I think a lot about this, especially around Birthday Time.
How do you keep yourself Happy? Email me - Julia@NonSociety.com - I’ll post the sweetest, most creative or thoughtful responses and/or any that mention repeated singing of The Little Mermaid. Which just may or may not be playing on my laptop right now. I’m not saying either way. hahaha
How does one sing "The Little Mermaid," exactly?
ReplyDeleteJA sings it badly..can we get her a p[ink muzzle?
ReplyDeleteWhen the Little Mermaid turned into a human, she can no longer speak. Might want to look into that, Foolia.
ReplyDeleteYeah but she is not human yet right Julia?
ReplyDeleteoh oh Julia in Glasses again:
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Oh h Jaconb is bloogging now..
ReplyDeleteJakob Lodwick is blogging again?
ReplyDeleteYes Jacob L is blogging again pic posted this morning
ReplyDeleteNo THERE is someone who truly doesn't care what the hell JABA is doing. Moved on quickly.
ReplyDeleteTo keep myself DELIRIOUSLY, MANIACALLY HAPPY!!! on my birthday I botox the hell out of my face. Sure, it gives me wonky eye, but I just don't look in the mirror, and keep my one good eye and my one wonky eye glued to my Barbie pink tutu as I take in my wonderfulness. I twirl and twirl and twirl into HAPPINESS and do a lipdub of a song that five year olds adore!
ReplyDeleteJack do we get a new story?
ReplyDeleteYou guys are funny. Well, time to get to work tweaking the rotational code for my cell phone 3D rolodex software. Gotta implement an axis-angle to quaternion routine before I go home.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget to study your math, kids. It's the key to the universe!
Paul none of that makes sense and I am the mobile tech coder here..:0
ReplyDeleteJA learn the meaning of those terms before attempting to use them, please
Had to look up that SF birthday venue, Club Slide. Below is the Yelp link; check out the comments. (Sounds very bridge & tunnel to me.) You will see that some commenters recommend not wearing a dress if you want to go on the slide. But those lightweights obviously don't have sass and gumption we can expect from our golden giant dildo rider!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.yelp.com/biz/slide-san-francisco#hrid:0_bXVrUxMnEIZtnVqK5ZuA/src:search/query:club%20slide
Oh no! It has an actual slide? They are 12. (Though lacking the typical self-conscious dignity and pride of an actual 12-year-old.
ReplyDelete(And Julia, please wear pants under your pretty pink little-girl princess dress! Nobody wants a reprise of the spectacle you made of yourself on that mechanized dildo in Munich.)
jakob blog link please!
ReplyDeletethere are two Jacob L blogs:
ReplyDeletehttp://jakelodwick.tumblr.com/
There is also another one search for keeping my notebook
Wow, Paul, you're wrapping up and heading home for the day? Lucky you! You must be HAPPY HAPPY HAPPPY.
ReplyDeleteI always thougt 'keeping a notebook' was a chick?
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ReplyDeleteNope When Julia and jacob had their shared log after that disaster Jacob was blogging at that tumblr as Ja linked to it several times
ReplyDeleteSlide is actually a pretty cool club :) The slide isn't childish at all - it's a Prohibition era style bar. The bouncers don't let you on the slide if you're wearing a dress/skirt though.
ReplyDeleteKeeping a notebook is a chick; it's not emily gould but the other one ... moe i think
ReplyDeleteslide is for losers. nuff' said. born and raised in SF...that club is over, kinda like NS. I hope she goes down in her dress, takes pics and keeps on carrying on as a loser. perfect place. losers.\serah
ReplyDeleteI kind of feel bad for this girl. She is turning 28 and her life is so empty that her whole week (and perhaps more time) has been devoted to planning her own birthday party.
ReplyDelete1) What type of person plans their own birthday party?
2) What type of person has that much time to devote their energies toward something so petty?
My advice to Julia on her birthday:
Get some friends. Get a job. Get a life.
Wendyness: Sure, everyone is entitled to their opinion, as are some other people who've also been there:
ReplyDelete"If you are into the atmosphere of pretentious people, Slide is most likely the place for you to go to."
"A birthday party brought me to Slide for the first time a little while back. ... It was packed to the gills with cleve baring short skirted girls of all shapes and sizes."
And apparently, it has a strict 1:1 M/F ratio that means a lot of guys get turned away and are pissed! This is the rule for birthday parties too. (Unless Randi Richy-rich Z. rented the whole place.)
Wendyness said, "The bouncers don't let you on the slide if you're wearing a dress/skirt though."
ReplyDeleteNot a problem for Jules; the rules do not apply to her!
"Live Differently!"
i sent a message to RBNS, but as it turns out Julia ripped of the Happiness logo from another bloggers tumblr
ReplyDeletehttp://megwhyte.tumblr.com/post/81721374/way-to-rip-off-the-title-of-my-blarg-julia-since
Everything Julia does is a rip off or poor imitation. The girl does not have one original thought in her pink cotton candy brain.
ReplyDelete"[Slide] has a strict 1:1 M/F ratio that means a lot of guys get turned away and are pissed! This is the rule for birthday parties too."
ReplyDeleteSo the club is preternaturally empty with a giant mob of pissed men outside? How do they make money? Seems like this should be a public safety issue.
Thanks Chesaleigh. Interesting. Is any idea her own idea?
ReplyDeleteJABa: Keeping it classy in '09.
ReplyDeletebay area bunnies, let's go to say hi to julia at her party on friday. fameballs {at} gmail. be there, or stay home and code 3D rolodex software with paul.
ReplyDeleteI REALLY wish i was in SF. I'd love nothing more than to crash her party and meet up with the RBNS crowd. If you guys end up going you HAVE to bring a video camera and "lifecast" the hell out of the party. I want to feel like I'm right there with you!
ReplyDeleteI am sure New York bunnies can pay their cover charge/charity "donation" and come to her east coast party, too. It's on Saturday, Feb. 28 and I am sure Julia will broadcast the location in hopes that all her exes will show up and fight for her. HA. We'd all love to read first person accounts from both pathetic parties. I can't remember where I read it, but someone went to their NS launch party and reported back that it was a sad ghost town and no one showed up.
ReplyDeleteDyspeptic: yes, the live-casting of last Saturday's AMC super Oscar Pics Fest featuring Nonsociety (TM) was tons of fun. If Julia/Meghan/Mary's posts were half that keenly observed, their website might be doing better.
ReplyDeleteThere is something kind of weirdly psychadelic about the turn nonsociety has taken. It was born as one of those web 2.0, new-media pioneering projects. Kinda like Rocketboom, I guess. An example of how the new tech savvy do-it-yourselfers were going to bypass traditional print and broadcast media and go straight to their audience. They would equal, even surpass, the stuffy mainstream media in content. They’d just be quicker, hipper and more nimble. Yaa.
ReplyDeleteBut as people began to figure out - years ago - a bad reception on the web is louder than a bad reception at the newstand or on tv. You can’t hear people laughing at you when you’re at home reading Maxim, or watching Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip. On the web, even on a site where there are no public comments, you quickly find the peanut gallery, even if you’re not looking.
Also, in NS’s case, they courted so much attention from within and outside the Web, that they are actually covered, at least a little, by sites who are better news gatherers than themselves. And so they just keep getting burned. So, we know for instance about their internalk strife, and the cancellation/non-subscription of their hoped-for reality show, their trouble with funding, their attempt to silence critics, and the problems they’ve caused for their other mid-profile friends by talking about them. None of that, though, is discussed or even mentioned in their strange web magazine. Which, objectively, is kinda like a internet version of Seventeen magazine. But without the production value.
It’s like a reality show about a reality show. They are trying to put a reality-based product out, one about their lives (lives as producers of a show about their lives? But with iPod accesory tips and party photos, too?)
And yet the facts that scream out from the rest of the audience tear huge holes in the world they’re trying to present on their site. They are giving us a revolutionarily real product, supposedly, that is revealed to be fake at the exact time it’s happening. They do a heartfelt discussion about a cleanse diet, for instance. But elsehwhere it’s revealed they’re being compensated by the cleanse company. They have to back up, explain. Or Julia gets fired form her high priofiule Star gig, and tries to spin it. But is caught by Gawker, and snitches inside Star. On and on, it goes.
They cannot contain the content of their story to their website. Gawker takes a bite. Valleywag tosses a tomatoe. Random twitters bump the record player, and the song skips. The Blogs call out. They are no longer directors of the story - the story of them. They really have become unwitting characters of their own soap opera.
It looks like play, in a theater where the audience is booing and hollering and throwing things on stage, busting lights and knocking the cast down. But the actors are sooo determined to keep on with the play. They continue to grin and dance and wink at the audience. Even as the curtains are burning. They just try to sing louder. At this point, they are performing their lives. No tliving and “lifecasting” them..
I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything quite like this. It’d be like having a live audeince follow the cast of the Real World, jeering them, and instantly producing people from the cast’s past to contradict lies the Real Worlders tell each other. As it happens.
And then there’s the NS show itself. The whole country is queasy nervous. Everyone i know, espcially in the media-heavy crowd which I’ll bet makes up a bulk of NS’s audience, people are realy worried about losing their jobs. And it’s also one of those times when even people who aren’t interested in politics are paying attention to the world. The Obama election was the same sort of life-stopping earthquake as 9-11, just on the polar opposite end of the scale. There’s this low-level buzz that the two wars we’re hoping to get out of could suddenly blow up out of control. It feels like one of those times, when environmentalists and progressives have a chance to re-write the scene for the US.
A little like ’68, maybe.
And the show they were trying to put on? Pink birthday parties. Cupcakes. Shoes. Re-heated Sex and The City aesthetics, with none of the sisterhood warmth that helped make that show a cut above drivel.clips of doing karoake at the Davos conference. Like bringing a cat to the opera. None of them had the first clue what was going on around them. In fact, going to Davos wasn’t really in keeping with their editorial mission anyway. Relationship advice. Single living tips. The latest consumer elctronics. Light stuff, breezy. That’s them. But they went to Davos. Why? They never say. It just seemed Capital-I Important, I guess. Truly, truly magic-mushroomy weird.
I actually think someone smarter than me could do a good American Studies/ Sociology dissertatuion on the rise and fall of NS and what is says about this period and this demographic.
That is all.
Anon 4:17 -- that is fucking brilliant. Honestly the smartest thing I have read about the whole shitshow, and why it grates so badly. It is just so out of step with what's going on ... so frivolous, so self-absorbed, and consequently so offensive. And so utterly dishonest at its very core, especially Julia's content.
ReplyDeleteI think that's what bugs me most of all about it. This is the dawning of a new era and this is what JA has to offer the world -- ME ME ME ME ME ME -- and she's dragged her two dim friends along with her.
It's not jealousy that causes people of both genders to be intrigued and at the same time repelled by them. The reason people read this blog and comment on them has nothing to do with jealousy ... it's about dismay. I am dismayed by JA, from a distance and up close. It seems a lot of other people are too, and not just strangers, but people who have met and dealt with her in real life.
Anon 4:17
ReplyDeletePlease copy and paste that all over! It's so so true! Email it to them! Broadcast it! I'm with you (and I suspect most everyone here is)!
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It's shock. And shock -- hand over mouth, wide eyed shock -- is intriguing. She is shocking in the most embarrassing, dissapointing and sad way.
ReplyDeleteShe continues to stampede onward telling all through her 'thoughts' and actions that she does not care about what goes on around her. She does not care about the people and things that happen elsewhere. She does not even care *that much* for those who are close to her. If she did, she would be on that train down to D.C. -- spend your birthday with Dan, Julia! Or she would be with her parents, chilling like a grateful, blessed daughter.
It's shocking how much of a show she is. How she only knows the surface of anything and everything.
And it's intriguing to wait for the moment she gets hit with some serious, life-changing depth.
We're all waiting for it. Not an ounce of jealousy abounds.
Thanks, Anon 4:17.
FunnyBunny
Anon 4:17 is flatface. I should have signed
ReplyDeleteflatface, that was beautiful.
ReplyDeleteFascinating Anon 4:17.
ReplyDeleteThis site, RBNS, i.e., the Greek chorus, wouldn't exist without Non-society's refusal to provide an open forum for its variety of readers: cheerleaders only need apply.
And it seems plausible that the three lovely proprietors of Non-society are now riffing off THIS site, not only to court controversy, but also, I suspect, out of an inability to come up with any better alternative or more interesting material.
Julia Allison Baugher, in her mock innocence, comes across in a cynical and calculated manner, playing her usual coy yet barbed game; Mary responds in more of a give-and-take engaged manner, with a welcome added sense of humor; and Meghan, well, stunned silence I think is the best she can muster at this point.
It's like a kind of inverse mitosis tease dance, or something like a ying/yang dynamic.
If this site was shuttered (RBNS), and the Non-society tree continued its screeching descent in the pink forest full of reflecting pools, my belief is that the silence would be deafening, but only to the three graces of Non-Society.
In spite of a desperate site redesign to force added clicks per visit, it appears that their ability to sustain interest has been sorely tested.
Many many bloggers actually work hard to offer authentic value and interesting material and succeed. Others quietly blog in the periphery, not driven by Julia Allison’s noble aspirations of “fame/notoriety” and “fuck-you money” but for a simple creative outlet, a place to keep historical record, or stay in touch, etc.
Very very few are sucessfully monetized, if any.
The Non-society site seems to be little more than a rickety platform of toothpicks and investor glue, constructed for the sole purpose of supporting the overweening ego of one Julia Allison Baugher and her insatiable need for attention/recognition. She managed to hard sell the concept and pull a few accessories into the endeavor, but she has failed abysmally on the delivery.
The only thing shocking about Julia is how incredibly clueless and out of touch with reality she is. She's actually a complete bore and not all that smart. To suggest that she's a willing participant in some sort of new form of online reality show would be giving her way too much credit.
ReplyDeletei could not agree more with 4.17 etc and will only add that it is the fundamental disconnect between the reality the NS women try to present and actual reality that is just so wonderfully odd and out of step with todays times. On a teeny tiny scale similar to an aging actress presenting herself as an innocent ingenue or a gay man being presented as to little girls as a teenage "tiger beat" hunk o' the week in the 1950s or whatevs.
ReplyDeletefrom There must be a Pony: "She managed to hard sell the concept and pull a few accessories into the endeavor, but she has failed abysmally on the delivery."
ReplyDeleteSo funny; when I first read this sentence I thought you were referring to headbands, not the Handmaidens.
Anon 4:17 (a.k.a. flatface)
ReplyDelete"I actually think someone smarter than me could do a good American Studies/ Sociology dissertatuion on the rise and fall of NS and what is says about this period and this demographic."
I would disagree with you on some key points. I do not think that they (i.e. JA, MA) represent a period in time or a Zeitgeist of the past; rather, they are a continuation of the American experience. Remember, they are all big Obama boosters. Why? Because everyone else that is "important" is a big Obama booster. It is all about popularity and entitlement. For instance, Julia wants to ride in a private jet on her birthday when she doesn't even have enough money to purchase health insurance. Somehow, though, she is entitled to both. She is probably also entitled to go to Harvard Business School on our dime. Her attitude is one of narcissistic nihilism. To that end, NonSociety is just a convenient vehicle. If she were truly invested in it in any meaningful way she would probably be anti-Obama since Obama's Great Society is going to tax away the dad revenue that supports the NonSociety. She just doesn't care. If she cannot get what she wants through one vehicle she will get it through another (e.g. the government). There is no end to her madness.
Often, in my darkest hour, I have thought about starting a wiki about Julia Allison where all of her past antics could be consolidated and documented. Furthermore, Julia would serve as a paradigm for a certain type of destructive personality. One could then nominate other individuals as being Julia-esque so that a database of destructive personalities could be built in realtime and save the rest of the world from having to work, hire, or have direct interactions with the Julias of this world. Maybe I am mad too.
Anon 5:16: Ya, that occurred to me too when I was writing it! Headbands and pink gd tutus.
ReplyDelete@Anon5:36 -- I LOVE the idea of a JA/NS wiki. The RBNS team of writers and commenters are the perfect people to create and maintain such a compendium of vanity. When do we start?
ReplyDelete(somehow i posted this one the wrong thread the first time?)