PICTURE OF NOT LOVEPUPPY HERE (sorry I don’t care enough to google another one)
The girl formerly known as “Midwest Jess”, and then as What I Wore’s Jessica Schroeder, wannabe model/fashion designer/fatty hater Jessica Quirk, lives in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn. Surrounded by squalor in her depressed ghetto neighborhood in the middle of crack houses and an underground baby selling ring, poor Jess has to endure endless assaults to her delicate midwest senses. Take this entry for example:
I just got home from brunch to see the front tire was stolen off my bike, cutting the breaks in the process.
I hate Park Slope. It’s not just that my tire was yanked, but it’s that I live near a women’s shelter full of obnoxious, loud, obese women who spend all of their EBT cards on chocolate bars and candy. I’ve gone down for my daily coffee many a morning and seen women buying 6 40s, ice cream and bread. I don’t give a shit what people eat, but those EBT cards? That’s a modern way to say food stamps. And those food stamps come from tax dollars, so WHY THE HELL are you buying junk food?
I also live by a bus stop. This is where a lot of the assinine bull shit takes place. A month ago, a man and a women were screaming at each other and cursing (F-word). Adam opened the window and said “This is a family neighborhood, could you take it somewhere else?” The response? “WE”RE WAITING FOR THE F&*^ing BUS! YOU GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!” Really? REALLY? You want me to go somewhere other than my living room while you shout and call each other Effing liars?
New York is grinding me down to a fine dust. It might not be too blow before the blow the hell out of here.
Yeah assholes! This is a family neighborhood! Take your unseemly white trash behavior somewhere else! Jessica didn’t move all the way from Indiana to the Big City, take up the Secret, get a tumblr and successfully snag the husband she was searching for just so you fat welfare trash could offend her by buying beer and yelling at the bus stop.
Don’t you know who she is? She is the What I Wore girl! She is friends with David Karp! RESPECT!
EDIT: Jessica just updated her tumblr post with the following:
*Re: Fact checking. No, I don’t believe EBT cards will purchase alcohol. I’m just trying to paint a picture of the kind of purchases I see made in my local bodega.
WHEW. Here I thought we were talking about how the post in its overall tone was classist and bitchy, I had no idea we were all in a tizzy about that one fact. Carry on then!
EDIT EDIT: And now she has removed all the offensive text, and replaced it with this:
Apologies to anyone who was upset or offended about the previous post in this spot. I’m upset at myself for posting it too.
So…does this mean I can buy some Steel Reserve and twinkies at the store with my ebt tomorrow? Cuz that’s how us poor fatties start our day in Brooklyn.
one time she tweeted about the horrors of encountering street people while dining al fresco. she has since deleted the tweet but someone had emailed it to me (bc i cant look @ her asinine twitter) –
whatiwore: “If you are going to beg, its not really fair or appropriate to do it while people are trying to eat. Thank you.”
pretttttty amazing.
She seems really nice and hardworking until you start paying attention. Then the entitled snotty princess really shines through.
And get fucking real, she can’t leave nyc. Where does she think she can go and continue to do her fashion schtick as a real career? Fort Wayne? Her only real option is to move to what, Paris or something if she plans on making this her lifelong pursuit.
lol, Paris would chew her up and spit her out in 2.5 seconds.
I DESPISE Jessica Schroeder, she is an emotional retard and an entitled spoiled brat who doesn’t even have the decency to be self-aware about it.
You’re probably just jealous.
Totally agree – well said!!! And if anyone is in doubt, please read through her blog “in pursuit of…”. Just shocking!!! (I seriously think that she needs professional/medical help)
Wow. Mary, I’d never seen that blog o’crazy. It is truly nuts.
Time spent chewing gum?
The idea that she would merge WIW with some big fashion magazine?
Serious. Insanity. Abounds.
i spent waaaaaay too much time there. Total train wreck. Could not look away.
shudder.
And everyone kept telling me “She’s so nice! She doesn’t deserve to be on GOMI! You’re just jealous!”
Ok then!
I “followed” (for entertainment) her midwest Jess tumblr before she became all famous. She is definitely CRAZY!
It doesn’t surprise me at all that she would say these things. Go back into her blog archives to 2008 or so, if they’re there. I remember there being many “gems.”
UGH, this girl. I see her entitled posts reblogged occasionally on tumblr and they make my blood boil. She is a waste of space.
This girl is vile. Her blog should be called Bad Midwestern Hick Outfits. Fuck you bitch, welcome to the inner city, if ice-cream gets you through the day whilst you’re living in a shelter with no job so what. Your blog and sensiblilty offends me more. You, Jessica Schroeder are the kind of person that’s killed New York, please leave. And if you knew anything about fashion, you would know that having an EBT card is major 2010 trend.
Ha! ESPECIALLY in Brooklyn.
I am seething but I don’t even want to begin. When I lived in NYC, I worked as a clinical social worker. I did work with the shelter she speaks of, a shelter’s whose location is TOP SECRET for obvious reasons (keep blabbing, Jess. So nice of you!). That shelter does amazing work and has spent years making partnerships with the upper middle class neighborhood dwellers. Since the shelter, itself, has extremely strict rules re: alcohol and regular testing/observation, her attribution of alcohol and shelter is straight up wrong. We are talking about a luxury shelter, as far as shelter go (I’ve been to them ALL…for the most part).
And only bigoted assholes go around looking at what people purchase with EBT cards. You cannot buy alcohol with an EBT card…does she even know that?
and you know why a lot of the “shelter” women are obese? ALL are victims of physical and/or sexual abuse (mostly BOTH). It’s very common for women to self treat with food and also create a sort of protection with fat/weight from the outside world.
She really lacks empathy. What a fucking snot.
Yes on this.
Amen. And if someone comes out of a relationship where she’s been terrorized why the fuck shouldn’t she be able to buy a fucking candy bar. Seriously infuriating.
Haha. Thanks for the love. That photo is NOT me ;)
Google images. Shows how much I care.
LMAO. I <3 you, PP.
I don’t know how these people get anything done, with the Google Alert checking. Hey Jess, please check out my blog called “Love EBT” It contains photos of the most stylish people I’ve found at food pantries.”Haha”
“BP as a corporation is evil. Or whatever.” Riveting!
Brooklyn can get you down. When all you want to do is live in peace, and drunk people are screaming at you for no apparent reason, and some young criminal steals your shit, it makes it hard to grin and bear it. Bitching about it on Tumblr is a better way to vent than just keeping it bottled up and going off on the next homeless drunk who pisses on your doorstep.
But you professional fucktards are obviously above complaining or venting.
As for the shelter women, if you were to give a friend who’s down on her luck a hundred dollars for groceries, and she went out and bought $5 gourmet chocolate bars and candy, then came back next week and asked for another hundred, would you give it to her? Do you understand how taxes work? It’s a broken system for many reasons, mostly because of education. Is it bigoted or “entitled” to point that out?
I have empathy for many of the women there, and I do know that they are all likely victims of abuse. But there are some very bad seeds in that shelter. Women who curse and fight and get drunk on a daily basis, all literally right in front of toddlers and kids playing in front of their homes. These are bad people, and yes bad people do exist. Some are born that way, but most are molded.
All of it is enough to temporarily blind you from the larger percentage of deserving and desperate women being cared for there.
One more thought: Why don’t hater-bloggers use their real names? Fear? Embarrassment?
What do you like to do for fun? Oh I make fun of people on the Internet.
Ahhh. Good luck with that.
Party Pant’s “real” name is all over the internet.
“Why don’t hater-bloggers use their real names?” Asks the dude with Quirk for a screen name.
My name is Adam Quirk.
Party Pants real name may be everywhere, but it is noticeably missing from his/her own site. Coward.
Adam quirk is her fiance.
Investigative journalist in the making.
Gee, maybe because I’m not trying to get my name out there so I can whore for a book deal, Adam. It takes an estimated 20 seconds to find my real name. Why don’t you look it up? Lazy.
Go take a picture of your Park Slope Princess in a space ranger outfit and discuss over organic almost sort of vegan except for the cheese dinner how you just want to live in peace in quiet in Brooklyn.
The book deal came to her, not vice versa, Alice. But my question is still valid, why not put your name on your work?
Why should I? My “work”??? You didn’t care about my “work” until I called your princess out on her classist bullshit. Now you care about my ethics? My “work”. This isn’t my “work” this is a blog. Not everyone regards their blog as their “work”.
I am so sick of this ‘usernames anonymous blahblahlblahalsdfj haters’ bullshit. This is just a pathetic way for people like you and Jessica and the hundreds of other bloggers to dismiss anything said about them that hurts their feewings. It’s telling that this is your route of discrediting my post. Don’t YOU have better things to do? Like maybe telling some homeless people to get a job?
Her personal blog links to this page and vice versa. Her name has appeared on many posts and comments here. What’s your point?
i have a very painful, throbbing boner for party pants now.
Bad people exist, but so do sick people. Addicts are sick, and that includes alcoholics. They need treatment, not demonization.
There’s a debate to be had over how best to help addicts. Knowing hundreds of them myself, I’m an advocate of letting them hit rock bottom as soon as possible. Shelter life is often rock bottom for many people. I have several friends in recovery who live in shelters and are busting their asses to get out. I know a few who are in no rush to leave. Bottom line: I am glad there are shelters where they can be safe while they sort out their lives.
I’m very sympathetic to the anti-tax argument – my views on that are extreme, borderline anarchist. But frankly, I’m more concerned with rampant corporate welfare than battered women getting their lives subsidized by the state as opposed to private donors.
Bottom line: People are dealing with crap that you or I cannot even begin to imagine. That doesn’t give them carte Blanche to act like a-holes, and asking people to pipe down often works if you ask the right way. But if struggling people were the biggest target of my ire, I’d have to wonder what was up with me.
Uh, that’s “carte blanche,” not “Blanche”. Stupid iPhone.
That’s the thing. And it’s a seemingly trite thing to say, there are no easy answers. I’ve been working in the trenches for over 10 years of my life and it’s the truth. I do agree with you, in regards to addicts the quickest way is to simply hit rock bottom (sometimes multiple times).
Thing is, I know this shelter. I wrote successful grants for them, among other things. They are very proactive about their image. I’m sure they are just as disturbed by the rebel rousers. This is a domestic violence shelter that has a sophisticated PR staff (all volunteere) who has worked with them from the beginning to make the community-shelter relationship as cordial as possible. If her post had stuck to mainly a critique of the outside chaos, she may have a point. However, picking on the purchases of EBT card holders and “obese women” is unnecessary. It just lacks empathy and mercy.
I agree. I do have empathy for the majority of these women, and I’m glad that they are able to use the amazing armory building for a good cause (the other half is an awesome YMCA too).
Struggling people aren’t the biggest target of our ire. Living next to a shelter though, I have to assume we see more of them than the average person. The more people of any group you interact with, the more likely you are to have conflicts with that group. That goes for everyone, everywhere, throughout history. So saying that we hate homeless people isn’t really valid, because we just happen to have more interactions with them than other people.
Please, PP, delete that asshole’s last comment which DIVULGES THE SECRET LOCATION OF A WOMAN’S SHELTER. How insensitive and utterly classless (just like your lady friend, I presume).
*women’s, not woman’s. Rage momentarily got the better of me.
Agreed. I am literally ANGRY with RAGE.
Ha. But really.
I can’t control all the a-holes I encounter, so I try to control my own reactions to their behavior. It’s just plain more effective than ranting and expecting them to change. People are a-holes, myself included, this is life.
I do this too. 99% of the time when something bothers me I try to see the world from the other person’s point of view. But there is a balance between accepting that people are assholes, and trying to make changes to decrease assholes’ negative impact on the community. This is why there are speed bumps and crossing guards. There are bad drivers, so society decided to impose limits on driving. It’s one of the ways society makes progress. Another way is taking acid, and another way is Batman.
Well, I’m against speed bumps too, so no wonder we don’t exactly see eye-to-eye.
I live in Stuy Town, which is populated mostly by old people and young families. Recently, some younger people moved into my building and have taken to standing directly outside the front door after 11pm, talking loudly and smoking. The first time I encountered them, I said, “Guys, I know I sound like a total etiquette cop here, but a lot of people probably have their windows open in this weather and your voices carry further than you think. Maybe using the benches would keep people off your cases, especially if their babies are trying to sleep.” They just stared at me and said thanks. I really wanted to rip them a new one – we have dozens of benches within 20 yards of that front door, but they saw nothing wrong with making everyone else walk through their American Spirit fug.
Rude people are everywhere, from every socio-economic background. I try to cut the ones fleeing violent homes a break. I figure they probably didn’t get a very good start in life as it is, which likely isn’t the case for the jerks in my building. But you can’t bitch people into having good manners, as my parents would tell you any day of the week.
Twat, I lived one block away for two years and it shelter didn;t even crack the top thousand things that annoyed me.
SHUT UP. DO NOT CARE. Although I do care that you have divulged the location of the shelter. Asshat.
Seriously? You all but give the names of the women seeking protection there!! Are you THAT clueless?
Wait, I’ll answer that. Yes. You are.
Having lived in a woman’s shelter and had my abuser stalk me to it because of someone being careless with divulging the location, I would like to say a huge FUCK YOU ADAM QUIRK. You are a scummy piece of shit for this comment.
I was listening until I got to your blithe comparison of shelter women to “a friend who’s down on her luck.” Seriously? The willful ignorance is hurting my teeth.
BTW, if you use your entire EBT card of $5 chocolate bars (You can’t…FYI….what you purchase is tightly controlled), you wouldn’t be able to go back in a week and get another $100 on your card. You’d have to wait until the first of the month. Use it or lose it all in a $30 period. Most single women, without mental illness or disability, get around $60-70 a month, if they are lucky.
Go fuck yourself.
If Brooklyn bothers you, leave it. And don’t fucking move to SF either.
Dear Mr. Quirk,
Your girlfriend is a class-A cunt. So are you. A pair of miserable little shits who wouldn’t know hard times for these times if Thomas fucking Gradgrind popped a cap in your ass. Please leave Park Slope, that hideous criminal-ridden slum, and settle in some lily-white expanse of tract mansions much more suited to your non-existent taste and toilet-seat sensibilities. You will be much happier and so will we.
I bask in the fact that the worst person I know would spit twice rather than suffer your company for five minutes.
I rate this post five stars. *****
So do I!!!
I’m AnnaPelt, and I approve this message.
Yes–how long until you move back to Indiana? One of the whitest states in the country. Should be a good fit. You can take the closeted racists classist spoiled guilty farmers market hippies out of the Midwest but…
Since you are apparently Jessica’s spokesperson or whatever, pass this along to her: After reading your weightist, bigoted, and privileged perspective on impoverished women, I do not think I’d touch your “book” if it were handed to me for free with a $100 bill in the jacket. Do you realize that, statistically, 99.9% of women in prison and shelters have a history of abuse, most often, sexual abuse (that means rape, molestation, and incest)? I learned this widely known fact in my Women’s Studies class. (It probably wouldn’t hurt you to take one, considering you revere femininity by way of the 1950s, an era in which women were tragically oppressed by societal expectations.) The lower-income population buys junk food because it is what they can afford. And they do not have the privilege of an education, like you, to understand the components of healthy eating. If you read the news, you would know that this is an epidemic in our country, not just in predominantly white upper-middle-class Park Slope. If you’re so enraged and want to, as your fiance! fiance! fiance! professes, be heroic white people who “affect positive change in society,” I encourage you to donate a portion of the proceeds of your book to a program that provides education in nutrition to disadvantaged women rather than practicing white privileged superiority.
I would love to reach through the computer and kiss you on the mouth right about….now.
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Inner City Pressure. They did move back to New Zealand at the end to be shepards, just saying.
SHOT ON MY STREEEEEEETTTTTT!!!!! YAY!
Some are born that way, but most are molded.
Yes dear, it’s called institutionalized poverty. And yes, your comments are both bigoted and entitled.
Oh, these assholes are soon off on their free honeymoon to Iceland, which they bilked from the internet, along with all their other free shit.
I wonder when all those fat, lazy, chocolate eating, beer drinking, abused women last had a vacation. I suppose if we gave them each a computer with internet, they could become beggars too.
What a fucking douchebag you are, Quirk. Go and baby your shitty bitch of a wife. You two DESERVE each other. You both are a waste of space.
Also, I dislike people who steal, honk their horns for no reason, play their music too loud, or rev their bike engines. I want to punch them all in their throats.
If average city noise common to any large town bothers you two so much then move to Omaha.
So you are against trying to affect positive change? Instead, you suggest giving up in defeat, and moving away from your problems.
If people didn’t play their music too loud, honk their horns, or rev their motorcycle engines, would the average citizen be more or less happy with their daily lives?
What about theft? Is that cool?
You are so right. Next time I want to make some positive change in Brooklyn I will yell out my window and tell people to shut up. I will make a tumblr post highlighting my disgust with their food purchases. I will call women who are at their last resort “obese”.
I will influence positive change by complaining about motorcycle engines, honking horns, and neighbors playing loud music.
You’re right, I’m cured, removing this blog. THANK YOU. Excuse me while I run out and buy The Secret now.
youre using your own frame of reference to create a binary system of what positive and negative change is. youre putting peoples behaviors in a box as bad or good based on nothing but your own observations. there isnt anything logical about your argument because it fails to take into any context of the situation you and your finance chose to move into.
did it ever occur to you that those things dont bother other people, that people have bigger problems in their life like finding a job or food so they dont have the luxury of sitting on the internet and complaining about loud music and stuff?
yeah that stuff is annoying but get off your moral imperialism horse and quit trying to export what you thing is proper conduct of other people and worry about yourselves. quit thinking everyone has the same emotional and intellectual capabilities to make choices you think are “positive”.
jesus go volunteer at that shelter instead of sitting on the internet making judgments about people.
Do you understand how societies operate? Voting? If there weren’t people who were “annoyed” by rape and murder, there wouldn’t be laws against those things either.
Just because something isn’t as important as oil gushers or corporate fraud doesn’t mean it isn’t worth pursuing. There are ways to make life better for everyone, and I try to pursue them in many different ways.
One way is volunteering, you’re right. I volunteer an hour every week teaching people how to edit video and use the Internet. It’s what I know, so I share it.
Also, I have pleasant interactions with most people, am kind, and am a very good tipper. All contributions to the betterment of society.
Haters gonna hate.
“Haters gonna hate” that seems to be the sentence of the day. Get new material, champ.
LOL@ I’m Kind and a Good Tipper.
I’m honest and I tip what’s appropriate. where’s my fucking crown?
I know! “I am kind” no you’re not.
“I am a very good tipper, it contributes to the betterment of society”. Oh yeah ask your waiter how much beer, ice cream and meth he spends your tips on.
“I affect change by volunteering, I teach people how to use tumblr”.
I have to go, I can’t take anymore,
Manners didn’t come by way of legislation. Regulating the social and personal doesn’t work (hello, drug war). Civil rights don’t include the right not to be annoyed.
Why yes, I do understand how societies operate. I also equate the behavior cited above with rape and murder.
You are a twisted little shit.
What positive change are you affecting other than sitting around here divulging the secret location of a women’s shelter? Srsly, I hate you.
What is wrong with you people? Have you never used the Internet before?
Google “park slope armory womens shelter”.
You’re seriously fucked up.
DUUUUUDDDDEEE!!!
Shut. The. Fuck. Up. Already!!!! How can you stand yourself????
You are a pompous ass.
Totally, lol.
You don’t want to do the hard work of fixing society’s problems (believe it or not, tip inflation hasn’t helped end poverty–yet!), but you don’t want the government to do it either?
As someone who doesn’t want to expend the effort myself, I offer a protip: STFU about your “tax dollars” if those are basically the sum of your contribution to humanity. You will seem like less of a douche, even if you aren’t.
you are affecting positive change with your…tumblr?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Please, get real…
Sorry, that is the mesage for Adam Quirk…
youre a fucking dick, please see your way out (it’s the x at the right or left of your tab, depending on your browser).
dont you realize how fucking stupid and dangerous to identify where women’s shelters are?? you are putting those people in serious danger.
i could go on with all the other outrageous and egregiously retarded thoughts you’ve shared with me but i have some candy bars and boxes of franzia to buy before my corner mart closes for the evening.
*shared with us
they dont get it. theyve built up the pretty divide between them and THE OTHERS so they dont understand how it could ever possibly be them on the streets.
its called luck of the womb. not everyone has the equal opportunity to change but neither of these two seem to grasp it.
Very private information, obviously:
http://www.parkslopechurch.com/park-slope-armory-womens-shelter-/
Well seeing as you know all about it, you can pop next door and go and do some volunteer work there. Go Lamb of God, go affect change instead of writing obout it on your tumblr.
These fucking people I swear, I need to go and lie down in the fridge for an hour.
Dear Adam Quark/ Quirk,
You can’t handle this neighborhood. IRL OR online. You are employing the same whiny strategy in both places, opening the window and yelling and whining and bitching. Then you are surprised when people whine yell and bitch right back.
If you have issue with you neighbors, you could go TALK TO THE SHELTER ADMINISTRATION about it like a real GROWN UP. Or VOLUNTEER there to become PART OF THE FABRIC OF THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH YOU LIVE.
Instead of acting like a whiny tourist. But I guess you are actually a tourist in your own neighborhood, just renting to own, seeing yourself as a hunan and everyone else as inhuman, until you can afford to live near and blog near a better class of people?
Uh huh.
Good Luck with that.
Sincerely
14 year Brooklynite
This is/you are ridiculous – huge waste of time and totally pointless talking to you altogether.
Then move to a village high on a mountain. And pray, like really pray, that you don’t ever lose your job, get seriously ill with no health insurance, lose your home and end up living in a shelter. Because people will say you are a bad seed, and crucify you for eating ice-cream.
love that you had to mention your big city law & order moment. please. save it for a campfire story to entertain the townsfolk back in the midwest, shit doesn’t impress anybody here. now, if you’ll excuse me, i have to go try and scrape the echos of a thousand john cougar mellancamp shit stains off the inside of my brain.
OMG Look at Idiot Puppy’s comments on the law and order post
“Your tax dollars at work people! 35% of your income goes to joksters like the MTA and New York City Police officers.”
Yeah and fuck you MTA workers and cops, my precious blogging dollars don’t belong to you people, I needs shoes. I die.
That was where she lost me, she has no idea the work that police officers and MTA workers do BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HARD WORK IS.
In another post she was patting herself on the back for riding in a hybrid and taking the “jokster” subway because she is the solution, not the problem to the oil spill, ya’ll!
I LOVE THE AIRING OF THE GRIEVANCES!
I dislike people who deep throat their own self importance, they vomit their smug all over the internet.
I dislike vapid, conceited princesses, who take pictures of themselves in crappy clothing in order to mask that they are anything but a vapid twat with a camera and a domain.
I dislike people who read the Secret and then saddle it up like fucking High Ho Silver and regurgitate its bullshit all over their web page, instead of taking a leap into self awareness and realize that it’s a bunch of poppycock. (because the downtrodden of the world are there because they need an attitude adjustment!)
I dislike people who think their dietary choices are of such importance, they cannot stop blathering about it on the net, never once identifying the irony that lies in the fact that 85% of their outfit was constructed in sweat shops in third world countries.
I dislike people who move to the city, do stupid shit like leave their bike out where other people can get to it, then complain when their shit is stolen. Complain about the noise, the diversity, the little nuances that make living in the city, living in the city. GO BACK TO INDIANA.
I dislike bigots and classists, but I really dislike when bigots and classists try to make excuses for their bigoted and classist behavior.
I dislike people who put catsup on their eggs.
I dislike people who spell catsup as “ketchup”.
I dislike life coaches.
I dislike people who try to “school” another group of adults about how the government works, when it is obvious to everyone else that said person is an idiot.
I dislike spineless women who cannot fight their own fights and who will never have half of the strength and courage of the women in the neighboring shelters who try to find a little comfort by way of chocolate. If this “woman” (using the term loosely, because from what I can see, she is merely an entitled, petulant child) had to walk a block in the shoes of the women she so callously demeans, she would shrivel up and die.
“I dislike spineless women who cannot fight their own fights and who will never have half of the strength and courage of the women in the neighboring shelters who try to find a little comfort by way of chocolate. If this “woman” (using the term loosely, because from what I can see, she is merely an entitled, petulant child) had to walk a block in the shoes of the women she so callously demeans, she would shrivel up and die.”
APPLAUSE!
i think it speaks volumes about the subject in question that her ill fated future ex husband has to step in and speak for her because she is too much of an inarticulate, ignorant moron to say anything other than “ew, icky homeless people, please get them off the sidewalk, i’m about to take 18 photos of my brand new new head to toe co-opted by mall of america outfit!”
by the way, i wonder what her sponsors would have to say about comments like these?
i mean, case in point, she comes on here and all she comments on is that the picture you used isnt of her. *blink*
yes! come defend your own post; quirky didn’t write it. or, hide because you don’t know why in the world the things you posted could be offensive to anyone (except fat people but really….they ask for it, AMIRITE!)
Seriously who over the age of 17 has their man come defend them over some tiny blog’s post?
Oh right, the same kind of princess who can’t handle negative comments because they make her cry.
Yes, shouldn’t she be discussing her dissatisfaction with her living conditions with her husband, rather than blaming her neighborhood for being her neighborhood? Did they not know the shelter was there before they moved in, or were they so entranced by the name Park Slope that they neglected to consider the particulars of their block?
Sounds like she needs a bigger income to be happy. C’est la vie, Passive-Aggressive Puppy.
I think it’s ridiculous to expect people with EBT cards to live ascetic lifestyles, because it suggests that they’re bad people who deserve punishment. If I were ever in a position where I qualified for food stamps, it would probably be a pretty gloomy period of my life, so I would probably indulge in ice cream and bread, at the least!
This whole classist rant was so gross, because the disturbance caused to Jessica by the bus stop noise is insignificant compared to the HELL endured by those people everyday. Hey battered women, could you please buy your gross bread someplace else? It’s an eye sore to my Sex and the City fantasy.
I get part of what she is saying, that she is pissed her tax money goes to people who, instead of buying nutritious food and necessities, purchase things like ice cream sandwiches and beer. The problem is it’s not her place to judge these people and their depressed, hard luck behavior.
There are very few people who are at their finest behavior when their life consists of a homeless shelter, govt assistance, and waiting for a bus because they can’t afford a 300 dollar bike. Sometimes they are going to eat processed shit and drink beer to deal with it. We will post signs to inform them to beg your pardon next time they run into you, dearie.
And hey, I understand that loud music, horn honking, and engine revving is disrespectful. But it’s part of living in an area where 8 million people are crammed on top of each other. Yelling out the window and “venting” on tumblr with the type of language Jessica used isn’t just healthy complaining, it is just as insensitive to these other people as playing Pavement at blast volume at 2am.
This isn’t you two trying to “affect positive change”. It’s you two being a couple of entitled assholes expecting the entire world to adjust to your needs. Get over yourselves.
Exactly, this sums it up perfectly. I’m just baffled that she’s so horrified by PARK SLOPE of all places. Come on, princess.
Perfectly said, PP, and j’adore you for telling it like it so is.
It’s also the link between poverty and obesity and health. You can buy ice-cream bars and chips for 25c in a bodega. In Whole Wages, 25c would only get you half a yoghurt coated raisin.
Exactly. You go to Whole Foods with your EBT, not only do you get the side-eye, but you can’t buy anything. Junk food is cheap, energy dense, and won’t spoil. Also, you have zero ‘funemployed’ BK friends who are collecting unemployment and spending on whatever they please? Do you ask them where their drink money is coming from?
Actually, you’re right on. They’re this pretty basic psych thought called “The Hierarchy of Need”, which probably isn’t required to get a prestigious fashion merchandising degree (how that takes four years I’ll never know) from the OMG IU. Basically, where you can’t really take on self-improvement until you’re done with a) food, water, pooing, sleeping THEN, if you’re lucky b) security financial/family/personal safety (and living in a homeless doesn’t secure this concern).
So, expecting people who are trying to put a roof over their head AND go on an OMG voyage of self-improvement/discovery is incredibly selfish and out of touch. But, if you’ve been raised to never actually secure anything for yourself except for shills then yeah, I guess you’d have no clue.
*there
I’m too effing mad to write well. So I guess Jessica Schroeder blogs angry a lot.
These people (Jessica and Adam) sound like spoiled little brats. Park Slope is a very nice neighborhood (I believe it was the #1 neighborhood to live in in New York magazine’s latest poll) and lots of people would love to live there. I mean seriously, SERIOUSLY, if you cannot handle fucking PARK SLOPE, you need to get out of the city. Might I suggest Connecticut?
Seriously. It’s Park Slope. Where the #1 complaint is “too many strollers”. When Princess and her Prince move to East New York, then I might have some sympathy.
Yup, #1 Most Livable Neighborhood in New York – http://nymag.com/realestate/neighborhoods/2010/65374/index1.html. Granted, NY Mag isn’t the gold standard, but still. Nut up, kids.
I lived off of Classon and Lexington in the Bed Stuy/Clinton Hill area previously. A kid got beaten into a coma on my street, one guy was shot in my intersection, another around the block, and there was gunfire at least once a month, but it was still quieter than our current residence, mostly because I lived on one of the rare non-through streets. Moving to Park Slope was a choice we made, mainly to get away from the violence.
Looking back, it was not a great decision to move to this specific location, mainly because of the drunken screaming and the bus stop. It’s noisy, and we both work from home most of the time. Makes it hard to concentrate on an audio edit when buses and cars are honking, or some drunk lady is screaming profanity at a toddler. We’re planning on moving.
don’t move anywhere there are OTHER PEOPLE. you won’t get on.
Seriously. Better move to rural Maine where you won’t have to be exposed to OTHER PEOPLE and THEIR NOISE.
Christ why do they even live in NY?
These two will be living in a gated community within two years and we know that nothing bad ever happens in those places!
Ha. Yes. I got robbed in a home invasion robbery a few years ago. He threw a paving stone through the sliding glass door, came to find me in the bathtub, pulled me out by my neck and stole my wallet.
He’d climbed the wall of the ‘gated community’.
I now live near the tracks right on the border of what used to be a very bad area of town they’re slowly rehabilitating. No problems, no paving blocks through the window, worst thing that’s happened is someone else’s car getting broken into.
Holy shit. What a nightmare! :(
If you can’t deal with cars honking and people yelling, you should really move out of NYC. I say this without snark, but you really don’t seem built for city life. Just try to look at that post and think about where you admittedly chose to live and think about all the niceties of Park Slope (and there are many) and then try to understand why people are shitting on you. I understand the noise can be annoying and I’ve certainly been annoyed by it many times, but it’s NYC. You know coming in to this city that you’re going to live amongst noise. You’re privileged to live in Park Slope at all, it’s a hot commodity. So to create a post that basically hates on the residents (of Park Slope. Park Slope!!) that are either living in a shelter or probably about to get priced out of the neighborhood because they’re fat and/or loud… yeah. You guys sound like dicks and I cannot understand how you don’t see that.
Yeah I definitely see that. I would likely have the exact same reaction if I hadn’t experienced the author’s frustration first hand.
You know what else is frustrating?
Living in a shelter and eating on 75 dollars a month worth of your tax money. I can’t wait for you to experience THAT frustration first hand.
No actually, if I was in a store with a friend and they were judging food stamp purchases and their first reaction was “I’m paying for that, how dare they, they should be ashamed of themselves!” I’d start to reconsider my perception of my friend.
People have bad days, the bike, that sucks. But to constantly look around, from a very priveleged vantage, and without any true insights to the context and question how people use their time and waste energy or resources, that’s an insecurity and level of judgment is just sad.
I think some audio editors use headphones? You should try it.
I speak for Indiana, we do not want her back..
i think what they both need is a holiday in cambodia
<3 twyla
Where they can kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor(s).
EVERYWHERE in NYC has its risks. EVERYBODY has a “OMG mugging/shooting/drug bust happened outside my apartment” story. Sad as it is, it’s something you have to accept if you’re going to live here because, 99% of the time, the pros outweigh the cons. Move to Boston, move to Chicago, hell, move to Pittsburgh so JDawg can at least asskiss ModCloth in person. Good Lord.
The pros do outweigh the cons most of the time. But sometimes New York just wins.
Boo fucking hoo, you silly cunt. Sometimes one of the largest cities in the cucking Western world is tough to deal with. Let me rub a hanky deep into my asshole and offer it to your tear-streaked eyes.
You are trash. Please go away. Go away now.
Jesus, is this how most of feel about Julia Allison?
Pretty much. Although right now she’s being out-unclassed, the organic bread scum of the earth community keeps growing.
You cannot purchase alcohol or tobacco with EBT cards. So the quirks are liars. And elitists. And Park Slope makes me want to slit my wrists.
SO. MANY. ENTITLED. WHITE. PEOPLE.
In defense ofPark Slope, it is quite diverse, host to a wonderful culture of family-owned businesses and has marvelous architecture. There are the delights of Prospect Park and a host of cultural venues, many well under the radr, to choose from. I blame that bitch who wrote “Prospect Park West” for trying to be the Candice Bushnell of Brooklyn and for capitalizing on a stereotype that actually has little basis in real life. A stereotype Quark has bought into.
Repeating my comment from the other thread: I’m constantly amazed that people who are so fucking privileged can’t have one ounce of sympathy or understanding for people who aren’t similarly privileged.
Seriously, it sucks to have something stolen from you, I get that; but it’s hard to feel sympathy for someone who begins a post with “I was coming back from brunch…” and in the same breath criticizes people who are in far worse shape economically, and probably mentally. Yeah, it sucks that your tire got stolen, but you can probably afford another one. It sucks that it’s noisy, but you can probably find ways to soundproof your apartment. Sometimes it’s hard to live in New York, but if you can even contemplate moving, then you’re probably in a pretty good financial and emotional situation.
These problems are NOTHING compared to the ones faced by the “obnoxious, loud, obese” women who are poor and probably victims of abuse. It’s fine to be upset about the annoying crap that happens in New York, but get some fucking perspective.
Oh, the best part is that it started with “I was coming back from brunch…” How does a person even write that without picking up on the irony?
I’ve been saying “I was coming back from brunch…” and “Brooklyn can get you down” all day.
Adam and Jess…don’t ever change.
Seriously, PP, watch out! Brooklyn! It can get you down!
BROOKLYN CAN GET YOU DOWN.
This is crying out to be printed on a T-shirt. We can send it as a wedding present to the ineffably charming Mr and Mrs Quirk Puppies.
Yeah, everyone gets to a point in their lives where they’re tired of putting up with at least some of the shittier aspects urban life. Some people incorporate that frustration into their personalities, some rationalize it against the pros of city living, and some romanticize it. Some just don’t deal with it and GTFO. The thing that’s so annoying about Fashie Blogger up there is that she sells herself as this urban ideal. She coopts the city for her benefit and she doesn’t even understand it. Even if she leaves, the stupidity and smallmindedness displayed above will remain tenfold in the form of little LovePuppy clones.
There’s so much more to most American cities–especially New York–than OMG clothes and brunch and a likeminded group of creative layabouts. And it’s not gonna bow down to some white-bread twat in Park Slope. Crawl out of your fucking lovenest and rent a workspace in a writers’ community if you can’t get shit done at home. That IS why writers like living in cities, right? Or am I confusing bloggers with actual artists?
PS Lock your front wheel, cuntnugget. Everyone knows that shit’s the easiest thing to steal off a bike.
Don’t you get it? SHE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO. She shouldn’t have to rent a workspace. She shouldn’t have to chain her wheels. She is whatiwore.com and she lives in PARK SLOPE, and shouldn’t have to deal with this sort of thing by god!
I’m surprised they haven’t thrown out the “We don’t pay rent here so you can stand outside and be loud or play music or honk your horn you welfare trash. WE live here, catch the bus on another street!”
#1-That shelter has been there for quite some time, and they recently put a YMCA in there as well that a shit ton of people in the area use.
#2-That bus was also there for a good while as well! It’s plain common sense to scope out the area before you move there! Duh girl.
#3-Also, EVERYONE knows you need to lock up both of your tires so people don’t steal them.
God how I wish I would run across the 2 of them taking her pics in her clown clothes so I could photobomb the shit out of it.
Wow! Women dared to be obese in front of Her Royal Highness! She doesn’t like that some of them may deal with the pain of abuse and homelessness by overeating. I guess they should try to stretch an EBT card to buy expensive vegan food and yoga their problems away!
She likes to make blanket assumptions about people. Ok! This is a girl who has built a living off of taking numerous pictures of her daily outfit and never showing the back of her ensemble. Now if I liked to make assumptions about people, I would assume that Jessica has issues with the size of her ass, since I don’t do that, I’ll just leave it there.
Jessica didn’t send me here, I just noticed she was reading it over her shoulder then found the site myself. I assume she isn’t commenting here because she is used to this sort of negativity and doesn’t waste her time validating it with her comments.
The white entitlement argument doesn’t make any sense. Because someone is white and has a job, they are not allowed to have opinions?
I’ve said all I can at this point. Best of luck to all of you. Progressive society has a long way to go, and arguing on the Internet surely is one of the best ways to hasten its development.
And best of luck to you too. Remember, middle-class white people end up in shelters and on food stamps too! They also get sick, develop addictions and psychiatric problems. And should you develop say, Alzheimers in later life, Love Puppy will obviously be a great carer for you, being the queen of human kindness as she is. I truly hope she doesn’t mind her pitiful blogging tax dollars being wasted on nurses and carers wages too.
I actually like What I Wore, and didn’t have an issue with Jessica before seeing this post. But the post referenced here bugged me because it shows an astoundingly negative, unlikable side of her.
Like I said upthread, yes, it sucks that there’s noise, and that things get stolen, and whatnot; but her post shows absolutely no sympathy for people who are less fortunate than she. Referring to women who are living in poverty and who have very serious mental/emotional issues as “obnoxious, loud and obese” is terribly offensive (why does their size matter? seriously?), and it shows a real lack of empathy. And I think it’s especially galling considering the relative comfort in life that Jessica portrays on her blog; I’m not saying that she should be vilified for that, but there’s absolutely no perspective here, and seemingly no consideration the fact that these women who offend her so are in a far worse situation.
This is what pisses me off, and I imagine it’s what pisses off many other people here. And I don’t think it’s unfair to criticize her for it; it’s a public post on a public blog, and we’re allowed our opinions, too.
I agree. I don’t at all mind What I Wore; not exactly my style, but cute and interesting. Frankly, I can also understand why someone unaccustomed to city life would recoil at what JS describes. What really baffles me, though, is why she chose to put her rant ON THE INTERNET. Look, if she were just bitching to a friend–”God, my tire was stolen, these people were screaming curses at each other, I hate Brooklyn”–well, we’ve all been there. But this urge to share every thought and impulse with total strangers is alien to me.
And, yeah, the privilege. I definitely recoiled at the privilege.
But does her behavior warrant the unbridled outrage it’s received in this thread? I doubt it. And I’m also kind of touched that her fiance came to her defense. I disagree with both of them, and believe they need to interrogate their assumptions about poverty, but the fuming and name-calling seems gratuitous. Sorry, guys.
I think the outrage is more about their reaction to the initial outrage. Had Adam or Jessica just been like, ‘My bad, I was angry about my bike being stolen and I lashed out’, I think a lot of us wouldn’t be so annoyed. But instead for Adam to come in here and drone on on society and change like some first semester college freshman, and to repeatedly mention the name of the women’s shelter (really just an awful, pointless thing to do), and for Jessica to just take it down with a weak apology and zero self-reflection is just gross and completely classless.
This.
I think it is in poor taste to slam people for having any kind of eating disorder, whether it be comforting with food or depriving yourself of food.
Yes, blogging about how “naturally thin” you are and your vegan diet is so fucking eye roll worthy and the bitch needs some serious therapy to reconcile her self esteem issues and image. The simple fact of her criticizing people she doesn’t understand by immediately remarking on their appearance speaks volumes as to how negatively she sees her own appearance. But, to call her out for being
size-est and then to slam her looks and weight is a pretty contradictory, if not borderlne hypocritical.
No, we’re saying that yelling out the window at the underprivileged, ‘eeeewing’ at the homeless panhandling near an outdoor seating area and passing judgement on people on food stamps who don’t stick to your approved ‘on food stamps’ diet of beans, rice, and bodega apples and bananas but dare to buy chocolate and ice cream is a symptom of your ‘white entitlement’.
See, an opinion is ‘It really makes me wonder where my tax money is going when I see people on food stamps seem to only buy chocolate – there should be some sort of regulation.’
Acting like an entitled white ass involves calling the people on food stamps obnoxious, loud, and obese, assuming they buy only chocolate, candy and beer with their government assistance, and almost sort of implying that they’re probably alcoholics, what with their six 40′s and all at 7am.
Do you see, Quirk? Do you see how the above example is something that would probably lead to a slightly better reception, and how the example below might anger some people? How a few negative adjectives (I mean, you guys are writers, right?) makes an opinion look like a sand-in-vagina classist rant against the almost-homeless?
Come on, now. Surely you aren’t that dense.
Re: ‘Arguing on the Internet,’ please google ‘White Knighting.’ Then, proceed to ‘White Privlege,’ ‘Stuff White People Like,’ ‘White Whine,’ for a taste of the entitlement piece.
(More) seriously, though, people have been downright civil to you all here. Our snarky comments have certaintly met or exceeded the amount of respect shown in LovePuppy’s not so lovey rant against those thieving poors. I really hope that she/you learned that the post was OFFENSIVE. We’re not being negative just because we want to pee pee in your mimosas, it’s really a critique.
Actually, maybe you two could enjoy the exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York on John V Lindsey and how he tried, and often failed, to navigate the multi-ethnic metropolis as mayor (think Harlem riots, not stolen fixie tires). Or, the Public Theater is putting on a performance of ‘Songs for the Capeman,’ a Paul Simon/Derick Walcott musical about race/class/violence in 50s NY. Maybe we could even have a beer summit in Brooklyn…
Maybe we could even have a beer summit in Brooklyn…
Too bad I can’t attend. :(
We could wait until you’re all settled.
Then sure! I’ll bring vegan organic beer, you bring the ice cream.
No, you ignorant ass. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. You can’t seriously be taking away from this that people are telling you that you aren’t allowed an opinion. They’re telling you that your opinion is offensive to them because it is indicative of a pervasive elitist attitude. In case you haven’t gathered from the violent reaction to this post, it’s a subject that hits many people hard. The frustration that poor little put-upon Jess was feeling at hearing “obese” women from the nearby shelter yell at toddlers (or was that you?) and buy chocolate: remember how you were saying up there that you witnessed that immense frustration she was feeling, which justifies her extremely mean-spirited rant?? Her comment and your stupid justifications are causing that kind of frustration in many of the people who are responding to you here.
Wait a minute, silly me. According to Jessica herself, the only explanation for women saying nasty things about other women on the internet is because they’re jealous!
Oh, and I hope you remember this chat we’ve all had when you and Jess inevitably spit out some kids in the next few years. Toddlers are a bitch to deal with, man. Good on ya if you can make it through those years without losing your cool every now and then. Best of luck to you, too, asshole. I hope you’re able to get to progressing society real soon. Dick.
Indeed, she’s just jealous of the women not burdened by things such as paying rent and who get drunk all day without a care in the world while she’s forced to prance around in costumes for her boyfriend’s camera EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Life can be so hard! It’s not fair, you guys!
Thank you. I had to delete my angry rant because it was just too angry. People who have so much, but are still selfish and unkind, really get to me. Especially when it’s under the bullshit guise of “making the world better.”
Oh, and Adam Quirk: It’s “effect.” You EFFECT change. If you were affecting change, you’d be changing the change. You ignorant, selfish person.
The “affect” change thing was driving me insane too, because “effect change” is probably the most common usage of effect as a verb. It’s impossible to take seriously Quirk’s self-righteous lecture on being a good person when they are clearly so undeserving of their social status.
“Effect change” — yes! Thank you! It sure annoys the shit out of me when pretentious gasbags make six-grade grammar mistakes.
can’t pay for diapers with a free coach bag :(
See the problem with people like this is that they see NYC as a “fixer-upper”. They move into a community and because they don’t know anyone there naively assume there *is* no community and therefore they don’t have to assimilate into any existing network of people. They then dictate exactly what should be changed in their community in order to make their life better because they are unaware that a community ALREADY EXISTS ALL AROUND THEM.
Ironically, these are usually the same people who whine about the evils of gentrification and go on and on about New York being “dead” the second they see their organic fair trade cafe replaced by a Starbucks.
Quirk, take it from someone who’s a native NYer and lived all over the world: when you sign a lease on a new apartment you are not moving into your own private space, you’re buying into an entire neighborhood. For at least the first year you are a GUEST of that neighborhood and should behave like a good guest would until you’ve built up your ties with the community around you.
Also try to remember that you’re hardly the first influx of transplants NY has had, and yeah your neighbors are probably inconsiderate. But your neighbors have seen thousands of transplants come and go. They look at you and see a “here today, gone tomorrow” person and wonder why they should make an effort to be considerate to YOU when you clearly look down on THEM anyway. There’s only so many times you can watch a person cross the street to avoid passing you directly or make a face and pull their purse closer before you start thinking “Fuck it, I’ll talk loud at the bus stop if I want!” And yeah … if you’re young and white you have to pay for the sins of all the young and white assholes who moved into that community before you. That’s the way of things, suck it up and deal.
Her editor and publishing house are going to rue the day they took on this claptrap. She cannot write nor can she spell.
A cursory look at her illustrations for said book and her own much photographed outfit shots show that Jessica is drawing Jessica! Jessica’s clothes! Jessica’s style! Jessica’s body type! It’s masturbation avec a thousand colored pens. Good luck selling that to the masses, Love Puppy and Random House.
I’ve been in book publishing long enough to know this will be a short print run that ends up in the remainders bins within 3 months.
DON’T do a publicity tour, dearie. Portland, OR will eat you for breakfast and San Francisco will leave you in tears!
You are out of touch beyond measure.
Christ, these two are a pair of smoldering assholes.
There is a lid for every pot, and it is no surprise they found each other.
SO TRUE!!! My sentiment exactly!!!
This bitch spends hundreds of dollars on fancy markers (Prismacolors are $3-$4 each, some of the sets are $1000) and she’s complaining about poor people buying food?
Jessica: I appreciate your update to your original post, but one other thing: The contraptions that stop your wheels from turning are called “brakes”, not “breaks”.
Few things annoy me more than so-called “professional” bloggers who have such obvious errors in their posts. If you’re trying to make a living from your website, for the love of God, run a spell check sometime, or at least pick up a dictionary and make sure you’re using the right version of a word that’s a homophone. It just looks sloppy.
I swear, “I run What i Wore as my full time job” on her blerg brings the LOLS every damn time……..
I think it’s sad that he says they both work from home most of the time. Why would you want to dress up everyday for a living if you have nowhere to go?
Wow I’ve been reading GOMI/RBNS for a long while and never have I felt compelled to comment before. People like this exist?
“I live near a women’s shelter full of obnoxious, loud, obese women who spend all of their EBT cards on chocolate bars and candy.”
I just can’t even wrap my mind around how someone could process such a vile and mean spirited thought and THEN have the nerve to type it out and click publish. I am quite impressed with all of the articulate and compassionate comments though. This moron should be thanking you all for the valuable education and thoughtfulness put into the replies.
Oh and I had never even heard of her before, but will be sure to direct everyone I know to this post. Jessica Schroeder, FUCK YOU.
Travis Bickle had a problem with The City. H developed a positive plan. He executed it. He affected change. He rescued 12 year-old Iris and was a hero for doing so. He lived happily ever after. See? It can be done.
I just hope very much that when her book is finally released, this still shows up when she is Googled.
Hey, yo, Adam. DM me. xoxo
From Jess’s site today (she is referring to a book on 1960s fashion):
“But is it too heavy to devourer in the five short days between release and premier? (can’t wait to get my hands on this!)”
Three, count ‘em, three basic errors in those two sentences.
Had to comment here, since I’ve been to this “lovepuppy” tard’s site a few confused times. I don’t think she can dress for shit, so her appeal is lost on me. I mean it, I do not “get” her whole sense of “style” and thus her purpose, or why any girls would want to dress like her. It’s like Urban Outfitters vomitted on her in the shower.
The fact that she can’t write for shit and decided to openly state the fact that she finds obsese, abused women at the shelter in her area to be basic wastes of DNA tells me all I need to know about her kind though. She’s from the Julia Allison School of Princess Thought, only with a far openly nastier streak. Maybe she just needs to cheer up and enjoy a cupcake or three. The mean streets of Park Slope have obviously gotten to her.
We need to get her and Adam as NS writers ..
SO who wants to email Julia and suggest it?
Can you imagine the cat fight Julia and Jess would get into?
I don’t really get her style either – but to be fair, personal style is an individual thing. I don’t have anything truly snarky to say about her whatiwore site other than I personally find it not my thing, it is what it is and hey good for her on making a living out of something she likes.
This post isn’t about being jealous that Jessica is so awesome and got a book deal and is making money on sponsors. It’s about THAT. UP THERE. See what she said? I’m far from being the nicest person in the world and even I wouldn’t post something like that.
Think about it: she typed this out, had time to read it, contemplate it, and saw nothing wrong with hitting ‘publish’, sharing it with the whole world. This isn’t some ‘oh man I got drunk and went on tumblr and said totally awful things oh man I feel terrible’ thing. This is what was actually going on in her stone cold sober and presumably rational head, and she felt this sentiment was acceptable enough to post to the internet. THAT is what leaves me shaking my head.
I wish her luck with her whatiwore ventures, but she might be better served next time to swivel her chair and share these feelings with Adam, rather than her fans.
Agreed, pp. I didn’t mean to come off like I was just raging against lovepuppy for the sheer sake of raging against lovepuppy. I may not like her style personally, but nothin wrong with what she’s doing in the grand scheme of things.
The fact that she wrote that and proved that she’s obviously a spoiled, insensitive, entitled brat just made me want to brayge against her machine though, style choices included. I should’ve made myself more clear as well:
Because we don’t hate just to hate around here! We just comment on morons like her who decide to publicize their most moronic thoughts. This post by lovepuppy is quite possibly the most moronic blog post I’ve read all year, and I’ve read a lot of moronic blog posts!
Fuck, I think she’s doing things wrong in the grand scheme of things. I think having a blog dedicated to particularly uninteresting pictures of yourself and your particularly uninteresting tastes is bad for the world (and I mean objectively uninteresting — she is purposely not making interesting style choices or putting enough thought into what she does that it could be considered artistic or innovative or even just, you know, thoughtful). I believe that. And I believe that the fact that she has taken that on as a “career” is directly related to the selfishness and indulgence of the ugly statements above.
“It’s like Urban Outfitters vomitted on her in the shower.”
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"I'm mean really, Visa cards are like a modern way of saying food stamps. Why does she buy such junk?"
this is gay.
You’re right. Let’s go have a dance party with My Girl TJ at the salon!
According to Adam’s website, his company is like:
an unextinguishable tire fire, except in video.
40 rabbits on Nyquil who all think they can sing Country Road.
shaking a bag of cat treats in the street.
finding a dollar in your mom’s jeans.
burning your tongue on your favorite after-school snack
burning a DVD of the 1st season of Highway to Heaven for a friend you want to impress
replacing your feet with self-inking rubber stamps; left foot a swastika, right foot a penis.
a Swiss Army knife vibrator.
filling your butt crack in with joint compound.
paying for postage.
an expired bottle of eye drops that you only use after you get high and have to talk to parents.
a Slavic organist who plays Pearl Jam cover songs at a bed and breakfast.
cutting your finger off with a tv remote.
a species of wild hog that eats only finance industry business cards.
a half-full bag of spit.
a football player who can travel through time.
They left out “a trio of hipster trustafarians with the sex appeal of your grandmother’s dentures,” but I’m sure that was just an oversight.
I also feel it’s like raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain on your wedding day.
This comment cracks me up because their wedding day is around the corner.
I can’t wait for them to get married and then just fucking HATE each other. No two egotistical twats can stand each other for very long.
I agree 100%!!!
I get really tired of implants coming into the city complaining about things when they don’t have any understanding or expect for people or neighborhoods to change when the neighborhood has been that way for more than 20 years. And it has improved!
Here is a tip: Before moving to a house or apartment, survey the neighborhood and make sure it is somewhere you can live in. I have turned down awesome affordable apartments only because I can’t imagine myself walking through them every single day.
If it’s so awful, move to Upper East Side and you won’t see any of that.
5th Ave and Lex Ave are home to some of the larger shelters in the city, on the UES. She better steer clear of those areas too!
Oh noes, There is no place for them to go!
I know!!! They’ll have to move to….suburban Queens? There are no shelters there that I know about.
All due respect, Queens IS NOT a suburb and we don’t want them here.
I adore queens! I just mean that part of queens that becomes residential big mini mansions, right before long island. There are no shelters there.
There is a reason we have dubbed her Midwest Mess.
You just made me do the KOOL AID MAN.
Oh man this chick drives me nuts. We almost did a parody of her site called “What I Whore” in which a girl displays the whorey clothes she wears before dates in order to score dinner and a dong LOL
Oh there has got to be a tumblr to book deal in What I Whore.
the fact that almost all of her outfits these days include a free item from coach/modcloth it’s not too far off…..
as others have elaborated on…..i subscribe to both WIW and LP in my rss feed. its only marginally bothered me when she complains about fat people (jessica has serious weight issues) but this post made me so fucking sick. vom all up in my shower. that anyone would think its okay to say these things is beyond my comprehension. and her bf, adam quirk coming up in here and defending her with equally offensive statements is mind-blowing. that’s all.
I remember she used to be a hardcore “vegan”/into raw food and one time posted this uppity response because a coworker dared to voice a concern that she was getting too skinny. It made me lol.
She was totally a vegan until she met the quirk and then she started in with the cheeseburgers, ribs, cheese plates and lattes.
Funny kid.
pretty sure she went vegan for vanity reasons (her sad acne and her eating disorder). that worked out well. word to the wise, girl, you need to photoshop out your whole face. i have to wonder, you believe you are more evolved because of your repulsive webbed feet right? well… if we’re going to talk about evolution, i think your disfiguring adult acne is telling you not to procreate any time soon: http://jenapincott.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/why-do-teens-get-acne/
Thank you, Dr. Zizmor!
Also Jessica, Con Ed wants residents of W’burg, G’point, Ft. Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy, & Park Slope to turn off their AC. So really bunny, it’s time for you to pack up.
Better not use that language at home, Quirky Boy. I think it would greatly offend the Lil Missus. The F-word and all, you know…..
http://blog.wreckandsalvage.com/post/746869334/maybe-not-my-finest-moment
PS: as far as not finest moments go, you’re piling them up fast and furious these days. ;)
Whoa, stay classy San Diego indeed.
I just want to thank Adam Quirk for making my Monday with ridiculous Republican rhetoric and threats of a CAGE@! Match. Thank you from the bottom of my cold, non-profit employed, poor heart.
Yeah I’ve decided I’m gonna print up 100 special edition BROOKLYN CAN GET YOU DOWN T-shirts, and set up a stall outside the welfare office on Dekalb Ave. I will accept EBT cards for payment.
We really need to start a cafepress site and sell stuff. I would be the first one to buy a shirt that says “I WAS ON MY WAY TO BRUNCH”.
Dear Adam Quirk,
Your mutt bitch love puppy is out of control. You need to keep her on a tighter leash, or maybe think about acquiring a muzzle. I would also strongly advise sterilization. If all else fails, I would suggest you put the rabid bitch down, because she is a SERIOUS danger to the community.
Cordially,
Dr. Shut The Fuck Up, D.V.M.
Mrrrr-eowwww!
So late to this party(pants), but I appreciate all of your comments and eloquent smackdowns so immensely right now. I used to live in Brooklyn, and upon a recent visit, I was so annoyed by all the privileged, entitled white people, I couldn’t wait to get out of there. I love you Brooklyn, but you’re bringing me down. Now when can I get a damn shirt up in here?!?
I started this yesterday because it is fun making tshirts :D http://www.cafepress.com/gomishop
Guys, gals, settle down…..
You see, Jess and Quirky are artists and we plebes just don’t get it. We’re critical of their artistic expression.
http://lovepuppy.tumblr.com/post/749376270/pay-no-attention-to-what-the-critics-say-a-statue
Fucking entitled no talent twats. There are a million kids just like them out there doing and selling the same schtick and half of them do it far better than these two idiots.
Um…wasn’t Lenin an active and vocal critic of the government?
Seriously though, this sums up their entire philosophy: pay no attention to any critique, you are perfect the way you are.
Just keep up your fabulous tipping and jumping around in “thrifted” dresses-worn-as-skirts, baby. Everyone else is either an anonymous coward or just jealous, haters gonna hate, that negativity will come back on them etc etc etc.
Whatever keeps your great self-love intact, assholes.
ps. she took it down and she’s upset at herself? more like she is upset she got called out on her fucking entitled ways.
“I hate Park Slope
I just got home from brunch to see the front tire was stolen off my bike, cutting the breaks in the process.
Apologies to anyone who was upset or offended about the previous post in this spot. I’m upset at myself for posting it too.”
oops, didn’t see the edit. eh, whatever. this girl just makes my blood boil.
so what she’s saying is she thinks she is deserving of a momument or something?
p.s. hey dumbass, your quote is inaccurate:
http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1049567736211_2003/04/10/dictatorscombo.jpg
She’s doing what they all do – salving her anal injury with a copy of Chicken Soup For The Blogger’s Soul type quotes that she thinks make her sound profound, above all this haterism, and prove that SHE will get her cake in heaven and we will always be basement dwelling obese haters in Minnesota.
You know what, Jess honey? You can pat yourself on the back that you didn’t come “validate” this website with your comments all you want, if that makes you feel like you are still better than me. The fact is, the minute you posted this hateful rant YOU BECAME A HATER.
The end.
I hate this crowd so fucking much for exactly this sentiment. Nothing is ever their fault! Haters gonna hate! You’re just jealous!
Newsflash: If more than 100 comments on a website are critiquing your awful fucking behavior, perhaps it’s time to stop whining about the haters and actually engage in a little self-reflection.
And if you can’t handle criticism, DON’T RUN A PUBLIC BLOG. It’s really that fucking simple.
A. The Women’s Shelter on 8th Avenue is the best free entertainment in Brooklyn. Case in point: one woman trying to beat the other women in the front yard with a plastic lawn chair. They don’t go there because they’re battered women—they go there to batter women.
B. Anyone who talks shit on Royal bodega and its creepy sibling across 15th gets themselves dead real quick.
C. Go back to the Midwest. We in the South Slope spend all of our energy explaining why we’re not Windsor Terrace, so we don’t have time for Middle American horseshit.
D. Who the fuck is Jessica Schroeder?
Please stop with the ignorance “free entertainment”??? “Battered women” often become violent, as do children who grow in up abusive homes. Throw in any sort of substance abuse, and you’ve got a whole realm of problems that are extremely difficult to treat. Coupled with bureaucratic systems that make it nigh on impossible for people to get out of those situations. This is basic stuff.
I’ve read RBNS/GOMI for a long time. I’ve never commented until now. I spend the bulk of my time on the internet (easy job) and visit What I Wore daily.
Never again.
Note to market reseachers/bookers/googlers
If I see “Adam Quirkc” “Jessica Schroeder” from “What I Wore” on TV (doubtful) or websites, I’ll stop watching, stop visiting and question those who promote it.
I have two blog novice friends who I reccomended “What I Wore” to, I just sent them this link.
I don’t have have a tumblr account but somewho, I think I just affect positive change.
I will never understand the people who move to NYC and then bitch like this.
LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO http://heygenius.tumblr.com/
I give it 48 hours before Karp deletes it.
realized the same, which is why i just imported it into posterous!
Why would Karp delete that? Did a company called “heygenius” inquire about stealing the name?
Uh…if you don’t know the back history of Karp deleting blogs critical of his friends, I don’t have time to explain it.
FWIW, this young woman and her blog are cornucopia of snark. She’s completely delusional, boring, registers at a 9h grade level of literacy, ignorant, elitist, spoiled, bigoted, awash with self importance and devoid of any ounce of self awareness.
HOWEVER, when snarkers start to superficially attack a snarkees looks, eating disorders, what have you, they tend to look just as ignorant and vapid as their target. There are a million traits this woman possesses without having to pettily call her “ugly” and bring up her acne.
Bad form.
Carry on.
Katy,
Chillax. The Puppy of love just posted on her tumblr that she has lost 2 lbs. She even tells us she has 18 left to go, but whatevs….
She is all kinds of asinine and she brings this on.
When she was super skinny, she could not shut up about how she was just that way – la di da. i wish she nut up and address the fact that adding cheeseburgers to her diet was probably not the best way to maintain said naturally slim physique.
She’s a fake and a phony and thinks far too highly of herself.
Not at all unlike Julia Allison, being that ugly on the inside does make people blur the line about what is on the outside. She became physically repellent to me when I read her smugness and her self-adoration in each and every post.
I have to be honest – I get tired of hearing these thin women who are strict raw vegans and eat like birds twiddle on about how they are just naturally thin, just their body type, etc.
Then these “just my body type, don’t do a thing to stay thin” girls turn around and voice loud revulsion over obese people. Tell the fatties if they just watched what they ate they wouldn’t be so disgusting.
Which is it? Is your body type your body type or is it controllable into absolutes by diet and exercise?
The latter.
it’s bullshit, her body type is not naturally like that. i saw photos from her sorority days and she was definitely not NYC fashion victim thin. she’s a corn fed midwesterner to the core. she cant “run” away from that shit.
JESS: JUST PUT A BUCKET NEXT TO THE BED, SO MUCH EASIER.
Well…let’s not go there. I don’t care what her eating habits are or what size she is. I just think her blogging conflicting sentiments about weight and body type is obnoxious. Why talk about it at all?
Better things to snark on:
- Her SATC view of nyc
- Her rotating blog posts of “be grateful” and “positive energy” and “build the community” in between bouts of complaining about poor fat people
- Her refusal to acknowledge or accept any criticism as valid
i’ve never accused the girl of an eating disorder, but she does have disordered thinking about nutrition, weight, diet, her own body image and overall wellness.
I think, too, that i got a few LOLs out of how quickly she got over her raw food/meat is murder stance as soon as the Quirkster came on board. When she was dating Jason Mraz before Quirk, she was a raw foodie vegan….just like Mraz was/is.
You go, girl, with your female empowerment! Spread the word to your minions.
Chicks like that just make me laugh and wince.
She dated Jason Mraz? Ahahaha.
But I agree — her sanctimonious about food coupled with her ability to abandon her “convictions” is snarkable. Her skin and her body are not.
I will never understand this “she talks about her weight so it’s ok for us to” attitude. She makes fun of abused women too.
@Katy
I like you and your blog but I feel it is a little out of line for you to try to dictate what is or isn’t acceptable snark. Some people are offended by her classicism, some by her narcissism, and for some people having to look at her smug pizza face is offensive. The only real “line” is saying something blatantly untrue, such as “Jessica likes raping babies”. Carry on.
I’m offended by her classicism! I hate how she totally doesn’t acknowledge Virgil’s debt to Ennius. So lame.
Oh, and for the record, I totally agree that if you’re offended by someone’s “smug pizza face” then you can say nasty things about it. But I’m going to snark on you for being such a shallow, unimaginative loser if you do.
Well THIS has been interesting!
1) Hey–when you move somewhere in nyc…check out the f’ing neighborhood! How stupid are you to think living next to a shelter was going to be peaceful?
2) I made the mistake of moving to a “young” bldg (with no neighbors at the time of move in) and the landlord let us break our lease because of all the parties and friggin’ BANDS playing next door, eventually. My bad. I do not like noise. I am an old now. I live in Battery Park City. God bless.
3) When I was their age, I lived next to drug addicts and had an ongoing battle with mice. Actually some of my best memories given what I was doing at the time.
4) These people are OUT of nyc in the next few years. Guaranteed. Like all of the other “ooh ick!” people I’ve known here over the years.
5) New York will not bend to you unless you have money (see: Tribeca). Good luck with that.
6) Gag.
don’t these people watch Law & Order before they move to NY?
just read all these comments (HAHAHA) and have one conclusion: tumblr [and almost everyone on it] sucks
seriously, no search? no tagging? how did that praying mantis get several kajillion dollars in funding
Tumblr has both search and tagging. I just bray.
(ok serious question: then on many sites people don’t implement them? me no understand – many tumblr accounts people link to from here, besides all being dumb, don’t have categories/tagging or search on them).
I haven’t the foggiest why they don’t, it seems so basic, right?
Oh, btw, if you want to search something on a tumblr that doesn’t have a search bar, just add /search/searchtermhere to the end of the main page’s url. If your search term includes more than one word, separate them by +
Karp hypnotized them with his rape-you eyes, that’s how.
My favorite feature of the pile of shit that is tumblr is the always funny, insightful, and hilarious comments. You know, the ones that say “JoeNutsaq Likes This” and “RedPanties Likes This” and “BigGlassesLuvr Likes This”.
It’s so important to know how people feel about that funny photo of a dog wearing a hat. Maybe one day you will be able to “sorta like” things. That would be so awesome! I bet Meghannabeaho will even put out a super unprofress PR statement about their wild new feature.
KrakenSkulls Likes This.
Insufferable, both of them. I hope they grow up, but I won’t put my money on it. Quirk argues like an angry high school student who isn’t open to the possibility of being wrong. Stop defending Jessica when she said something so obviously hurtful and wrong. Jessica, don’t just say you are “disappointed with [yourself]” because of negative backlash, think about WHY people are upset and have some goddamn empathy. (If you aren’t sure about empathy, watch Funny Face, it’s from the OMG1950s and stars OMGAudrey Hepburn/Fred Astaire. You might be able to glean a little information from it, because obviously people flat out telling you isn’t working. )
All I can think is that she didn’t land herself a fiance so much as a human tripod (and not in the flattering-phallic kind of way). Is it going to be in the wedding vows? “I promise to love, honor and take your bug-eyed sunglassed, open-mouth-smiling, pigeon-toed picture every goddamn day for as long as we both shall live.”
Ha ha ha
Holy fuck, Most entertaining thing on the internet ever? I’m a bloke (British to be exact) but this is hilarious. Well done.
hey so have we all heard about adam quarks new charity venture?
http://mashable.com/2010/06/30/bp-vuvuzelas/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+(Mashable)&utm_content=Google+Reader
was thinking maybe he should take that positive charitable energy and go local with it. like, maybe he could donate all the vuvuzelas to the womens shelter by his house so they could blast them at his stupid ass all day and night as punishment for being such a huge dickbag.
What about the people who live near there and have to deal with the noise? They just want some peace and quiet after brunch.
Anyone complaining about Park Slope needs some fucking perspective, and I’m not talking a neighbourhood that’s slightly worse.
Come live in Joburg. I’ve got some room at my flat. 1000R a month, it’s yours. Your fashion shoots might actually be interesting.
I HATE Jesica Schroeder. I think she’s a huge dork whose style is HEINOUS. I hate her outfits and her super-smug posts. There are so many amazing style blogs, I’m not sure why people love hers so much. I wish she would migrate back to the midwest where she belongs. She might be a ‘stylish’ role model there, but to real NYers. Plus ,her comments about Park Slope were EMBARRASSING.
I’m guessing this “perfect” couple were both born with a silver spoon in their mouth and have no idea what the real world is like. Bet they will be moving back to their little paper doll world in the midwest in the next couple years. No idea what the real world is like. Who in the world would take pictures of themselves all day?? Pathetic.
question all of you, why is she always pigeon toed? I’m thinking she was born that way? Could she maybe get shoes to help her feet go the right way? It’s like that in all her pics, surely she’s not doing that intentionally?!! Wow, poor Bloomington . . . .