A disclaimer: the site’s loaded with new stuff today because I won’t be updating it.
To help ration yourself, I’ve made you a little slideshow of the last 66 crushes you’ve loved… or maybe been…
xoxo IS
ps – this is Emi, 23, and she’s awesome!
[PAM HANSEN - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
I got a little goofy yesterday and took photos of scenesters through a plastic red cup. The results were a little too weird to keep secret – can you guess who belongs to this wonky red eye?
[AMY SEDARIS - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Quinn and Ellen and I sit at brunch admiring a new dress on the table, and a small girl wanders over and promptly stares at us. She can’t want our food because it’s too healthy, and she can’t want our Sidekicks because they don’t look like Barbie. We’re confused and amused and then I think to hold out the dress. Two seconds later, she is doing a runway turn down the restaurant, and I wonder where a tiara is when you need one.
[MADAME ALEXANDER - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
still thinking about not living without it
outside looking in
till we’re talking about not stepping around it
well maybe…
[ANTHONY LAPAGLIA - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Saw this ad on the street today and really, really laughed – somebody out there is not psyched about the new Apple store opening uptown. Whether it was a rejected architect, a bitter Gates fan, or a Dell executive, I really don’t know, but I do think this: I do adore my iBook, especially in foreign countries when it can find the internet anywhere. But. My iPod just broke for the sixth time in 2 years. Baah humbug.
[JAMIE LIDELL - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
you’ve been warned
ps, forgot to say, I made ellen and quinn pull the car over at like 2 am last night so that I could take this photo… do you see the sacrifices made for designer underwear?
[MARC JACOBS - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Crashing home from a party and Pretty in Pink is just ending. The movie’s soundtrack is mostly New Order, which is rather awesome, and it also has a few b-listers in bit parts… which person wasn’t in the movie?
a) Gina Gershon, soon to play Candace Bushnell on TV
b) Kristy Swanson, the original Buffy
c) Lori Petty, of A League of Their Own
d) Dweezil Zappa, MTV VJ
[TIM BURTON - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Last night on Elizabeth Street, I wore a little tee that said “I Heart The Future” in Japanese. Then this giant bag breezed by, and its owner said, “I got this bag in Japan!” and it was like total kismet.
Now my t-shirt is the real deal, and if you can guess where it came from, and what’s with its slogan, you get extra points – but not as many as if you can tell, real or fake?
[GALEN DREVER - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Alright, so everyone got the hint that We Are Scientists had a secret show last night with Art Brut, but did that mean you all had to go?
The show was sold out before I even asked for tickets, which is huge for the band but sad for me. Instead of screaming “My Body is Your Body” at full force, I was led instead to a smoky little lair, where I discovered that yet another book deal is about to crumble due to drugs, and then heard about the secret Olsen hangout that needs to be haunted. Apparently, the girls party a mere two blocks from my house. Where have I been?
Don’t answer that because I already know.
[CECE COBB - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
When I was six, I brought a box of Crayons in the car with me. They were new and sharp and gorgeous, and I used them on our three hour drive to Maine. My parents brought a sketch book, but instead I used The Witches, scribbling inside the illustrations to make me less scared. And oh yes, I was fantasticaly, numbingly scared. They were coming for me, I was sure of it.
When we got to the beach; I decided there were no witches in the ocean, and forgot all about the crayons. By night they had melted all across the seat, a solid river of marigold, violet, and burnt sienna. I carved hearts in it with a pencil, and peeled off strips on the way home.
Last week at dinner, there were crayons on the table, and a candle. I had hit my over-it limit; there were more witches in the city than ever but I was still deciding how to take them. So I took four crayons and shoved them into the flame; they oozed and I felt a little better.
[CHIP & PEPPER - ARE THEY THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITES, OR DO THEY JUST MAKE CRAYONS?]
Dear Karl Fiends who have recently sent me mail,
Thank you for totally digging The Imaginary Socialite. I adore you and your fearless leader, too, and here is the photo to prove it, which I took while stalking.
(okay, really, there was no stalking; I took it in a DJ booth, but it was all very exciting and US Weekly at the time…)
xoxo IS
[LISA ROBINSON - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Sitting in a bakery and Gurj says this:
“I just feel like right now there are no limits. I should have my pick of any one, or twelve.”
What was she talking about?
a) cupcakes
b) guys
c) jobs
d) parties
e) fake Chanel bags
[CAROLINE TRENTINI - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Mommy Dearest: Honey, we had some visitors at the new house last night.
Am I The IS: Jehovah’s witnesses?
Mommy Dearest: Deer.
Am I The IS: Seriously? Mom, you’ve officially moved to like the boonies.
Mommy Dearest: It’s not that bad. They just strayed a little far. We woke up and looked outside and we thought, huh, Bambi.
Am I The IS: Really? Cause, I would have woke up
Am I The IS: looked outside
Am I The IS: and thought, huh, I wonder if that’s going to be a full length coat at Saks by fall.
[NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS POST. THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE HEARTS ANIMALS AND DOES NOT WEAR THEM. BUT, IT'S STILL FUNNY.]
David, 23
David is so gorgeous and so stylish and so cool, but really his crush-worthiness lies not with his Miu Miu tank, his fash-insider status, or his rock-star pose.
It’s because I walked up to him with a Sharpie and said “Hey, I’m going to write on you, is that okay?” and he just smiled and gave me his arm (and held his friend’s polaroid, which was also kind of funny).
Total swoon.
[EVA SCRIVO - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]
Indie Lauper: Hey, I think you were right about Joanie. I think she might win Top Model tonight.
Am I The IS: What do you mean you think she might win? All of a sudden?
Indie Lauper: I have a feeling.
Am I The IS: Spill it. What do you know?
Indie Lauper: Nothing, but I did hear that she’s in New York for a few days, which makes me wonder.
Am I The IS: Yeah. Or. Maybe she’s interviewing to be Tyra’s new personal assistant?
[CHARLIE McCOLLUM - AM I THE IMAGINARY SOCIALITE?]