Last we heard, the CW was maybe adopting the sure-to-be-amazing Blonde Charity Mafia. Well it has unofficially, officially happened. I put all my research skills to work on this, so I am fairly confident it's true.
Evidence:
None of these sources is Wikipedia, but I'm sure they're reputable nonetheless. I mean, one of them is one of the star's mom.
- Sophie Pyle's mom said so on her blog.
- This lady says KK confirmed it.
- Someone with a profile indicating she works with the 9 News Now Morning's show twittered about it.
New Gossip:
Here's a picture of the lovely ladies, but obviously there were going to have to be some bros. (Have you seen The Hills? Bros are crucial to these shows.) This is all from a recent Late Night Shots (LNS) forum:
- Some guys named "Cord" and "Dent" will fill in the roles of Spencer Pratt/Brody Jenner. (Does anyone have pictures and/or last/real names for them?)
- One LNSer claims Cord will also provide the drama: "...Cord was at Shadow Room on Friday night in the VIP section downing whiskey sours and prairie oysters. With Katherine, Sophie and Cord, this reality show has love triangle written all over it."
Old Under-discussed Gossip:
For the uninitiated, Miss A is some woman on LNS who people used to ask for advice. or maybe she just gave it. She organizes charity events, and is someone "to know" in "the scene", and she has some things to say about/to the Blonde Charity Mafia. Mostly, she seems peeved that she wasn't approached for the show.
Miss A reports she came up with the name "Blonde Charity Mafia" during the run-up to some sort of blondes vs. brunettes charity football game (websites: taking flyers to a whole new level):
"So I said, “We’re like the Blonde Charity Mafia, or something. Where are all the brunettes? What are they doing?” We all laughed, and it got to be sort of an inside joke, and a name for this group of girls. Since we were all girls, it made no sense for there to be a “Godfather” like you have in real mafias, so since I was the oldest and the leader, I became the “Godmother” or to girly it up a bit “The Fairy Godmother”.
Girly it up, gay it up, whichever. There is also little snark:
"Many of the girls [Katherine Kennedy] later refers to as having been in the Blonde Charity Mafia were not in the group…at least by my standards, as they did little if any charity work. In my mind, attending parties which happen to be for charity isn’t real charity work."
And a lot of whining about when the show was first brought to her attention:
"I was completely taken aback and overwhelmed by all this information, especially since it was coming to me on what was a huge day for me. I was completely stressed out with all the responsibility of managing an 1,000 person fundraiser."
Anyway, what I most hope is true is her claim that Keri Ann Meslar and Rebecca Heslin are going to write "the book behind the tv show". This is more than I ever could have hoped for.
Cannot.Wait.
Oh, and here are some photos from "the set".
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God loves a cheerful giver.
Not hot.
definitely not hot.
Chip Dent: http://www.washingtonlife.com/directories/photos/?letter=C&name=Chip-Dent
The aforementioned "Dent"
Expect to see lots of him:
the Bachelor is always trying to scam KK and he kills for the media attention.
I couldn't make the second link work, but I do love that the first guy is 60.
oh wait, here we are:
I just vomited in my mouth a little.
You'd be even more sick if you know all the 20-something georgetown girls he has slept with..... I can think of over 25 off the top of my head....
Mary, is the Bachelor the same as Cord, or is he a third dude?
Cord? Perhaps this highly publicized LNS inside joke?
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=34202
ooo! LNS inside joke is promising. although the idea that all of these girls/women sleep with guys their fathers' ages is also promising.
can't lose either way.
Cord is separate from the Bachelor (Andy....something). I've never really hung out with him and he's not a "LNS heavy hitter" (groan...) that girls are trying to get with. Don't know of him hooking up with anyone. He's sort of just there.
OK what's the deal with this and Washingtonienne? Are these shows ever gonna come on the air?
PS
I've been proposing this for a while, but would anyone be down for a tight-pants scarecrow invasion of Georgetown? Let's pick a nice night, rock a cab over to M Street and just cruise from bar to bar in search of trouble.
Drainpipe jeans, obnoxious t-shirts and bad attitudes are a must. If they try to refuse entry, just be like "Son, I'm on LNS"
PPS I'm 100% serious. I'm in the mood to wind people up.
Patrick: 100% Yes. Except I was thinking of dressing up in Luckys and boots and armani shirts and sunglasses and out-douchebagging the LNS D-boxes and getting embedded covert photographers to take pictures of us stealing their womenfolk.
Email me if your interested.
I'm a little upset by fake blonds in general, but when I glanced back at the top of the post I found myself mesmerized by the eagle animation. Now all I'm left with is a vague and unsettling feeling of displeasure.
Patrick, I've thought about that 'fight-night-in-Georgetown-against-the-evil-upper-crust' but every possible scenario ends up with terrible odds against the instigators. I am more a speaker of indelicacies than a wearer of stovepipe jeans, though, so maybe it's just a question of approach.
The Citypaper piece about Smith Point in Georgetown and Late(last?) Night('s?) Shots had me a little riled up for a little bit too but isn't it good that all of those people hang out in Georgetown rather than pockets all over the city?
Pedro I think you might just have the game to pull that off.
So basically, I'm gonna have to be a Rough Rider and pull off the Big Game Hunt on the solo dolo.
Andrea Rodgers or Miss A as the moniker goes is actually legit. She's on the Organizing committee for Hands on DC which does real grunt work type volunteering not just the expected fluff like champagne drinking.
I am sure she does do legitimate charity work...
Oh, Patrick, you won't be the only one wearing hoodies and sneakers at the Rookery or Smith Point. I do it all the time among the sea of khakis and polos and blue blazers.
I would think that these "socialites" could afford something better than hair dye from the local CVS
oh look, LNS noticed:
"Hipsters crave the LNS scene because they crave the power. Everyone on that site wants to be able to get into any/every georgetown bar.... Honestly, we have real men and hot chics.....they have??????................Hmmm.......still drawing blanks......."
Cord and Dent are "false rumors". apparently.
1: I can get into any and every Georgetown bar, I just choose not to because of the fakery.
2: I think we should have a man-off. They put their best forward and we put ours. For my part I can drink more whiskey, chop more wood, rebuild more motors, quote more Shakespeare, speak more Latin and realize that a Polo shirt does not automatically equal style. I'm also incredibly humble. What do they have? Not grammar at least.
we have gay 80's dude!
you're an LNS member, becca?
I know someone else on this site who is, but I'm not telling.
more replies for those without LNS accounts:
Posted By: ... on 01-08-2009 01:14 pm
a rapist's wit and keen sense of irony.
Posted By: cale on 01-08-2009 01:17 pm
...pretentious noise rock?
Posted By: Clive Driscoll on 01-08-2009 01:18 pm
"Hilarious", your post reminded me of the comment posted under the City Paper article that said the WCP readers hate us for the same reason the terrorists hate us.
Posted By: hmmm.... on 01-08-2009 01:23 pm
you'd be surprised how many trust fund hipsters there are with daddy's more powerful than yours hilarious.
Posted By: hmmm.... on 01-08-2009 01:32 pm
it's just funny that they act all indie but they buy their drugs and sparks with daddy's money- they're "just like us".
don't they know the sad news that Sparks is DEAD?!! so insensitive.
Miss A is lying under silk sheets in her king-sized bed as the sun begins to penetrate through the curtains on a cold morning in late October. She's wearing a leopard skin chemise, lying on her side with one hand on her stomach and the other behind her head. The silhouette of her body under the sheets is enough to give a coma patient a formidable semi. The squirting of a bidet can be heard from the master bathroom. It turns on and off several times, squirting out strong doses of chlorinated water into the nether regions of an as-of-yet unidentified gentleman caller. The alarm clock, sitting on the table next to a pile of literotica, sounds just as Tony Cord emerges from the bathroom in his Vineyard Vines jockstrap. He pleads for just a few more minutes of aggressive spooning, but Miss A declines the offer, instead choosing to get her day started and focus on the meeting she has with a client in which she will attempt to convince him not to use his grandmother's ring, but instead to purchase a custom-made blood diamond. Disgruntled, Cord quickly slips into his gray three piece suit, places his toupee and angrily leaves the penthouse suite, venturing outside for another day of dealmaking, moving and shaking. As Cord peels off in his Maserati, the credits roll and the show's theme song, Tom's Diner, begins to play.
eddie, next time you come into the bar, gimme your email address, and you can also be a member of LNS.
LNS is a real hoot. Always good for a laugh when I'm feeling a bit low at work.
How does one act "indie" anwyay?
Here's a fun trick we used to do at the preppie bars back home. It's called "Wyatting"* We wouldn't choose stuff that was terribly abraisive, but can you imagine the look on the Khaki and blazer crowd when "100%" by Sonic Youth or "Glider" by My Bloody Valentine comes on the jukebox? Oh my God, one time I put on "Glider' and it got so loud that the bartender switched songs, only to have GWAR come up next in the queue!!!
Wyatting (Definition courtesy of Urban Dictionary):
Very recently the practice of deliberately selecting annoying or extreme music on an mp3 jukebox to cause irritation to others has become known as Wyatting. This is a reference to prog/artrock musician Robert Wyatt and his 'Dondestan' album, typical of the kind of record a Wyatter would choose. It is generally agreed that the most effective music for Wyatting is that of US avant-garde quasi-operatic vocalist Diamanda Galas. Other common choices include the most well known exponents of free-jazz, improv/noise music and euro-prog-metal, though the latter is chosen because it is considered naff, uncool and embarassing, not because it has the effect normally required of music regarded as good for Wyatting.
Why the hate...seriously? I don't understand why a bunch of adults who I would assume have their own lives and their own friends and stuff going on are busy attacking "preppies" and "hipsters" online. Am I missing something?
Linda, because the grass has been cut and the laundry folded already.
Plus it's cold outside.
chad, i would have my membership revoked immediately. lack of self-control and all.
I would like to propose that one of those anti-LNS folks actually join the site, read/contribute regularly, and then after 30 days (a'la the tv show) report back as to whether it is really as bad as everyone makes it out to be.
I'm going to hazard a guess that whomever will take me up on this offer will report back that it isn't. Seriously, it's just funny, tongue-in-cheek stuff. Just people making jokes, trying to pass the workday. Some of said jokes can be off-color, but it's 2009. What comedy isn't off=color?
I mean yes, there are some douchebags on the site, but aren't there some douchebags who aren't LNS members as well? And douchebags who don't dress themselves to any particular sterotype? The world is FULL of douchebags. And, a secret: not everyone who wears a Polo shirt is a shithead.
Linda, darling. Did you make the same proposition on LNS? Did you say "I think one of you anti-BYT folks...blah blah blah?"
Also: I can think of a few people on here who regularly contribute here who are members of LNS, and a few more who read here who are members there.
linda, it's "whoever" not "whomever".
P.S. "Not it." I went to Hampden-Sydney College. I know what the guys are like. I bedded the Sweet Briar, Hollins, and Randy-Mac girls. I know what they're like.
You think I'd want to interact with them now that I'm not confined by a campus and textbooks? No thank you.
Michael, would these Sweet Briar, Hollins, and Randy-Mac girls ever come back for a second round after waking up full of regret at the sight of your Death Cab for Cutie posters, eyeliner/emo makeup, striped socks, and Fall Out Boy CDs?
Those poor girls.
There are schools for boys like you, you should have gone to VCU or something
Tony Cord is almost 50 and does not even know these girls. He is just one of those guys that goes to every single event to network. Chip Dent parties in Georgetown like he is 24 but no one is romantically involved with him. Katherine and Krista's charity work does not extend past lending their names to host committee lists to help sell tickets for fundraisers. Miss A does the same. This is an action taken to self promote in a non obvious way. Miss A also donates her time. Very nice of her since she has nothing else to do all day. But I guess none of them do since none of them have jobs. I can't say I wouldnt want to be in a position where I could work on charity projects all day and go to charity events all night because I didnt have any real responsibilities to take care of or bills to pay. Should make for a boring show because none of them is stupid enough to let their real drama be caught on camera. The book will be better. The real dirt.
1: Don't like that band, never have.
2. I stopped wearing eyeliner like, uh, forever ago.
Three. Don't have any of those.
4. Don't like that band either.
Seriously, pay some fucking attention if you're going to make commentary. I already challenged your boys to a motor building, whiskey drinking, motorcycle racing, latin speaking, shakespeare quoting, log chopping, dick sizing MAN OFF. Does it sound like I listen to some gay assed shit like Death Cab? (you can go quote that over there too)
(Belle and Sebastian is as gay as I go on a regular basis, unless I'm feeling nostalgic in which case I'll hip-out to Erasure)
I'd volunteer to join LNS linda but I'm pretty sure they'd kick me off for posting too many sonnets about Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Either that or I'd be transformed into a hot popular prom queen like in John Tucker Must Die (2006) starring Brittany Snow and the effervescent Jesse Metcalfe!
(More fun lifted from the LNS forum):
A side by side comparison for the purposes of social scene edification.....
Where BYT/LNS hold hands----
Drug of Choice: Coke
Bar preferences: Sweaty dance floors-- cheap drinks
Favorite music: 80's throwbacks
Free time obsession: social scene focused website
Website traffic and popularity amongst said scene: probably relatively equal daily stats
Favorite Bars:
LNS: any place list only and thus pretentious, frequently out of the way (Rook, L2)
BYT: underground pretentiously unpretentious in-the-know out of the way bars
Where they will never mix----
Clothing staples:
LNS: pearls, khakis, sailing inspired gear
BYT: concert shirts, skinny jeans, "kicks"
Politics:
LNS: more republican than the Bushes
BYT: we don't think gay rights/abortion laws/gun control policies are going far enough liberals
Pillars of the Scene:
LNS: anyone with less than 1000 user number or lots of money
BYT: Svetlana and the people who run the website, a mishmash of DJs, photogs and musicians
In this case, I think we are all just two sides of the same coin, filthy and cracked as it may be.
not at all wrong...
except I know several people who own "sailing inspired gear".
how could that have been "lifted from the LNS forum"? it says "we" after BYT.
Eddie
My bust, I shoulda put the whole thing in quotes or italics. The person who wrote this entry feels that "In this case, I think we are all just two sides of the same coin, filthy and cracked as it may be."
And let it be known that Brock Boss was wearing boat shoes long before it was fashionable.
Just got my invitation. See you bammas on the darkside.
lolll when you view a chick's profile you can "Brush Up Against" them. Frat boy dating 2.0 at last. I can't find the roofie button though, maybe that's only for second level vagina wizards?
But I can't hate, I am sincerely jealous of these guys--they get to dress up like sailors every night and my Yacht Rock revolution never took off.
for the record, I never joined because when it came to filling out "where you are from" being from anywhere that is NOT america was not an option.
I have good friends on both sides of the preppie/hipster divide... and I have to agree that at the end of the day, we're all pretty much the same, although the music at the BYT venues is so much better than the music at the LNS venues.
So please don't yell at me for being "out of uniform" when I wear khakis at the Cat (which has seriously happened).
um... i'm fairly certain that the majority of people on byt have lns accounts. i'm not one of them, but i know a lot who are. just saying.
jesus am i the only person who went to georgetown and didn't get an LNS account?
"for the record, I never joined because when it came to filling out “where you are from” being from anywhere that is NOT america was not an option."
A compelling effort at race baiting, but the "Hometown" option in the signup is a blank text box.
race baiting is a dirty word(s).
i was literally stating what the facts were when I was first invited to join.
I LISTEN TO VAMPIRE WEEKEND!!!!
(that's a lie, but i'm disappointed they haven't been mentioned yet)
So I just came across this thread today... Before a brief mention on LNS I'd never heard of BYT and it actually seems OK. That said, there is absolutely no way in hell you can outdrink me. If you're up for it, let me know. Give me a call at 518-598-6674 and we can have somebody videotape it and post the highlights on youtube for the BYT and LNS community to see. One drink every 5 minutes and first one to quit, vomit, pass out or die loses?
Mike
oh it is so brung
so, since joining all of two, three days ago, i have become very puzzled as to why any girls would give any of those guys the time of day. everything is about breeding, money and whether or not to dump a girl because she had anal sex with someone else. i just don't get it.
no dying, please!
and no harassing the immigrants. play nice.
Discriminating against immigrants? Ha! You are totally missing the obvious. Why has noone pointed out that they are BLATANTLY discriminating against redheads with their little blondes vs. brunettes battles? It makes me sick to see that absence of multiculturalism going on in this day and age.
Also, Mickey, I am seriously taking you shopping for a unitard pronto, amigo.
i totally respect "mike" above for having balls. i have seen the amount of alcohol michael can handle, and my entire mick family would be proud. few people can saturate their blood with the amount of alcohol that my kinfolk and i can, and michael's tolerance just plain scares me. good luck, other mike. i volunteer to video tape.
edward ignatius loyola o'brien
Awesome. I'm known for being a drunkard. Now if only I can get off my ass and become a Notary Public my life will be complete.
Don't forget: You also need to become a Shriner in order to obtain one of their coveted Fezzes.
are you really a drunkard if alcohol has no affect on you?
I would love to see what LNS is all about. Can someone invite me?
done.
Isn't this obsoleted by RW: DC?
httn. stfu. also, of course not. it is augmented by RW:DC AND Real housewives of DC.
Nope. Boring people make for boring TV.
BCM = Boring people in a boring environment being boring
RW: DC = Central Casting's wet dream in an environment when anyone can be punched at any time + experienced editing
RH o DC = Worth watching just for the reunion show.
I don't trust CW editors to script reality shows as well as I know Bunim-Murray and Bravo can.
In the words of roped, BCM will be so boring that it will make my sleeps fall asleep.
have you seen the Hills? game. set. match.
EXPERIENCED EDITING
don't know what that means, so I couldn't disagree more.