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!

Look, I don’t give a crap about Kath Younger. I seriously find her boring and not even worth commentary about 99% of the time. But since I received 17 emails demanding I post about this video, here it is: “How To Not Fold Laundry”. I’m not sure why this video has everyone’s panties in such a wad, honestly. I mean, I don’t fold my underwear or sleep stuff either, so I guess you should run me off the internet now.

What I do think is worthy of commentary is the fact that for someone who supposedly works out so much, girl sure is huffing and puffing just putting away laundry. Christ, I have to haul my laundry cart 1/4 mile away, wash it, fold it, walk it home and then drag it up 4 flights of stairs and I don’t sound like a bull staring at a red sheet at the end. Does she have a cold or something?

Anyway, here it is, so knock yourselves out in the comments.

In the wake of Jessica Quirk’s announcement that she will no longer be accepting “c/o” items, GOMI has received tips that more bloggers may be forced to join in the “NO C/O” movement. Jen Loves Kev had already decided to no longer accept sidebar ads, and now the blog What Would A Nerd Wear has announced she too will be turning down freebies from companies.

Well supposedly we can look forward to similar announcements from more bloggers in the near future. The tipster claims this will be more of a face-saving act on the part of bloggers as companies have decided to not send out as many courtesy items to bloggers in 2012:

A few companies we work with…have informed us that sending items in exchange for a blog mention will not be part of their campaign strategies this year…they are not seeing increased sales compared to the amount of swag they have sent out…

In a nutshell, companies are finally seeing that style blogs don’t have nearly the influence on the buying habits of their readers as they have previously made it sound. This was an inevitable conclusion; no matter how much a reader loves a blogger or the item she’s wearing, if they don’t have the money, they won’t buy anything.

The tipster went on to say that bigger bloggers will “most likely still receive some courtesy items” but the days of “anyone with a style blog” being able to wrangle free goods is over. This could change the whole face of style blogging, making it even more competitive as bloggers try to reach the level necessary to appeal to companies still offering swag.

While some worry it may narrow the playing field to only those with money to drop on clothes on a regular basis, many hope it will force style bloggers to return to a more organic state – real people wearing the real clothes they bought with their own real money. Without a constant stream of free clothes making it easy for anyone and everyone to have a modicum of taste, those with real personal style may emerge victorious in the new blogging landscape.

Toning Up with Angles and Reps: Gluts Edition [...] Today, I’m talking about gluts because that has been the most notable change for me. [...] Here are three different exercises that target your gluts using angles and reps.

DID YOU HEAR THAT GUYS? MARY IS TARGETING HER GLUTS. HER GLUTS ARE GETTING TARGETED. NOT GLUTES. JUST THE GLUTS.

I love you, Mary! You tell those gluts who’s boss!

To show our solidarity with today’s SOPA & PIPA blackout, we cooked up a#BlackoutSOPA Blackberry Oreo Crumble. How are you taking action?

Yes, creative living juggernaut Brit Moron has BAKED A PIE to show solidarity with the SOPA and PIPA protests. Nothing expresses fear and anger over a substantial increase of big business’s control over our lives quite like blackberries and Oreos. It’s a shame every household doesn’t have a Brit Moron, because that whole Arab Spring kerfuffle would have gone a LOT easier if only more baked goods were involved.

Before I leave to go bake cupcakes with the Occupy Wall Street kids, let me add: Moron is an admitted fan of TechCrunch 2.0 PandoDaily. With this kind of pure intellectual power backing her Sarahcuda’s venture is bound to be a success. What do you think catmen and catladies? What’s your favorite Dessert of Dissent? Does Morin’s endorsement make PandoDaily a must-read for you?

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

It’s PP’s birthday,

I give her beaucoup de bisous!

She may be called webmistress or queen bee or snarkmaster-in-general, but I simply know her as my friend.

Bon anniversaire!

Jenna Cole, open minded and accepting, is using twitter to alert her fans to an atrocious new form of racism: hating Magic Mormon Undies.

When her twitter followers pointed out that a religious belief is hardly on par with bigotry against genetics, Jenna attempted to sound intelligent:

@hernewleaf No no, the author wasn’t implying that Mormonism is a race. The idea is that we mock people who wear “backwards” clothing b/c we…associate that kind of thing with other cultures/races who are uneducated and somehow “less than”…This sentence was key for me: rather, mockery of Mormon temple garments as “magic underwear” could possibly be seen to reveal…latent racism that stubbornly persists among white, middle-class Americans against the various races & ethnicities of the world…whom they mentally associate with (silly or superstitious?) religious costumes worn out of ignorance or oppression.

To be fair, Jenna would know all about the “latent racism that stubbornly persists” among middle class white people out in the square states. Then again this is probably just Jenna trying to stir the pot and make money from your eyerolling. That has to be it, right? Nobody can possibly really think “laughing at the top secret magick underpants” = “racism”…right?

This year I’m moving away entirely from receiving freebies or “care of” items which I started phasing out in 2011. I want to draw a clear line between the editorial (my daily outfits) and the advertorial on site. I have a handful reasons for moving in this direction. Firstly, for my readers, it’s a lot more realistic to not have a closet full of free clothes.  I’m not throwing out things that were gifted to me in the past (or part of a larger sponsorship), but everything for 2012 will be purchased with my own dollar.  Secondly, I don’t believe you can build a business based on receiving free bags and shoes. They’re not scalable and I don’t think they’re equal value to the service/influence you provide by showcasing them to your readers.  The year is young, but I’ve received a positive response to this position thus far. It’s my hope that more bloggers will move in a similar direction!

What she fails to mention is that she’s only doing this because, in all likelihood, she can’t get companies to send her free shit anymore. It’s easy to refuse what you haven’t been offered, right? What’s hilarious is that she’s spent the past however many years bragging about her free swag and now she seems to think you can’t “build a business based on receiving free bags and shoes.” Does she think that we’ve forgotten about her ModCloth-filled wardrobe and her desperate tweets to Oscar de la Renta, Kate Spade and J.Crew?

Right now, we’re witnessing the “try everything and see what sticks” technique in full swing over at What I Wore headquarters. From DIY blogger to fashion expert to personal style blogger to author to “I didn’t want comments anyway!” whiner to holier-than-thou swag-refuser, Jessica Quirk just can’t figure how to replicate her past monetary success.

As predicted on GOMI nearly two weeks ago, Heather Armstrong (of dooce.com fame) and her husband are “taking a break”.

According to her latest post, her husband is no longer living in the House That Blogging Built. Her husband put up his own post titled “Yes, I’m Currently in a Trial Separation” explaining the situation:

Things have changed between Heather and I. This is true. They needed to change. I recognize that. I’ve felt that we were headed in the wrong direction, but I have allowed other issues to block me pushing for the changes. I’m not sure that I have the words to explain the devastation, pain, regret and sorrow I’ve felt the past couple of months. I’ve tried. After a very painful holiday season, this is where my life is: away from my kids; away from my wife; away from my dogs.

He goes on to say that he and Heather “are on speaking terms. It could be a lot worse. I recognize that. It doesn’t make the pain of saying goodbye everyday any less severe. ”

Dooce has also asked her husband “to find work outside of Armstrong Media.” Could this be the beginning of the end for the Dooce blog empire?

Jennifer Perillo, epicenter of the “widow donation scandal” that exposed the pitfalls of online donation collecting, is cashing in on the death of her husband yet again by scoring a two book deal from Running Press:

Kristen Green Wiewora at Running Press closed a world rights two-book deal with agentStacey Glick at Dystel & Goderich for a cookbook and a memoir by food blogger Jennie Perillo. Perillo is a consulting food editor at Working Mother magazine and also blogs at injennieskitchen.com. She was working on a cookbook with Glick when her 51-year-old husband suddenly died. The tragic event—he had a heart attack while teaching the couple’s eight-year-old how to ride a bike—was something Perillo blogged about, drawing a heartfelt response. Glick said that after Perillo posted about baking a pie for her dead husband, thousands of her readers responding by baking their own pies. Wiewora bought the original cookbook Perillo had been writing, City Girl, Country Kitchen, along with a memoir in which Perillo will detail how she coped with her husband’s death and how it has affected her relationship with food and cooking; the cookbook is slated for spring 2013, and the memoir for spring 2014.

You read that correctly: she has signed to write “a memoir in which Perillo will detail how she coped with her husband’s death” a mere 5 months after his death. To make sure nothing tarnishes her image of the grieving, yet strong and brave widow, ole Jenny has been scrubbing all references to her cross country trips and purchases of “sexy widow boots” from her twitter. In fact, it appears she pretty much deleted all tweets prior to November 7, 2011:

None of her previous behavior matters, of course, because this is the internet and people like this fail upwards no matter what they do. And as you know, delete means it never happened! Congrats to Jenny, who knows how to monetize a tragedy over and over again.