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Oh God.
SF Chronicle's City Brights, a last-grasp kind of web-log that features local "luminaries" writing about their mental bowel movements, has a new member to the team. Two of them, actually: Peter and Billy Getty, marginally famous heirs to the Getty fortune. And aside from bringing the likes of Vanessa Getty (San Francisco's real First Lady) to public consciousness, their contributions to life have, at best, been minimal.
Their latest minimal effort is called "What the Butler Didn't See" They write about being rich but not that rich (if you know any SF society ilk, this is one of the first things they feel the need to tell you), talk about having their own private box at AT&T Park (which they simply loathe), getting pooped on by a underaged sex slaves, or whatever it is rich folk do.
Here's a sample:
By the way: there are slews of people richer than we are, just in this neighborhood. We're more famous for being rich than we really are rich. But we have enough to belong to the leisure class, meaning we get to spend very little of our time doing anything we don't feel like, and we have means to sample, if not to gorge on, pleasures that most people, sad to say, won't likely ever share in — things like yacht trips and safaris, ludicrously expensive wine, and private jet travel.
As Gawker pointed out today, their Ben Affleck-poking-fun-at-his-own-image-on-SNL-ish self awareness shtick isn't doing anyone any favors. Read Bill's bio if you want to throw up. (In the their defense, though, neither Bill nor Peter front that they adore going to poopholes like Zeitgeist, or claim that they really, really want to help the SF hobo population. So, you know, there's that.)
And, yes, we're jealous of their comparatively massive wealth. And, yeah, we'll probably read them on a regular basis.
Oh God part II: SFAppeal has word that SFGate also disabled the comments, so that the Getty's petal-soft feelings aren't hurt by the riffraff. To which we say: Grow a pair, boys. We promise you'll be the better for it. (For reals, Chron/Getty brothers, you need to turn them on; it's a blog, not the VIP room at Le Club.) And SFBG's Tim Redmond weighs in on it too.
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I hate that SFGate has not enabled comments for that blog.
SF Gate should turn off comments, period.
Or they could turn off the articles and just have comments!
The Chron has reached an all new low -- publishing "works" by writters so rich they'll work for free.
Hmm, that last comment wasn't supposed to be a reply. I even unchecked "reply." Looks like Gothamist needs to head back to rent-a-coder...
you can say that again
aside from bringing the likes of Vanessa Getty (San Francisco's real First Lady) to public consciousness, their contributions to life have, at best, been minimal.
Aside from resembling Christian Bale in "Batman" movies, Gavin Newsom's contributions to public life have been minimal. And that paper publishes his remarks all the time.
I strangely wasn't all that enraged by that. Their detachment obviously doesn't do them many favors in terms of betraying their "we're just like you in a lot of ways!" sentiment--money's hardly ever a big deal to people who have it--but it still didn't make me want to kill for some reason.
I think I was more bothered by Bill's hair.
Oops, I guess that was Peter Getty:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2046/2414264137_c4d7cd8002.jpg
Jeez, Peter: since you're rich-but-not-really-rich, I can recommend a decent $10 haircut place for you out on the Avenues
I don't think people will really want to commit acts of murder. But you know how people in this town get. For some inane reason, we need our wealthy to feel super guilty and secretive and shameful.
Wow, they're just like Campbell Scott's character Victor Geddes in Dying Young, only they aren't dying.
@Joel -- wow, that pic is one of the best Obama "we have a cool black friend" pics ever!
Why does every photo of Peter look like he just crawled out of bed? Oh yeah, admittedly that is probably where he just came from.
They are who we thought they are.
Btw, what exempts Vanessa Getty from this class rage?
Because Vanessa is blonde-ish, a lady, wears heels, and leaves curlers in her hair during Vanity Fair photo shoots. That's why.
She gives Brock an ironically hetero boner.
And she's getting photos of her taken in Vanity Fair (with curlers) because she's a dazzling, self-accomplished individual? Or because she's rich, and that's what bored, rich people do when they're watching TV or telling other people what it's like to be them?
Man, you really had some bad times at Zeitgeist, huh?
On the contrary, I have had some wonderful nights at Zeitgeist. And then I turned 30.
Brock, you hurt me with your words.
Sorry, it's just that after 15 years of going out to bars and clubs (I started much too young), I turned into an old man. Now I need my comfy chair, my simple drink, and enough time to get home to watch my stories.
Just admit it -- the tomato sauce in the bloody marys dissolves your denture cream.
I'm getting a 403 Forbidden for that Redmond link, for what it's worth. I was looking forward to reading his ponytail standing on end with indignation.
It's strange that the direct link isn't working. You can go to the main site and see his post
http://www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/
He says "I don't even know where to start" so he doesn't.
Haha, not bad
This is how you role if you're considerably richer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHo2pXO_XAI&feature=related
I enjoyed that, thanks!
I say it's ghost written somewhere in 800 block of Valencia, since it attains a level of parodic ironic smug that can only be crafted by an experienced professional.
It wasn't actually SFGate that opted to turn off the comments, but the Gettys themselves--which at least shows some awareness of just how douche-baggy the blog post makes them.
Well, now I'm totally obsessed and google-stalking (Peter's Facebook says he's a Jello Biafra fan...hm). This article arched my eyebrows a little more than that blog post:
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/fashion-articles/fashionable-life-jacqui-getty-0507
One of Jacqui's implants is in 90210 and the other is in 94115.
You would think with all that money, she could afford a better booby doctor.
The Getty's are parasitic sociopaths enabled by Judge William Newsom, our MIA Mayor's father. Shameful.
Less Getty, more Michelle Richmond.
Anyone who has a REAL problem with their blog is a twerp. Just sayin'.
Anyone who has a REAL problem with their blog is a twerp. Just sayin'.
The decision to disable comments on our first post was terrible, and I was unaware of it until it went up. Someone at sfgate recommended it to Billy, who was entirely new to blogging, and he consented without consulting me. It remains the one and only thing I regret about our blog thus far. Comments will appear on all our future posts, and I welcome them. I haven't yet had time to read all the disparagement we've received thus far, but nothing I've yet encountered has given me any reason to question our motives, the legitimacy of our views or our purpose in sharing them. The Gawker piece, in its completely unwarranted hostility, false presumptions, blatant self-contradictions, and errors of basic spelling and vocabulary, has provided us with an excellent subject for our next post. Your piece comes across as an example of the misguided preconceptions and intellectual laziness (which is not the same thing as stupidity) that I always expected our blog would run into at first. We all say things we regret, and I believe your invocation of a widespread wish for our death will become one of yours. It'll take us a few more posts to persuade people, but the scorn we've received thus far will, I hope and believe, diminish
The title of this blog is WAY off. If Vanessa's last name wasn't Getty, she'd be just another average chick. Definitely not "model quality."
OK, so you don't like the hot dogs at ATT park and it sucks to have a VIP box, but ya still do it.