"Still, she soldiers on."

There's really nothing left to say after that, is there?

Somehow, Attention Whores and the Internet just doesn't have the same ring to it.

I had a lab with a "lovely head" once.

...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened...

Yeah, something died just now.

Yeah, this sounds about right.

Also, was she nodding her head or bobbing it to get this kind of a glowing writeup.

"chattering animatedly about her popular relationship blog" to "people were preying on my pain," she says, her voice not quite cracking. "it was hell."

the story about the supercollider in geneva no longer worries me.

"People were preying on my pain," she says, her voice not quite cracking. "My pain that I cultivated, carefully sifted, groomed, packaged, and then advertised the existence of."

The House of Mirth references were achingly sadder, and delicately more vicious than anything ever written here.

It's gonna take more than that to ruin my weekend. Sorry, Julia.

Okay, Nick. The last line vindicates the post. I'll let it go for now. Just no more J*l*a A*l*s*n this weekend, please, it sucks enough already.

Ok so I might like, totally go and blog this, then Flickr it, then like, quick post it on my Tumblr and then change my Facebook status so all my friends know I am totally up with the Web 2.0 or whatever, and like am all tecchy while I share like everything I know about dating and guys and like, everything. Then on my new Macbook Air iSight I'll create a video and and put it on like You Tube of my friends and I acting way-too-pretty and way-too-cool for anyone who still uses MySpace before posting on my Twitter "...I wish I knew beforehand that when people would search me on Google they would like, find things that I had written on the internet so long ago!"

Don't mess with the web if you can't handle it Miss Julia!

Even though email seems to be so 1998 by the way she talks, maybe that is what she should stick to!

The article is enough to make me turn of from the Times for the rest of the day and pick up an old Sweet Valley High book that dear-old-Gawker has got me back into after the book posts this week.

Julia Allison is clearly no Jessica Wakefield.

The forces of two Gawker betes noir -- the Times and Julia Allison -- combine! Alas and alack of hope!

We shall fight them on the beaches!
We shall fight them in the blogs!

@Mike_Jahn: Ohhhh I can see that becoming the norm on scrolling screensavers around the world! Great stuff!

I'm in Chicago on a biz trip. I woke up, booted up the laptop, saw this JA post, added the comments above, then turned around and the bathroom ceiling was leaking really bad. I have three wastebaskets under it and the hotel engineer was just here. What I'm saying is that this unholy joining of the forces of the Times and Julia Allison is truly warping the fabric of the universe. My God, it's already reached Chicago! Julia, I withdraw my request that you okay my MySpace friends request.

Wait, the front desk just called. They're moving me to another room. As if that will do any good!

(the details of this comment are true, btw)

We may be doomed.

Thank you so much for the advance warning! I think Gawker should take heed and post a pop-up warning of what to expect for at least the next 24 hours until that story leaves the Times main news section.

I am now clicking save on my paper ever 2 minutes as I fear the computer is going to self-combust any moment!

Good luck with your new room... I'm betting the bed springs are going to start popping through the mattress any minute!!

@Jenelle:
This is really true. I commented on the dire NY Times / Julie Allison post and turned around and there was a flood of Biblical proportions going on. I have photos. But it just occurred to me that I'm in Chicago and so is Obama's pastor. If I need spiritual guidance I can track him down.

ZOMG, NPR is running an MLK Jr speech from 41 years ago! I have it on streaming audio. There was a fiery quote just now from someone who used the word MF and talking about bringing

negroes and whites are forced to fight in bleeding [something]...

It's worse than we thought.

That victim role she has going on irritates me the most. JA courts attention, (look at me! look at me!) is thrilled when it goes her way, then suddenly becomes a victim when people inevitably turn on her.

Grow the f*ck up already.

Right now, Ralph Abernathy on NPR streaming audio, These are evil times ... all around we see the darkness of this day.

@Mike_Jahn: Stuff this. I'm going to hide under the bed with my emergency rations of health bars and canned food.

Yawn

@MsMuffinMcGuffin: I have to admit I admire her thick-skin. She seems to have the hide of an elephant.
@Mike_Jahn: Your hotel room is sounding like some awful John Cusack movie I saw recently.

@PRIsNotJournalism: Do you say this as a flack or a journalist?

They're moving me to another and reducing the rate for last night.

Y'know, my porch roof leaks during heavy rains and I'm used to going out there with buckets. Ok, so the hotel room ceiling leaked at 5 in the morning, but I was up working out so it wasn't really the end of life as we know it. It was the first time I shaved in the rain, though. What just struck me is I read the Julia post, turned around, and the skies opened, and NPR was running loud and furious "the revolution is nigh!" clips.

John Cusack couldn't have planned this.

@In Other News...: Hopefully both.

@Mike_Jahn: It's quite reassuring to think that even the cosmos is repulsed.

"Hi, this is Darren Star for Leslie Kaufman please."

"This is Leslie."

"Hi Leslie. WHAT THE FUCK?"

@Mike_Jahn: I'm in a NY hotel. Just opened the actual Times and was faced with a hideous photo-- a pastiche of bed and Laura Ashley sheets, oversized red BlackBerry with Julia's face, two yellow lamps and a pair of red shoes carelessly left on the floor.
I'm switching to Fox News.

"They preyed on my pain!"

Yes, I have preyed on her pain. I have preyed on her pain and feel no remorse for it due to her subjecting me far too often to this kind of horrifying shit on her blog:

[www.vimeo.com]

She wants to talk pain?

I hate gratefully forgotten all about that crap song.

Some hiatus, by the way.

@Mike_Jahn: ARE YOU OKAY?

Sorry about the shouting but you have me a tad concerned as to your fate.

@rosaluxembourgeoise: That is true. Lily Bart, too, descended to prostituting herself.

@Trixie from Toronto: I meant I HAD gratefully forgotten all about that crap song, but strangely, the Freudian "hate" seems appropos.

@UnstableMabel:

I grew up by the ocean. Getting wet is part of life. It was kinda fun shaving in the rain with a towel over my head while hotel engineers wandered in and out shaking their heads and Ralph Abernathy hurled vile epithets at whitey in the background. Neil Simon, where are you when we need you?

"Web and the Simple Girl" is how I first read the name of the video, and I think it's more appropriate after watching it.

@Mike_Jahn: I live by the Indian Ocean but am English so don't like water on my face.

Am relieved you are okay, was having all sorts of visions.

oy

1. carrie bradshaw is a tv character
2. what is this "gold ring" for which these girls don these outfits; is it the husband?

@Trixie from Toronto: Wow. That is really disturbing. Stripping for daddy.

@Don Is: I'm referring to the vimeo, not your post.

@if_i_only_had_a_heart: For girls like this it's totally NOT about the husband, it's about other girls. If she went to an all girls school she would not be the one wearing baggy cargo pants and a t-shirt, every day would be fully made up and tottering around in 5-inch heels.

"She realized this recently after three promising first dates abruptly called it quits. In an e-mail message, Ms. Allison acknowledged that her chosen profession may have permanently ruined her social life. "With Google," she wrote, "what's done is done. And archived. And indexed." "

No, her chosen profession didn't ruin her social life. She did. There are plenty of women who work in jobs that have them in the public eye who choose not to be stupid, vapid, selfish, self-involved and all around whorish for attention. Three guys dumped her, which is so very satisfying, But she won't change. That's why she's single.

JA is the voice or a tiny, miniscule faction of NYC women. The entitled, ugly on the inside, nothing of substance to offer the world who think that because they're pretty all their ugly behavior should be understood and excused.

The reason Carrie Bradshaw and crew were successful is because they were are so tragically flawed and did things that so many of us do in an attempt to find love. We pursue the guy with the looks, or the money, or go after the fairy tale, or try to have sex like men or try to date out of our league to establish social proof. Women related to them because we WERE them. There was some substance behind their stupid mistakes and choices that unfortunately so many women ignored. Carrie was always on the periphery of "the scene." She did not intentionally immerse herself in it. If every episode was about Carrie's clothes and the dresses and the fancy places then that series would have died a quick death like Cashmere Mafia did.

SATC had a tragic affect on single women in Manhattan who only focused on the surface aspects of the show and didn't look deeper. Samantha was a lonely, terrified woman too scared to be vulnerable and chose sex over love because she was afraid to get hurt. Charlotte was the girl who got caught up in the fantasy of marriage and love. She pursued empty, soulless douchebags because she thought that that's what she deserved because she was pretty and because she wanted the "perfect" husband. Miranda was the average looking woman trying endlessly to date out of her league because she thought that's what was on her level because she was a Harvard educated lawyer and pursuing the hothead, arrogant dick in the suit who treated her poorly and used her for sex . Carrie was the girl with obvious Daddy Issues trying endlessly to fix herself shaky self-esteem through her relationships with men. Emotionally distant, arrogant men. She thought if she could get one of these guys to stick around then she could would be okay and she would no longer be the girl that Daddy abandoned because she wasn't important enough. If the writers kept all of those characters in the same place - entitled, damaged, neurotic, controlling, self-absorbed - then we would not have stuck around.

Sadly, all the other characters on SATC EXCEPT Carrie went through a full arc of changes by the end of the series. Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha all started off one way and ended up another. Carrie? Still pursuing the asshole because Daddy didn't love her enough. So in that aspect, I can see the resemblance between CB and JA. Who wants to be that in two years JA will STILL be vimeoing and lip dubbing and blogging whilst living alone in her "toenail" sized studio in Hell's Kitchen. There will be no character progression or story arc. She'll still be exactly where she is right now. Alone.

She wants to be known as a new Oprah, not Carrie Bradshaw.
So now we know what she is doing during her hiatus...
Research..!

She is smoking crack and collecting welfare just like Oprah did way back when.

@tracyflick:
Excellent analysis. Well done.....

Steve Maddens? Hells Kitchen?

How. Glam.

@tracyflick: Stunning. Please. I implore you: Send this to the NYT to provide an honest rebuttal to the ignorance in that poofy article. I can't bear another decade watching a bevy of naive, young women try to emulate another character without understanding what she really represents.

@SlutsorNuts: Indeed. And while you're at it, Tracy Flick, tell the New York Times about Reblogging Julia. Seems they got duped by her "I'm on a break" bullshit. My ex-husband took longer breaks between wives, which is about -1 year.

p.s. And for someone bemoaning the negative impact her online life has had on her family, funny she didn't hesitate to shit on her brother and father on Twitter after their Utah ski vacation this week.

@gawksFromaRock:
Wait--JA wants to be black?

I just sent Mr. Denton an e-mail suggesting that I write an article for Gawker. The Sex And The City Effect. With that movie about to hit theatres, expect to see a lot more news stories about JA and women of her ilk.

@Trixie from Toronto: My father would smack me on the head and throw the video camera out the window. Can't you just hear Daddy JA thinkign to himself, "What the fuck did we do wrong?" Jesus, my father would never encourage me with that kind of behavior.

Julia is just like Hillary. Neither gal knows it's over.

and they both wanna be black...?

@tracyflick: That's very true. The glaringly lame MC Solaar Carrie-n-Paris song played during the boring as hale Hills premiere got me thinking about the SATC ties there, too. The girls who secretly watch the show when they were, like, 14, have now come of age. And they're proudly carrying that glitzy sack-of-bones Carrie Bradshaw's ideology with them, no matter how dated it is.

I'm more interested in how she sent the baugher tumblr tips about her own friends?

@crotchety:

yep, ur exactly right

also: scarrie sadshaw

@tracyflick: dude; yes yes yes

@tracyflick: Ooh, sounds like a good article.