Pajiba

I won't say that the office isn't strawberry scented and that we're not looking into scratch-n-sniff webpages, but I'm not all nice all the time. Just most of the time. Hugs!

As far as celeb blogs go, PopSugar is a relative breath of fresh air. So many of 'em (the celeb blogs) are just lame imitations of each other, snarking about the same tired themes over and over again. "Kiki Dunst is a snaggletooth who can't act. Katie Holmes is a prisoner in her own marriage. Tara Reid is a fat drunk. This bitch needs to gain weight, that bitch needs to lose weight, and won't those bitches over there do something about those gawdawful weaves? Dumb bitches."

Verbally sniping celebrities who DESERVE it can be loads of fun, don't get me wrong, but really, how many celeb blogs out there are really, truly good and original about it? Until one crosses my path, I'll stick with the relatively benign PopSugar, who gives us our weekly dose of Biel bikini pix without suggesting for the 1000th time that she's got man-arms and and ass that reaches back into last week.

In other words, where's the Pajiba of the celeblogosphere?

I think I'll stick with celeb snarking blogs. Celeb ass kissing blogs like Popsugar are a dime a dozen.

Re the Pajiba of celeb blogs--for my money, the only one worth reading is Go Fug Yourself (if that even counts); girls can actually write satire--AND use a spell-checker, unlike IDLYITW and others. IDLYITW's Todd is IMO the only real wit on the board, but it's a hateful, issues-laden wit (that is, somehow more than most--hate and issues are normally part of the recipe!) and funny as I find it, it's exhausting after a while.

Plus, there's no comments section on Fug, which gives us all a break from the chatter. And they don't tend to focus on the truly miniscule, like who shaved their head when. Instead they take celebs as a group down on their overweaning materialism and herd mentality, which are two of my own hobby-horses, so I'm happy to ride along!

ranylt, I'm sure it's a lot easier for GFY to be consistently funny since they post once a day on average. The other blogs churn out on average 5 posts a day. I'd like to see you try to be funny that many times a day, 5 days a week. You weren't even able do do it once here.

Critical one:

For what it's worth, GFY uploads about 2-4 separate entries per weekday--much more after big gala events (usually all at once, yes--and there are two writers.) IDLYITW posts about 5 per weekday but has 3+ writers.

Re. other blogs? Quality over quantity isn't such a bad thing.

Dear Ranylt,

Todd and I are the only writers. I am also the only editor, webmaster, image editor and one of the moderators. None of Todd's posts are posted until I edit them and publish them. Todd and I also have regular, full-time jobs on top of this website.

Go Fug Yourself isn't our competition. They're a fashion site, not a gossip site, and they typically post less than we do. It's a great site, but we don't compete with it for content, traffic or advertising.

A someone mentioned previously, yes, it's very difficult to be "on" and funny every day, several times a day and finding new ways to call Lindsay Lohan a drunken slut, but we do our best.

I started my site back in July 2005, and have not taken a vacation from it since the day it launched. I work my ass off for it, I take pride in it and I've never swayed from its original formula. Yeah, we're mean, perhaps sometimes too mean, but writers tend to be very moody creatures.

I'm sorry, but I just can't write about clothes every day because I really don't give a flying fuck about designers and haute couture. I grew up poor, so I was lucky to get two shoes that matched. Thank God Punky Brewster made that mix and match shit fashionable. Too bad about the breast reduction, though.

Best,

Jenny

Hey Ranylt,

The GFY ladies obviously embrace fashion and love it enough to follow it around and properly rip it apart, and - at times - write lengthy posts about why that material, design, cut, length, blah blah is fabulous. I don't think they "loathe" fashion as much as you might think.

Lastly, when you and others are comparing all these blogs, please keep in mind that several of the celebrity blogs out there are owned by larger media companies, LLCs, etc. The people who write for them are very often employees of said companies with no ownership interest whatsoever. Often times comparing them isn't "fair." And even more often times their content is restricted according to what pleases advertisers. Anyway, I'm floating far off topic at this point and I need to go make fun of people.

Smooches,

Jenny

Let me add my two cents:

A Socialite's Life is DAMNED FUNNY. J.Harvey and Lisa Timmons' writing in particular.

www.socialitelife.com