Ultimate Gossip Girl

The next Ultimate Gossip Girl Summit!

I applaud Diana for hipping us to the spoilers about the upcoming season. And as I consider the fact that I am starting a new job on Monday, a day that will be bereft of a new “Gossip Girl” episode, I find my thoughts turning to the season premiere in (presumably) September.

Now, it goes without saying that we are having another Ultimate Gossip Girl Summit in honor of this momentous event.

I LOVED having the event at the PIT, but we had to turn away several angry homosexual persons, who have really been oppressed enough for one lifetime, and I want to accomodate all the homosexual persons in the fall. I’m thinking of asking the good people at Comix, where I host Family Hour with Auntie Sara every Thursday evening at 7:30 PM, if they’d let us throw a premiere party. Comix can fit about 300 people, which would be perrrrrfect for us, and it’s upscale and fabulous and maybe they’d even let Diana and I rename some of the drinks for the evening!

I’m thinking we get it rolling 1/2 hour before the episode begins, introducing our panelists, playing a quiz game with free giveaways, and making predictions for the season premiere. Then, we watch the season premiere as a giant New York media-workin’, GG-lovin’, incestuous alt-comedy/fashion/magazine/PR fustercluck, and then afterwards we TOTALLY PARSE IT. I’m guessing that’d be a two-hour event. Hmm, maybe we’d skip the pre-game festivities…if we start seating at 7:30…show starts at 8…then we do a 1/2 hour of panel discussion afterwards…I must discuss this with the higher-ups at Comix. If they’re not into it, maybe UCBT would go for it. I mean, we DID sell out the PIT forty-eight hours in advance, turn dozens of enraged and distraught people away at the door, AND get promoted in the Village Voice and the New York Observer ahead of time (plus this fabulous recap by C. Edwards of New York Press, who I must buy a drink at the next summit as a thank-you!)

Our astounding publicist Hilary Buckholtz is of course to thank for much of the buzz-buzz-buzz. She truly rocked our socks. And just the other day, I had a meeting at a certain very high-profile women’s magazine where an editor demanded deets about our last event, saying that she and a bunch of girls at the magazine had planned to go, but hadn’t been able to make it (and had been very disappointed!) She looked at me with determination in her eyes and declared, “You HAVE to have another one.” I said, “Oh. WE WILL.”