Not only can you live with a douche you found on Craigslist, you can also babysit a monster! "Manny or Nanny wanted for 8 year old diva," declares a Connecticut "self-employed" mom. "This is a great part-time student job for anyone with a creative side to them. We're open to a male or female nanny but my daughter…
Hey, the list of most popular baby names in New York City came out today! It's here! For boys: Joshua is #4! Jayden is #5! Elijah is #28! Alex is #44! There were 82 Malachis! 92 Menachems! 32 Ashtons and 32 Dovs! For girls: Emily is #2! Sigh. Also there are 102 girls named Genesis, poor things. No Gingerlys or…
94 years ago, liar H.K. McCann launched his NYC ad agency with the slogan "Truth Well Told." That was a big fat lie. Advertising copywriter Copyranter brings you instances of advertising lies and the lying liars who sell them.
Why did we not know before today that socialite Muffie Potter Aston and her plastic surgeon-to-the-stars husband, facelift king Sherrell Aston, had named their twins Bracie and Ashleigh? Bracie! Would you even name a German shepherd "Bracie"? It's so unfar from that to Epitome or Panache.
We may be in the midst of a cocaine shortage here in town, but things aren't as dire upstate:
We recently launched a sneak attack against daddy-author Neal Pollack's adorable 4-year-old son, Elijah. Or more accurately, we launched a sneak attack against author Neal Pollack shamelessly exploiting Elijah for his own literary ambitions. Pollack responded. Fark weighed in. Facebook profiles were updated. Pollack…
So you were kind of a wild girl in your mid-twenties, right? Crazy, but not too crazy? You'd date musicians, sure, but mostly jam band types? "Lezzed up" with your friends in bars, but only to impress the boys? And, of course, one drunken night you and a couple of your friends thought it would be so cute and sorta…
Crisis! "New Yorkers looking for a bouncy, blond, blue-eyed baby are in a panic as the city's largest sperm bank - and the only one with imported goods - is running dry." Seems that Cryos international is almost out of good Nordic spunk because of an FDA ban on European babyjuice intended to prevent the spread of…
Capitalization-averse Times Metro head Joe Sexton has shared the happy news: Times reporter Jodi Rudoren and her comedian husband Gary are the proud new parents of twins! Sexton notes in the office memo that he doesn't think "they have settled on names. but i believe jodi has backed off her naked effort at career…
"A New Zealand couple is looking to call their newborn son Superman—but only because their chosen name of 4Real has been rejected by the government registry." [Reuters]
Right next to the "A Little Bit of What You Fancy" boutique on Newton Lane in East Hampton is the perpetually bustling Monogram Shop. We all love to see our names in print. But only the wealthy have the means to see their names embroidered onto almost everything they own: Baby sweaters, towels, tissue boxes, even…
You know all those hard-charging parents that are so busy with their important careers that they sit little Augustus and Waverly in front of an "educational" video in place of actually parenting under the assumption that, what the hell, at least the kid is learning something? Bad news for them!
Today's Observer takes a look at the Tibetan nanny craze and finds that all is not well amongst New York parents searching for enlightened caretakers who will watch little Dillinger and Gingerly while Mommy goes to the gym and Daddy fiddles distractedly with his iPhone while pretending that he's "working." While…
Nearly 4000 of you voted for our most pretentious baby name and, in a tight race, Dillinger prevailed with 26.6% and nearly 1000 votes. Congratulations to Gawker commenter The Big Doggy, who should immediately hang out a shingle and start charging idiot parents $200 a pop to name their tykes. He's an award-winning…
Our panel of experts has sorted through more than five hundred submissions, and now it's time for your vote. (It was hard; there were some amazing ones in there.) Help us select the most pretentious name that status-obsessed American parents might give to their offspring. Who knows? We may launch a whole new…
So after much deliberation we've selected the finalists for Gawker's Pick The Most Pretentious Baby Name Consultant Contest 2007. We'll put up a poll tomorrow, but we wanted to share some of the runners-up, names that came close but didn't quite contain the je ne sais quoi one looks for in a totally twatty midget…
We were heartened by the discussion over at that "Here's some money, name my baby" post. But then we thought to ourselves, hey, this could be a potential career for someone! So here's the deal: Submit your most pretentious (but plausible) baby name, either via e-mail or in the comments section. We'll take the five…
Self-obsessed parents-to-be have one more thing to worry about: What to name the little testament to themselves once Mommy poops it out. You don't want your little angel to be like every other Madison in her class. The solution? Baby-naming consultants.
