Party Report: The Young and the Guest List
I scored an invite to last night’s Young and the Guest List party, thrown by Washington Life magazine to celebrate the release of their list of who’s who in the under-40 social set. These things are easy to scoff at. I’m still a bit mystified by all ways people measure status in this city: the balls, the charities, the lists. The thing is, fancy parties are fun. All the intrigue about who’s on the list and why makes for good gossip, especially when lots of the people in the room don’t know each other.
The big news this year was that the list had gotten smaller and more diverse, which meant heads had to roll. I was pleasantly surprised by the people I met: artists, NGO types, other women who read comic books. Also, Jacques Cousteau’s grandson, Philippe. Apparently Miss UK was there too. There were fire-eaters and clowns on stilts. And the food was amazing. Paper cones of fried calamari, thin slices of lamb on a slab of salt, fancy popcorn, sushi, spoons filled with little bites of yummy stuff. Lots of champagne and vodka and fruit dipped in chocolate. All this in a beautiful Georgetown mansion.
Glamor isn’t so annoying when you get to share.
The only sour note of the evening came when I tried to say hi to Reed Landry, the founder of Late Night Shots. He’s still really upset with me for the story I wrote about his website. I’m sorry, Reed. I thought part of the whole society thing was that you at least shake hands with your enemies. I’m also sorry you were so upset when my friend tried to take your picture. Next time, please don’t push her or threaten to break her camera. As they say on LNS, stay classy.
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2:22 pm
Boooooooorrrriiinnnnggg
2:45 pm
Woh woh woh…does any one see the irony here. Angela Valdez is on Washington Life’s guest list and attends the parties…what a joke!
8:46 pm
valdez–you are ridiculous. after what you wrote this summer, you can’t pretend to take the high road. do you think the last paragraph of your articl is classy? i don’t. i don’t know whether your position or that of lns is the right one. but, i do know that you were the original aggressor, that you seem to lack compassion for the people you hurt, and that now you can’t understand why the people whose lives you screwed with don’t want to shake your hand.
the classy position is as follows: live and let live. you have sown yourself to be an even bigger snob than the people you criticize, and i don’t see how you have the right to place yourself abve them now. you need to grow up and realize that this world is full of different typs of people and that we all need to learn to respect each other. you seem to completely lack respect for people who thnk differently than you do, and, as far as i’m concerned, that is the ultimate in classlessness.
and, jen, i see the irony…she’s out there trying to be part of the scene she ridicules…poor, insecure, scared little child…
11:57 pm
Valdez, you are a stain. The party was a celebration of the magazine, NOT a forum to badger people. They are not celebrities or public figures. Photographs and videos at social events may not affect your low-life job, but other people in Washington have careers whose professional reputation is only tarnished by your smut-piece articles and blog writings that show up on Google. You have no ethics, have been exposed as a plagiarist. I feel bad for you living in your sad world of envy.
1:45 am
LNS people sure are touchy…
8:23 am
So this clown Landry, and he is an idiot and wastrel of the highest order, can’t let go of how the story exposed his lil’ group as a bunch of pathetic people who can’t make real friends, Angela tries to make nice months later, he’s a dick, shoves her friend, etc., and the writer is the one who gets attacked in the comments?
8:33 am
Were you there Jim? Oh, that’s right – you weren’t invited. For Valdez to claim Landry “pushed” anyone is ridiculous. I guess in order to keep her day job she had to make something up against the very kinds people she’s dying to be a part of.
She’s already plagarized. Now it’s slander. What’s next?
9:17 am
LOL @ LNS: U mad.
9:45 am
“Were you there Jim? Oh, that’s right – you weren’t invited.”
What a strange attempt to defend in indefensible. I wasn’t invited, therefore known pantywaists must have been well behaved?
This may come as a shock to those who obsess about what social events they get invited to, but most people have better things to do than attend a party thrown by a “magazine” nobody reads in honor of people they don’t like.
9:53 am
It must be difficult knowing that the most popular story you’ve ever written (and will ever write) is forgotten now. One of these days you’ll be asked to recreate that fleeting success with something original. Just keep trying to stay relevant, Valdez.
11:56 am
It’s her job, retards. You guys tie your own nooses; all she does is hand you the rope and win awards for writing about it. If you are so worried about your careers, maybe you should grow the fuck up and start acting like adults. One thing you could try is not acting like jackasses on the, oh i don’t know, internet.
5:35 pm
um, and it would be LIBEL, dumbasses… not SLANDER… and it’s not libel if it’s true or you can’t prove she made the statement with malicious intent. Being a reporter, she’s investigated the group and took an angle on the story. If you’re unhappy with how you were portrayed, then just don’t talk to reporters in the future.
10:57 am
wow! The scorn of the LNStards is quite revealing.
this copy of actual LNS posting borrowed from byt is also quite revealing:
i quote:
Breakage
Posted By: Plan B on 11-29-2006 10:00 am Report as shockingly offensive
Last night, after a few too many glasses of wine at Milano, I dropped my date off at her apartment. She asked me up for a drink. I was not into it, but Tuesday night takedowns only happen ever so often so I proceeded. She made me wear a condom because she was not on the pill for some reason. Deed done, I went into the bathroom to dispose of said condom and discovered it had long since broken. In a panic, I went back into her room, chatted for a few minutes and then departed gracefully. She also mentioned she was glad we slept together because she was getting her period in a few days. I failed to mention whatsoever that I may have impregnated her. Do I have to say something or just leave it be and hope she won’t get pregnant? Maybe she knew? I never want to see or talk to her again. She was a boring conversationalist and the sex was bad.
RE: Breakage
Posted By: oh god on 11-29-2006 12:00 pm Report as shockingly offensive
wait, plan b? im kind of freaking out. were you at a table in the front room of milano with me at milano and did we stop at the cvs in gtown before going back to my place to buy durex ultra thin condoms? i tried calling but you wont pick up.
RE: Breakage
Posted By: Plan B on 11-29-2006 12:16 pm Report as shockingly offensive
oh god: I probably should have searched for your profile on here first. That’s us. Check your gmail and tell me what you want to do. Sorry.
RE: Breakage
Posted By: oh god on 11-29-2006 1:16 pm Report as shockingly offensive
this is unbelievable. how could you not tell m? i could have taken plan b this morning instead of having to run all the way to cvs sobbing.
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FYI, they also post topics like, “Muslims… what to do about them,” “Peeing the bed” and, of course “girls who are ridiculously aggressive in bed”