Ugh.
It’s like high school never ends.
The New York Observer is running a competition called Socialite Slapdown. Basically it pits NYC socialites against one another in the categories of brains, beauty, birth, and brio (I don’t know what “brio” means, either, and I would have pegged it for a cheese if I heard it out of context. The Observer’s description makes it sound pretty much like a measure of one’s willingness to sacrifice self-respect in the name of social climbing).
Anyway, there’s no actual, like, competition, it’s just a full-on popularity contest. And you can vote! Even if you’re not rich or charming or beautiful! Just like for prom queen! It’s just that you’ll never, ever be nominated. Just like for prom queen!
Click here to check out the competition.
Webster’s online defines brio as vivacity or verve and for some dang reason, Samantha Ronson is in this Socialite Slapdown. Go figure.
Well… hm. I think I’m dumber now. Thanks beet.
Yep.
Actually, I think they have the idea that this is pretty high-schoolish too.
Quoted from the site: “What is Socialite Slapdown?
Socialite Tinsley Mortimer, in the midst of the purported catfight between herself and her personal Eve, Olivia Palermo, lamented to a reporter recently that the blogs and newspapers believe Manhattan society is like the schoolyard: all hair-pulling and vicious insideriness. It’s not like that, she said.”
You should offer your services as editor beet-beet. The writing is awful, broken, purple, and pretentious.
In any event… brio is probably from the musical “con brio”.