<![CDATA[Gawker: stephanie klein]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: stephanie klein]]> http://gawker.com/tag/stephanie klein http://gawker.com/tag/stephanie klein <![CDATA[ The Compulsive Oversharers of the Internet: A Field Guide ]]> Some people defend their online blog antics—sharing, bragging, writing, photographing—as simply a way to let their friends and family know what they're up to. Bullshit! The personal blog is a repository for personal vendettas, thinly-veiled sexual conquests, cries for help, intellectual masturbation, and career undermining. In other words, it is a rather stark portrait of your life, filled with Freudian slips. The thing is, being online every day—bloggin' as a self-promotional tool—wears down your boundaries. The things you'd thought you'd never say suddenly seem perfectly fine. Next thing you know, your blog is no longer some sort of branding mechanism. It's a place where you snap photographs of yourself sleeping. We've pointed out some of the most high-profile culprits.

stephanieklein.jpgStephanie Klein
The redheaded wonder blogged up a Carrie-like storm about life and love (and her previous incarnation as an awkward teen) on Greek Tragedy. The results: a tepid book, and a 2005 profile in the NYT Styles section: "Ms. Klein, a 29-year-old art director with freckles and long red curls like Botticelli's Venus, has been blogging about the intimate details of her life, from her affinity for rainy days and grilled cheese sandwiches to her sexual escapades, including one that involved a stranger and a can of Pam cooking spray."

juliaallison1.jpgJulia Allison, et al.
How irritated are the Star magazine and Time Out New York dating columnist's friends/handmaidens Mary Rambin and Megan Asha right now, being reduced to "et al"? Whatever. Julia clearly pioneered the overshare, "accidentally" revealing in a Gawker Q&A session that her ex-boyfriend was bipolar. She is also guilty of the visual overshare, via her Tumblr, often involving decolletage.

chen.jpgLena Chen
Newsflash! The Harvard Sex and the Ivy blogger learned the hard way that writing intimate details of your prolific campus sex life can and will have consequences! She's trying to be chaste in the overshare department these days, she told the New York Times. But she's not really succeeding, based on this recent post: "If you suffer from irrational fear of flying, it is probably not a good idea to go back on birth control, skip your period, and become a hormonal mess the same month you fly upwards of 30 hours. Yes, your nipple piercing will set off the airport metal detector. Yes, that large Greek woman did just feel you up."

mike.jpgMike Cherico
He's the fired Glamour dudeblogger, let go for pissing off the ladies! Really just one lady in particular, a conquest gone wrong who went by the name Ms Smarty Shoes. It was previous overshare-y and oft-mocked Glamour blogger Alyssa Shelasky who foisted him upon us. Here's what Mike had to say: "I was over a woman's house hanging out, having a nice time, when I noticed a little something on her lip...a little something that could have been a cold sore. So what did I do, in all of my maturity and grown up-ness? I ran out of her place like a terrified little boy."




nealpollack.jpgNeal Pollack
The ne plus ultra of dadbloggers (he literally wrote the book on being an "Alternadad") Pollack thought his four-year-old's precocious food preferences to be charming, resulting in riveting dialogue like, "This cheese is too boring for me."

torossian.jpegRonn (sic) Torossian
If we were in the medical field, we could probably diagnose the "incompetent and angry [PR] superflack" of 5WPR not as a chronic oversharer per se, but as someone with poor impulse control. Nevertheless, the results are exactly the same, since many of his gaffes are preserved, forever, in online form:

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brilllllll.jpgEmily Brill
We'll admit she first came to blog fame as a result of a sneak attack. But this Fifth Avenue Misfit and publishing heiress grabbed the bull by the horns with her very own blog detailing famous-for-being-young-and-rich friends and nights out at the Beatrice. Her area of expertise is the name drop: "This was Elio's. And my dad had commanded a front table perch in this longtime UES media/power elite haunt (my family/parents eat there at least once a week) since Court TV's glory days. Tonight, Ron Perelman was sitting adjacent to us (couldn't identify his female companion, but nobody attractive or immediately recognizable...:)"

courtneylove.jpgCourtney Love
Courtney has had a long-ass history on the Internet. We're talking 1994 AOL shit here. There was an incredible article in Spin around that time about the culture of the messageboards devoted to her, and the role she played. These days, her outbursts are on her Myspace blog. Recent elucidations (excerpted):

"Someone posted a friend of mines phone number and says its mine this jackass Karmi, on a website that is coming down but frankly i have waaay more relevanat things to do than worry about a website with insanely inflated viewing numbers some tiny clusterfuck of annoyance that i only ever rememeber when i ( rarely ) go on the internet as i am making music films and raising a child conducting my life getting laid and tivoing suze orman- so wtf?
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Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:14:51 EDT Sheila http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=378892&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Stephanie Klein Sells Self Down The River ]]> stephk.jpgSixth grade: No one looked good. In promotion of her new book, Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp, notably redheaded blogger Stephanie Klein recounts some of her most awkward moments. (She used to look weird, you know.) In the clip after the jump, she shows a forged note from a childhood's crush claiming he's in love with her. Looks like we found our next Margaret Seltzer!


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Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:44:32 EDT rebecca http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=373386&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Highschool Was Hard for Everybody, Not Just Bloggers ]]> stephanieklien.jpgIs awkward-teen-pic-posting a way to appear less narcissistic than you really are? Even though curly-headed divorcebloggist-turned-chicklit-er Stephanie Klein's website is chock-full of pics chronicling herself and friends looking alternately happy, drunky, or contemplative, she wants you to know that she's still real, just like us. And she used to look weird! Is this the blog-version of the "I used to be a nerd in highschool" line that celebs are always proclaiming? [Greek Tragedy]


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Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:57:56 EST Sheila http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=343947&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ 'Post' Emasculates Sperm-Challenged Reporter Blogstyle ]]> Pity poor Post reporter Jeremy Olshan. Not only does he have a low sperm count, he's being forced by his employer to blog about it. He's only two posts into describing his and his wife's quest to get knocked up via IVF, but he already seems to have mastered the oversharey, unnecessary-detail-filled art of blogging. He's not afraid to go there! And by 'there,' we mean, "into a detailed description of attempting to inject his wife's upper outer thigh with drugs, and failing."

The guy gave me a strange look, and I could tell he either thought we were joking, were planning to snort some cocaine, have a quickie orgy, or some combination.

The bathroom door swung open and all three of us made our move. My wife locked the door behind us, while Julie, a filmmaker, documented everything with her digital camera. My wife removed the ice pack from her purse and tried to take out the box containing the glass vial of Lupron. The bottle slipped out of the box and fell to the floor.

We all stared at it for a full minute before realizing that it had cracked and all the medication had combined with the various other fluids on the bathroom floor.

See, natural selection is still working, in spite of everything! ]]>
Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:05:53 EDT Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=266099&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ West Village Shop Unites Blacks, Jews, Money ]]> We would like to blame some combination of Sex and the City, Stephanie Klein, and Sister 2 Sister for this party taking place at West Village boutique Elizabeth Charles tonight.
you are a dear friend, a good colleague and a total inspiration. that's why we are extending a warm invitiation to JAPS + BAPS, an intimate champagne and dessert mixer. The word BAPS (Black American Princess) and JAPS ( Jewish American Princess) can be frowned upon, but for this event we choose to define both terms as amazing and successful women who really need to get to know each other better. (And it's quite all right if you are neither BAP or JAP.) So, come out for dessert and champagne, 10% discount on merchandise in the store (and really cute servers).
Events @ Elizabeth Charles [Elizabeth Charles]

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Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:40:03 EDT Doree Shafrir http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=255597&view=rss&microfeed=true