Out There: Varla, Pete, and Sylvester

• We love Varla Jean Merman. This is just more proof as to why. [Frontiers]

• Poor members of the AFA. They go through so much just to hate us! [Manhattan Offender]

• Pete Burns continues to prove he is the UK’s Janice Dickinson. [WOW Report]

• Rich has schooled us on Italo Disco, the “heavily synthesized, heavily arpeggiated, Moroder-inspired post-disco disco that thrived from about ’79-’87.” The Sylvester track posted is pure heaven. [Four Four]

• Justin Timberlake is set to open a LES restaurant. With one announcement, the Lower East Side is officially over. [Gawker]