Language, blogging, arianna huffington, emily brill, kristian laliberte, fashion

Let's Blog!

It was cringeworthy enough when pundit-turned-blogger Arianna Huffington began talking about her cronies submitting a "blog" as if the word referred to an individual post, rather than an entire site. Now another web newbie, Steven Brill's socialite daughter, is mangling the lingo. Emily Brill ran into absurd socialgay Kristian Laliberte at Bloomingdale's menswear department last night. She summoned the fashion publicist over for a photo. “Okay Kristian, get over here. Let’s blog.” (Laliberte's desire to promote his label, Unruly Heir, must have trumped the embarrassment of such a hanger-on.)

11:41 AM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Nick Denton
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asketchymess at 11:46 AM on 03/20/08
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She really said that? Honest to blog?
PandoraSpocks at 11:47 AM on 03/20/08
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On the bright side, someone out there knows less than I do.
KarenUhOh at 11:48 AM on 03/20/08
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You ought to sign up that Hot Mailorder Marina The Philology Babe to do a video explaining the etymological distinctions between "blog" and "blah."
contradicto at 11:49 AM on 03/20/08
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Oh, Jesus.
vulturesquadron at 11:49 AM on 03/20/08
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And now, my friends, for your consideration, I submit...a blog.
mitchel_stevens at 11:51 AM on 03/20/08
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omg, soho bloomingdale's is the new Magician!
Calitri at 11:55 AM on 03/20/08
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Hey everybody! It's blog time!
CodePink at 11:56 AM on 03/20/08
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These blogger newbies ought to come to me for all the lingo. For instance, whenever I blog an email to my IPod, I make sure it's in Arial font so that it's easily downloadable to my instant messages; then i just click on it, double-click, and file down a jpeg to my internet webwork websiting network.
BettyCrocker at 11:56 AM on 03/20/08
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One-two-three-o'clock-four o'clock blog!
mathnet at 11:58 AM on 03/20/08
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@CodePink: and hit RETURN!
donmiguel at 12:00 PM on 03/20/08
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I got blogged so hard last weekend I could hardly walk.
belltolls at 12:00 PM on 03/20/08
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A comment to her fashion post on her blog.

Unruly Hair: You are truly a monument to retardation.Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 08:53 AM
lawyergay at 12:02 PM on 03/20/08
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No time for this, gotta go take the blog for a walk, if you know what I mean. But seriously, they say that blog is man's best friend, but not me! I'm blog-tired from all this blogging!
CodePink at 12:02 PM on 03/20/08
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@mathnet: You obviously know a lot about computer logs.
La Cieca at 12:03 PM on 03/20/08
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If I had a blog,
I'd blog in the mornin'
I'd blog in the evenin'
All over the web!
I'd blog about fashion,
I'd blog about menswear!
I'd blog about the gays who wear
The seersucker hoodies!
A-all over the web!
CodePink at 12:03 PM on 03/20/08
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@lawyergay: I can be-log that! Someblogs, I just can't blog it anymore! Is there a blog at the end of the bloggel? I don't blog but I do blog this--just say blog.
BettyCrocker at 12:04 PM on 03/20/08
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Once I jumped in the ocean and my suit came off and everyone could see my blog. It was blogging about in the waves under the summer sun in all it's bloggy glory. I was so embarrassed and afraid that the sun mught burn my blog.
sanson at 12:05 PM on 03/20/08
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@CodePink: That doesn't go through my browser door.
mitchel_stevens at 12:07 PM on 03/20/08
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so wait, this whole "blog" thing is really code for pizza bagels right?
pizza bagels are so cash.
BettyCrocker at 12:12 PM on 03/20/08
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@sanson: Your avatar scares the blog out of me.
pre555soul at 12:13 PM on 03/20/08
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Emily sure is living high on the blog!
lawyergay at 12:14 PM on 03/20/08
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@CodePink: I've blogged but nobloggy will blog about it. Oh, blog it! I just wish somebloggy--anybloggy!--gave a blog. I'm gonna go crack open a sixblog and put my blogs up.
KarenUhOh at 12:14 PM on 03/20/08
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BTW, I just cross-pollinated your "star" thingy over on Deadspin. They all want to know what that's about.

Leitch, if he hasn't already, should be e-screaming at you within the next 20 minutes.
MisterHippity at 12:22 PM on 03/20/08
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@KarenUhOh: Just tell them it means your a Dallas Cowboys fan.
allyzay at 12:26 PM on 03/20/08
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@KarenUhOh: just reference the holocaust.
CodePink at 02:15 PM on 03/20/08
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@lawyergay: That's a blog idea, blog that, blogcause there's no blog like the present (blog).
rod townsend at 02:18 PM on 03/20/08
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Let's blog
Put on your red shoes and type the blues

Let's blog to the throng
they're puttin' on the internets

Let's snark
monitor color lights up your face
Let's snark
snark to the crowd of an empty space
hypocriteoath at 02:22 PM on 03/20/08
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@rod: I will blog the post out of that comment.
wretched_of_the_mirth at 02:23 PM on 03/20/08
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I gets the yawns. Can't we just expunge the word? It always sounded like indigestion to me.
famousauthor at 02:29 PM on 03/20/08
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Blogging just sounds kind of......dirty that way.
TroutSavant at 03:09 PM on 03/20/08
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Speaking of mangling the lingo, when did the LOL get dropped from sociaLOLgay Laliberte's homonymousish monicker? I miss the portmanteaulicious inanity...
GinaRomantica at 04:10 PM on 03/20/08
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Quit trying to make "blog" happen!
Elle Menopi at 04:56 PM on 03/20/08
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Why, just last night, I was blogging to God on the big white phone.
onebadclam at 05:52 PM on 03/20/08
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I don't pay attention to the bloggers when I'm Internetting.