Jezebel
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So much nineties today! The latest Page Six Magazine profiles Jane Pratt, a legendary magazine editor whose "unique personality" it describes in a phrase demonstrative of why Page Six Magazine is the only good thing about Sundays, as "a mix of Peter Pan, Carrie Bradshaw and Simone de Beauvoir." She's still not really doing much/oh yeah except that Sirius radio show no one listens to/trying to blame Brandon Holley for ruining Jane even though, hello. But she's gotten less obnoxious, except for in a quote I'm putting after the tag because I refuse to fucking get drawn into this Lori Gottlieb crap on the home page one more time.
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'The Fashionista Diaries': 'Jane' Magazine Folds!
We were left with a big cliffhanger on last night's Fashionista Diaries when Andrew and Rachel received text messages from Bridget (who heard from Cunt Face, who read it on the internet) that Jane magazine was folding. The poor kids were sitting in a conference room eating lunch, blissfully unaware of all the blurry-faced Jane employees (who obvs didn't sign release forms) frantically running around, filling up boxes with their personal effects. We're not completely sure if keeping Andrew and Rachel in the dark was a machination on part of the show's producers, or if it really went down that way. We consulted a former Jane staffer, who said, "That's a tough question because I think it took a lot of people by surprise, genuinely. They could have been off doing some task anyway and not known, but the powers of SoapNet thus far have never ceased to amaze me." BTW, how excited do you think CF was when she found out that she's the one who broke the news of poor Rachel's dashed dreams? More » -
omg affirmation!
The Defendant Will Plead Not Guilty To Negligent Homicide Of 'Jane'
The esteemed writers of the Sassy book have finally eulogized, all gravitas-y and "dying publications are like leaking balloons" and shit, the magazine we once called Jane. Marisa Meltzer and Kara Jesella subscribe, as a lot of Janeeologists have, to the notion that Jane was the casualty of readers' love-hate relationship with it, which we don't really get because, duh, love-hate relationships are sort of the engine of late capitalism. (Or wait, are we the only ones conflicted about refreshing TMZ 69 times a day?) Anyhow, then we came upon this.The sassy youthful readers Jane meant to address are still out there. Some have gravitated to blogs like Feministing and Jezebel...
Wait, Jezebel=us, right? Are we even six weeks old yet? We are so flattered! But we totes do not deserve credit for putting Jane out of its er, sorta fun brand of misery! The credit is allllllll Conde Nast's.
A Woman's Magazine That Tried To Be Otherwise [New York Times]
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r.i.p. jane
'Jane''s Fate Was Written All Over That Shitty Pizza
So what's become of that subscription offer on the Jane website now that Jane is officially dead? An invitation to subscribe to Glamour, a "dorky" reader tips us. How dorky?I am dorky enough to have gone to one of the "dinners with Jane!" things at their offices just when Brandon [Holley] took over.
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prattitude
Jane Pratt Could Maybe Use Some Of Those Drugs Her Baby Went On
Jane Pratt just won't shut up about how actually she really hated Jane after Conde Nast ousted her ass. In fact, she wonders why the whole world didn't just come to a screeching halt the day she left! "I have some questions why they stayed after it became crappy," she said on her ragingly popular satellite radio show of former staffers. Maybe because they had a new boss who actually came to work and was really nice? But she was its MOMMY.I feel like I abandoned that baby and it went off and got on drugs or something.
Um, we just fact-checked this analogy to someone who used to work with Ms. Pratt, who says it almost holds up with some mild tweaks: "It was actually sort of like a baby who could have recovered from its mild case of fetal alcohol syndrome with regular feedings but mommy was an absentee fame whore who eventually got a visit from child-protective services." More » -
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under the covers
'Jane' Magazine Gets Jettisoned: The Meaningless Memos
The internal memo about the demise of Jane Magazine is making the rounds, and we've got a copy. The summary: It was a difficult decision to shut down the magazine, and Conde Nast President/CEO Charles H. Townsend says that his company has come to believe "that the magazine and the website will not fulfill our long-term business expectations." Blah, blah, blah. Translation: "We wasted too much fucking money on Portfolio." Townsend's memo, and a press release, after the jump. More » -
vagina monoblogs
Moe's Date With 'Jane' Magazine's Virginal Dating Blogger Sarah DiMuro
Last Thursday I had a date with Sarah DiMuro, the 30 year old virgin-on-hiatus from her role as the Jane Magazine 30 year old virgin. We didn't have sex, though she gave me a hug (I think I initiated it) but she's not the kind of girl you really want to hug, not because she isn't warm and genuine, but because she's really fucking skinny — like, sub-100 pounds skinny, and I didn't want to break her with any help from my tremendous heft. Of course, she's also one of those skinny people who will make the flagrantly-false statement "But I'm the same size as you you!", which is the sort of assertion so absurd that anorexics know not to make it. So I'm going with "naturally thin." More » -
end of days
"Jane" Editor To Cut Her Hair Short, Start Nagging
- Jane Magazine's Brandon Holley got hitched. Like two weeks ago! [Gawker]
- Anna Wintour isn't the only one with a grudge against pachyderms: EBay has got it in for them too. [CNN]
- Angelina Jolie says she's going on hiatus. Wee! This might mean that more biological "blobs" are on the way! [USAToday]
- Veronica Mars dies a quiet death tonight. [NeptuneSite]
- The new, no-period birth control pill gets FDA approval; Tambrands weeps. [WSJ]
- Jane Magazine's Brandon Holley got hitched. Like two weeks ago! [Gawker]
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avril lavigne
Anatomy Of A Celebrity Maturation: Avril Lavigne Grows Up, Buys More, Sounds The Same
If there is one thing we are more soooooo sick of than Avril Lavigne giving interviews about how she is soooooo sick of everyone talking about how she is this, like, tomboy in Chuck Taylors and suspenders because she is suuuuuch a feminine grown-up now (and p.s. Mark Jacobs and Proenza whatever and every other cool designer pls send her stuff she is a perfect sample size!!! maybe skinnier!!!) it is probably Gwen Stefani giving interviews to the same effect. Because, like, aren't there enough makeover shows in the world already that we don't need our manufactured pop idols spending valuable studio time disseminating the important message that "maturity" actually equates to "buying clothes you can't afford"?? More »
