RB: Julia, Jan 19 - 2:30pm
At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2007 with my favorite Georgetown boy, Alexander Marquardt.
Aside from being (cough cough) almost criminally good-looking, Alex is a talented on-air correspondent, and spent the presidential campaign on various candidates’ buses/planes traversing the country producing and reporting for CNN. The schedule would overwhelm just about anyone - I think he told me once that he spent like, four days in his actual apartment in DC the entire year - but he never seemed tired or frazzled.
In any case, he’s my date for the next two days - lucky me! (With the exception of the actual inauguration, to which I promised I’d take Dan as a reward for beating that damn cancer).
She needs to retire the whole "Aren't I so great for being such a good friend to my ex WITH CANCER?? He has CANCER! Did you know he has CANCER!"
ReplyDeleteSo despicable the way she pimps out his illness to try and make herself look better.
Oh, and that photos of her from 2001? Nice face lift. Jesus. How much work did she have done???
Yeah, and all she's taking him to is the inauguration, where it will be freezing and they'll have to wait around and deal with crowds and not go to the bathroom or eat. For the glamorous stuff, it's all this guy.
ReplyDeleteThis picture makes me hurt all over. SUCK IT IN TILT YOUR CHIN BOOBS OUT SMILE BUT KEEP YOUR LIPS CLOSED. I don't care what she looks like, but it's the trying SO HARD that is really repulsive.
She's trying to pose so it appears they're together. As if. He'd be brown bagging it if he hooked up with her. He's out of her league. He'd never get involved with her.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that someone said earlier about reflected glory? Julia Allison has made it her life's mission to surround herself with people smarter, more accomplished and better than herself, hoping that some of their contributions would rub off on her. All the tech geeks, all the TV reporters and personalities, politicos, her smarter family members, even poor Dan, who she completely pimps out based only on his sickness. What she doesn't realize is that all these people only make her look WORSE: a girl who had every privilege and opportunity in the world and wasted it. What is she now? A sad Internet joke who sits up at night writing "reader" emails to herself. I'd almost feel sorry for her if she wasn't so ugly inside.
ReplyDeleteYeah, her apparent insensitivity to her ex's cancer is saddening. That ex being the purported "custodian of her memories", I can't help but feel sorry for him. I think one of the reasons he's in her life is to give her a difference of perspective, inject some sense into her - but she doesn't pay attention/read between the lines of the insight he painstakingly tries to give.
ReplyDeleteRemember this "tough-love" conversation, that she ended with claiming how exhausted it made her, but apparently has taken nothing from? Only about 4 months ago :
"You’re running a business that’s based on selling you as a product. But you’re not a product, you’re a person. It’s not the kind of life that I would ever want for you.
I feel like the Julia that’s on your blog, of all the faces of you, this is the worst. And I’ve seen you at your worst. I feel like this is the result of you being overexposed and burned out by having been slammed so hard. But it’s also a product of your social environment, which I have to say, I find absolutely appalling.”
“At the scariest moments in your life, you’re going to be alone. And then you’re going to have to ask yourself, am I really a success? Am I proud of myself? There’s so much more to that than whether your business succeeds, than whether you’re rich or not. It’s about being a good friend, a good parent, a good family member.”
“If you get everything you say you want in your life plan, are you going to want to inhabit that life? Is that going to make you happy?”
So what exactly is poor Dan supposed to do while Our Lady of the Pink Lightbulbs gallivants around the DC parties with the TV pretty boy? The mind reels, I tell you. Reels.
ReplyDeleteAlso: I just knew this photo of Julia Allison in her red inaugural ballgown with Marquardt was going to pop up again on her blog...I've been waiting for it, and here it is. Oy. The next few days promise to be rich with horrified fascination.
ReplyDeletein what universe is this nasty looking b*stard "criminally good looking"?
ReplyDelete'Reflected glory' -- exactly! I see it as collecting/acquiring/absorbing their earned prestige, accomplishments and accolades through association. No matter what, she is at the center of it all.
ReplyDeleteIt's really about how she has tells the world what these people do -- the resume introduction. Anyone who does that is trying to, as you've pointed out, adjust the spotlight onto themselves.
And what do these people say about her if they were to blog these pictures? Ha.
Has anyone else noticed how much thicker she is now?
ReplyDeleteShe's really been making that fucking stupid Blue Steel face for years now, hasn't she?
ReplyDeleteLooks like it, Karen. She really needs to learn how to relax her mouth. Like, not just in this photo, but on the TMIWeekly shows too. She just sits there with that mini-scowl and pursed lips and it makes her appear incredibly uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteDude will definitely need another beer this time around, as well. Better yet, get that man earplugs. Stat!
ReplyDeleteAnyone else notice that Julia never poseted any pictures with "her date for the next 2 days". She went solo to the Huffington Post party and had to glob onto other webtards while there.
ReplyDeletePoor Dan!!
That dude may be many things, but "criminally good-looking" ain't one of them.
ReplyDeleteHe's kind of "bohunk-y" in an '80s way. I like it, but I think I'm in the minority here.
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