I dunno... call me crazy, but I think:
All of the stuff that's happening right now, here, is part of the experience. The essence of true lifecasting, as I see it, is that you get it all - the ups and downs, the connected moments and the without wi-fi ones. Shit happens; that's what makes it real. I think it's unfair for us, as readers, to expect slickly produced content like you'd get from a fully-staffed, corporate-owned lifestyle site. This is not that, and I don’t believe that’s what we really want from this site. Could it be like that more? Sure. And will it be, eventually? I think so, if that’s their intention. I just have a problem with the thought that because they had a not-so-wonderful past couple of weeks, the whole venture is a failure. That’s dumb. Remember: these are people we’re talking about, and this is their baby that you’re trashing. Unfair and uncalled for, really. They’re putting themselves out there. They’re trying something new. So what if there are kinks along the way? There are ALWAYS kinks along the way — in life and in any project. It’s just that we’re able to see them, here, live.
So... Can we relax a little and let it unfold a little without being so freaking horrible to them? Maybe? A little?
xo ya'll
Kyle, we actually have something in our head to address your points; it's been percolating for a while. You make a reasonable argument. But because we are actual journalists with actual work to do, we will have to wait a bit before we can put it all down. In the meantime, we're sure our devoted readers will have a few things to say.
"Kyle" sounds suspiciously like Julia.
ReplyDeleteSHOCKING!!! A mysterious Kyle leaves a sympathetic message as soon as Julia has a bit of Internet access. Julia - you are SO transparent in everything you do. You can't even disguise your writing. XO bunny. I don't care if your "baby" is getting shat upon. I am still going to watch it fail.
ReplyDelete"Kyle" sounds suspiciously like Mary (with some help from her more literate LA gays).
ReplyDeleteThere is no way Mary is up this early, unless she's in spin class. And that writing is very "Julia" if you've followed her writing style.
ReplyDeleteAnd can someone alert Chad Hurley's wife? According to Julia's latest Twitter:
#Davos - Sandwiched bt Richard Branson, Chad Hurley, Howard Lutnick & Larry & Lucy Page @ the Piano Bar. What's the superlative for "wow"?
3 minutes ago from web
This shows up as soon as "Kyle" posts... um yeah. Nice try Julia Allison. Now please remove yourself from the vicinity of Chad Hurley because his wife could crush you like a cockroach.
Why in the hell is she using a Davos hashtag as if her presence there was actually relevant to anything that is going on? Omg ... I just despise this girl, sorry, I can't help it. She soooooo sucks.
ReplyDeleteYa, you're probably right it's morning here on the coast versus early evening in Davos. (Though Mary does get up very early to spin ... and I'm an early bird too).
ReplyDeleteI'm cracking up then at the timing. Julia must know it's obvious. Page view generating tactic?
Kyle is definitely Julia. Letting it unfold in the manner of grams who won't speak to her daughter in law (Julia's mom) and hasn't for eons, by admission of the Pink Lady herself. Oh, whatevs.
ReplyDeleteAnd, "Kyle?" I'm callin' you crazy.
ReplyDeleteI recall "let it unfold" was JA's resolution for '09?? She isn't that stupid -- is she?
ReplyDeleteKyle is absolutely Julia. The writing style is the same, except she managed to refrain from using expletives, though I'm sure that's to come in later posts. Also: "Kyle" (the sole -- and I do mean SOLE -- supporter) managed to appear about 20 minutes after Jules got an Internet connection ago). So transparent. And really? Does she think we're THAT stupid?
ReplyDeletePull the plug on your baby, Julia. It's dead.
Mary is a morning person, or is becoming one anyway.
ReplyDeleteCharlisie just posted a snaky picture on her blog! Thank-you cards with a Degree and on her screen in the background. She's also leaving NY tomorrow and says that she is ready.
Dear RBNS --
ReplyDeleteCan you check Kyle's IP address and see where he (she) is posting from? Davos anyone?
Thanks much!
Bunnies, just a little NonSociety history refresher course: "Let it unfold" is the wise counsel of Julia's paternal grandmother. Yes, the paternal grandmother who has apparently (and, actually, sadly) not spoken to her daughter in law (aka Julia's mom) in many years. And yes, "let it unfold" was Julia's grams-inspired New Year's resolution. So Kyle is either Julia or her super-biggest, impressionable fan. Which do YOU think it is, bunnies?
ReplyDeletePS I love it when I call you "bunnies."
ReplyDeleteAlthough Julia Allison SO wrote that Kyle post, Mary Rambin is up early today, but it's to fly back to NY from LA. Maybe Andy got tired of her sponging off him and sleeping in his bed? Hopefully Meghan left Mary a key to her apartment because she doesn't have anywhere else to crash.
ReplyDeleteI also think it's hilarious and a little pathetic that Mary is flying home incognito in a hat and sunglasses like she's some kind of celebrity (kind of like how she always talks about her "readers" coming up to her on the street.) Oh sweet little delusional bunny. You are no celebrity. Your sister Leven Rambin is, but you are a big nobody. The sooner you realize that, the happier you will be.
Okay, call me crazy, but what dude says things like "I dunno", and xo y'all?
ReplyDeleteBusted Julia.
Idiot.
Please look at her new pics. It just never ends. She makes me sick.
ReplyDeleteFamous economists, Julia? What are really asking us readers to think?
I used to defend you, you anti-feminist jar of paint!
Rachel
They are so completely full of SHITE!
ReplyDeleteHow could my love for their site turn to complete loathing? Do they really think we're that stupid?? Nevertheless, I feel so completely duped now.
Also a Julia Allison diagnostic: "Kyle's" use of "relax a little" as a prescriptive for the Hatin' Haters. She like to tell critics to "relax" or "calm down." Just like she does when, say, Owen at Gawker calls her an egoblogger. Way to chill, Jules!
ReplyDelete"You anti-feminist jar of paint!" LA Rachel, my writer's hat is off to you.
ReplyDeleteWhich came first, Kyle's message or Sheryl's on point QOTD response below? Even the loyals are defecting it seems, and for the very same reasons we've been citing here.
ReplyDeleteI started to respond to this "Kyle" because I have trouble letting an argument I disagree with slip by, but I'm thinking this is so absurd that it doesn't warrant a response to its content. Or am I wrong? Does this seem like a legitimate argument? If so I probably won't be able to restrain myself and will have to try to refute it because, Kyle/Julia: I'm. Not. Buying. It.
-Ineffable
Julia also uses "I dunno" "let it unfold" "xo" "that's dumb" "relax" "Remember:" and a host of other Julia-isms in her Kyle post. It also showed up as soon as she declares that she has internet access. Way to go dumbass.
ReplyDeleteAlso, for those of you who were curious, here's the profanity laced string of anonymous comments believed to be left by The Pink One in an earlier post:
http://rebloggingnonsociety.blogspot.com/2009/01/note-about-intern.html
But really! She's so nice!
o.m.g. ya'll...Julia shared the couch with Nouriel Roubini. Do you think he gave her a special forecast of doom? Will he take her back to his yoni-sculpture covered apartment in Soho when they get back into town?
ReplyDeleteIneffable - Sheryl, and a host of others, left their grievances at QotD this morning and Kyle/Julia posted a little bit below them (you can see it if it's still up there) at almost the exact same time that Julia posted on her blog that she had internet access again.
ReplyDeleteI dunno... call me crazy, but I think:
ReplyDeleteKyle is Julia.
xoxo
Ineffable
Anonymous 12:54:
ReplyDeleteI actually saw Mary walking near NYU a few weeks ago (before I knew about TSAM or RBNS) and as I glanced over and recognized her, she stared at me and looked terrified. Calm down Angelina, I won't ask for your precious autograph or anything *eyeroll*
http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/status/1158063471
ReplyDelete"Davos has great wifi" 1:55 AM yesterday from web
Scobleizer
(For those who missed it, someone else posted this here yesterday. From Robert Scoble on Twitter yesterday.)
I second checking Kyle's IP address. Please!!
ReplyDeleteAnon 1:28:
ReplyDeleteThat's hilarious! I had a similar experience when I saw (but did not speak or interact with) Julia in the hallway of Next New Networks (was meeting a friend who works on one of NNN's other channels). She was at the far end of the hallway and glanced over at me as she was texting, already anticipating that I had recognized her. Don't worry, bunny, I didn't want to talk to you.