We are sick and tired of local bloggers claiming that they “crashed” one of the many media-focused launch parties that happen all over this town every month. Case in point, Kathryn and Circle V (we love them both, of course) go to painful lengths today to explain how they miraculously “crashed” the Examiner’s Yeas and Nays official launch party last night (after Jessica Cutler whored off her invite to V).
And then, surprise, it’s not a Blogger Happy Hour, but a real media event, so they didn’t know most of the people there (besides our new faves, Brunch Bird and her hubby). Thus, they ended up hanging out with Express’ Mike Grass and Wonkette’s Alex Pareene. Yawn. Been there, done that.
Gals, maybe you should be asking why the event was held at the oh-so-stuffy University Club (definitely not our idea of a young, fun gossip venue) instead of somewhere hip, like Lima, Topaz, Science Club, or anywhere else, for that matter. We know that Patrick Gavin and Jeff Dufour, the guests of honor, would not have picked that venue in a million years. But the aging Philip Anschutz (born 1939) and Vivienne “prim and proper” Sosnowski (age unknown), the paper’s head honchos, probably found the establishment to be right up their alley.
Most of the people in attendance that you didn’t know were likely older media establishment types — perhaps the Examiner’s attempt to bring out its “green book” list, in celebration of Gavin and Dufour’s coming out party (no pun intended).
We just hope that the event, complete with wine bottle party gifts, doesn’t signal a desire by the paper’s leadership to guide Yeas & Nays into boredom land. Please note, the column is regularly the number one article on the newspaper’s rapidly improving Web site. (Although, boys, if we told you once, we told ya a hundred times, you gots to be careful that your lead story on your launch party day is actually true — the TomKat retraction today had to dampen your after party glow just a little.)
And, yes, we were invited, but we had a prior engagement.
UPDATE 10/6: Ha. Now Alex Pareene, an invitee, says he “crashed” the party along with Liz Gorman, another invitee. It’s not crashing, if you’re invited.
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