If you're tied of this gossip girl, perhaps another real life NYC blog chronicling of inside baseball anecdotes and trite tidbits will pique your interest. It's called Miss ITK (for Miss In The Know), and it's a gossip blog that titillated, and caused heartbreak in, the inner sanctuary of Manhattan's elite offspring: high school. An unidentified teen traversed the hallways of private schools like Dalton, writing in Gossip Girl speak, until he or she was, somehow, brought down. And now the kids who were its most avid readers are saying terrible things about it, like labeling it "immature." Yeah? You're immature!

Miss ITK chronicled the social lives of what she described as the class of 2012's "elite A-list." One post described two girls' attempts to revamp their images: one through eye-coloring contact lenses and another by dancing suggestively at a bat mitzvah. Another crowned a couple "our very own Queen and King." Later, a post cataloged the class of 2012's "A List" and "B List."

Parents and students said the blog seemed like a deliberate copy of the one that is the heart of "Gossip Girl," and whose author, Gossip Girl, narrates the show.

Like the television Gossip Girl, Miss ITK had her own signature salutation. On television, it's "XOXO." In real life, the line that reverberated with students was "Hello my butterflies."

Miss ITK also mimicked the television show's catty, metaphor-packed language.

"He fell so fast, even seventh graders won't hook up with him," one post read. "Now that's GOTTA hurt. Dear Tommy, rip up those tickets to the top, because you're headed on a one-way trip to the B-list. Love, ITK." [NY Sun]

Sad face, then, that it was shut down earlier this week, with rumors (of the offline variety) spreading that its author, still unidentified, was expelled from the school.

Bless Google Cache. (via NYM)