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It's Wednesday September the 6 around 7:50AM and

Buzz Dump: Suri Exists, For Real, Rest Easy Folks

Thank the bleeding maker of all that is good and holy. Suri Cruise actually exists. Katie Couric scooped the entire planet with a preview of todays (well, at least in New York and LA) new Vanity Fair featuring a 22-page disgusting profile of the Cruises. But now we can move on, non?

*Copyranter has a bone to pick with a new Starbucks concept for being more, well, boho: "Nomadic. Interactive. Coffeehouse. That's rich, SBUX. A company with $6.3 billion in revenue in '05, a company that has ruthlessly put hundreds of independent "coffeehouses" out of business, trying to get all Beat Generation counterculture cool on us. Yeah man, I'll be there on the 17th, acid-tripping and finger-snapping to the rebellious, spontaneous words of Lethem, the struggling Brooklyn inkslinger."

*My totally awesome favorite headline from yesterday. "Paris learns about the genocide in Darfur." [MollyGood]

*My totally awesome favorite headline from the past two hours: "Stormtroopers blast through gender barrier" That didn't spark your curiosity? If I said photos of babes in stormtrooper outfits, would that help? [SFGate Culture Blog]

*Not geeky enough? How about the comparisons of the 2004 Star Wars with the 1977 version - side by side in prep for the DVD re-release. [Star Wars]

*Last week I was on an A-Team kick. Here's the latest on the potential movie. [Cinematical]

*Ahhhhh....Al Cabino sends us the linkage to the Puma fall '06 catalogue. Yummy. PS: When is the Puma store open? Or is it? 900 block Granville. Yum. [Puma]

*One more Steve Irwin link. Andrew Sullivan notes that there is a South Park curse. Here's the proof. [Andrew Sullivan]

*OMG. Have you seen the preview for Grey's Anatomy? This is worse than must-see thursday promos. My god, "My eyes, the goggles, they do nut-ing"[YouTube]

*Okay, I haven't posted anything on this lonelygirl15 phenomenon yet. Virginia Heffernan is still trying to unravel this mystery of J.J. Abrams proportions. [Screens]

*More fall previewy-ness. [NY Mag]