It looks like Graydon Carter is intent on bringing people closer to his Waverly Inn...one cigarette at a time. From the folks over at BlackBook (who are experiencing some wandering feet of their own these days) comes word of the Waverly's matchbook: it features a helpful hand drawn map of the Waverly and surrounding area (only eight minutes to Times Sq.!), a plea to "strike thoughtfully," and yes, calls for Norman Mailer for Mayor. Full visuals here.

So, it's a rainy Friday afternoon and we got to thinking (sort of), if Sean Avery can intern at Vogue what's stopping other sports figures from investing in their, uh, feminine sides? What say you? Which manly, zillon-dollar pay check, model-dating, endorsement-signing, sports figure would you most like to see (or more likely hear about) strutting the famed halls of Conde Nast?

Than the outfit Naomi Campbell wore on Ugly Betty? It can be yours here.

There has been plenty of controversy of late over a disclosure in a recent New Yorker profile about toucher-upper Pascal Dangin that implied those Dove ads for "real women" were actually touched up.

Do you know how much retouching was on that? But it was great to do, a challenge, to keep everyone's skin and faces showing the mileage but not looking unattractive.

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Admittedly, we're one of the last venues that has a right to get uppity about meta media — it pays our rent — but the ink spilled in examining China's media coverage of the recent earthquake borders on absurd.

Outlets from the AP ("China media unusually aggressive in covering quake" to the Australian Broadcasting Company ("Quake coverage 'testing China's media credibility'") felt the need to weigh in on the subject. The Chinese media got into the act as well, commenting on the world media's coverage of China's response.

We understand the Olympics are approaching and we're all worried about media coverage and human rights violations and China in general, but isn't the story here the destruction and the deaths caused by the earthquakes, not how it was covered?

According to WWD New York Rangers star Sean Avery has begun his summer internship at Vogue. It left us wondering: why exactly Avery is at Vogue? Hockey is a dying sport, yes, but still. We initially assumed it was for some sort of follow-up cover to the recent Gisele Bundchen, Lebron James turn, but it seems that he many actually be working there: "Observers say he's involved in all sections of the magazine, including features and accessories, and attends edit meetings." No idea. New horizons? A new reality show? Or maybe this is merely the fashion version of "The Cutting Edge?"

Now that the dust has (sort of) settled over at the Washington Post, Editor&Publisher is reporting that it looks like more than one-hundred people have accepted the WaPo buyout offer (much as FishbowlDC suspected). Of the 700 person staff room, 230 people were eligible for the buyout meaning there was close to a 50 percent departure rate (yep, we do the math here at fishbowlNY so you don't have to).

However, in answer to our days-long, who would survive the exodus and be left to run the newsroom question, it seems that Executive Editor Len Downie, oft-rumored to be leaving, is actually...not. As far as his so-called "deathwatch" is concerned, Downie didn't seem all that fazed,

People must be hard up for subjects. ... The publisher and I are hard at work on the restructuring of the newsroom and its relationship with the Web site. I am still working in my office.

In preparation for its 100th issue, Flaunt, the self-described "engine of the avant-garde," is making some editorial changes.

Luis Barajas, who founded the pub along with Jim Turner and Long Nguyen, will jump from editor-in-chief to publication director. From his overlord role, he'll direct the company and its "brand extensions," including a new creative consultancy division. (Tar much?) Twenty-nine-year-old Andrew Pogany steps into Barajas' spot, making us just a little jealous. Then again, creative director Todd Tourso's also 29, so they have that youth thing going for them.

Flaunt will also launch Flaunt TV, helmed by Royal Interactive Studios Guy Logan and Russ Jones.

It's been a wild week for current and former execs at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Debra Bishop, a vice president of Martha Stewart's ubiquitous company, is jumping ship to Meredith, where she'll serve as creative director of More. At MSLO, Bishop oversaw the redesign of Martha Stewart Weddings and served as VP/design director of Blueprint.

This news comes on the heels of the announcement that Cyndi Stivers, who served as EVP of MSLO before leaving in 2007 to launch her own media company, will return to the fold as managing editor of EW.com. Previously, Stivers helped launch Stewart's 24-hour Sirius channel and served as president and editorial director of Time Out New York, where she sent a now classic email to her staff.

Jay Woodruff, currently the managing editor of EW.com, will take on the role of executive editor on the print side.

The EPpy Awards, which honor the best web sites offered by newspapers,television, magazine and radio companies were announced last night. Perhaps not surprisingly, the New York Times walked away the big winner scooping up "Best Business Blog" for Dealbook (congrats to Andrew Ross Sorkin), as well as "Best News Web Site" and "Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site." Or, as we sometimes like to call it: all the news, everywhere, all the time, with links.

Other winners include USA Today for "Best Entertainment Blog" (Pop Candy) and "Best Sports Web Site." CNN.com received the Knight News Innovation EPpy, for John King's Magic Wall. Just kidding. Actually, they were awarded it for "finding new ways to gather and disseminate news and information," in particular for iReport.com which they called the network's first "uncensored, unfiltered, unedited, user-generated online community." Certainly sounds impressive. The rest of the winners after the jump.

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We get our motley crew of bloggers together but once a year, so you won't want to miss this.

Come sink a drink with us — sparkling conversation welcome, as in our next day's hangover-addled state, we'll be looking for low-hanging fruit as far as posting fodder's concerned...

We jest! We'll actually be here, and so should you... keep an eye on this space as well as the main site and all our blogs next Tuesday and Wednesday for the inside line on mediabistro Circus speakers, and exclusive reports from the front row/ring.

N.B. This marks the second time we've used a hair band to illustrate a mediabistro Circus post. You're welcome!

The Senate voted late last night to invalidate the FCC's controversial December decision to loosen the newspaper broadcast cross-ownership rule. Senator Byron Dorgan sponsored the resolution and says he thinks he has the votes to get the bill through both the Senate and the House despite the fact President has threatened to veto it.

You may recall it was Senator Dorgan who just a few weeks ago specifically criticized Rupert Murdoch's then plan to purchase Newsday. No word yet on whether this current resolution will effect Cablevision's takeover of the paper. Meanwhile, one imagines news of any strengthening of local media will be welcomed by tornado watchers everywhere.

Folio: Death of the Star Magazine Editor

Observer: Papa Hemingway! Where Are the Men?

Discover: Super Ants Attack Texas Electronics

236.com: Maureen Dowd: The Reader's Guide

We were sort of kidding yesterday when we wondered who was going to be left to run the Washington Post once the current buyout runs its course today(!), but wow, seriously, who will be left? (Well apparently Dan Balz, at least). People just can't wait to get out of there, it seems. Maybe the better question is: where are they going? (Or perhaps this is all somehow part of Bonnie Fuller's "new venture?")

FishbowlDC has a play-by-play of the shrinking masthead, along with news that employees are reportedly getting a "a 7 day "cooling off period" of sorts to reconsider and rescind taking the buyout." If the Post suddenly looks a whole lot smaller next week, you'll know why.

Now might seem like a strange time to launch a print magazine, particularly a quarterly aimed at taking the longer view on things, but that hasn't stopped Mort Rosenblum, a former editor at the International Herald Tribune and longtime international correspondent for the AP, from doing just that. The result is dispatches, which launches this month.

When FishbowlNY spoke to Rosenblum by phone it was clear he was enormously enthused about the project. Its main goal, he says, is to provide a place where the stories of the day can be allowed to evolve and "human beings can be writ large."

What's happening it that there is a lot of unfair of lumping together of things and news stories end up missing important points. We decided what's really missing is a very leisurely, but perceptive, take that adds context, and backdrop, and human reality.

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