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Nicole Richie has yet to really settle on what her predominating talent actually is, having already achieved limited success as Paris Hilton's slightly less blank-brained reality show foil, and as a pop singer bemoaning the weed-like qualities of a two-timing ex-lover. But it's her facility with the written word, both as the gifted mind behind the genre-defining skank lit classic The Truth About Diamonds, and as the opinionated voice of her own MySpace blog, where she shines the most. Take, for example, her recent riff on the popular "blind item" format frequently employed by the very gossip columns in which her name regularly appears, wherein Richie expertly teases the reader with details which can only be referring to her recent acrimonious split from professional celebrity clothing-chooser, Rachel Zoe:

Monday, November 27, 2006

X-RAY

BLIND ITEM:
What 35 year old raisin face whispers her order of 3 peices [sic] of asparagus for dinner at Chateau everynight, and hides her deathly disorder by pointing the finger at me, and used her last paycheck I wrote her to pay for a publisist [sic] instead of a nutritionist?
HINT: Her nickname is lettucecup...

The blog has gone mysteriously missing some time since that post went live yesterday, leading us to wonder if Richie had perhaps panicked after the meanspirited post quickly spread across the internets, and hastily decided to toss her entire blog out with the bathwater of one ill-conceived entry written in a moment of anger. If that were the case, it would indeed be a shame, as the online diary was a magical wormhole that allowed fans to burrow deep into the innermost thoughts of their undernourished hero, leaving them now with nowhere to turn to learn Richie's true feelings about her raisin-faced, publisist-retaining ex-stylist, or that guy she was dating who she didn't even really like, so it's practically like she dumped him, OK?