news.

Bene was named one of mr. magazine's top 30 launches of 2006!

in other news:

there are some stories that are tailor-made for the new york tabs. this morning when i went into my local bodega to pick up the post, the daily news's lead headline, positioned next to a photo of keith richards, caught my eye: I SNORTED MY DAD. i didnt need to examine further to know that keith must have ground up his dad's ashes with some blow and snorted them, and i quickly decided that the news's simple, tell-it-like-it-is headline was the best way to capture the story.

i should have known better than to count out the post.

glancing below the news's rack, i saw what was actually the perfect treatment of this story: FATHER NOSE BEST.

i mean, that's pure gold.

the post's front page teaser is also perfection: It's enough to make an old man cry. Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards admits he got satisfaction out of combining his dead dad's ashes with cocaine and snorting the mix.

the references are practically joycean.

my favorite quote from the piece: "He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. It went pretty well, and I'm still alive."

i like how keith says grinding him up, rather than grinding his ashes up. anthropomorphizing the dad like that makes the whole thing that much funnier.