Dibs

Pete Doherty is a British rock star with bad teeth who was recently photographed sticking a hypodermic needle into a young woman on a restroom floor, then claimed that he wasn’t injecting drugs into her but drawing her blood, because he happens to make art using human blood. Now we learn that his first book — of poetry and “drawings,” some of which may or may not be hemofingerpaintings —will be published next March. But Doherty has already failed to appear at his own poetry reading at a London launch party, according to andpop.com. Maybe enroute to the venue he encountered someone with a cut lip.