG Correspondent Carson Griffith on the Thrillist Mystery Jet, armed only with her passport and a sense of adventure. She had no idea where she was going, or who with. This is her story....

"Let's get weird!" Ben Lerer yelled over the micro-phone for his first speech to us. The CEO of the company that now employees over forty people looked like he was determined for all of us to have a good weekend from the moment we got there (game face, anyone?), as did his employees. What can be said? More»