Rosie, the neverending vacationer known as “The Londoner“, is apparently being side eyed over an image posted to instagram a few months ago. The image is now being discussed on twitter and more than a few people are expressing shock at her lack of response over the matter.

The image in question has Rosie wearing a Schutzstaffel officer’s cap and called a “sexy little officer”:

The image is rapidly disappearing from the internet, prompting people to wonder if she simply didn’t know what she was putting on her head until the outcry.

Alison, “former actress”, would like your help. It seems she has a chance to win a mommy getaway at some resort, and the person with the most votes wins. Alison wants to win, and she will make it worth your time if you vote for her:

But I need your help.  Only YOUR votes can get me there!  You can vote for me to get sent packing in style from today through July 31st.  When  you vote for me, you’ll be entered to win something pretty cool too – a $25 gift card from Wallis.

She goes on to tell readers they can vote for her every hour, which apparently will get them other chances to enter the gift card giveaway – “After unlocking the first entry, you’ll be able to enter in other ways too” and then you can “[w]ait an hour, come back and do it again!”

I know it’s perfectly acceptable to campaign for votes, but this sort of sounds like buying ballots to me. Beyond any contest rules it may violate, it just seems unethical. Is this what blogging has become – just a bribe filled smash and grab for as much free crap as you can get?

Today in slow news days, Nat The Fat Rat, part of the NYC Mormon Mommyblogger Club, has finally somewhat admitted she did not actually just pull all of last month’s cross stitch brags from her skinny jeans covered behind as she previously implied.

Originally responding to a comment asking “do you just free hand it? or follow some sort of a pattern?”, Nat claimed simply that she “freehanded these, which is actually easier than you’d think when you’re doing counted cross stitch”. Recently a Ratter found strangely similar patterns for sale in an etsy shop, and links to the patterns were posted in the comments of the original post – which finally forced Nat to sort of kind of acknowledge she had outside inspiration:

i didn’t use patterns for these (probably should have!), but i did do a google image search for “cross stitch rain clouds” and “cross stitch reindeer” and sort of winged it from there. a few readers have linked to patterns in the comments so please use those!”

This makes me wonder why she didn’t just link to the original page where she found the google image to begin with, but it’s Friday and I’m too busy to figure out why bloggers don’t give attribution to their swiped ideas anymore.

Angel Barta, everyone copies her, has spent months posting to her blog about how “Marc Jacobs is the most cruel thief of the century“. Though she has spent the better part of 2013 leaving comment linkbacks  all over the internet to her insane claims that Marc Jacobs steals her every single idea, she’s now essentially accusing Jacobs of sexual harassment by claiming that Jacobs won’t use a model unless she satisfies his “perverse fantasy”:

Marc Jacobs asked me many times to do dirty photos for him. He asked me to pose topless and push up my breasts. He promised that if I’d do it he would let me be a model on his fashion show.

It seems that Lily McMenamy did the things Jacobs asked her to, as she has walked on MJ’s runway. Jacobs can’t stand the fact that he could not humiliate me and convince me to do those things for him. That’s why he has been torturing me and stealing my ideas, using my talent for 5 years.

Is it just me…or are those requests called “modelling”? I mean, if you don’t want to do the poses and looks that a designer wants, then he probably won’t have you in his show. I don’t see how that’s “perverse” manipulation. Just work for another designer. But then ole Angel claims:

Jacobs kept torturing me: Saying he loved me, sending me love messages, poems, he wrote love songs and asked famous singers to sing it.

She even apparently wrote a book about her “affair” with Jacobs, though it reads less like a love affair and more like Adrian Forrester begging for modelling fame from an increasingly skeeved out designer.

You know, even ignoring the fact that Jacobs is evidently gayer than the Butt Hutt on the last night of Fleet Week, if you are a legitimate model and are feeling propositioned or pressured in a way that makes you uncomfortable, the solution is not to take some crazy smear campaign to the internet. Talk to your agency and a lawyer and settle it properly if you have actual proof of these claims.  I just don’t get how she hasn’t been sued yet.

The search for Zack Bunker, husband of style blogger “Colorful Corporate“, ended Tuesday when his body was found in Warren County, Ohio. News sources were told that the father of three young boys “had been dealing with some personal issues for the past month” while another source says “Bunker’s death is being preliminarily ruled a suicide”.

Though “Colorful Corporate” is grieving privately offline, friends of the blogger are using the internet to set up a fund to help the family.

What a devastating way to lose a loved one. My thoughts go out to the family during this difficult time.

Edit: Out of respect for the family I have removed the image that was in this post.