I do love me some Gothamist, but this weekend Opinionist piece, entitled "When Baby Blogs Go Bad," is the funniest thing I've read in ages. Mommy Margaret Harper got an anonymous tip on her blog that someone had been posting photos of her precious progeny on another blog, claiming they—a trashy young lady with a taste for the liquor—was the baby's mom. Only they renamed the kid Dante and put a pic of Harper and her kid up, billing Harper as the grandma. Putting aside the fact that Baby Blogs* are by definition obnoxious exercises in parental narcissism, the writer's sputtering outrage is truly hilarious:
Suddenly, my Manhattan born Park Slope boy was Hispanic and living in trailer conditions somewhere in Florida. His college educated, former school teacher, stay-at-home mom replaced with a party-girl teen who wears shirts that say "Nail Me".
Not Hispanic!!!! Ewwww!!!! The horror! Tee hee. I have to guess the whole thing is a prank by one of Harper's friends who couldn't bear to hear one more story about baby Jonas's astonishing brilliance.
*For those not in the know, these are blogs built by doting parents in order to make public everything from junior's first solid poo to mom's chafing nipples.
Mags also seemed particularly outraged that she was depicted as the grandmother in the faux blog! I was very happy that she also listed her academic credentials -- in case we suspected either of the trailer twins really could ever be mommy to such a brilliant, amazing child as Jonas.
Bwahahaha! How DARE they!
Posted by: jules | March 25, 2007 at 05:02 PM
yeah, i read that and then wondered why she felt the need to tell even more people about the prank.
wouldn't you just shut up about it and quietly try to make it go away?
what is it about people that once a human being comes out of their bodies, they kinda sorta lose their minds?
she had a baby, not a lobotomy.
Posted by: iamnotstarjones | March 26, 2007 at 06:18 AM
Why didn't I take screen shots! They took the fake blog down, damn it!
Posted by: Judy McPissedOff | March 26, 2007 at 09:32 AM
Thank you so much. I would have never stumbled on this site. I have a question for you, Judes. Why no Anthony Bourdain posts? Don't you watch his show anymore?
Posted by: osisbs | March 28, 2007 at 10:39 AM
Funny you should ask, Osisbs. . . I was discussing Bourdain with my friend Julie recently and I shared that I'm kind of sick of his macho, cool-guy posturing. Though this quote offa Gawker about him cracked me up:
'It's also not going well when you notice your boyfriend of several months- a well-known TV personality- can only get off if he's having sex with you from behind while watching himself on TV...' ----Paula Froelich
Yuck!
Posted by: Judy McSickofHim | March 28, 2007 at 11:41 AM
Baby blogs are yet another reason why China and North Korea should invade the US and set up lots and lots of "re-education" camps.
And I'm greatly disappointed that Gothamist gave this looney the forum to whine.
Posted by: Zero Population Growth NOW!!! | March 28, 2007 at 02:14 PM
Mommy Margaret finally got a clue and put a pass word on her blog - ha! what a doiuche!
Posted by: The Rev. | April 01, 2007 at 12:31 AM