Yo, Curbed National Is Here!

If you like to jerk off to real estate listings and insider-y info like I do, then you've probably spent a good amount of time on Curbed.com. They cover all the real estate goings on in NYC, San Fran, LA and the Hamptons. But now they're bigger! AND better! Cause they just launched Curbed National! Holla!

[We'll] "focus [on] all-things design, decor, and shelter, from Malibu dream houses to Wyoming ranches to Maine cabins, and all residences in between. Expect a jaw-dropping daily featured project, wall-to-wall coverage of celebrity real estate, and a healthy dose of the ridiculous. And amidst the glories of the glorious and the hideous, we'll give you scoop on the ever-changing shelter-media universe and ponder decor in TV, movies, music and politics. We'll cover little-known and name-brand interior decorators alike, and tiny design blogs in far-flung corners of the web will be treated with the same dignity as Architectural Digest."

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[#NATEGATE] Wherin Nate Berkus Screws Up Royally

I already knew that Nate Berkus was gorgeous, and charming and incredibly talented, but based on what happened today for the design blogger show, I'm sad to have to add "totally friggin clueless" to the list. I mean, this shit was BAD, ppl. Like so bad, I didn't even think it was *possible* for someone to screw things up as badly as he and his staff did today.

To catch everyone's asses up: based on an impromptu Twitter campaign that ended up going quasi-viral (started by my 2 fave beyotches, The Moggit Girls), hundreds of design bloggers all blogged about Nate Berkus one day this summer in a collective, worldwide social media lovefest. They called it #nateday. And after such an amazing response, it was suggested that Nate should follow Martha Stewart's lead and do a "blogger show" one day where he filled up his entire audience with design bloggers. Brillz, right??

T-O-T-A-L-L-Y.

So we waited and waited and waited and waited, and finally, last week many of us got word that the day had finally come. The blogger show was scheduled for 9/21! We were only given one week's notice (which was kind of annoying), but many bloggers still managed to take time off, make travel arrangements and take time out of their very busy lives to be there.

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It's #NateDay921

Ok, so if:

*you don't like Nate Berkus
*don't like design bloggers who like Nate Berkus
*don't like when people go on and on and on about something

Today and tomorrow are probs VERY good days to stay the fuck off Twitter and stay the fuck off the interwebz. Cause Nate Berkus is shooting a show today with an audience full of design bloggers! Cause the Moggit Girls told him he should! And he listened! (and that's a lesson to us that everyone should just always do whatever the hell the Moggit Girls tell us to!). And yes: everyone will be talking about it and tweeting about it like its their J-O-B.

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I Loved The #MarthaBlogger Party More Than A Fat Kid Loves Cake

Way to ruin every networking party that I'll ever go to, like EVER AGAIN, Martha Stewart! Cause now I'm just gonna be comparing them all to #marthablogger's Blogger's Night Out. Holy shit that thing ruled my face so hard!

So, in case you've been living under a rock, Martha Stewart had a little bloggy blog bloggerson get together last night at her offices here in NYC. The who's who of the Bloggerati were invited, as well as some Bloggerati posers like moi, and we were all to gather on the scenic roofdeck for bloggy cocktails and blogacious light snacks.

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[I'M OBSESSED] Decor Demon

Hey, uhm...does anyone know how to frame a website and hang it over your couch? Either that or maybe I'll cancel my cable and just run a slideshow of pics from THE BEST MOTHERFUCKING WEBSITE ON THE WHOLE ENTIRE DUB DUB DUB IN A CONSTANT LOOP (EXCEPT FOR TUESDAY NIGHTS WHEN PRETTY LITTLE LIARS IS ON): DECOR DEMON!!

This hot piece of internet sexiness is the work of Brian Patrick Flynn, and trust: you will soooo be pickin up what he's puttin down. Like insanely chic-n-gorge spaces that he designs for all sorts of fancy and non-fancy people (with links and scoop on all his sources--cause he CARES), beautiful photography (from Sarah Dorio), and so many killer, affordable ideas for shit you can immediately copy, your head's gonna explode.

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Brooklyn Style

Our blogging bud Nicole from Sketch42 is off galavanting in Bali, so she was kind enough to ask DB to guest DJ for today!

Check out our post on Brooklyn Style (and duh, our hipster hate).

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[COOL OR NOT COOL] Design Bloggers-n-Ugly Houses?

So Girl World Decor is accepting suggestions for noms for her Girly Awards...and in the comments someone mentioned Design Bloggers who claim to be designers but actually live in ugly assed spaces.

At least, that was the implication. I'm not going to include the link to the "allegedly" ugly assed space, b/c this shit is way subjective. But its a very interesting point.

I mean, if I show up to my dentist's office and he's sitting there smoking a cigarette with a mouth full of crooked yellow teeth, I'm turning right the fuck around, ya know?

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[WHERE I BLAHG]: STFU Parents

Each week we'll pull back the curtain, and give you an insider's look into the lives of some of your favorite bloggers with 'Here's where they blahg.' This week: B from STFU Parents.

Much like the fire department and the police, STFU Parents provides the world with a crucial, and oft overlooked public service: policing Facebook and the internet-at-large for totally fucking annoying and ridiculous parents. Her site is hilarious and addictive, and, unsurprisingly, there's some crazy ass shit on there. She's got "mommyjacking" stories, poop photos that will, potentially, burn your retinas, and my personal faves: "mom's gold star.

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