when confronted with a potential mate, DABA girls will circle twice and then sniff his wallet.

Dawn,

So, damn, you’ve been getting some ridicule and I’m pretty sure it’s not what you thought you were signing up for when you sat down with Ravi Somaiya for that little piece in the Times. But actually, wait, maybe I’m wrong about that. Did you really (really?!) not know what you were getting into (I mean, feasible enough since you overlooked the bumps in the road associated with that whole marrying a banker thing). I don’t know how on top of your Gawker you are, but it doesn’t take an RSS feed to figure out your story is their meat or better yet, you are. And yes, they’ll make you a webelebelibrity if that was your goal. Book deals don’t just fall out of the sky–except when they do, whatever.

But hey, maybe you could have gotten one on your own? The dreamy girl jobs, the promotions, the long shiny hair? I guess you just get tired of waiting for it especially when a short-cut was so there and, well, seize-able. So, Carpe Diem? Girl leaves Maine, gets big city job, meets big city people, marries them, sells-out, gets laughed at, writes book.

Love,

Ryan

New York Magazine has dedicated its recent cover, and most of its interior, and, all right, the whole magazine to its esteemed founding editor, Clay Felker. To many, and especially (ironically) to the transplants among us, his death brought his name and legacy to our attention. It’s unfortunate that only under these circumstances did we (oh! the collective we!) have the chance to learn about a man who saw New York much in the way that Fame Game sees it (one can only wonder if he would have seen its growth as an abomination or a blessing, this vision, this city). Ultimately, he got what we got: that a great deal of the citizens of New York are essentially strivers looking to make their mark on the city, and maybe, in fact, history — or, at the very least, to have their footprint recognized.

Felker’s New York Magazine explored the depths of this culture as an almost sociological inquiry; his creation acted as an echo chamber for New York’s own self absorption. (see Wolfe). Fame Game, on the other hand  is letting the people’s action speak for itself.

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