The internets waits in breathless anticipation no more: Jessica Quirk is coming to Fashion Week.

I was under the impression that tumblr covered hotel/airfare, so does this mean Messica is not included in the tumblr fashion wolfpack this season? Or is tumblr not paying for Rich Tong’s fashion slumber party this time around? Either way we can’t wait to see what awesome coverage Messica provides!

A few of you have been mentioning that 20 Best Twenty – who posted about choosing Jessica Schroeder Quirk as their August “curator” – had a bad time with their comments today. It seems their announcement was greeted with plenty of feedback, but as it was all basically negative, the blog simply deleted them.  I’m not sure exactly what they expected as far as feeback, since Messica is basically now the Julia Allison of the style blogger world; any mention or association with her is bound to attract eyerolls and ‘COME ONs’ from the audience.

Anyway, this isn’t about this 20 Best Twenty blog specifically, but their rabid insta-deleting got me thinking. I get that all blogs have the right to delete any comments they choose, for whatever arbitrary reasons they wish. What I don’t understand is why these blogs enable them at all if they only want a certain type of comment. If you put something up and it gets crapflooded with comments you don’t want, why not just disable comments for that post, or your whole blog? Why irritate people by allowing them to comment, only to delete it moments later?

Not EVERY site needs comments. Some blogs are about putting the info or posts out for consumption, and don’t really benefit one way or the other from a discussion of the contents. What I Wore, for instance, would function much as it does now if the comments were disabled, and probably be less insulting to the readers. In my experience readers would rather not be able to comment at all as opposed to being strictly told what they are allowed to say, or have a comment rejected outright for  reasons they don’t understand.

I wish bloggers would grasp that it is less heartbreak for the admins and the readers if they just disable the comments if they can’t deal with hearing things they don’t like. Whatever happened to “information wants to be free”? When did it become the norm to censor conversations, and why is it ok to do so? How do people who run these sites manage to leave their homes and make it about in the world without being constantly offended?

Comments on the 20 Best post have now been closed, so presumably the admins finally got tired of deleting. I don’t know why they enabled them in the first place without moderation on a post about Messica.

Messica Quirk, the “best friend or neighbor” of fashion blogging, had herself a relaxing Sunday posing in fields. No doubt she is keeping it chill to rest up for her continuing What I Want Book Tour and the rapidly approaching Fashion Week festivities.

Let’s be real. I don’t usually get so dressed up on a Sunday afternoon, but over the weekend, I upgraded my camera from a Canon Rebel XSI to a Canon 7D.  I knew the first outfit pictures I took with it would be this afternoon and I wanted ‘em to be pretty.  I also bought a new shirt at the mall. New shirt + new camera = inspiration.  Adam and I spent most of the early afternoon driving around (and off on side roads) of Highway 46 going east looking for a pretty back drop. We wanted to make a day of hanging out in Columbus, IN, but almost everything was closed and we couldn’t find any antique stores…

Hey we can keep it real here too! In fact, here are a few “real” tidbits from emails sent to us by Messica acquaintances:

• Messica is known as “ruthless” for her ability to “completely and selfishly screw” people over for her own benefit.
• Her rant about women being “catty bortches, especially when fighting over one man’s attention” is, as suspected, based on HER. For years she apparently went after any man anywhere, whether they were in a relationship or not (one email described it as “quite blatant”). One woman says her boyfriend at the time informed her of Messica trying to give him her phone number even after he said he was taken. And she wonders why other women “generally don’t like me that much”!
• Supposedly she has a pretty snotty attitude with sponsors, feeling her pageviews and her self-proclaimed status as the first ever daily outfit blog (a former acquaintance claims “she was constantly complaining about not getting more attention for being the inventor of daily outfit post blogging”) entitle her to the rates she demands.
• Supposedly those “back home” friends from the old days are laughing behind their hands at Messica’s return to IN. Apparently she was not so subtly smug during past visits home from OMG NEW YORK CITY about her fame and success in the big city. Now friends “cannot imagine for one minute who [she] thinks she’s fooling” with her manic Indiana is the best ever posts, since basically “she is back to shopping at Target like the rest of us”.

There’s much, much more, but any more detailed stories might give away identities. We do tend to hear a lot of the same kinds of stories over and over again, however, even from various people who have most likely never met. Then again we all know she’s changed since she found Quirk! I’m sure she’s way nice now!

So until she has another totally awesome book party we can scratch our heads over, enjoy this installment of being real!