Reblogging Julia

Vd Day.

[Housekeeping Edit:  There has been some…..activity regarding this blog.  While I was sleeping, I was apparently nailed to the cross and reborn, all ahead of Easter!

Official comment - Karp and co. fucked up and realized it, probably right after JA sent a gloating email to Gawker about policing the internets (and the NYT and Slate picked up on it).  I missed almost all of it - I think I knew I was banned for about 12 hours before being resurrected - but David’s response to me was solid. 

First, notwithstanding the title of the blog, I don’t actually reblog Our Lady or her Handmaidens.  I link to the posts I parse, but none of them have to read it unless they seek it out.  Which they do.  I don’t “abuse the reblog feature.”  That explanation was horseshit.

Second, had my commentary been wholly positive, there would have been no issue, and that is concerning.  David’s playground, David’s rules, and he is free to make them, but I was pissed because tumblr assured me last year that despite her pleadings to nuke this, they wouldn’t cave.  Made no sense to me that, having tailored the message down to just very occasionally parsing their public statements, they would suddenly nuke an almost stale blog.  It was a bad move, to be sure, and they corrected it and I am all the way over it.  It also inspired me to post more, so chew on that back fat, Pink Lady.

Also, JA?  Yeah, you sort of brought this upon tumblr and yourself.  You occupy no higher road or moral purpose and you should be really regretting the gloating emails.  You take no prisoners on your quest to be famous (for absolutely nothing), and while I don’t forward emails, you aren’t a friend of tumblr.  You are, at your core, a user without friends.  Seriously - you make this easy, and everyone now knows it.  If your BFF only knew how you counted on my discretion.]

ONWARD!

I post this with the assumption that none of you are following the Days of our Banality.  If you need more day to day recaps, I strongly recommend this site, which has yet to overdose on reading about the three least interesting women on the planet.  It takes about six months, so get in while the getting is good.  Tumblr apparently shut down their previous blog, which is weird, to say the least, but I am still (barely) here and will feed the masses who don’t really give a shit.

So onward for the big picture, “what do I need to know” about the Trio of Banality.

Handmaiden of Passive Aggression (Mary):  She got a haircut, then she cut it again, somehow believing she looks like Katie Holmes.  Who is an interesting role model- crazy gay husband, stalled career, etc.  She also thinks dressing in black makes you Russian, whereas most folks just deem that the standard New York uniform.  One day, with her first self-loathing husband, she might actually go to Russia and eat a pierogi and keep it down all night, then name a terrible bag after it that no one will buy.  Then again, I am pretty sure Mary is the kind of girl who would go to Russia and eat a chicken salad (with a request for guacamole on the side) at an Applebees.  But then she would post pictures of it because she PUTS IT ALL OUT THERE, HATERS.

There was some public passive aggression with JA, of course - nobody puts baby JA in a corner or a non-pink dress —but all in all, she is just posting about drinking and shopping, so you didn’t miss much.  She still thinks this is unnatural, which prompted another Botox session (reminder: she is 26), but the girl is a child of a third wife, and not in the satisfying Big Love sense.  In the spirit of the recession, she is homeless and couch-surfing where she can, but she has pimped herself out as inventory for a matchmaking service, so a failed marriage is in her sights.

She is currently doing Fashion Week.  It is more uninteresting than you can imagine.

Handmaiden of Tragic Rebounds:  This one is actually getting kind of sad.  Meghan now knows what a stupid move this whole venture was - it kind of drips from her Cheerios-types of posts - but she cut her hair too!  Yeah, and that’s all you missed.  She went to CES and didn’t post anything relevant, went to Davos and posted pictures of herself snowboarding, and came home and realized that the recession is only for those who mind the pricetags.

Meghan is kind of useless for interesting recaps, because she is criminally uninteresting and her cream doesn’t rise to the top.  It sort of curdles.

Our Lady of Introspection:  Exactly where we left off.  She now warrants less attention than Mary, as she is just a cartoon.  Like Sex and the City on Nickelodeon.  The dating columnist without a date was, as usual, excited about spending Valentines Day alone (some weird plan about a bicoastal birthday celebration as well, which is bizarre, given what the tipsters say about her future at TONY).  Usual highs and lows, of course, plus a lot of unfavorable accounts of her time at Davos.  Truly, this was an embarrassing trip, yet our Narcissistic Lady will never understand the laughter directed at her.