Oh. So It Wasn't a Joke.

We need to get out more. Because, if we got out more, we might have seen the Atlantic on the newsstands, and then we would have known that the cover (which we got in our inboxes last week and promptly deleted) were real.

That really is Britney Spears on the cover.

David Samuels explains himself:

“You’re talking about a business that’s worth, at this point, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars. And the focus of my piece is an agency called X17, which is the biggest photo agency in Hollywood, and has produced almost all the memorable shots of Britney Spears and many other celebrities.

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