
New York-based journalist and Star editor-at-large Julia Allison was a surprise guest at Friday's TechCruch9 event. Valley folks will likely have never heard her name, but she's famous in some East Coast circles. So why did Allison fly out to California specifically for Michael Arrington's soiree?
Allison stood out at the schmoozefest for a host of reasons. First of all, a Diane von Furstenberg dress among the blue shirts and khakis? And while Allison has her own blog and website, her career pursuits are not tech-oriented in the slightest — in addition to her gig at Star, she writes a dating column for Time Out New York. She wouldn't know the CEO of a semantic search engine if he patted her on the ass, which, judging from the the picture above, almost happened. (That's Barney Pell of Powerset playing pattycake, by the way.)
In this this video interview of Julia and her friend Meghan Asha, they claim they only attended the event to meet tech boyfriends. Oh, and they want to meet tech guys who can help them program a website, and I'm pretty sure that "help them" means "do it for them."
I'm sure there's more to it than that. Of course Allison's gathering string for a column about hunting for a geek boyfriend. And if she is any indication, people outside of our little sphere are starting to pay attention, again, to the exuberance bubbling underneath Silicon Valley. The women who are about to invade the Valley are not the same gold-diggers as before, only out for that stock-option action. This time, they want the stock-option action and free sysadmin time.
For this, too, we have Arrington to blame.












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"Allison stood out at the schmoozefest for a host of reasons."
That cleavage for starters.
We New Yorkers tried to warn the rest of the world but I guess no one listened.
Umm, did the fine folks at Redbook get their paws on Julia's waist? Yikes!
I'm in lust. One night lust. Lust nonetheless.
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(that was tame enough, right?)
@Phineas Poe: I'm sure there were a few nerds there with man boob "cleavage" of their own.
umm, ditto above about julia's waist. i wasn't aware that that waist/bust ratio was physically possible on anyone other than barbie.
also. if i didn't know better, i'd think julia was sleeping with denton from all the coverage she gets.
I'm not going to sink low enough to make a "silicone valley" joke, but it looks like that guy grabbing her ass might awkwardly spit one out after a few drinks.
That name tag is going to hurt when removed.
@Gregory_of_Nazianzus: Short and thin and torso twisted...sort of an optical illusion. Not saying she isn't thin - which she is - just that the picture is a bit deceptive.
Hmm maybe now I'll start going to more parties.
This goes to prove my Rule of 13. It normally applied towards women, but in extreme situations (tech events), it can apply towards women and men.
She's an 8, the rest can almost certainly be divvied up between the remaining guys.
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The guys in the background look like this was their first ever encounter with a female.
Nice to see that Arrington was able to get some of them out of their parents basement.
Oh man. That looks pretty fake in the chestal area. My dreams are smashed.
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Have seen Julia many, many times at parties in NYC -- legs like tree trunks. Seriously, think Hilary Clinton.
Thanks Pope, I feel awful about that. I'm ashamed.
¯\(º_o)/¯
Amirite?
But Kevin's link was GOOD!
@depardoo: And that's what passes for kink in the 94025.
@Bunsy: Ugh. Sadly, you are correct about the legs.
KevinL: Rule of 13 does apply. Although it was not formally a rule per se for us...more of a mental note about groups of women we've met.
Well, Megan, haven't I been saying most of this stuff to you prior? I can name other names who are no better than Julia, just not known in the East Coast.
And, well, probably just as useless.
For the record, I only used photoshop in that picture to correct Barney Pell's demonic redeye. The waist is real and enviable.
Who says "program a website"?
Tell you what I'll do it for free if you just cover up those funbags and stop using them to tease men who have no idea how to please you.
I'd like to say something snarky, but she actually looks adorkable there.
Oh, thank Christ I've never worked farther south than 2nd/Folsom.
Best tits in the valley (even though they looks might fake) since that RocketBoom whore
I don't think they're real either. I always believed Amanda's were real.
julia's pretty easy on the eyes, but i think megan is actually more glamorous ;)
@DaveMcClure500Hats: I don't know, Julia is pretty damn glamorous herself.
Julia's probably higher maintenance than every single car on the Formula 1 circuit. Megan is the height of awesome.
The photo looks a little staged, like it might be the cover shot of the next post-college-NY-media-industry-can't-find-love chick lit book. They're always in heavy supply in the bookstores at the airport.
My friends in the industry there laughed when I mentioned her being at the party. They said she's known to be a little bridge and tunnel (whatever that means)
A Pet Shop Boys soundtrack is running through my head whilst looking at that photo:
"I've got the brains, you've got the looks
Let's make lots of money...."
Ah, I see that one of the nerds in the background there is one Kai Peter Chang, Silicon Valley dilettante and founder of the "Father Figures" Livejournal community ([community.livejournal.com]) for dating younger women. Perhaps he's scoping out Julia for her potential.
julia is HOT. if i could look past her superficiality (just checked out her blog and almost every post is about her hair, her nails, her makeup, her expensive designer dresses, and some really annoying videos of her lip synching showtunes??)
i'd totally date as i meet her qualifications:
1. single male
2. total tech geek
3. no seriously. TOTAL tech geek!
also, just checked our her blog again, she seems to have stopped posting because of an invasion of privacy? a little ironic considering her full name, pictures, videos, etc are on there.
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