• business school

    Julia Allison's Existential Thanksgiving Crisis

    You know those movies where the big city hotshot character comes back to their town for the holidays and learns humbling lessons about life and love? Well that apparently played out in real life when Julia Allison—internet fame connoisseur, lifecaster—traveled back to Chicago for Thanksgiving. Between lazily pushing mashed potatoes around her plate and clubbing at "the hottest spot in Chicago," she seems to have experienced an existential crisis that led to a big, HUGE decision that she's of course loudly announced on her website: Julia Allison is going to Business School! And not just any business school. Like some sort of businessy Elle Woods, she's aiming for the crème de la crème: Harvard! And Stanford. What, like it's hard? There are, though, some small flaws in her plan: More »

    12:45 PM on Sun Nov 30 2008
    By Richard
    12,190 views, 176 comments

    Most discussed surlybastard: This is tangential, but I was just thinking again of how absurd it was that Julia Allison could ever have more »

  • julia allison

    Dear God, Call The Secret Service!

    "At Obama’s Chicago headquarters RIGHT NOW." [Julia Allison, Video]

    2:36 AM on Tue Nov 25 2008
    By Ryan Tate
    1,517 views, 20 comments

    Most discussed Rosie4Prez: You know, I like this girl. Her heart seems to be in the right place because she does come more »

  • fameballs

    Seriously, Why Even Bothering Profiling Julia Allison?

    It's funny and meta to watch Julia Allison get profiled. Since she's already done all the work for us in real time—chronicling her thoughts and moods and outfits on her blog—a profile seems beside the point and out of date by the time it goes to print—we've already seen those outfits and photos, and we already know what events she's been to. Journalists are usually left baffled upon their first introduction to the JA force of nature—when we've been collectively getting her IMs for years! Australia is just now catching on to this Internet fameball/oversharing thing, putting Allison on the cover of a magazine—and including her close personal friend, and also our former editor, Emily Gould. (At this point, Em seems like she wants to erase the Internet and spend a month in a sensory-deprivation chamber.) The profile is very similar to Allison's Wired cover story, except for perhaps the journalist's outright dislike for her subjects. More »

    4:24 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
    By Sheila
    6,897 views, 110 comments

    Most discussed narnio: THIS IS FUCKING RETARDED more »

  • the trend that wasn't

    Power Girls Commandeering Private Jets a Trend, in Fantasy World

    It's the trend that wasn't: certain ladies are part of the new power elite of women who pay for their own travel via private jets. According to Private Air Daily, "[Dating columnist] Julia Allison and fellow Internet glamour girls Mary Rambin and Meghan Asha, stars of Bravo's upcoming reality show It Girls, [rumored show -Ed], are emblematic of a growing feminization of the [private jet] flight ceiling." With the show and their startup Nonsociety in mind, it's time to step right up and dance like monkeys to perform the art of the shill: More »

    5:59 PM on Thu Nov 20 2008
    By Sheila
    5,723 views, 67 comments

    Most discussed kathotdog: I see the Julia made Megan be the stewardess. more »

  • freakoutnomics

    The Recession Hits Home

    This is from dating columnist and startup Nonsociety lifestreamer Julia Allison's Twitter. Welcome to how the other half lives! (Her salary at Star last year was $100K—just so you know.)

    1:04 PM on Fri Oct 24 2008
    By Sheila
    3,247 views, 91 comments

    Most discussed Unfun: Color me surprised that their derivative website featuring only their insufferable selves is not getting sufficient funding in this day more »

  • failed publicity stunts

    Online Intimacy-Faker Meets His Ultimate Match

    Imagine you're a marketing intern at an online dating company that lets you video-chat with others. Part of your job is to give the lonely ladies out there a little webcam-time and pretend you like them. That's what tipster Corey does: "To be fair, it’s not so much an internship as it is emotional prostitution... It's weird and mildly unethical, but it pays well. I mean, if I have to let some 45 year old cat lady from Wyoming think we’re having an emotional affair so I can occasionally eat at Le Bateau Ivre, then so be it." We understand. But it must have been shocking for him to have the omniscient fameball trio of dating columnist Julia Allison & her Nonsociety friends pop up on his screen while he was emotionally prostituting himself. He must have felt like he truly met his match! More »

    11:29 AM on Fri Oct 10 2008
    By Sheila
    6,846 views 17 comments

    Most discussed surfacenoise76: Why is a male wearing a scarf indoors? more »

  • you the brand

    How She Did It: the Official Julia Allison School of Branding

    Didn't want to cough up $75 for MediaBistro's seminar on Personal Branding, starring dating columnist Julia Allison? We don't blame you for that smart economic decision. Here it is for free: step-by-step instructions on how to be a brand, straight from her PowerPoint presentation! (Which we asked for and received.) Remember, we're all going to get laid off tomorrow, and the only brand you have to rely on is you. Highlights include "aggressive costuming" and "Age 26: first [magazine] cover." More »

    1:53 PM on Thu Oct 9 2008
    By Sheila
    20,915 views, 96 comments

    Most discussed prairiefire: where is she going to be in ten years? more »

  • how things work

    How to Date a Web Celebrity

    When your quotidian indiscretions can be photographed, Twittered, and uploaded before you've stumbled out of a cab and up the steps at the end of the night, extra precautions must be taken. Especially you're dating extreme lifestreaming oversharer Julia Allison. Yes, one brave gent has stepped up to the plate. Crazy we didn't hear about it sooner, because she usually shares all her important life decisions with us via her blog—and most men are therefore afraid to date her. "She realized this recently after three promising first dates abruptly called it quits," as her recent NYT profile put it. "In an e-mail message, Ms. Allison acknowledged that her chosen profession may have permanently ruined her social life." But not entirely. Eater's darkly handsome blogger-about-town Ben Leventhal has taken her on. More »

    12:31 PM on Wed Oct 1 2008
    By Sheila
    7,868 views, 54 comments

    Most discussed TheHonJudgeSmails: Well, Sheila... if you ignore them, and Gawker ignores them, they WILL go away. It's that easy. But let's have more »

  • nonsociety

    Julia Allison's Show Overpromises 'Sex'

    Professional lifestreamers Julia Allison, Meghan Asha and Mary Rambin launched a three-minute Web show, TMI Weekly . The serial is modeled after The View, according to the LA Times, although consumer goods seem to have been substituted for actual, you know, issues. Your Correspondent is about as far from the show's target demographic as one can be without collecting social security benefits or calling Barack Obama by his middle name, but he does feel comfortable making two observations: The program is supposed to be about "Sex. Tech. Style," but the only discussion of sex is a recurring joke about how Asha never has any. Change the tagline or live up to it. Also, the dog-fart chats really need to go. After the jump, a sample episode in which Allison reads from 37 hate-filled text messages from one of her dates. More »

    3:33 AM on Wed Oct 1 2008
    By Ryan Tate
    5,397 views, 45 comments

    Most discussed shadowy figure: Look, I know Julia's a fameball and all, with some blindingly unoriginal ideas, but the more Gawker (and everybody here) more »