I was just in my Twitter DM history sending out a few messages to some folks about something, and I ended up scrolling all the way to the end.
Fun fact. You can’t delete your private messages on Twitter. Or if you can, I don’t know how to. I creepily noticed that I have two dead people in my IMs.
One is LynnNChicago, where she is chewing me a new asshole for pointing out on her site that she stole a photo from my site. At that time I was using my icon as a watermark, and I made it very faint. It was from Kim Biermann’s wedding. She kept on trying to lie about where she got it and I pointed out it was in fact watermarked and she was caught red-handed. I was very polite in our exchange, despite her theft and subsequent attempts to send some idiot who claimed to be with Kim’s PR team after me. After she died somewhat mysteriously on her 50th birthday… another blogger, who happens to be Jewish who also disliked her and had run ins with her began pandering for her readership. #Klassy
The other dead person in my DMs was John from Johnny the Greek of RHONJ. He was a total sweetheart and always wanted to talk to me on the phone. No funny stuff, his wife would talk to me too. And I DO NOT DO PHONE. But I always took his calls. Sadly, he died in June. Reading our DMs made me sad. He was the definition of gregarious. I feel like he could be mistaken for a media whore, but he was not. He just wanted to be everyone’s friend.
And then I saw the DM from Lisa Vanderpump in December of 2011. I was NO BODY. I had made maybe 50 post if that many. The blog started in November of 2011 and I really owe my success to Nene because someone in her camp leaked that she would be on Glee and I got picked up by CNN, Daily Mail, and Reality Tea. I was still dumb enough to tweet the housewives back then, and LVP was still dumb enough to respond. I have no idea what I said, probably something about her “charity work” and this was her reply. I literally had a TINY FRACTION of views that I have today. Infinitesimally small. And yet she felt the need to tell me how powerful she thinks she is.
Because..I have 200k followers..that’s why,so it spreads the word ..ease off on the bitchy pedal.
8 Dec 2011
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Hmm. “who happens to be Jewish…” The point of mentioning that would be what? I notice no mention of anyone who “happens to be Christian.” Just curious about that comment.
Curious as well, Tamara.
Lynn’s blog was named “I hate Jill Zarin” which could be construed as anti-semetic which she was accused of being I believe.
I don’t know how you read that, but from reading TT for a while now I read that as her stream of consciousness in writing as she frequently tends to do which sometimes omits parts some might find important in favor of conveying the larger picture, so I read that as there may have possibly been some allegations of anti-antisemitism levied, and the mention was an off hand refutation. Of course I do not speak for TT, but that’s how I read that.
The inclusion of the hash tag is also a clue. TT is just sign posting you to the blogger.
My spidey senses tells me it’s a blogger, who is Jewish, writes for a Jewish site, loves a hash tag and blogs about housewives as did Lyn.
Nothing more to it than that.
But I could be completely wrong and just got my foot on the bitchy pedal, but that’s because I am no Angel.
Possibly it was the blogger (Illana ???) from the Jewish Journal. She was around quite a bit back in the day with Lynn N Chicago. But I could be totally wrong
Oh fuck. Stupid PC police swarming inwithout a clue as usual. Hahah.
Thank you. You can always count on TeeCee’s spot on comments!!
Damn, missed your comments! wondered where you had been
I wondered about the rationale behind identifying the blogger as “Jewish” also.
You shouldn’t even have wondered. TT is not anti-Semitic.
I think I know why if it’s the blogger who also writes for the Jewish Journal. Just a way to identify her withiut naming names??
Because the blog is in the Jewish Journal.
She is giving a hint to who the otherbloggger is. ?
I think it’s a clue to the blogger, who could write for a journal, perhaps a Jewish one
Think you have it!
TT , happy holidays
TY for posting this re JTG! I miss him as well ! I wish people really got to know him instead of what was written or said about him. He was one of the most kindest sweetest souls. He was extremely funny and exactly what you said about wanting to be friends w all! He didn’t have a mean bone in his body and was very caring.. Spot. On with the phone calls. He would keep you on phone laughing hysterically for hours! Miss him so much !
The strangest part was I was going to meet him that Monday but he passed Saturday . I was heartbroken as he had been calling me but was I was in hospital so couldn’t talk . I’ve saved his last text to me (Friday might before he died he texted me) he was so worried about me and then I found out! Tragic ! Penny is also a sweetheart as well! So TY TT for posting this!
I really think that maybe Lisa’s assistant tweeted this . It sounds like some young kid who considers them self the protector of all things “Lisa”… just a hunch , but I could be wrong .
I remember Lynn and her death! I probably literally discovered her a week before she died, looking for an online Bravo outlet – I really wanted someone who did love it and didn’t really hate the people (like me), but I thought her butt kissing was a little over the top. (At least here, TT doesn’t rank on me TOO much for being a fan of Heather and Bethenny. 🙂 )
All due respect to the dead. But I enjoyed the fact that she started out as a Jill Zarin hater, and JZ hated her. If Lynn was Jewish, and hated Jill Zarin, the original HW Yenta, that is enough to make a Jewish reference!!!
As for Lisa, just shows why I enjoy watching her but I doubt I would want to hang with her much or work for her ever. Plus her hair is fucking dated. People make fun of Lisa Rinna? what about Vanderpump who is rocking the Annette circa Skippy Peanut Butter 1980?
I so wish I wasn’t like 4,5 years behind. Didn’t discover all this, or know what it was until I watched Wendy Williams at the pharmacy and kinda started putting two and two together. Man wasted years (or perhaps not) 🙂
Lynn was a friend of mine and my family. I loved that yenta. Of course she took the photo. Only difference between me and Lynn is that I would have told you “Yeah I took it, used it, and what are you going to do about it?” But, Lynn didn’t like confrontation. Even when she made a trek to Zarin’s Fabric’s, she hid behind a telephone with a big hat and sunglasses on to avoid running into Jill ! lmaoooo! She laid into Jill on her blog but wasn’t the type to talk shit to a person’s face, like I am. She was sofa king funny, and I don’t think her awesome sense if humor came off that much in her blog. I miss her very much. My Mom misses her more. I wish she was still here, but I may never have ventured over TT’s house if she hadn’t passed away. I came here after we lost her. I do read Ilana’s stuff, but she does’t have “the gift” the way TT does and the way Lynn did, the gift to reach people and make them feel like family. By the way, and I can’t stand Jill Zarin either.
I reached out to Johnny the Greek on Twitter and he and his wife were sweet, I felt bad they got set up. We followed each other on Twitter and when he died I posted a dm to her in condolence. I intuitively felt they were good people, seeing them thru the tv-even if it’s brief!! Nice to hear my intuitions were correct !!
I met Ilana in London for a quick cuppa, she was with her son and I will say he is everything she describes him to be and she was a real nice lady. I think I actually found TT because of her. I still read her posts but I like TTs site more and although I don’t post a lot (drama) I enjoy reading most of the comments as much as the posts.
I had a short twitter conversation with Lisa once but she did it with private messages. She followed me long enough to ask a couple of questions, then ask me to do her a favor, then after the convo was over, she unfollowed me. I don’t know why, but when I check my private messages now, only Lisa half of the convo shows up.
Tamara, thank you! Ease up on the bitch pedal, that is funny!
Spooky.
Generally, I am anti phone, too. But I’m getting better.
What I really can’t stand are movies that have a ringing phone for suspense. Triggers the Hell out of me.
I don’t like the phone, either, Cat. I’m usually doing 15 things at once and someone always wants a phone convo when I absolutely can’t spare the time to try to concentrate on conversing. Then they get mad at me when I’m distracted.
I do not do phone. If I need to call someone, I tell them what I need,what they need to do, then buh bye. 🙂 Don’t have friends, my family (well, black sheep), if my one bff must call, it’s what, okay, buh bye. 🙂
Oh the days of Lynn and I hate Jill Zarin! I read her everyday and loved her writing. I remember the day she died because she never posted and I said to a friend that I was worried because that was so unlike her. Obviously I grow attachments to my bloggers! So now I have weird attachment to Tamara and actually a lot of the regular posters here. I don’t post much since I am not good with words but I am always reading. I don’t remember how I found this site but i am glad I did. ❤️TT
I have a very strong dislike for Ilana and her creepy obsession with LeAnn Rimes is sick. She accuses her of being mentally ill yet blatantly harasses/makes fun of her about it on a daily basis…I’m not sure if she still does this, but it was enough to make me stay far away from Jewish Journal forever.
Lynn was a nutcase. Jill Zarin attacked Lynn because she said Lynn posted her address. I pointed out that Jill’s home address was on Yellow Pages dot com and posted a link and Lynn freaked and banned me from her site.
I used to guest blog for Lynn and she was a shark, but was a super sweet person. She died of a heart attack, nothing mysterious.
I’m trying to figure out what is more ridiculous and annoying, the pearl clutching over mentioning someone’s religion, the people who chime in naming names while at the same time acknowledging I did not wish to name names, or the person who thought it wise and necessary to post anyone’s home address on a website just because it is searchable on the Internet.
This post was because I was amused by LVP’s vigorous scouring of the Internet looking for mentions of her, I should not have made reference to the two blogging bitches at all. My mistake. I should have known that there will always be people that will jump in to let us all know they understood the reference and then explicitly out the person, and clueless people who will start ranting about antisemitism with absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
Please pull the menorah out of your collective asses.
Thanks TT, my gosh. Can’t anyone just read the post and not try to make so much more out of it? Geez.
This makes me crush on you even more. Mwaah to you and Banjo too!
Oh my gosh, is it that time of year again? I’ll pull it out right away! Thanks for the reminder…?
TT, I simply thought that you mentioned religion as a reference because that is a VERY easily identifiable fact with that blogger. No ill intent was meant by you by using it and anyone thinking that you meant anything else needs to lighten up.
Sorry you caused me to go down memory lane so I guess I went on a tangent. I don’t care about LVP. Everything we think we know about her manipulating ways is probably true.
Once you recognize it in her you just can’t see her any way other than contrived.
The world has indeed gone mad. The triggering over anything and everything is ridiculous and has to stop.
Yep, it was the pearl clutching over the mention of religion that was the most ridiculous…
I asked a question. Never accused anyone, including Tamara, of being anti-Semitic. Why such defensiveness over a simple question? You have many Jewish readers, including me, and obviously many of us had the same question. Take it as you will.
For me, it comes across as an accusation under the guise of a question.
Weird. I didn’t see an accusation, at all.
I didn’t see a lot of things that are beginning to become something.
Understandable Cat. Just my personal perception.
No problem. We all have a right to our opinion.
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Who needs a pump when the well runs dry?
Ah, those were the days. I started reading TT when she first started. Stoopid Housewives (remember that one?!) posted about a new blog.
Back then the housewives were so friendly and fan interactive. The nicest housewife to me was actually Daniel from New Jersey.
LynnNChicago blocked me early on for saying that I thought their grievance letter campaign (where they mailed Jill grievance cards for the loss of her fans) was going too far. She may have been a nice person in real life but she completely harassed people online. She sent me a scathing email that I was self righteous and Jill deserved what she got. I was maybe all of 17-18 years old at the time. It was shocking to me at that age that adult women thought it was okay to send people hate mail and show up at their place of business just to be mean.
Lvp dm’d me a couple times. I was sharing with her a fun write up on new blog. She disagreed with a small portion of the blog so she explained why she wouldn’t be sharing it. It seemed a bit defensive but I realized then just how sensitive she is to criticism. But that’s ok, alot of people are. She seems so put together so one wouldn’t think her feathers would be easily ruffled. I think a lot of housewives are. Jacqueline Laurita once sent me a nasty message randomly because I disagreed with associating blk with helping her son’s autism. I didn’t tweet her, just mentioned it in a response to someone. Her message seemed as if it was written by a vengeful teenage girl. I wondered if it was Ashley running her account.
LVP is very sensitive which is fine except for she’s very vengeful. You think as a sensitive person she wouldn’t want to use and drag people through the mud.
OMG Lynn went in! It was a trainwreck and I loved it. LVP has always seemed like a 80’s soap queen to me. xo