Brit Morin, our fave DIY/lifestyle…something, just got a pot of startup money. According to TechCrunch:

Brit Morin, the Martha Stewart of tech, is today announcing a $1.25 million seed round for her technology and content company Brit.

You read right, hams. Brit, who rebranded her website because she’s “obsessed with Tiffany & Co.” is now a “founder” and “entrepreneur”.  She’s also launching some app called “Weduary”, which apparently makes it even easier for brides turn their weddings into a social media bonanza. Because what the internet needs is more brides posting all over creation about their “day”.

Yeah. BRB, calling in sick to work so I can create a website about cutting food into twee shapes.

Brit Morin, the 2012 GOMIBLOG Award winner in the DIY Bloggers category, has decided to take her “business” into full Unicorn Club mode. No longer wagon hitching on the “holeosomething” trend, she has now upgraded to the more important sounding “Brit & Co.” And what amazingly professional reasons does she give for the change?

a) We are a growing team here, and though the company is indeed led by Brit herself, the “& Co.” is much more reflective of the growing pod of awesome contributors on staff. See a few photos of our contributing team above. (Psst, want to be a contributor? Submit a proposal.)
b) As much as we love Poopo Kitty, it was awkward to have a similar brand name as a fictional Japanese animal.
c) We have always been obsessed with Tiffany & Co. (Fact: Brit’s mom almost named her Tiffany before she was born. It’s true! You can ask her.)
d) Our domain name is now much shorter, making it easier to include links in tweets. Stay tuned for the Brit.co URL shortener! 😉
e) PoopoBrit? Poopo Brit? Poopo, Brit!? PoopoBrit.com? We know… it was weird.

Well sure, being “obsessed with Tiffany & Co” is an incredibly valid reason to rebrand into a company name that sounds like a Young Adult book series. In case you are worried that the site may no longer provide bored women everywhere with pointless pre-school level time killers, Brit wants you to know that they are  “excited to continue bringing you guys all the same daily tips and shortcuts for creative, savvy living”. Whew, that’s a relief! I’d hate for the internet to miss out on all that “savvy” creativity.

Sarah Lacy, world’s greatest woman entrepreneur, has spent the past few months whining about how TechCrunch has sucked since Michael Arrington left. She and ole Mike made a great team, with their matching set of his and hers views from the lofty heights of the 1% and their mutual need to be Tech Authorities. Arrington even invested in her sad attempt to continue being relevant, PandoDaily.

After a year of public drama and employee flouncing at TechCrunch, PandoDaily was to be the awesome next generation of tech news site. Well it looks like it’s turning into TechCrunch 2.0 all right – Sarah Lacy dropped a nice front page bomb announcing her dear friend Mike was being kicked out of the treehouse:

As of Monday, April 9 the shareholders of PandoMedia voted to remove Michael Arrington as a director. Given the change in relationship we feel it’s inappropriate for CrunchFund’s partners Michael Arrington and MG Siegler to continue contributing to PandoDaily. We thank MG for his many stellar contributions to date and Michael for his support in the early days of the company.

We have nothing more to say about the move and offer nothing but good wishes to CrunchFund in the future.

Since comments were disabled on the post and Sarah empirically declared there was “nothing more to say”, people just assumed this was Sarah continuing to cash in on airing the dirty laundry of whatever company she was working for. That is, until Take A Hike Mike chimed in with his public response and made it clear that this was actually just Sarah continuing to cash in on airing her personal butthurt:

This wasn’t a complete surprise to me, the company notified me last week that they weren’t happy that I and MG Siegler (my partner at CrunchFund) were going to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt this coming May…Part of the reason that I’m speaking at Disrupt is that I have a contractual commitment to do so…

He says it wasn’t a complete surprise, but then later says “I’m thoroughly confused about how and why this happened” before proceeding to post a snippet of some email he sent her, then stating that “If Sarah feels that they’re better off without our involvement, I support her completely. Our friendship goes back years and years. It can, I hope, withstand this hiccup.”

So basically…Sarah Lacy continues to prove that women entrepreneurs don’t base their business decisions on their emotions, and Michael Arrington continues to try and have it both ways with his association with TechCrunch. I’m trying really hard to give a dang here because there is probably some hilarious drama behind all this, but since there isn’t one redeeming quality in the people involved I think I’ll go get some lunch and hope they do something more interesting than post he said/she said crap back and forth.

Gala Darling, loves herself, is giving up television for the month of April:

I dislike television. I have always disliked it. It makes me feel nuts…That’s why I have decided not to watch any television or movies for the duration of the month of April.

To make sure you know she lives an intellectually superior life, she describes her usual activities:

When I was a single gal, I never owned a television…I was always writing, working on something, reading something, or hanging out with my friends. It was brilliant!

Since she is so invested in improving everyone’s life, Gala wants you to all stop watching television and be productive. And if you don’t watch television, “maybe you could stop doing something else that you think is negatively affecting your productivity. Perhaps you could go with Facebook, Twitter, or — gasp! — your internet connection? What do you think?”

Evidently KERF agrees, saying she can’t wait to be done watching the boob tube and get back to her usual routine:

As much as I LOOOOVE LOST, I will be relieved when we are finished with the series. I’m a wee bit tired of watching TV every night! Want to read books, work on projects and more! But still totally <3 the show.

Look I love reading and leaving my house as much as the next person but I’m a little tired of people who act like television is some moronic waste of time – unless of course you only watch (insert their preferred show/channel here). It is entirely possible to enjoy television and also be productive. Not watching television does not make you somehow better or more interesting than someone who spent their Sunday hangover on the couch with a Law & Order: SVU marathon. Can we all please stop being tv snobs already?

And giving up your internet connection? I’d love to see Gala do that instead of giving up television.