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Rachelle Hruska- Did she violate FTC rules?
A letter to the editor- Scallywag.
"Dear Mr. Koulouris:
When I read your rather irreverent blog entitled: "Rachelle Hruska: Media Whore/Manipulator for Hire", I nearly choked on my morning coffee. I had become aware of your website through the social...
Insider Society Baseball- The shocking rise of Rachelle Hruska.
The building and selling of legend in this new media age is fascinating if not anything but deceptive. Whether or not it falls into the realm of outright propaganda or that there are propagandists behind the Marionettes put forth...
The demise of ‘High Society.’
To the unsuspecting observer, what supposedly passes for high society may actually be that (give or take the occasional too unbelievable story of $4000 bubble baths) but to the seasoned member of real society what may be passed off...
The inside leak. Jules Kirby gets betrayed by her supposed best friends.
For images of Jules Kirby's latest fashion shoot go here.
Children will be children until one of them lights a firecracker in your face...
For those of you who are still following the off stage drama of a vague TV show...
AMERICAN INTERNET PIE: The Curious Rise of Society Marionette Rachelle Hruska.
And they were singing bye bye Miss All American Internet Pie…..she posted a press release and someone else’s photos under her editorial byline…before you knew it she was stealing her competitors style designs……manipulating unsuspecting masses with scripted story...
YES VIRGINIA, There is A Social Mafia in NYC!!
"Think what gets written up or how it gets written up is an arbitrary process? Think again kids...In these heady times called the tabloid lingua what counts is not what ideas or thoughts you compel your readers to think...
Quick! Save The Children… From Cannibalism! A diatribe on censorship…
Editor's note; Although the events took place in June, July of 2009, we still feel the themes are relevant and rampant, and it was only when this editor was channel surfing one evening did he notice...
Observations of a Crack House.
The first thing a crack cocaine user will tell you is that this is their last hit. This in essence is the irony of crack or any or other addiction, as much as you want it to be the...
Observations on the JMZ line.
To be sure the JMZ line is one of the world's most depressing stretches of real estate. Depressing in the sense as much as you think you can always get out, the squalor, muck and grime can never get...
Dilemma of a tabloid writer.
For those of you in the business of being inspired, getting relevant news and being sufficiently titillated- I have some bad news. No one cares anymore.
Why? Because suddenly google equals truth. Which in a roundabout way means that the...
To Predicate on Etiquette.
Now, we here at Scallywag & Vagabond have a self-proclaimed duty to ‘report’ on matters of etiquette and manners, and other things we deem fit. Still, it seems apropos to take an actual look at what that means, and...
Birth of a salesman?
Scallywag and Vagabond has developed a strong and steady readership since its founding in November of 2008, thus winning out over those of our early critics who said it couldn't be done. I remember Keith Moon, for instance, predicted...
The Dandy set attend ‘Cleverly Clothed.’
To be honest I'm not sure if it's ever good form to ever be exceedingly late for ones own party but such was the case as I nonchalantly rolled up this past Friday night at Ella Lounge where this...
Should online publishers charge for their content?
In light of the announcement by the NY Times over the weekend that they intend to begin charging some sort of fee for part of their content the debate as to whether online media can continue to give away...
The hurdles of celebrity: a treatise on shame.
Let’s be honest. The number one fear in the world, it seems, is not death. It’s speaking in public. This doesn’t address the truth. People don’t fear speaking in public. They fear the consequences of speaking in public. Being...
