Karen Allow and Baby LuLu

I suggested yesterday that folks should be following Karen Alloy. I think she's extremely talented, and beautiful as well. She's kinda crazy too, for example, in posting photos of her derriere to Twitpics. I did not notice, however, that she'd also posted a picture of her baby breastfeeding. A commenter posted a heads up at my post. And that was followed by a response from my good friend Opus #6, who says, "Get your minds out of the gutter!"

Actually, don't know where the gutter thing comes from, but apparently Karen Allow, who is unmarried, has gotten a lot of flak from people about single parenthood:

I have found myself in a very profound life-changing situation this year.

As a divorced mother of two, facing single parenthood with a newborn baby has never frightened me. If anything, it encouraged me to hold my head up high and work harder.

There still seems to be this icky stigma about single parents that I’m getting from my online world. And it’s manifested into a burning curiosity to know more about her father to the point of demanding and pushing the issue on every video I post.

I owe no explanation. My Soul is and will continue to remain intact. The only person I owe anything to is LuLu and that time will come soon enough… Trust me.

I think Karen's a good mom. And I don't know if she has plans to marry or will stay single to raise her family. I think marriage is best for a family, and I know Karen's on the market. So it's going to be alright. And while I doubt that I'd have posted pictures like that to Twitpic (of my booty or my baby nursing), I think she's right to tell her idiot critics to STFU.

Anyway, note to readers: It's a brave new world online. I'm going to be writing about it, with all the fleshy and messy contradictions and outrage. It's what I do. Read my blog if you want, but the same folks who say "get your mind out of the gutter" are probably not so thrilled that Karen Alloy's a single mom. (And note that Opus is "a single mother of 6 kids ages 21 years to 2 years," which is both awesome and interesting, given the context). I love all of my women visitors, like MacGinn and Opus #6. But guys and dolls blog differently. Sometimes it's best to go with the flow.

And with that, folks should head over to Theo Spark's!

Karen Alloy's Bouncing Babies Beat Carly Fiorina's Cyborg Sheep Any Day!

Wouldn't you prefer to watch Karen Alloy hanging with a bouncing baby than a Carly Fiorina attack ad featuring psychedelic cyborg attack sheep? Yep, I thought so:

But hey, Carly gets technical points for FCINO, no?

Karen Alloy Brew Nation

Karen Alloy has a show!

Baby LuLu's Coming to L.A.!

With her mom, Karen Alloy:

Be sure to watch until the end (I love Baby LuLu!) ...

Emily Hart's 10 Reasons Why Dating Sucks

Quite a change of pace from Karen Alloy, right old chap?!!

See London's Daily Mail, "'There's no point dating someone that you can't see impregnating you.' Emily Hart discusses the dating game in her weekly 10 reasons why blog."

And on YouTube here.

She's funny.

Karen Alloy's Third Grade Assignment

Different look this time around:

Matchmaking: '$55,000 for 28 Months of Unlimited Introductions'

Getting ready to watch "The Bachelor" in a little while. So, let me share some day-after-Valentine's blog stuff. From the Los Angeles Times, "Matchmakers' Personal Touch Thrives Despite EHarmony, Match.com":

Like social networking, which had many dating industry experts inaccurately predicting the demise of paid Internet dating sites, Internet dating hasn't killed matchmaking, but fed it. In fact, the three go hand in hand, leading relationship-minded singles to ever higher levels of paid service.

Though social networking sites such as Facebook may bring people together and do it for free, there's no guarantee that those brought-together people are available and looking for a relationship. And though Internet dating sites such as Yahoo Personals do a better job of bringing together singles who are motivated to get together because they are paying to find dates, they don't always do a good job of sorting out the serious from the players, or even to help individuals select people who are truly good for them.

Personalized matchmakers promise to do just that. Of course, they also charge a higher price — anywhere from $1,000 to $100,000, depending on the exclusivity of the service, the number of matches they've said they'll provide and how willing they are to go the extra mile.

"You're the therapist, the mother, the best friend, the sister, the nonsexual girlfriend. You have to be everything," said Patti Stanger, star of the Bravo reality TV series "The Millionaire Matchmaker" and proprietor of the L.A.-based Millionaire's Club matchmaking service.

"It's not good enough to say, 'Here's a nice girl.' You get them a girl, they'll sleep with that girl, cheat on the girl. Then I've got to get that girl back. I have to go in and do an intervention and be on call seven days a week. That's why I get the big bucks," said Stanger, who charges men a minimum of $25,000 a year and female "millionairesses" $55,000 for 28 months of unlimited introductions. (She finds her female clients take longer to match.)

Whether it's hooking up her clients with a personal stylist to improve their appearance or enrolling them in an improv class to get over their shyness, "there are 5 million things to do," she said. There are more details to attend to with clients: manners, appearance, expectations. "In the old days, it was, 'OK. I know who I'm going to give you. Here she is. Bye.' "

More at the link, especially the discussion of April Beyer of Beyer & Co.

And that's the lovely Karen Alloy at the video.

Karen Alloy on Twitter!

Man, this woman is crazy - and you should be following her!

Karen Alloy Bacon Lover

She's funny.

I decided to go with this online dating clip instead of "Boner Killer!", which was a little over the top (unless you're Scott Eric Kaufman, then it's f**king great):

Karen Alloy

Why you should be following her on Twitter, as I always say:

Taking Down Eric Boehlert

Patrick Frey and Matt Welch are just hammering useful tool Eric Boehlert of Media Mutters for America. We're talkin' utter devastation --- total Maximus Decimus Meridius takedown territory for the useful clown at MMFA.

Matt's piece is especially killer, "Don't You Go Calling Obama an 'ex-state senator, 'Hater!'."

Turns out Boehlert can't get out from under this comment:

And I don't even have to do a Google search to know for a fact that when President Bush was in office, there was nobody on staff at the Times, and certainly nobody writing off the opinion pages, who was allowed to so casually insult the office of the presidency on a regular basis.

Clear and unambiguous indictment, right?

So, Matt nails him on it, for example:

As the Internet kidz like to say, let me Google that for you. There'll you see a Bush-era L.A. Times columnist – one of the most consistently popular among the paper's stable at the time – who used these phrases to describe Obama's predecessor:

* "Bubble Boy"
* "willfully blind"
* "distracted and incompetent"
* "homegrown authoritarian"
* "Torturer-in-Chief"
* "a bad dream, a shameful, inexplicable interlude in American history"
* enabler of "the so-called Big Lie theory of political propaganda, articulated most infamously by Adolf Hitler."
* "if you dilute civilian control of the military, you end up with fascism or a Latin American-style military junta....we're already well on the way to having that kind of regime."
* "being a citizen in George W. Bush's America is like being a passenger in a car driven by a drunk driver."
* "I don't hate George Bush. But I sure hate what he's done to my country."

Incidentally, that columnist above, Rosa Brooks, has since gone on to take a job in Obama's Pentagon.

QED!

Well, except that obviously there's no meaningful reality for useful tool Eric Boehlert. He writes hopelessly in response, "Thanks to Matt Welch at Reason for proving my point about LA Times hating Obama."

I'll refer readers back to Matt Welch for more. But I'm thinking this is a good time to refer Eric Boehlert to Karen Alloy:

But to continue, go to Patterico for some epic smash-mouth politics: "Eric Boehlert: No, Seriously! Kick Me!" In what has to be the funniest investigation EVAH!! turns out Boehlert denied that he cross-posted his stuff to "Smirking Chimp," the Bush-era Bush-hating website. It's too good (so follow the links above), but Patterico went over there, signed up, and posted this:

There's lots more (so again, check those links). But hey, give it up for Patterico!

And FWIW, follow Boehlert's further circus performances on Twitter.

Karen Alloy

She's so beautiful.

On Instagram.

Karen Alloy on Vine

Pretty good use of six seconds, which is all you get from Vine.

Glasses. Stupid. https://t.co/yPRzTP9EDm

— spricket24 (@KarenAlloy) July 18, 2013

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