Yesterday, we talked about reinvention. Now, let’s take a look at regular old inventions with this list of ridiculous, fanciful, wonderful gadgets that have received actual American patents and could come in handy on your next night out. More»

[Adrien Field meticulously applying his mascara] While our moms had “Days of our Lives” on their boob tubes to help get them through their monotony, our generation, raised largely online, has a new form of addiction. It’s called www.lookatme.com, and for many it’s become an outlet to showcase their every waking movement for everyone to follow. The official name for this genre of drama documentarians has yet to be pinned down, with possibilities ranging from live journaling, to blogging, to tumbling, to tweeting, to ‘lifecasting”….it’s all the same. And, as Kurt Vonnegut would say, we shouldn’t be embarrassed that we are drawn to these characters. Humans have always loved drama, after all…. More»

[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]

[Joe Biden,  Julia Allison, and President Barack Obama]

Is there an event or party that these New Yorkers can’t get into? Apparently not, since while we were watching Tuesday’s festivities on our television they ditched NYC’s Inaugural soirees to hang out with the country’s favorite V.I.P.  Julia Allison kicked it with Malia and Sasha, Kristian Laliberte and Devorah Rose had front row seats for the big speech, while Emily Brill and our best friend DBTH left Park City in time to join the millions in D.C. Even our very own Stanley Stuyvesant wagged his tail all the way to Washington to give a big woof to our new Pres.

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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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[Blogalites:  Micah Jesse, Emily Brill, trio Meghan Asha, Julia Allison, Mary Rambin]

Well not exactly.  While you will see them out and about town, generally speaking they won’t be wearing the large over-the-top gowns (but perhaps costumes), and they spend more time behind computer screens than lunching or behind flash bulbs.  Enter the next generation of “socialites” or “blogalites” as we’ve decided to coin them.  Whether a paradigm shift as a result of the falling economy, or a new tech-savy bread, these stripped down Gawker-described fameball microcelebs are taking a post-human approach and have been furiously creating blog appendages to their current selves over the past year.

Some seek fame, some seek fortune or more specifically “fuck you money”, and for some it’s simply unclear what their motivations are.  More»

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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Once a flash in the pan so bright, we could hardly take our eyes off the most aggressive eyebrow in the partybiz, Micah Jesse.  This shooting Hofstra star has aimed to reverse his descent and ascend upward in graceful parabolic motion.  A fixture at Chelsea juants like Marquee, Home, and Guesthouse, it was not until Micah’s catfight with Kristian Laliberte that he was thrown onto the pages of the NYC blogosphere and achieved fameball status.

In 2008 other blogalite fameballs like Emily Brill have stolen some of his thunder.  But Micah is going to go out swinging (if he goes out at all).  And he has prescribed just what the doctor ordered, a relaunch party for his blog.  So what’s the attire for the affair?  Amazingness of course!

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Happy Holidays!  From Julia, Meghan, and Mary over at Nonsociety.  You’ve got to hand it to these three, they look pretty darn festive.  And, staring at all of their holiday posts make me wonder where the heck Emily “The Eldridge” Brill has been these days.

She’s all but dropped off the face of the planet inter web.  If I didn’t know any better, I would say that she is out of the city at the homestead spending quality time with her family, though seeing as I have seen her out and about numerous times over the last couple of weeks, I know that this isn’t the case.

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