[Emily Brill and Devorah Rose at last year's Socialite Magazine Party in the Hamptons. Photo by PMc]

I’ll admit, I totally forgot about Emily Brill. It makes me think I have too much on my plate. Because, let’s face it, Ms. Brill was what kept our office alive during those slow news days last summer. 2pm would roll around, and just when we were ready to plop our heads down for a nap, Emily would post a video belting out a song from Disney on I-27, Devorah Rose by her side, and Princess Buttercup hanging out the window, happier than Adrien Field the day he met Mary Rambin. More»

“Dr. Aronne’s care and advice changed my life, and I’m forever grateful.” —Emily Brill

What a glorious day this has turned out to be.  After months spent missing our beloved Brill and her daily dose of UES ramblings, she resurfaces, on an Amazon.com discussion page no less! (Check out the third review). After reading all about the new and improved Harvey Weinstein on Cityfile today and his secret: Dr. Louis Aronne’s new diet book The Skinny (which he claims “is the most informative and intelligent approach to understanding weight loss and gain.” ) We had to go check it out for ourselves.

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Say it ain’t so!  February 2nd, 2009 will from now on, not be known as Steve Lewis or Nick Cohen’s day of birth, but will be forever the day that Emily “The Eldridge” Brill officially ended her website’s run.  We are without words.

For those of you capable, go HERE for all of our best times with Emily Brill.  As for us, it’s too painful to look through at this time…. No word yet on if we will start up the hotline again.

[The Emily Brill Hotline]

In response to yesterday’s blogalite piece, more specifically our assertion that Emily Brill has a fulltime PR publicist and web team, Brill wrote in to set the record straight, and refute previous blog reports here (NYmag), and here (Gawker).  It turns out she has instead a “media strategist”. She even manages to throw a barb at Gawker overlord Nick Denton!

“I’d like to set the record straight. I’ve never hired a ‘publicist.’ About a year ago, some pictures of me in a bikini on a private family trip were posted on the Internet. I got a scared, and not knowing what to do (especially when reporters started calling my cell phone from unknown numbers late at night and casting directors started asking me to come in and answer questions about my life…on camera), I decided to hire a media strategist to manage the attention I was GETTING and advise me (my dad wasn’t up for the task).

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I hope you didn’t think that we started forgetting about our friend Emily “The Eldridge” Brill. It’s been great having her back in blogland and, writing somewhat coherent posts even!  One of her latest; “Online Dating 212/2009“  I’m still not sure what 212 means (something to do with the NYC area codes?), but I can’t WAIT to hear about Emily’s online dating adventures!

JDate seems to be her website of choice…

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Yes it’s a wonderful day in Gotham.  Emily Brill will be celebrating another year on planet earth, and what a BRILLiant year it was!  This brand new 26 year-old budding blogalite has been blogging up an Essential storm on the interweb over at essentiallyemily this past year and there’s had no shortage of drama.  Here are some highlights for your to enjoy.  Let’s Rock!

• Loyal readers will remember how the Brillmeister’s late night escapades at the Eldridge, namely waiting outside for 40 minutes, gave birth to her nickname “The Eldridge”, and her subsequent decision to stay above 14th street.  Emily shot back saying her entrance to the Eldridge was merely a slight delay.
• In September Page Six took a shotgun to her and managed to coax the “Grande Dame” Emma Snowdon-Jones into taking multiple “anonymous” snipes. Being quite the lady, Emily decided naturally not to unmask Emma, instead opting to post a detailed profile of Emma with everything short of her name. So we felt a little sorry for her and decided to lend a helping hand by unmasking Emma Snowdon-Jones ourselves.

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It’s Emily “The Eldridge” Brill Day! Yes that’s right, she posted.  Finally.  Trying her hand at “stream of consciousness” writing; Emily, in a post titled 212 Recession Reflections finds herself pondering life’s little mysteries surrounding the CHANGE we are going through, err at least some of us are going through.  Yes, she leaves us all with questions, (um just what is a “Delivery!” status on Facebook, and what exactly is the “Right kind of tough” mean to her?); but getting past that, we are just happy that she’s posting at all so that we can read a whole new set of comments, including one left by her that highlights her envy of Ivanka Trump:

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It’s time to start putting together my gift list for the holidays.  After reflecting back on my two favorite lady bloggers, I was at my wits end when trying to think of what I would get them for Christmas, er Hannukah?  Anyway, I came across this Pink Keyboard for Blondes and Eureka!! I’m going to be like bff’s for life after this.  From Like, Cool:

[Thank God For Emily "The Eldridge" Brill and Julia "Lip Dub" Allison]

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[Emily "The Eldridge" Brill and Julia "Lip Dub" Allison]

One thing we realized we were so very thankful for this Thanksgiving were our two favorite bloggers, Emily “the Eldridge” Brill and Julia “Lip Dub” Allison. Thankfully, they both gave us some healthy fodder this morning.  Em, who took a big break and now is only posting once a week it seems, tells us tales of her Thanksgiving weekend with ponies. Jules spends a day contemplating Harvard Business School.  And we become ever more thankful for them both.

[Julia "Lip Dub" Allison Posts]
[Emily "The Eldridge" Brill Posts]

Sarah Palin says this at the end of the video above in which there are turkeys literally being slaughtered in the background.  We got this from Emily “The Eldridge” Brill, whose politics are no secret.  We are just glad to see Em posting again.  TGIF!

Last night, Emily Brill, aka Emily “The Eldridge” Brill headed downtown, back to the infinite unknown of the LES.  She was having a good time, too, that is until this guy on the left tried to pick her up with a lame “It’s Leonardo DiCaprio’s Birthday at the Box wanna come?” line.  This surprisingly didn’t work on Em and her friend, who would much rather spend the end of their evenings at JG Melon’s thank you very much.  In other Essentially Emily news, if you would like to participate in the commenter’s Secret Santa fun, you still have time.