Frightening, Yet True

So, Tell Me Everything I Know About You
This is an article from the Modern Love section of this Sunday's New York Times. Written by med student Joanna Pearson, she talks about her dating experience in Washington, DC and the downsides of Google-ing your date. Entertaining to read especially if you're familiar with DC bars and dating scene.

Hot Trend

So I see Sarah Palin on the cover of Time Magazine, and what I did I think of?

No, not her pregnant teenage daughter, nor her support to drill Alaskan nature landmarks for oil, nor that she was simply the "vagina card" played by McCain.

It's those rimless glasses that she wears all the time. It gives the librarian illusion but the lack of rim makes the appearance subtle enough to hide some of her acclaimed "hotness."

Rimless glasses - the trend for hot women who want to be taken seriously in the professional world.

The "Capitol" Hills

It's confirmed. According to the DC Examiner, Lifetime is filming their own version of "The Hills," DC style. To be aired after Project Runway, the show titled "Blonde Charity Mafia" present 3 "local" DC hotties, Katherine Kennedy, Krista Johnson, and Sophie Pyle.

Krista Johnson reassures that although it draws parallels to the MTV show, this version is more realistic:

“It’s all going to be about our real lives,” said Krista Johnson, who is a
partner at the Georgetown boutique We One You Two. “It’s going to be in the same
vein of MTV’s ‘The Hills’ but ours is going to be more realistic."

In my opinion, BCM is more like the charity/non-profit version of another MTV show "Power Girls." You can thank PG for the surge of interest in public relations, hopefully BCM will do that too for non-profit orgs? But in vein of "The Hills," the theme will probably surround the drama in their personal lives, and the non-profit will play as a backdrop... because there has to be some reason to throw a party.

I can't help but imagine in their very recent past, they probably rejoiced at their first mention on Pamela's Punch or waited for their invite to Late Night Shots. Now they have their own TV show. All the power to them.

I just hope that they don't become as popular as Lauren, Audrina, Heidi, and co., because there are so many people in DC who do exactly the same thing as they do (plus more) but these girls just happened to be in the right field, at the right time, at the right bar where they were holding auditions.

All in all, I'll probably watch the season premiere.

A press release from Lifetime announcing the show.