Weekly Recap on Twitter and Life...

Well tommorow I have my family reunion out in what I lovingly call "the sticks". I will see people I haven't seen in ages and the wonderfully repetitive question will be asked, "What have you been doing?" "When are you getting married?" People have a knack for asking questions that are uncomfortable and obtrusive at family gatherings.

My answer will be the truth, "I've been on twitter and blogging about it along with my other passions everyday." I can imagine already the expressions of confusion that will garner to the equivelant expression as if I told them I took up stripping. Having my other job as a full-time caregiver for my grandfather would garner sympathetic looks of pity which I do not want. I am going with the first explaination. Usually if someone does not believe in what your doing they won't argue you with, or comment if your passionate enough in your explaination. I am glad I have been reading Plato and brushing up on my rhetoric. (why, can't they serve alcohol at these things. )

A gay relative I just finished talking to on facebook told me that he refused to come to the reunion because last year his uncle put his hands on him for his pro-Obama stance. Needless to say there isn't many democratics running around on that side of the family. I told him that I would happily ask that same uncle this year about his thoughts on gay marriage in New York. I am telling you there is nothing like potato salad and fireworks to make a reunion more exciting.

As far as Twitter, I look forward to the regular return of Jill Zarin. My favorite New York Housewife has been in London understandably enjoying merry old England! (limited Twittering) Hope you had a pint with some handsome English blokes, our beloved red queen! Also check out my review on Erica Negi's, My Life In Loubies, it is the best piece of fiction that I have read in a long time. It will help you get through the long week until the next episode of, The Real Housewives of NYC. And lastly, if your a fan of Hudson Leick and planning on attending the last Xena convention by Creation Entertainment in 2012, make sure you write to them. Hudson has not been confirmed and your tickets are not-refundable. You can go to the Hudson Leick offical facebook fanpage for all the contact e-mails addresses for Creation Entertainment.

I love you all and will let you know about the fireworks in "stick-ville". Remember "Standing up against hatred is the first step to overcoming it", xoxo - Kimberly

Mean Tweeting: 21st Century MudSlinging

We love. We hate. In this 21st century world Twitter has given us a new tool to communicate our feelings with people about what we love and hate. But the question is when does your tweet go from a form of communicating your opinion to just being down right mean and cruel? Also when does that cross the line into be a cyberbully?

Cyberbullying became a phrase popularized this season of "The RealHousewives of New York City". Jill Zarin claimed that Simon VanKampen cyberbullied her. Many people have made their negative opinions known about what they think on that situation but again people only looked at the surface of the issue. Faithful followers of twitter that watch all twitter accounts of the stars from that show have seen nasty comments go back and forth between all of them. Simon VanKampen has received a lot of nasty tweets since the airing of the episode. I can say that when Simon VanKampen asked his followers for any proof of nasty tweets he made about Jill Zarin, I did send him one. One comment that had stood out in my mind was after Jill had called the now infamous episode of Ramona/Mario and Alex/Simon soft core porn, Simon made a nasty remark that if it is porn that Jill should add it to Bobby's (Jill Zarin's husbands) porn collection. He also made "apologies" that the intimate moments were not based on the exchange of services rendered for expensive jewlery. (Read into that as you will)

I tweeted that remark in reponse to Simon's call for alledgedly nasty Jill tweets, he retweeted it, and I received fifteen mean tweets from his followers saying horrible, disgusting things. (We will just forget he asked for proof) We ,the faithful followers of our favorite celebrities, know no one is innocent or safe from nasty comments, but when does it really cross the line into cyberbullying?

Here is one of the cleaniest comments tweeted to me from a Simon follower after my pro-Jill stance:

"Simon is being real, Jill is being a Jew"

I was stunned and blocked them two seconds later but if I get this kind of comment I can not even begin to imagine the hateful comments and volume that celebrities get. People blame celebrities for blocking people? I do not blame anyone for not wanting to read hate from hateful people.

People who faithfully follow Jill Zarin and read her last blog at Jill Zarin.com will remember reading that she alluded to Simon consorting with a certain individual that bullied and stalked her family. While many people claim Jill was being over dramatic I happened onto that website one day of that individual in question and how do I even know it was that individual in question? On her website she pretty much bragged about it, of course from a victimized perspective. She claimed she was a target, but what is her whole website devoted to, hate! Her entire website was dedicated to her hatred of Jill Zarin. I am not a therapist but I think a line is crossed when you devote a whole entired website to your hatred of one person, especially when it is not someone you know personally. Honestly, who has the time or energy for that? Could you imagine what a person could do with all the energy they spend on what they hate and redirected it to something they love, they could be making the world a better place.

My only thoughts are this, if you are making nasty tweets, question yourself why? Would you want people sending you that stuff. Secondly if you continually are sending nasty tweets to someone ask yourself why do I feel the need to do this? What inside of you is prompting you to do this? Again if you would not want someone doing it to you, why do you want to do it? As Jill Zarin said in response to criticism about blocking haters, "why give hatred room to breathe?" Hatred is a disease to your soul and is one of the most destructive emotions of humanity. (Remember Hitler?) Hatred causes only harm in this world and to participate in it is to destroy the world, even if it is one mean tweet at a time. I offer you the antidote to that nasty disease though and that is love. Acting in love will make the world a better place, wouldn't you like to live in a better place? (I know I would)

Question:

To Gossip Girl - there are no confirmed reports about Jill moving to London. Bravo seems to stick to a tight budget, unwilling to fork over the money for a copy right for Lisa Wexler's(Jill's sister) song to air that she sang at Jill's birthday. The cost of producing a show in London would be astronomical...my guess no.

Skweez Couture ( a Jill Zarin Collection)

Who else is ready for the launch of Skweez Couture? Me..Me..and Me (raising hand) I have been following on twitter @skweezcouture and @jillzarin and I can say that September can not come soon enough for me.

When you visit the website, skweezcouture.com, your taste buds are tantalized with a sexy array of undergarments. Most times when you think of any undergarments, you suddenly get an image of a robust opera singer in a corset ready to bust. (not the prettest image) But when visiting the website you see a collection that blows that image out of your head. It is garments that are not only made to work with the contours of your body but to make you feel sexy, as if you were putting on sexy lingere. (this is not your grandma's shapewear)

Jill Zarin has been very candid about promoting her line because she geniuinely believes in it. If you read the story on skweezcouture.com she says "I am obsessed with shapewear as I truly believe that beauty begins with a great foundation." She went to work to try to eliminate the problems that most shapewear presents "seams running down the middle and matching skin color". Aside from the sexy look, Jill says, it is a shapewear made from the best, luxury materials and boasts the world's best control technology. What woman doesn't want more control over her life and body so she can look her best?

Skweez Couture is a collection of shapewear, hoisiery, shapertights, leggings, swimwear, bras, intimate apparel and accessories. Who can't wait until September? Its this bloggers birthday so I already know whats on my wish list. Thank you Mrs. Jill Zarin for making womankind's life a little easier with style and class.

Follow Jill on twitter @jillzarin and Skweezcouture @skweexcouture

Real Housewives of New York: Season 4: on twitter

It has been an amazing ride this season with the housewives of New York City. On twitter it is an absolute jungle safari as faithful followers have watched their favorites fued via twitter which has added extra drama already to an already exciting season.




Out there already exists many great recap gossip blogs that follow Housewives shows, such as the @Housewiveshodown so I am only speaking from my viewing perspective on twitter and as a faithful tv watcher. Following on twitter I have come to adore Jill Zarin @Jillzarin, despise Simon Van Kampen and with the other housewives have had a love, hate relationship.




For most of the season Ramona Singer has been the villian which in yesterdays episode on Bravo we finally got to see a "good side". She went out of her way to throw a surprise party for her hurting friend @SonjatMorgan. Maybe there is something to be said about editing but as someone else said on twitter, you really don't know anybody by watching an one hour edited show. If you like Ramona make sure you follow her because she does watch her twitter. I know she watches her twitter because I said to a fellow twitter buddy once tweeting "I would just die if I got a tweet from Ramona". Next thing I know I get an instant update on my phone telling me that I, little old me, got a direct message from Ramona Singer! By the time I ran to my computer to check and see that it really just happened I find she deleted it! Ramona was never my favorite but I was supremely honored. She had obviously looked at my pro-Jill Zarin page and decided not to favor me with a direct message. I was devestated but then decided to look at it as a compliment. I was just insulted by my favorite housewives arch-enemy. (at least for this season)




Jill Zarin continues to remain my most beloved housewife throughout this whole season. She really went through a horrible time last season between her husband's health issues and her more than public fight with her best friend Betthany Frankel. I have seen on twitter from her what I have seen all season, she has been warm and inviting. She has not shied away from commenting about events of the show or her twitter fueding with Ramona. She has always admitted to her wrong and tried to make things better. I will continue to follow her with pride.
Follow Jill on twitter @Jillzarin. Other related groups are @thegingerettes @skweezcouture @therealgingerzarin, etc.

I also want to recommend if you are against bullying to follow @thebirthmarkproj which is the twitter for Jennifer Zarin. Jennifer Zarin is a crusader against hatred in this world, for the simple crime of being different. To be continued...



Yesterday's episode was about Simon Van Kampen cyberbullying Jill Zarin by using twitter. I can speak from my own experience that when he just recently openly challenged any followers to bring forth these alledgedly "nasty tweets", I did. He did not attack me but when he retweeted it on his page I received "nasty tweets" from fifteen of his followers. Can the apple fall far from the tree? Even more scary was that when commenting on Simon's behavior via twitter during yesterdays episode I received a gross anti-semetic comment about Jill, saying "Simon is real and Jill is just a Jew". In my humble opinion hate follows hate! ...to be continued.