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Jordan Reid Will Seriously Recommend Anything

Jordan Reid Berkow, shillshacklesham founder, has spent the last week (oh who are we kidding, the last year) shilling for pretty much any free product that gets thrown her way. So far in last week or so we have her shillcasting for wool Crap, watches, and attempting to get free floor refinishing.

Now today Jordan is apparently trying to be shillervicey with her shillgasms over coconut oil…

Coconut oil, by the way, is excellent for the immune and digestive systems, has tons of antioxidants, and is commonly thought of as one of the healthier fats.

She advises us to get craaayzay!

Spread on toast as a substitute for butter or margarine.

Add a little to your morning coffee instead of sugar.

Fry eggs in it to add an interesting flavor kick.

And so on. But wait there’s more! She also wants you to know about the totally affordable 25 dollar candles (which she of course did not pay for – ultra affordable!)

Laura is the woman behind popular home fragrance line Nest, and developed Project Art with an eye towards making luxe home fragrances more accessible to the average consumer (the 22 oz. candles are $24.99…..). I’m always shocked at the prices of candles nowadays – if I’m paying $50 for a candle (which I’m not), I’m not going to want to burn the thing, which sort of negates the whole point…so it’s refreshing to find a line that’s both elegant and affordable.

So…she basically goes to a glorified Partylite home party and gets some free candles. Whatever.

It’s probably just me but coconut oil reminds me of two things: that Crapty Banana Boat crap my Aunts used to slather all over themselves, and that Crapty Malibu rum I used to guzzle in college. I could include a third; the Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen shampoo my niece used to use smelled like coconuts, if I recall. So yeah, great sensory memories for me. Hey that’s fine, that’s a personal taste thing. What’s annoying me is that it’s starting to seem like everytime Jordan gets a free product of ANY kind she feels the need to go off about how FABULOUS it is and how you can use the product in SUCH A CREATIVE WAY or something.

And seriously, do we need a room by room suggestion list of what candles should be in what rooms? I get that she’s trying to be housewifey servicey, but honestly Jordan, most people have jobs, commutes, and lives, and they just plunk down whatever they like wherever they dang well want without Laura giving them some kind of help. These kinds of posts just show that you have literally nothing to do but fuss about whether to put the basil pear or the lemon verbena candle in your 3 foot kitchen.

Then again, maybe I’m just being too nit picky because I’m tired and cranky.


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Dear Julia Allison, Mary Rambin Hates Your Sartorialishism

Mary Rambin, consultant, likes to talk about fashion and stuff. She’s been pretty busy working and Playa-ing, so we haven’t seen much of her style wisdom lately. Well, she must have just done a cleanse and a spin class, because she somehow had the energy to share a style link and take a swipe at Julia Allison’s Attention Whore Barbie style:

If you’ve been with me for a while, you remember the years of Julia convincing me to dress up in tutus for photo shoots, silver spandex to lipdub in Times Square, and even getting me to hot glue together three 3 Muskateers minskirts and vests to parade around in for one of the coldest nights in NYC. Oh bunny….

Through all of this, you learned the degree to which I HATE to dress up in costume!

Don’t get me wrong, I love to dress up and I love holidays.  But I don’t need to wear hearts blazed across my boobs, four leaf clover stickers, reindeer sweaters, or flags to express my enthusiasm. I’m an adult for goodness sake!

Yes, I still have a sense of humor and youthful whimsy (haha), but I prefer something more sophisticated.

Refinery 29 has put together a solid slideshow of outfits you can choose from if you share my sentiments. I knew I wasn’t the only one out there.  Click here to check it out.

I always kind of wondered why she went along with these ridiculous getups. At least she sort of admits that she didn’t enjoy it or consider it something normal adults do. Now if only someone can convince Julia…



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Meghan McCain Will Not Change For You

Meghan McCain, writer, pundit, person with self-confidence, is finally speaking out about your perceptions of her:

I can’t believe after all the time, and columns and tattoos….there are still some morons out there thinking I’m gonna change or want to about 5 hours ago via web

plenty of women in politics out there repressing their personality and sexuality, just could never bring myself to do that, not starting now about 5 hours ago via web

I’m glad Megatits is finally bringing this up. I’ve been wondering what she thinks about the judgments people make about her body and looks, being a woman in politics and all.  She’s been so silent about this issue in the past.


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shillshacklesham Starting To Sound Like My Aunt In Boca

Sigh.

Jordan Reid Berkow Hipster, founder of ramshackleglam and shillster extraordinaire, has spent the last three days posting about her free trip to Cancun. She has blathered on in her typical aren’t-I-adorable-yet-useless style, passing us tips about guacamole and crowdsourcing how to fix a sunburn.

In case you don’t already have the She’s Turning Into Julia vibe, let’s check out today’s post:

After an early-morning gym session (leaf: overturned) and quick steam, I headed to a meeting with the resort execs to find out more about the Park Royal Grand. What I learned: while you can totally stay in the resort as a “regular” guest (about $100-$150 per person per night all-inclusive; the best rates are available on Expedia), the hotel is part of a larger vacation club called Royal Holiday, which works based on a points system. It’s sort of like a time share, but more experiential: rather than committing to a single location, you purchase points that can be used at nearly 200 spots worldwide (even in metro areas, which is unusual, and pretty great if you like to switch up your vacations – somewhere hot and tropical one year, somewhere museum-y and cosmopolitan the next).

Jordan is now taking free trips to look at glorified timeshares and shill about them (remind ya of anyone?) Good job, Jordy!


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Meghan McCain and Julia Allison Can't Just Have A Conversation

Meghan McCain, known for her stellar taste in bff’s, is now apparently letting Julia Allison move past hinting at dinners. Now they are announcing to twitter that they are TEXTING EACH OTHER YALL:

juliaallison Late night insomniac texting with @McCainBlogette. Love that girl! 🙂 about 6 hours ago via Echofon

mccainblogette @juliaallison neither of us sleep, we should be studied in a lab! 🙂 about 7 hours ago via web in reply to juliaallison

Why can’t these people just pick up their iphones and CALL EACH OTHER? Why do they feel the need to announce that they are talking to other people who are c list celebs in a circle of maybe 40 people who even give a Crap about them? Are we supposed to be impressed?

Meet up in a diner at midnight if you can’t sleep, or just call each other and talk, but stop with the “I’m talking to @soandsofamuzz” crap. It makes you both look like pathetic social climbing famewhores.


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Dear Park Slope, Jessica Schroeder Quirk Hates You

The girl formerly known as “Midwest Jess”, and then as What I Wore’s Jessica Schroeder, wannabe model/fashion designer/fatty hater Jessica Quirk, lives in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn. Surrounded by squalor in her depressed ghetto neighborhood in the middle of crack houses and an underground baby selling ring, poor Jess has to endure endless assaults to her delicate midwest senses. Take this entry for example:

I hate Park Slope

I just got home from brunch to see the front tire was stolen off my bike, cutting the breaks in the process.

I hate Park Slope. It’s not just that my tire was yanked, but it’s that I live near a women’s shelter full of obnoxious, loud, obese women who spend all of their EBT cards on chocolate bars and candy. I’ve gone down for my daily coffee many a morning and seen women buying 6 40s, ice cream and bread.  I don’t give a Crap what people eat, but those EBT cards? That’s a modern way to say food stamps. And those food stamps come from tax dollars, so WHY THE HELL are you buying junk food?

I also live by a bus stop. This is where a lot of the assinine bull Crap takes place. A month ago, a man and a women were screaming at each other and cursing (F-word). Adam opened the window and said “This is a family neighborhood, could you take it somewhere else?” The response? “WE”RE WAITING FOR THE F&*^ing BUS! YOU GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!” Really? REALLY? You want me to go somewhere other than my living room while you shout and call each other Effing liars?

New York is grinding me down to a fine dust. It might not be too blow before the blow the hole out of here.

Yeah assholes! This is a family neighborhood! Take your unseemly white trash behavior somewhere else! Jessica didn’t move all the way from Indiana to the Big City, take up the Secret, get a tumblr and successfully snag the husband she was searching for just so you fat welfare trash could offend her by buying beer and yelling at the bus stop.

Don’t you know who she is? She is the What I Wore girl! She is friends with David Karp! RESPECT!

EDIT: Jessica just updated her tumblr post with the following:

*Re: Fact checking. No, I don’t believe EBT cards will purchase alcohol. I’m just trying to paint a picture of the kind of purchases I see made in my local bodega.

WHEW. Here I thought we were talking about how the post in its overall tone was classist and bortchy, I had no idea we were all in a tizzy about that one fact. Carry on then!

EDIT EDIT: And now she has removed all the offensive text, and replaced it with this:

Apologies to anyone who was upset or offended about the previous post in this spot. I’m upset at myself for posting it too.

So…does this mean I can buy some Steel Reserve and twinkies at the store with my ebt tomorrow? Cuz that’s how us poor fatties start our day in Brooklyn.


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Jordan Is So Relatable And Middle Class

Jordan Reid Berkow Stauch, person who DOES NOT HAVE A TRUST FUND OK? is apparently helping her Daddy raffle off some 72,000 dollar motorcycle for a school! God that Jordan is so giving.

My dad is one of the owners of Pro Italia, a motorcycle shop in LA that specializes in Ducatis (basically the Ferraris of the motorcycle world). For those of you who watch Entourage, the shop was where Vince bought four motorcycles for himself and his boys. Last year, if you recall, I worked the Cafe Desmo event for Pro Italia (and met Steve Jones, who allegedly asked my father last week how I was doing, ahem ahem); I’m planning on going back this August to help out again.

Anyway, my dad just told me that Pro Italia is raffling off a Ducati Desmosedici D16RR (pictured above) valued at $72,500 (!) to benefit the Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts (a parent-initiated, non-profit, public elementary school located in Los Angeles), so I thought I’d share. If motorcycles are your thing, news doesn’t get more exciting than this. Tickets are just $40, and no more than 2,500 tickets will be issued.

So…basically what I get here is that her daddy owns part of a motorcycle dealership specializing in 5 figure two wheelers. Name drop – daddy’s shop was on omg Entourage. Instead of just quietly donating 100K after selling a couple of bikes in the humble spirit of charity, Daddy is having a raffle to give away a bike while getting a bunch of kudos, back pats, and oh yeah free publicity for his Big Expensive Bike Store (FEATURED ON SOME TV SHOW!)

And Jordan – last year, if you recall, nobody knew or gave a Crap who you were. So no, nobody remembers you being the ring girl for some event, or that Steve Jones is still sniffing around your laundry basket.

Jordan is tiresome and her blog is becoming shill-let me remind you that important ppl like me-shut up haters-shill.