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Like Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson announcing their divorce, the Times has tried to sneak very important news past us while we're all dazed and Thanksgiven and unable to process things! That's right: the 100 Notable Books of 2007 list is out. Actually maybe it is meant to help you with your holiday shopping, which you must begin today because God said so in the Bible. Anyway, the list includes all of the usual suspects, and also Vendela Vida. [NYT]

Happy Thanksgiving! Did you know that all the people running for president are big fatties? The Times today reveals that running for president apparently involves eating corn dogs and other unhealthy things. Mike Huckabee, whose primary qualification for running this nation is that he used to be a fattie and now he's skinny, "eats lightly,"and all the rest of the losers have to pretend to care about fitness. Just like you! The Iowa State Fair sounds awesome: Barry Hussein Obama ate "caramel corn, pork and a corn dog for the cameras." And Senator Clinton is v.v. close to Jesus: "At one campaign event, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said she prayed to God to help her lose weight." [NYT]

Magnetic Fields cellist Sam Davol, whose most famous song is The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side, has sold his downtown Manhattan loft and moved to Boston, where he and his wife bought a 2,200 square foot apartment for $1 million. [NYT]

Good news, everyone: you are much, much more likely to be killed by someone you know than a stranger. So stop worrying! You'll be killed by a loved one, according to the Times: "so far, with roughly half the killings analyzed, only 35 were found to be committed by strangers." [NYT]

Remember that guy A.O. Scott, the Times critic we gave thanks for on Wednesday? This is what I found out about him at Thanksgiving. First, he's the son of Joan Wolloch Scott and Donald Scott. She is the smart-sounding Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Donald Scott is the less-smart sounding (but equally smart) Professor of American History at CUNY. But you could get all that you could get from Wikipedia. This, you can't: On A.O. Scott's wedding day ten or so years ago BOTH his parents announced they were gay. Apparently smart people can have bad timing. This also explains A.O.'s very tortured and complex relationship with Margot at the Wedding!

Do you hate your job? Are you also not so crazy about "money?" Former Life&Style; editor Mark Paretsky is staffing up his new "lifestyle-based gossip Web site" via Craigslist ad and Facebook note, offering entry-level staffers $10 an hour. Or, you know, you could work at Banana Republic, get a discount on sweaters, and not have to stare at a screen all day. [Page Six]

We hear Fortune is working on a big piece on supermarket macher Ron Burkle. Unlike the Forbes' relatively benign 2006 piece according to our source, this one's "takedownish." We knew they'd come around! Any intel on the piece would be swell.

In Allah's name, we are everlastingly grateful to have, thus far, been spared the litigious wrath of Judith Regan and Dan Rather. We also have only our friends and colleagues to thank for the fact that this year, we were not caught driving drunk with a 23-year-old woman on our lap. But perhaps most of all, we are thankful for the concrete comfort of New York, where nothing like this could ever possibly befall us.

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Because we've just been dying for a new angle on the events and people and places that inspired 'Sex and the City,' McGraw-Hill has approached the real Mr. Big, former Vogue and GQ publisher Ron Galotti, to do a book. "It could be a lot of fun," he said. "We'll see." And then we can't wait to see who HBO casts in the inevitable series. [NYP]