http://socialrank.wordpress.com

The thing about Charlottesville is that it thinks it’s pretty important. Not only that, but Charlottesvillians tend to think that they’re pretty important by association. What am I saying? I’m saying there’s a social hierarchy here, and that the social climbing and climbers I’ve witnessed since I started actively observing this ladder have provided me ample opportunity to declare my moral superiority. Because I am simultaneously a picture of studied ambivalence, entirely immune to all social climbing instincts, and an avid observer of said abhorrent social jungle, the Social Rank blog is just my flute of champagne.
The site turns the New York social scene into the catfight it really is. At the same time, it (unintentionally, of course) puts Charlottesville socialites in their rightful (i.e., invisible) place. The girls of the New York society scene are ranked and reranked each week depending on what parties they’ve gone to, what they wore, and who they’re dating. It’s totally awesome. Who is Charlottesville It-Girl X when compared to Tinsley Mortimer (professional socialite) or Bea Shaffer (Anna Wintour’s daughter)? Nobody, that’s who. Ha! Told ya so!
    The best part is that the beasts behind the blog claim to be part and parcel of the high-society scene. I love the back-stabbiness of it. It’s funny, though—although these blogger types are supposedly culled from the crème de la crème, the grammar and syntax would have poor Strunk and White turning over in their graves. I’m just sayin’…—Nell Boeschenstein