In an announcement whose time came long ago, Dooce is at last stepping away from her keyboard: (more…)

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...

Getting married, pregnant, and going in on real estate with someone you've known for less time than it even takes to gestate said baby is a timeline usually reserved for reality tv competitions, but ok.

Ramshackle Glam, the online diary of Jordan Reid's sad attempts to seem adorkably clumsy and relatable yet super glamorous and aspirational, now has an app. For what? Who knows? The description isn't very illuminating. This app is the go-to for all things lifestyle-related! Want DIY tips? Style tips? Cooking tips? Ramshackle Glam has it all! From the screenshots it appears to be nothing more than a glorified feed reader for Jordan's site. Since it was created using that DWNLD site I doubt it's any kind of incredible iPad tool. I guess I'm just confused as to why she felt the...

Breast cancer activists around the internet are waving pitchforks at Etsy, the "indie" internet shopping site popular among twee and wannatwee bloggers, for joining in the October retail ritual of "pinkwashing". It seems Etsy sent out a promotional email with the tagline "Tickled Pink: Show your love to the women in your life with Breast Cancer Awareness Month",  featuring all pink products in several categories. The problem seems to be that only a few of the items have anything to do with Breast Cancer research or awareness. Blogger "Pink Goose" writes: "Etsy’s lack of ethics and oversight is bad enough. The...

We have talked some trash about Cupcakes and Cashmere. And many of you aren't fans. But it's the middle of the night, I used my food money for a bottle wine, and I just want to say that I like what she's done here. Ok, the pose is a little "stop scrunching slouching pose wtf are you doing". Her face is a little "omg who me?" But I like the dress and how she styled it. I know, I know. But once in a while in the middle of GOMIBLOG I like to remind the blogosphere that I don't hate...

Lindsay, group fitness instructor, has "some observations and they need to be known". In her (apparently now deleted) guest post for Carrots N Cake titled "Confessions of a Group Fitness Instructor", Lindsay provided a list of complaints about her students. The list included things like "If you insist on NOT wearing deodorant to class, I insist on calling you out in front of the class. Suave is cheap. Like $1. Get some. It’ll feel real nice" and saying that the blessings of teaching a class involve "days when people jump as high as I tell them to, complete the number of...

Scott Hisaka, who can show you "how to eat and train right to fuel your performance and appearance", was arrested Thursday "on suspicion of murder and felony DUI". (more…)