Shook the Spot

Yesterday was a pretty fucking HUGE day in the short life of Shook the Spot. Three days after she was outed as a loyal but silent reader of this blog, our beloved Northwestern freshman and one-time im.bitch collaborator finally paid us another visit. At 12:18 p.m. (11:18 a.m. her time), the Ethical Culture Fieldston School grad logged on for a dose of spot shaking, and though she did not see it fit to leave a comment, her presence was felt nonetheless.

Dayenu. And yet, a visit to this humble site just wasn't enough for the art history major. At 7:36 last night, this exciting development popped into our inbox . . .

[Shook the Spot's new favorite person] has requested to add you as a friend. Before we can do that, you must confirm that you are in fact friends with [her].

HUGE. Of course, we accepted. Who knows what's next.

This is a moon without a tide . . .

Distressing news out of USA Today this morning . . .

But thanks to MTV's popular reality show Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, the Mediterranean-like enclave midway between Los Angeles and San Diego is being painted with a different brush. And many of its 25,000 residents don't like what they see. [ . . . ]

“We are an affluent, tolerant community with a long heritage of culture, character and art. The MTV show has hijacked our identity, and people are beginning to feel violated,” says Laguna native Howard Hills, an attorney and father of five. “It has become a metaphor for everything we don't want to be.”

A classic case of hating the players and the game. On the bright side, the story includes this silver lining for spring . . .

(Although original star Kristen Cavallari's new UPN reality series Get This Party Started stalled after two episodes, MTV's The Hills, which launches this spring, will follow Cavallari's classmate Lauren “LC” Conrad as she moves to L.A. and becomes an intern at Teen Vogue magazine.)

CHAMOMILE MOTHERFUCKER!!!

What's awesome about this photograph? (And as much as we love her, it's not the im.bitch sheepishly avoiding the camera . . .)

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