A smattering of cultural moments, both high and lowbrow, from today's news:

Making his wife proud: Beckham's new Armani ad • David Mamet talks in New York Magazine about his “surprisingly positive” new play about election season.

• Posh Spice says she’s proud to see her husband’s package “about 25 feet tall” in his Armani ad.

• The Golden Globes, um, happened.

• On his personal website, New York comedian Bill Dawes publishes a heartbreaking and extremely weird story about his three-year romance with amnesiac "Project Runway" contestant Elisa Jimenez.

• Joshua Ferris, whose novel Then We Came to the End was recently declared the only non-disappointing book of 2007 by the LA Times, has a melancholy short story in the current issue of Tin House.