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#1 2007-11-09 01:54:21
- Incroyable
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My Guilty Pleasure.
My guilty pleasure is looking at the New York Social Diary, a visual record of wizened old women in St.John and stock-brokers who probably wear Gucci loafers with suits.
It's such a tacky website, littered with the pretentious ramblings and interviews of a vaguely illiterate social-climber and his coterie of photographers who use far too much flash. Mostly, it's an exhibition of bad taste. For a real treat, look out for the formal events where heinous rental black-tie is trotted out.
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/
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#3 2007-11-09 02:33:27
- The_Shooman
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
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#4 2007-11-09 16:48:13
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
I have been a fan of the New York Social Diary for well since it was invented. I have exchanged a few emails with its author, notably about John O'Hara. I think we have a fantasy that New York social life was once interesting. But my reading of Edith Wharton ( a Jones, from keeping up with the Jones' phrase) maybe it never was. Always a world of old money trying unsuccessfully to keep new money out, bright people, boring people, drunk people and bounders. The world never changes but David Patrick Columbia seems like a good egg with good values if you read the essays. and he has some incites. Actually I like that website a lot.
#5 2007-11-09 17:00:49
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
It is useful to see how our betters are dressing.
#6 2007-11-09 17:03:48
- tom222222
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
Oh and I might add, most of NY social life now revolves around benefits for charities and events for some product. A lot of the older women you dismiss control some money, and some of it goes to decent causes. they don't show up to advertise a product. Maybe you prefer a lot of photos of Tinsley Mortimer, but if you read NYSD on a regular basis, you find out a bit of where the real money goes.
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#8 2007-11-09 18:34:48
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
The photograph of Sarah Ferguson and Aretha together is . . . weird.
“You know that saying, 'Caesar's wife is above suspicion'? Well I put an end to all that rubbish!"..”
#9 2007-11-09 19:19:24
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
So how many of those people do you think the Clown claims as his clients?
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#12 2007-11-09 20:10:33
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
sorry. apologies. I have lost the thread. I do think Mr. Columbia is a kind, gentle, well mannered man. If you read the site for some time you will know about the very sad circumstances of his birth and his semi genteel upbringing. I must have completely misunderstood what you were saying. I agree that the shirtmaker guy is a complete suckup. sorry.
#14 2007-11-09 20:51:13
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
probably right about the questions. and you are right: the site is a guilty pleasure. Vanity Fair in perhaps the original sense of the phrase. But we are all sinners, and I am probably fortunate Mr. Columbia hasn't put my life up for public exposure. Many of those ladies are brave indeed.
On the other other hand, if Deborah Bancroft get's divorced and wants to know my phone number............
#15 2007-11-09 22:20:56
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
This is the "hot" NY social site of the moment:
https://parkavenuepeerage.wordpress.com/
#16 2007-11-09 23:41:03
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#17 2007-11-09 23:42:47
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#19 2007-11-10 16:24:46
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
Tom, there is a Palm Beach equivalent to the NYSD, but I have lost the link. I will make an attempt to re-locate the site.
#22 2007-11-10 18:07:55
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
Ol Chums,
Sounds like a bit of a professional hanger-on to me. Read the second article.
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/socialdiary/2004/07_02_04/socialdiary07_02_04.php
Cheers,
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#23 2007-11-11 01:00:41
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Re: My Guilty Pleasure.
Perusing the majority of the NYSD reminds me of this little ditty here:
http://www.dandyism.net/?p=335#comments
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