How blogs can be so different.....

It's funny how different two blogs can be.

Television Without Pity recently closed down one of it's threads about reality TV. Namely the one about the Real Housewives of New York. It is the second or third time that has happened to that thread. Mainly because it is moderated by a douche called TWPHoward who is a fucking moron. They have an anal desire to control everything. Every post is evaluated and every comment moderated. You can get banned for just talking about reality TV in a way that they do not approve of in some way.

On the other hand LynnNChicago talked about everything and had a freewheeling and rowdy comment section. She had epic fights with Jill Zarin and other reality personalities. She was a "real" person with faults and good points and everything that went with a real personality. But she didn't block people and ban them from her site.

Of course she is gone now and the TWOP douches are making money hand over fist.

That's the way of the world I guess.

The Second Most Evil Woman in America Plots Revenge

Yenta, Media Whore and all around douchenozzle Jill Zarin is ploting a return to TV after getting bounced from "The Real Housewives of New York." Supposedly she is plotting to have an new Fox show called "Beverly Jillbillies" which will chronicle her move to LA from New York. That is going to be one hot mess.

Jill claims to be a designer but her companies are going nowhere. Her shape wear company seems to have failed miserably and her jewelry designs are not on HSN or GVC and so they are not going anywhere. She just arrogantly decided that her name recognition was such that people would blindly buy her product. That's not how it works. You have to have a good product to sell. Shape wear is dominated by Spanx which has become almost the generic name for the product. You know you say Q-tips even though you might be buying the CVS brand for a few pennies cheaper. She has no clue as to how to market an promote a product.

Now Jill's husband Bobbi is a fabric maven and he has his family store here in New York. LA is a big market for fabrics, maybe even bigger than New York because of the Asian connections. Many manufacturers buy fabric out of LA so there will be tons of competition. Plus it is a pretty closed shop out there so I doubt he is going to open a store. So it will all be about Jill. Just the way she likes it.

The funniest part of the whole thing is how Jill claims she cast Bethenny Frankel in the Real Housewives and that she should get a cut of everything that Bethenny developed since being part of the show. Her arrogance and sense of entitlement is staggering. If she indeed gave Bethenny her shot well that is great. But everything Bethenny got she earned. She developed her cocktail. She marketed it. She made herself enough of a likable and bankable celeb to carry her own show. Jill had nothing to do with that. If anything she tried to sabatoge it by trying to get the other girls to refuse to film on the new show. Sometimes people who gave you some help when you started out want you to kiss their ass forever. It is as though Frank Sinatra still had to pay Tommy Dorsey or something. What a load of crap. You suceed or fail on your own merits. You should be humble and thankful for the shot but you don't have to go through life kissing their ass. That's not how the world works. Just sayn'

Death of a Blog

You know I love reality shows and one of the best blogs around followed all the best Bravo Reality shows and was just a bunch of good clean nasty fun. Even the title was great: I Hate Jill Zarin.

Now you might not know who Jill Zarin was but she was the chief yenta and trouble maker on "The Real Housewives of New York." People really started to hate her and blogs sprang up like toadstools dissing her. This woman LynnNChicago started blogging under that name and made a nice little blog for herself. She would post about a show and routinely get 300 to 500comments that made the EBL look like a piker.

But Jill got fired and Lynn decided that she wanted to change the name of the blog. She dropped the name that made her famous! I get how you could get tired of someone and want them out of your life but you had a brand name that was a google sensation. It makes no sense to change the name of your blog. I mean I get that it is more descriptive. But Instapundit isn't going to change his blog from "Instapundit" to "Nerdy Douchebag." So why did she do such a crazy thing.

Tim who is very savvy about blogs assures us that they are a thing of the past and all the kids think that it is only for old people. Well they said the same things about scotch, cigars and red meat but once the kids rediscover them then they become popular again. Just like the swing lifestyle that the hippies thought was passe came back strong. I think blogs will be around for the niche audience and if the niche is big enough it could be a moneymaker. Bravo's Blogs and TLC's blogs get many hits. Most informational blogs get traffic that is the envy of many a feeble nasty old lady blogger. Reality show blogs can have thousand upon thousands of fans. You might know them Pauline Kael but they are out there. Typing away about "The Real Housewives" and "Sister Wives" and "Pawn Stars" and all the rest.

I just think it was really silly for Lynn to throw away a branded commodity like that.

Of course on the other hand some blogs deserve to die. Just sayn'

Everybody hates Jill Zarin

Save Jill Zarin's Soul NY Post PAGE SIX June 9, 2010
"Real Housewives" star Jill Zarin is the victim of a sick campaign. A source close to Zarin told us, "A woman posted her address and urged fans to send Jill sympathy cards for the death of her soul, while another urged people to sign Jill up for magazine subscriptions. We think these people are friends with another housewife." Zarin wrote on Twitter: "We are being harassed and threatened . . . We have contacted authorities. Someone posted my address and told people to send me threatening mail . . . Using the US Postal Service is a serious crime.

Jeeez. Everybody hates Jill Zarin.

See Garage. You should be feeling good right now. Just Sayn