I know we've had a lot of changes around here since the new year. We said goodbye to our beloved Wendie and Kelly, and welcomed Molls and Sarah on as our new weekday writers. We're currently in the process of hiring a new weekend writer. I've taken on a lot of exciting new projects, like producing exclusive content for SuperPass, including Back to Reality, a new weekly entertainment show starring Chelsia Hart, Laremy Legel and myself (check out the trailer here!!!). I'm also delighted and proud to be a founding member of a local tech startup called Digri, which we're hoping you'll hear a lot more about in the future. We've already been featured in TechFlash, Seattle 2.0, Thrillist and at Twestival. In addition to the growth we've seen on Evil Beet over the past year, our one-year-old fem-blog baby, Zelda Lily, has exploded under the leadership of Sarah Spangenberg and Ashley Lindstrom, and continues to grow faster than I'd ever expected. I couldn't be more pleased.
With everything I've got going on right now, I realized I'm not going to have time it takes to write the quality introspective pieces you've come to expect from my personal blog, Sasha is a Monster. This pains me, because SIAM has become something of a window into my soul. It's where readers know they can come to get to know the real me, stripped of the Evil Beet voice and faux persona. SIAM is the truest representation of Sasha Pasulka as a human being. I hate to think that I'm not giving it the time and effort it deserves.
So, today, I'm delighted to announce that Molly McAleer will be taking over the authorship of my personal blog. Molly will start on Monday, giving you insight into my day-to-day life, friends, activities, struggles and triumphs. I've worked with Molly for over a year now, and so I know that, although we've never actually met face-to-face, she's the ideal person to tell you all about exactly what I'm doing and feeling each and every day. She's going to try to sound exactly like I would at all times, because I've asked her specifically to disguise any unique talent and voice she possesses in the interest of being a carbon copy of myself, because I know that's what the readers have come to expect. On the days Molly can't write on SIAM, Sarah will be filling in, usually in the early mornings. She's also been asked to sound exactly like me, thinking to herself after each and every sentence, "Is this exactly what Sasha would write? Is any of my own personality accidentally peeking through?" I think it's disruptive, ineffective and unfair to encourage writers to develop their own voices and styles, and I'm grateful that Molly and Sarah have agreed that it's important to be perfect clones of me.
Without further ado, please head on over to Sasha is a Monster to welcome Molly and Sarah to their new positions. />I know we've had a lot of changes around here since the new year. We said goodbye to our beloved Wendie and Kelly, and welcomed Molls and Sarah on as our new weekday writers. We're currently in the process of hiring a new weekend writer. I've taken on a lot of exciting new projects, like producing exclusive content for SuperPass, including Back to Reality, a new weekly entertainment show starring Chelsia Hart, Laremy Legel and myself (check out the trailer here!!!). I'm also delighted and proud to b...
In case you missed it the first time around, Evil Beet Gossip is hiring an every-other-weekend writer. This is a PAID position. The deadline to apply is this Friday.
Further details are here.
Thank you to everyone who's applied so far, and I look forward to hearing from the rest of you guys! />...
As I mentioned last week, our beloved Kelly will no longer be spending her weekends with us here at Evil Beet. Kelly is irreplaceable, but we've got a weekend slot to fill. The position for right now is every-other-weekend, but, as you've seen if you've stuck around here awhile, talented, hard-working writers tend to get promotion opportunities and extra shifts, so if you're flexible with your potential time commitment, that's a plus (but not a requirement).
This is a PAID position. Here are the requirements:
- Weekend availability (this means you give up your weekends -- think long and hard about whether you're willing to do this before you apply)
- Comprehensive knowledge of and love for celebrity gossip
- Strong, well-developed, unique writing voice
- Impeccable spelling and grammar
- Computer know-how (you don’t have to be a genius, but you need to know your way around a computer and be able to use some basic image editing software)
- You must be at least 18 years old
- You must either have a mailing address in the U.S. or able to accept payment via PayPal
If you've applied in the past, please feel free to apply again.
Your application should include:
1) A cover letter
2) Your age and location (city and state)
3) Your current occupation (if this is "student" or "unemployed" or "mom" or "I sell weed but only when I need the extra cash to buy crack," that's awesome too, I just want to know).
4) Writing samples. Preference will be given to folks who have a blog they update regularly. (It does not have to be a blog about celebrity gossip.) If you don't have a blog, or if you'd like to supplement your blog with additional pieces, please include writing samples, published or not. But the best thing you can do for this is attach a link to your awesome blog that you write on all the time.
Applications should be sent to spasulka@gmail.com with the subject line "EB Weekend Editor Application." If you send your application with the subject line "Hey Beet!" or "My Awesome Application" or "Try v1aggra" or (shudder) "PRESS RELEASE," it will not be considered.
The deadline to apply is 5pm PST on Friday, April 2.
Harsh words aside, I always love reading the applications I get from you guys. You prove every time how immensely talented and hilarious you are, and this process always makes me proud to have you as readers and e-friends.
xoxo
Beet />As I mentioned last week, our beloved Kelly will no longer be spending her weekends with us here at Evil Beet. Kelly is irreplaceable, but we've got a weekend slot to fill. The position for right now is every-other-weekend, but, as you've seen if you've stuck around here awhile, talented, hard-working writers tend to get promotion opportunities and extra shifts, so if you're flexible with your potential time commitment, that's a plus (but not a requirement).
This is a PAID position. Here are...
We are so totally bummed that the phenomenal Kelly Hays has decided to leave the team here at Evil Beet. I couldn't possibly have been more impressed with her during the year she's worked here. If I tried to write a post about everything that's exceptional about Kelly as a writer, there wouldn't be room for anything else on this site. She is whip-smart and hilarious and a delight to work with. She will be missed terribly, but I know we all look forward to reading whatever next emerges from that spectacular brain of hers. Thank you, Kelly, for giving up your weekends for a year to share your talent with us.
The very talented Sarah Spangenberg will be filling in for Kelly's weekend spot in the short term. In the long term, Sarah is going to join the (also very talented) Molls on the weekday writing tip. We're excited to have her writing regularly here on the Beet.
What this means? We're going to be hiring a new weekend writer. Hooray! There will be more details about the gig and how to apply later in this week, so stay tuned. (And please don't apply right now. Seriously, don't. Just stay tuned. I'll tell you when to apply, I promise.) />We are so totally bummed that the phenomenal Kelly Hays has decided to leave the team here at Evil Beet. I couldn't possibly have been more impressed with her during the year she's worked here. If I tried to write a post about everything that's exceptional about Kelly as a writer, there wouldn't be room for anything else on this site. She is whip-smart and hilarious and a delight to work with. She will be missed terribly, but I know we all look forward to reading whatever next emerges from that spe...
Her most recent interview with Parade magazine is surprisingly mature and interesting. She doesn't come off like an obnoxious teenager, and she doesn't come off like a pretentious starlet. She sounds intelligent and thoughtful and oddly relateable. To be honest, the older she gets, the more Miley impresses me as a bona fide talent. She's currently on the interview circuit for her upcoming flick, The Latest Song (which she filmed in Australia, which is where she met Liam). I'm very interested to see how she performs in her first "real" movie role. The trailer's above, and, I'll be honest -- I like it.
Some highlights from her interview:
Finding unbiased love with Liam Helmsworth
“[Liam has] become my best friend in the whole wide world. I love him. He really respects me for who I am because coming from Australia, he really didn’t know me as the celebrity I am here. I got to tell him about myself on my own terms and my own way. He had no preconceived notion of who I was supposed to be.”
Her relationship with the ever-present paparazzi
“The other day I felt a little bit in danger for the first time because there were too many photographers following me in too many cars. And I have to ask myself, ‘Why would any other 50-year-old man who was stalking a 17-year-old girl go to jail, but not these guys? I'm not as American as anyone else?’ I mean, they couldn't sit outside of a high school but they can sit outside my recording studio. It's creepy.”
Knowing her faith
"The one thing I’m really strong about regarding my religious beliefs is that you should know a little bit about everything before you define your own beliefs. I think all religions have a good practice in them. Liam and I have been reading about Buddhism lately and it’s all about hope and love. To me, faith is about having a clean slate and a clean start.”
And what does she think about ditching Hannah Montana?
"What I am sure about is I'm going to rejoice and be happy to finally not have to be ... well, to not be somebody I'm not exactly," she says. ""As I've grown into it, I've grown out of it," she says. "When I was 12, I thought, 'I want to be famous all the time! I want everybody to recognize me! ... [But] I hate being thought of as a product. I am not a doll, and people want to treat me that way... I'm older now. I have an opinion. I have my own taste."
I love it! Just don't develop a taste for cocaine, pretty please? I want you to be like the Lindsay Lohan who never gets hooked on drugs. TEAM MILEY! />
Her most recent interview with Parade magazine is surprisingly mature and interesting. She doesn't come off like an obnoxious teenager, and she doesn't come off like a pretentious starlet. She sounds intelligent and thoughtful and oddly relateable. To be honest, the older she gets, the more Miley impresses me as a bona fide talent. She's currently on the interview circuit for her upcoming flick, The Latest Song (which she filmed in Australia, which is where she met Liam). I'm very interested to see how she performs in her first "r...