If you’ve been waiting eagerly for Jessica Quirk, of slowly dying ‘personal style blog’ What I Wore, to start transferring her full time blogging over to ThatsQuirky.com you may be in for a long wait. The blog that never made a bang has gone out with a whimper and is currently password locked, with no explanation.
The half-assed attempt at ‘lifestyle’ blogging previously featured pictures of the house she wanted to buy (removed when the purchase evidently didn’t happen), photos of her apartment and her dull attempts at ‘decorating’, and images of her new kitten. It also randomly featured things she wished to buy for her future home – usually with text asking publicly what her husband thought of the item.
Many felt she would surely start moving towards making That’s Quirky her main blog as What I Wore continues its depressing slide into tedium, and the site may just be down for a redesign in preparation for such a plan. Or perhaps Messica sees no point in keeping it alive since she only bothers to post once a month. Either way it seems odd that she would shutter it with no mention of why.
We certainly hope she re-opens That’s Quirky because we don’t know how we will live until we know what West Elm and CB2 crap she bought for her white box apartment in Just Outside Bloomtucky!
I love that man. So much. Unnatural obsession. He’s gorgeous and funny as all get up.
Did you catch him on 30 Rock last night? Amazing.
NO!!!!!!!! I will also shamefully admit to not having watched most of “Arrested Development.” Trust me it’s in my netflix queue. am beyond in love with him from “The increasingly poor decisions of todd margeret.” Even though he plays an absolute shitbag on it. That show is hilarious and he is hilarious in it and he has old time movie start good looks and I want him so bad.
Also much love to David Cross. Watch that show everyone. It’s on IFC I believe. And first season is on Netflix.
Ok then you MUST watch Arrested Development this weekend. Homework, JFA! Quiz on Monday.
“I will also shamefully admit to not having watched most of Arrested Development.”
I….what…..it’s like I don’t even know you anymore.
GET OUT
arrested development is a must. an absolute MUST. it’s my favorite comedy of all time. it totally rewards the viewer for repeated viewings. you’ll love it.
I’ve tried to watch it. Can’t stand it. I never even cracked a smile at any portion. Same with that Parks & Recreation crap. Now you gimme Red Dwarf and you’ll hear some guffaws.
For the record, when anyone asks I say I like AD because saying you don’t like it starts a whole lecture about how you MUST like it, you’re just not watching it properly, watch it again but start with (insert person’s fave episode here), you have to watch the whole season before you get it, oh well I guess you just don’t have a sense of humour or something because it’s the greatest show ever.
I just don’t have time to hear all that bullshit for the 450th time so I’ll smile and nod, say something about a banana stand, and change the topic.
“have any of you ever seen a chicken?” :D
yea pp, my mancat does not like it. something about the characters being too nonstop awkward. just not his cup o’humor.
I’ve never watched Arrested Development either, but PP, I get the same thing when I tell people that I just don’t like Bob Dylan all that much. It’s all “Oh, you must try THIS album” or “You just don’t understand his music” or, worst of all “You’ll understand when you’re older” – NO. My ears don’t enjoy the same collection of sounds that your ears do – that’s ALL.
I cannot fucking stand that show.
And everyone remotely connected with Curb Your Enthusiasm needs to die slowly and in public.
Yeah, I get the same lecture but I find I can’ take the invasive exposition. For a show that’s supposed to be so insider-y, why do they feel the need to constantly catch you up in voice over?
Now Mr. Show, on the other hand…
TODD MARGARET!! Yes, first season, Netflix, second season you can get on Amazon instant. I just posted how much I love it on FB, and most of my friends were like “I found it too cringe-inducing.” Catladies can stomach it, tho.
I smile every time Devon Banks appears. He’s awesome.
Thank you! I could not remember his name. I really think this season is hilarious thus far.
It’s good, plus Liz Lemon’s new boyfriend is hot. I want to reach through the screen and give her a high five.
I KNOW I HAVE TO WATCH IT. IT WILL BE WATCHED ASAP. Yes, I will start tonight. Because I am going the fuck home and lounging on my couch all night and I CANNOT. FUCKING. WAIT. I have no idea why I haven’t watched yet as I am a David Cross fanatic. Mr. Show FOREVER.
enjoy!
Ahahaha, I cannot wait! Tonight is all about Arrested Development, catching up on Todd Margeret and watching some of the new Portlandia episodes. MY LIFE IS VERY EXCITING!!!!! :)
I like to imagine interactions between bloggers and their parents are like this.
Oh man. If only AD had lasted long enough for Lindsay to start a personal style blog.
There would have been so many posts about fire sales!
Love it! Maybe in the movie, Lindsey will be a professional style blog. That would be hilarious.
Who else tried to guess the password? Cheezeburgers, size medium, Marc Jabobs?
iheartraymond
jasonmraz
still loling at this
gizmowho?
Neckbeard
Lol I tried:
quirky
sizem
aquirk
messi (just to see if she was fucking with us)
sotoned
5’9″Barefoot
AdjustYourMonitor
ColorBlock!
BoneZone
SponsorMe!
Jessica+Adam4Eva
brooklynsux
Thrifted
Belted
scarving
SLAMNOM
thyroid
cheeseburger
necklines
facebloat
I believe “Thyroid Cheeseburger” is the title of the next Weezer album.
The more appropriate title would be “Octogenarian”
ahem…cheese burger
Ha! That non-word pops into my head sometimes and makes me angry-laugh.
Baby FishMouth!
Baby FishMouth is sweeping the nation.
BFFtory
getfit
baguette
2012 ..curse of the mayans yall! ;^D
_gee_ omg. girl`generation are wearing partypants in that, PP?
Aww, but I wanted to see how many tomatoes she got at the farmer’s market each week!
Well, I guess I’ll never learn how to use a Moonshiner’s Workbench now. *sob*
Converted Messi-hater here (thanks to Gomi’s enlightening ways)….coming out of the lurking closet to report that I saw this screen appear on What I Wore’s page a few weeks back….only to have it come back with a vengeance and EXTRA LARGE PICTURES.
My guess is she’s incorporating WIW and ThatsShitty into one website so she can blog about stuff that’s not just fashion.
I’m assuming it’s down for some attempt at a redesign aiming to make it marketable to ‘lifestyle’ sponsors. It just always seems odd to me that she will simply take down/lock her sites without so much as a beg your pardon tweet to her grillions of fans. You’d think she would want them to know what’s up if only to fend off the OMG Y U SITE NO WORK emails.
Well, she IS an idiot, so there’s that.
you really believe this girl gets e-mails lolz?
She’s such a failure at everything. I’m serious, 2012 is the year she gets pregnant to justify her existence.
Agreed. :/
didn’t she say somewhere in her midwest mess blagh that she would prefer to be a young mom (as in, having at least one kid before 30)? if that’s the case, she’ll have to get to work this year.
It scares me that someone so lazy, stupid, and narcissistic will procreate, and she is in for a rude awakening. However, she can’t play housewife with failing business blog for too much longer without procreating.
I hate to say it, but I’m willing to wager good $ that Neckbeard will divorce her Size M lazyass after she goes completely batty from the hormonal and weight changes she goes through during pregnancy and after birth (and after she realizes how much WORK and $$$ raising a kid will be). I wonder if she’ll start shilling for c/o maternity clothes or collaborate w/ jcp maternity (major lolzies).
or do the opposite and be a super-obnoxious mommy blogger. esp since her mediocrity is constantly rewarded, I could see her making marginal ‘success’ like she has (free trips and shit for not even trying hard)
Nah, he’s a loser himself. They’ll both gain tons of baby weight and do nothing but talk about how brilliant their child is. She will probably homeschool, too, just like every other functionally illiterate blogger. BOOKBACK
No way she will homeschool. I thik even she knwos she’s that fucking dumb. Plus LOL like she would wanna do the work. She will ship that kid off at the first opportunity because I just have a feeling motherhood will knock her on her lazy ass six ways til Tuesday.
I also agree that Neckbeard is def gonna boff his intern one day and call it quits. He sucks but being able to deal with her ass…that can’t last forever. He always looks miserable.
I don’t think she’ll be a mommy blogger. Back when I was a WIW follower, I read an interview where she stated that when her and Adumb have kids they plan on never releasing the child’s name or anything of that nature to the internet. I tried to search for it but to no avail. Wish I could give more info on that interview I read.
Things do change though.
I’m guessing Messica kept ThatsShitty up because she thought companies would fall all over themselves to sponsor her, but that hasn’t happened and she’s too lazy to actually maintain it on a more frequent basis.
She was posting what, once a month? I wonder if she did assume that her FAMOUS NAME and her PERSONAL BRAND would attract sponsors to a new site concept even with almost zero content. Someone should let her know that one tumblr that brought D list fame does not a web empress make. Maybe do a kickass layout and fucking post to the site and generate readership before expecting Pottery Barn and BoConcept to come calling.
I’m sure she did. Remember, Messica expects to get rewarded just for breathing.
I bet what happened is this: She is lazy. Wearing an outfit a day is a lot easier than having to come up with actual content. She’s incompetent.
Speaking of lazy …
Really? Worth blogging?
Those jeans are so unflattering.
She’s wearing Adam’s socks again. She’ll take any excuse to remind us that she’s OMG MARRIEEEEED.
I’m on board with the hair, just because it’s something different (and because when mine is long, that’s one of my default styles). But I’ve always associated duck boots with growing up in the middle of nowhere and playing in the mud.
Jesus. Christ. How is that a blog-worthy outfit. It’s fucking jeans and a peacoat. See what I mean? No way in hell this bitch will be able to maintain a blog that involves actual content. Also I hate her stupid striped scarves.
See, this is my problem with some of Messi’s outfits. I glance at the picture quickly and think, “Huh, that’s not so bad!” But then I look at it for longer than 15 seconds and it all falls apart.
I hate that Bean boots are A Thing now. To me, they’re what you wear to clean out the barn. When I see hipsters wearing them on the subway I retch a bit.
That photo is out of focus too. iIt really annoys me with the badly lit, slightly fuzzy, photos these fashion & HLB bloggers always post. It doesn’t always look good the up the brightness/ auto-fill.
#rantover
umm…anybody care to comment on the ridic milkmaid braid she has hanging out on her bighead?
Also, maybe Neckbeard is a bit too busy managing a real job, taking her photos daily, and managing every business aspect of WIW? So he probably doesn’t want to take on a new project for her and lord knows she can’t handle anything on her own. That’s my guess.
can we start a TOTD? thought of the day? Because you win
I love how I just pulled that out of my ass. But you know it COULD very well be true. I mean he’s in charge of all her advertising on WIW. Honestly I hate him, but that poor guy…
yeah, he signed himself up for it, but I can still pity the suffering while loling at the same time. I’m just multi-talented like that.
a what of the day? so dumb, so fat, so sorry.
What I dont get is how he didn’t run for the hills after those infamous twitter stalks she posted everyday during their initial courtship. It still makes me shudder.
OT, but TW referred to her tendencies to be a martyr in her most recent post. Apparently because she wants to live in Poland or something. I’m trying to figure that one out.
I get it, particularly because it’s clear from the blog she loves to put herself out there to be criticized- moving to Poland would be incredibly hard, so of COURSE she wants to move there so she can suffer and feel good about her suffering. Some people get off on being like that; I’ve known people like that in every church I’ve been apart of and every job I’ve had; they love to complain how busy they are and they love to take on extra stuff just so they have a reason to complain.
I am just trying to figure out what about any of that is really “martyring” yourself. Taking on a lot of responsibility =/= martyrdom. It just means busy. And going to live in a country where there would be language and cultural barriers would be difficult, but it’s not like she’d be without all the modern conveniences and access to a relatively similar lifestyle to what she has now…
It’s all about attitude. Some people just are martyrs; it seems they can’t help complaining as a way of bragging about how important and busy they are.
KAS, I totally agree with you. She likes to play the “look-at-how-much-I-sacrifice!” card, probably just so she can have something to talk about.
I live in Poland… should I be on a cross?
Apparently.
Also, awesome. I’ve always wanted to visit. A good friend of mine in high school was from Warsaw and the photos looked amazing. Seems like a beautiful place.
Its a miserable -15 celsius here right now ;(
I live amongst lots of Poles in BK. She would be jealous of their attractiveness and skinniness and their attitudes of don’t give a shit/bitch please in her direction would be withering.
i live in ukrainian village on chicago’s west side. some seriously hot eastern european chicks. let’s just say she wouldn’t fit in.
You bet your dupa you should be!
I grew up in a town that was about 99% Polish. I can pray in Polish, have eaten many a puchka, and polka’d the night away with many a boy-ski.
Ahh I didn’t know you could have the same username as another person. Weird. I had thought Katia was more common as the Polish spelling though.
I was learning Russian in college and its become a nickname since then.
Guys, help…who is TW? The newbies among us require a damn acronym decoder to understand this site, haha.
That Wife. thatwifeblog.com. It hurts. Bad.
To give you an idea, she’s pretty much this in a nutshell:
http://thatwifeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/d62bb50.jpeg
Still don’t know how to actually post pictures. Technologically impaired.
Thank you, ObnoxiousMommyBlogger, for informing the stupids like me. If you were truly an ObnoxiousMommyBlogger, I’m sure you would demand martyrdom, but I don’t think you deserve it because that smug face to which you linked me has forced me to relinquish my last clawing grasp on hope for humanity. Also, WTF is that blazer.
REWARD ME FOR DOING A SIMPLE TASK LIKE ADDING A LINK. REWARD MEEEEE.
And yeah. That face is a killer. Just so fake. “Haha! I’m checking my phone! IN EUROPE!”
A TW mystery:
@balebusta Balebusta
@jennacole I’m thinking about you right now and praying for you…I can’t even imagine what you’re feeling…I am so so sorry.
25 Jan via web
Sounds bad. I wonder what happened…
Yikes. Hope it’s nothing serious or I’ll feel like a real bitch.
Wait, I thought she didn’t speak any Polish and thus couldn’t communicate with her inlaws and didn’t really care?
Boom.
Martyr.
“The half-assed attempt at ‘lifestyle’ blogging”
Holy crap, that is generous.
What she was doing with thatsquirky.com was not even a whisper of a modicum of an attempt.
It was across the country from an attempt, in the basement a shack down a long dirt road guarded by snarling Rottweilers and the ghost of Mr. Giveashit.
It was deep down the below a 2,000-foot-deep pool on the outskirts of Tryingville.
K, I’m done.
“Is like dirt under my nails 20 million year from attempt.”
Weasin’ the juuuuuiiceee
the first two photos are the same, but the second is cropped. so lazy.
looks like she got a new backpack to replace the one that got stolen in the JCP parking lot.
whoops, this in in reply to the photo of Messi above in a boring outfit.
Redress it, CM!!
here ya go: http://www.polyvore.com/bean_boots/set?id=42871755
i’m pissed that she bought bean boots. she claims that she’s always liked them, but only now is buying them after they are all over pinterest and are seeing a resurgence, like bass loafers? at least trend whores like her will ditch them once they are no longer popular / they want something that makes them look thinner/younger.
Since when did these boots become a trend? My mom had a pair when I was a kid in the 80′s! As a teenager I would wear them when I had to shovel the sidewalk and they are cold as FUCK – do not keep your feet warm at all. Also, she obv. never been to the NE – these boots are ALL OVER EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME. Apparently my catman’s mom is up on the trends now owning probably 5 pairs of these – she’ll be so excited.
My dad has been wearing bean boots for at least 30 years now. When did they become trendy?
it’s just the whole hipster appropriating preppy and outdoorsy stuff and hints of american nostalgia (chambray workshirts, navaho prints, etc. etc).
Whatever do you mean?
http://nymag.com/guides/everything/urbanwoodsman/63409/
http://www.bestmadeco.com/collections/axes
What does a man living in NYC need an axe for? Someone, please explain?
to butcher locavore artisanal organ meat DUH
NC I hate everything about that NYMag article you posted. I hate everything it is and everything it chooses to be.
I don’t like those LLBean boots at all. Never did.
CM, that is the best thing anyone has ever said. So many buzzwords!
My catman’s housemate honest to god just bought THREE axes over the Internet (I wonder how you post those things?!) and is sanding them, polishing them etc. Obviously, we live in the part of Sydney that’s roughly equivalent to Brooklyn (in terms of hipster obnoxiousness). So not, you know, out in the bush or anything. Where you might, you know, NEED AN AXE.
Ha! FG I completely know what you mean… Only question is, what trees/wood is there to chop between surry hills and glebe area?
Oh yeah, none, hence the obnoxiousness.
HOW DID YOU KNOW?? Is this a fellow Australian catlady??
Maybe it’ll return, new and improved, as…
That’s Not Very Quirky At All
That’s My Neckbeard
That’s Just Your Browser Settings
That’s So Raven?
Until then, I don’t know where to find a “quirky” shower curtain?! What on earth will I do?
I’m digging “That’s My Neckbeard.”
If she doesn’t start that, I will be. It will be a blog just of photos of neckbeards.
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST EVERYONE KNOWS YOU’RE MARRIED GIVE IT A FUCKING BREAK MESSICA.
I am having a small barf at the thought of wearing Adam Quirk’s socks.
Who gives a fuck that the socks belong to Adam, unless he also knit them himself? Nobody. People might care who made the socks, though.
Cut her some slack. She’s boring and has absolutely nothing else to brag about besides her fat husband’s socks.
God I just got sad.
LOL I seriously agreed with you here.
I wear catman’s socks anytime I have the chance to wear sneakers/snow boots and it is cold. Do I tell anyone- NO (except now). Nobody cares.
It’s so sad but makes me crack up hysterically at the computer all the same.
Hat: c/o my husband
Shirt: c/o my husband
Scarf: c/o my husband
Pants: c/o my husband
Socks: c/o my husband
Boots: c/o my husband
Take it to the limit, Messica. I dare you.
BUT SHE’S NOT ACCEPTING C/O ANYMOAR.
I hate girls that do this. “Oh tee hee I’m wearing my penile partner’s ………..”
Seriously, if a guy kept wearing my socks and sweaters I WOULD BE PISSED.
LOL @ penile partner
I sometimes wind up stealing my penile partner’s socks because he has way more than I do and they’re a lot warmer. But I am not about to go boasting about it because it’s kind of weird.
I do it too, but it’s only because I do it to purposely piss him off. And I only wear the socks he never wears. The everyday ones? EWW MAN FEET GROSS.
LOL @ “do it to purposely piss him off.”
There is only one thing I used my ex-Huscunt’s socks for = dusting.
But this is also why I buy teenage boys socks. Much better, cheaper, warmer, in abundance than girl socks. THIS IS WHY WE STILL NEED FEMINISM, WE DON’T EVEN HAVE SOCK EQUALITY!
My boyfriend constantly asks me.. what this gray shit all over my sock?
It’s dust honey. I use your socks for dusting because you have huge feet and my fingers have wiggle room to get in those crevices.
My husband asked me the other day if I’d worn his wool socks. He wears a 12.5. I wear a 6.5. I just looked at him like he was a complete fucking moron.
lol
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
The idea of wearing my catfriend’s socks makes me unhappy.
RIGHT. if there is one thing I’ve always loved about my men…it’s their socks.
I can’t even imagine how sexy their marriage is.
Seriously mens socks ALWAYS SUCK. WTFFFFFFFF. She is scary. She probably masturbates to his dirty underwear when he is at work. YEah, sorry for that one. She is just so sad.
*cannot unread*
I think you just ruined my morning :( BARF
Also HUSBAND HUSBAND HUSBAND! DO YOU HAVE A HUSBAND! I DO! I HAVE ONE AND I’M ON FACEBOOK TALKING ABOUT HIM.
Jesus Christ ladies enough with the husband circle jerk. NO ONE CARES. Grow up.
Nitpicky, but still: I hate it when people use “yea”. Unless you’re voting the opposite of “nay”, it’s just one of those words that isn’t correct and for some reason got really popular. I even had a professor use it in place of “yay!” once. I wanted to cry a little.
She might have meant “yeah” rather than “yay”. Either way, wrong as ever!
I guess it was probably just a typo. For some reason it just irks me. I can’t possibly explain why…pet peeve. I think because I read it in my head and it sounds wrong and throws me off.
Oh, I don’t think it was a typo—I’m just not sure which word Our Lady of the Bookback got wrong.
“Yeah” would make the most sense in this context. But I wouldn’t be surprised if she thought socks were exciting enough to say “Yay! Husband socks!”