Blogging about relationships in detail: A warning
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Jackie Danicki
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C'est moi
VP of Marketing & Communications for Rackup, but nothing here reflects what my employer or colleagues think. In fact, they probably think it's all cray-cray.
There are parts of everyones’ lives where no one comes out well. Granted, I’m a pretty private person, but I’m baffled by the occasional blog I find where every single facet of a relationship, sex life, nude pics of blogger’s own self, etc. are out there for the world. And using a screen name? Your friends still know who you are, and the veiled bloggers still get “outed” at work and in life. No thanks. Too much is too much.
Though the article does get one thing right - never trust a man with a Serge Gainsbourg tattoo. What, was the tat parlor out of patterns for modern hipsters with goatees? Did he already have an absinthe bottle on one arm and wanted variety? Puhleeze.
The Serge Gainsbourg tattoo is so brilliantly awful that it could not have been invented by any writer, no matter how imaginative. Talk about taking self-parody to a whole new level!
A recent issue of the Believer mag (hipster central) had a page of temporary tattoos by current artists - and yes, there was something like the “goatee of the month club” with a dude wearing a goatee as the illustration.
OK…. this must be a Midwestern thing but I am obviously SO too-square to appreciate that.
Now I’m surprised that the Believer folks didn’t get a Serge tattoo on that page as well.
I just blogged about this today! Saying I suspect/hope it’s a publicity stunt.
Gwen, I don’t think it was a publicity stunt. What kind of famewhore would consent to being portrayed in such a pathetic light? Not even Julia Allison would, I bet. (Speaking of whom, please tell me you’re following that soap opera.)