Meet the bloggers: Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan.Ages: 29 and 31 Location: Los Angeles Blog: GoFugYourself.com Year launched: 2004 Visitors per month: Roughly 4 million Why you started: "We were just joking around about the idea, feeling punchy punch·y adj. punch·i·er, punch·i·est 1. Characterized by vigor or drive: "He speaks in short, punchy sentences, using plain, populist words that excite" on a slow Saturday, and set up the blog as an inside joke we figured would die out. But before it did, people found it." Purpose of blog: "Celebrities are such fashion plates these days, but half the time their choices confuse us. We take gentle--OK, barbed--swipes at people who have the resources to do better." Year you quit your day job: "We're not sure we have fully quit them, but we began a hiatus just a month ago." Biggest advertiser: "Random House, TBS, and MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. have been repeat customers, as has the Web site Pajiba.com." Strangest posting: "I guess Diana Ross wearing a pile of fuchsia fuchsia: see evening primrose. fuchsia Any of about 100 species of flowering shrubs and trees in the genus Fuchsia (family Onagraceae), native to tropical and subtropical regions of Central and South America and to New Zealand and Tahiti. tulle Tulle (t  l, Fr. tül), town (1990 pop. 18,685), capital of Corrèze dept., S central France. Firearms and other goods are made there. Tulle was built around a 7th-century monastery. was somewhat unexpected." Hottest link: "We suspect it's the link to our Britney Spears entries: parodies of her Letters of Truth, written by Jessica, which are incredibly popular among our readers." Three cons of blogging: "Carpal carpal /car·pal/ (kahr´p'l) pertaining to the carpus. car·pal adj. Of, relating to, or near the carpus. n. , tunnel, syndrome." |
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