Succumbing to Blue States Lose

It's a right of passage in NYC to have your pic posted on a party website like Last Nights Party or Misshapes. It's one thing to be caught on them, another to be caught with your shirt off (no comment). They've become my guilty pleasure since I moved so I can check up on where my friends are going and what the "cool" kids are wearing (blech).

ANYWAY, Gawker does this hilarious mock of the week's lamest/most pretentious pics called "Blue States Lose". It used to be hilarious and usually they just made fun of the Misshapes kids and Mark the Cobrasnake's girlfriend. Now some new guy is writing it, he does something for the Best Week Ever blog, and it's kinda lost it's pizzaz. I still read it though. For the first time ever, someone who I can actually say I know fell victim.

Seeing that I can't get the damn link to work, here's what they had to say:

"9. Misshapes. September 30th, 2006 photo #014: These iPod ads are seriously getting old. We get it already, blasting Bloc Party on a portable music player can turn a mild-mannered retail employee into an "edgy" urban dipshit with a poor sense of fashion and a constant need to shake their moronic dreadlocks all over the place. "Think different", just like everyone else."

In Johnny's defense (not that he needs it) he is a stylist by day and musical artist by night. He's also supersweet, fun, has a beautiful family and let me sing on stage with his band on my birthday last year.

As for the author of the item, it's better to stick to VH1 and let someone who's actaully in the scene do the mudslinging.