Grab a hat, ‘cause it’s going to rain Pioneer Woman by the shitloads come the first of the year. Between now and its March 2012 release, HarperCollins plans to shove down our collective throats the second installment of the little ol’ ranch wife’s culinary propaganda. This is but one of many scheduled promos for Ree’s upcoming food court treatise.
Long recognized as one of Manhattan’s haughty cultural institutions, the 92nd Street Y has boasted guest speakers the likes of Bill Clinton and Steve Martin. We can only wonder who Ree slept with or rather bought off to snag an invite to New York City’s revered lecture series. Apparently those expensive hotel suites and brown-nosing BlogHer’s Elisa Page finally paid off for the media whore.
What topics the narcissistic Ree will address is anyone’s guess. Will she discuss how to lift other’s recipes and publish them as your own or will she reveal how to censor blog comments to maintain the all-important Ozzie and Harriet illusion? Maybe she’ll reveal how she tweets at cruising altitude without getting caught.
The 92nd St. Y also houses the city’s most exclusive nursery school, one boasting a waiting list that could circumnavigate planet Earth. In spite of its distinguished reputation educating the progeny of NYC’s elite, this Y has not been above scandal.
Showcasing a social-climbing fraud like Ree Drummond should be right up their alley. Tickets for this fiasco start at $29.
I remember the couple of times Ree went to NYC and I was VERY surprised that she barely posted about her book signing there. She didn’t post hardly any pics and all she talked about was her sight seeing part of visiting NYC. I got the impression she didn’t draw much of a crowd and didn’t go over well there.
I live 4 hours from NYC, go there frequently, kinda have a feel for the city. I kinda feel like she is going to BOMB big time. I don’t see her as having much appeal to NYC’ers. It will be interesting to see what happens.
I just find it hard to believe that the fraud known as “Ree” is still pulling the wool over her followers eyes.
As a New Yorker, thanks but we don’t need any. She needs to stay in OK where she belongs. Sorry OK.
Oklahomans aren’t all that impressed with her either.
Well well well. The 92nd St Y is akin to a JCC. I wonder if they know that old Ree likes to post pork roast recipes on the first day of Channukah. I wonder if they know old Ree thinks that noodle kugel is a great side dish to bring to a Passover celebration. I sure as hell hope this doesn’t mean we will be inundated with recipes for latkes and mandel brot. You know, because she’s got sooooo many great Jewish pals. Ugh. On the bright side, maybe she’s doing this because the morning shows don’t want her anymore. Maybe she has to pay the 92Y part of the proceeds to speak there, lol!
Holy Cow! I have no words…..
Have the people in charge of booking the 92nd Street Y actually SEEN her speak, either at book signings, or Good Morning America? Even with props and other people interviewing her (Al Roker, the GMA hosts), she’s TERRIBLE. She’s beyond awkward, which is likely driven by the fact that she’s a big, fat fake (I don’t mean fat in regards to her weight-only to how she’s cultivated a completely fake persona). Can’t she just go away?? Please. Pretty please.
Ree’s publicist knows someone who knows someone who knows someone high up on the Y’s food chain. And they convinced the Y she would bring in the audience and the $$$. I guess Amanda Hesser and Deb Perleman weren’t available. Can’t imagine any sophisticated New Yorker would pay to see this talentless hack.
Blech. Publicity stunt that ruined an opportunity for someone else who might actually need some publicity. … and hey, your link to my post finally attracted some attention. I guess I’m a real blogger now that I’ve had my first anonymous troll comment.
Wait ’till they start spamming your email. PW’s fans can be some real radicals.
Considering the crowd practically revolted and demanded their money back when Steve Martin spoke (he talked about his bluegrass band and collecting modern art, he wasn’t “arrow in the head” funny) it should VERY interesting to see how she is coached to address the crowd for maximum impact. I predict Ethel Merman songs and tingle my hiney platitudes. Maybe she’ll bring the family and have them dressed in chaps and Stetsons?
Watch for give-aways on her blog: Win airfare and tickets to see a live performance by the fake Pioneer Woman. She’ll have to resort to that…it’s the only way she’ll fill the seats.
Really???!? I think Steve Martin rocks no matter what. I would love to hear him play bluegrass in person. Or do King Tut. Doesn’t matter really…
Just goes to show yet again that money does not buy class…
The story about the 92nd Street Y crowd wanting Martin to be funnier isn’t true — the problem was that Deborah Solomon botched the interview.
http://emdashes.com/2010/12/more-on-martin-and-solomon-and.php
This probably won’t be a problem for Ree’s fans, because I am pretty sure they won’t care what she does as long as she descends to earth in a blaze of buttery glory. I mean, if they had any standards, they wouldn’t be her fans.
Well, that sounds like a wet dream come true for Ree Ree. Remember, she has always wanted to be the most popular gal and the richest one too.
I always wonder what kind of hell MM had to put up with while she was preggers and NOT happy on the lil ol ranch. In some ways, I find her blog/books a way to poke fun at such a lifestyle, sort of a put-down and a subtle “I would never dirty MY hands in real ranch life.” It’s there, sometimes between the lines, sometimes blatantly in basically what she tries to disguise as “self deprecating humor.” Uh, no.
It’s like the battle of the hypocrisy. PW’s supposedly a “real lil ole ranch wife. She homeschools, cooks all the meals, cleans her house, grows a garden and blogs”. The 92nd St. Y supports upper crust fast track private or public schooling. I doubt you would ever see anyone with dusty wrangler jeans, worn cowboy boots and work gloves.
It amazes me that a group that prides itself on presenting knowledgeable, intelligent, and gifted artists (all the around) would bring in the speakers that they have with PW. I’m not sure I get their vision. There are many more successful bloggers out there now, The Bloggess, Derfwad Manor, The Friendly Atheist. There are certainly a hundred more cooks/chefs that have books coming out that deserve a nod. I think PW will end up making a fool of herself. In her best interest, she should of said no thanks to their requests. Bad call from her publicists also.
Anybody else notice the lack of proofreading? “She the author” FAIL.
Yes, I saw that. The 92nd St. Y probably copied it verbatim from Ree’s publicist.
goes to prove that even the cogniscenti of NYC get it wrong sometimes
yea first! I can’t imagine paying money to see her speak, cook or anything else for that matter.
You have to pay real money?
Yes, this is another sad example of Ree’s high-priced media stiffs at work. There are so many other noteworthy bloggers they could have chosen. But then the 92nd St.Y is not just another run-of-the-mill Y, it’s a gym on steroids. The pre-school alone is one of the most exclusive in the country.
I just can’t imagine the parents of the 92nd St. Y listening to Ree’s BS…..or believing it for that matter. On the other hand, people who worry about which nursery school their little darlings get into may be just as self obsessed as Ree, and will think she is compatible with their way of thinking. Who knows?