Chicago: They paved a fetid swamp/and put up a parking lot

It was me! Howdy, friend.

Jay Batman is permabanned, right? Does that ban his IP address?

yep

can someone sum that up for me in a few sentences? i can't figure out what happened.

astonishingly egomanaical middle-schooler/blogger in the body of a law student follows a trackback to ilx, shows his ass for 2 days, gets 35 SBs in 48 hours, HAMMERTIME'd this morning

I know what happened, but I don't quite understand. A self-proclaimed "anarcho-misogynist" checked his referrer log and found that he was getting traffic from the ILX right-wing crazies thread. He came here and started posting lots of of entertaining (and confusing, to me) stuff happened.

xp yeh

He name-dropped "the Lubbock, TX legal community," IIRC.

The saddest part is that he'd gotten addicted to the attention, even though it was negative, and showed up this morning basically being like, "Talk to me! Ask me questions! Tell me how wrong/stupid I am!"

In the "right wingers are crazy" thread, somebody linked to some blog posts by a, more or less, men's rights type a-hole named Jay Batman. He followed his referrals to the thread and attempted to 1) win an imaginary dick swinging contest re: his personal philosophies and then 2) fit in and when much of ILX put its collective snark to the task of making his stay unpleasant, he started losing it and WmC mercybanned him (merciful for everyone). He also racked up 48 sbs in a day or something. I she'd him when he was shitty to horseshoe because no.

xp but posting anyway to justify the labor of my thumbs

The saddest part is that he'd gotten addicted to the attention, even though it was negative, and showed up this morning basically being like, "Talk to me! Ask me questions! Tell me how wrong/stupid I am!"

That was actively painful and largely while I'm glad WmC pulled the trigger.

Also okay 35 not 48. But apparently it was he most single day sbs ever.

God damn thumbtypos. Thumbos.

You sure she'd him.

I was smelling a serotonin high coming off him this morning, was my main reasoning.

Like you think he was manic or something?

Ok, that sums it up. Thanks!

Yeah, maybe, I'm not sure. Started out with 1000+-word posts, then got shorter and shorter until he was just gibbering "phone lines are open, callers!" Seemed like the classic ramp-up to me.

I should be guilty for liking those trainwrecks, but I'd rather see ilx unleash the torrent of hilarious zings on a deserving target like that asshat than on each other. Plus, it brought out the best in underrated aerosmith bootlegs. Also, I was pleased with my "nasty-nas to anarcho trash" zing.

Then I'm really really glad you banned him. Dismantling a blowhard jerk's poorly conceived arguments is one thing, but ganging up on somebody under those circumstances is cruel.

xp which isn't to say I was not enjoying the zingfest or that his world view isn't odious and worthy of destruction, but once he hit that tipping point, it had to end.

I don't know, I don't think its cruel to gang up on someone who bursted in here looking for it.

I mean, I'm defintiely thankful for WmC putting a stop to it when he did, but up until this morning it had been all in "fun" I think. I don't feel guilty knocking a guy like that down a peg or two.

Or attempting to anyway, even if we did just feed his ego.

No, totally, I agree. But if that person is eventually revealed to maybe be neurochemically off his rocker (as opposed to the innate off one's rockerness required to sustain MRA beliefs, which requires merciless mocking), it's good to back off. I think we're on the same page here.

iatee and the fourth tier/delta/I went to Stanford and drive a beemer stuff was killing me. I kept seeing him as Tom Cruise's character in Magnolia bit transferred to a corner law office where he paces ragefully and dictates his ILX posts to his long suffering secretary.

Actually it was more an amalgam of attorneys I know who are like that IRL with Tom Cruise's body language.

iatee in that thread was extra-funny because he hates cars and loves public transportation

iatee was fucking terrifying in that thread

iatee was both in that thread

I just finally figured out the iPhone app for this. How exciting. I'm enjoying Austin's 101 degree weather. I am also on first name basis with a doctor and pharmacist. Hooray vacation!

Haha hi Katie! Are you feeling better?

Oh man, I'm glad it was only 85 when I was in Austin.

That's goddamn autumn in Austin! Perfect timing.

where he paces ragefully and dictates his ILX posts to his long suffering secretary.

Caused me to spit on my phone.

J- thanks for asking. I feel mostly better, aside from the fact that I'm experiencing almost all of the known side effects from the antibiotics for the original problem. It ain't purdy, but I felt some solidarity when we watched Bridesmaids last night.

catching up:
that onion article made me LOL.
i went to radio shack on monday looking for a specific type of audio cable which they, of course, did not have. which in turn made me think of this klassic onion article
we went to taste of chicago one time, it was dumb. and hot.
i had never heard of a coke mirror before reading about them here. i've never been to a state fair though. sounds fun.
i missed most of the jay batman clusterfuck but i feel ok about it.

We never called them coke mirrors in my youth, but I learned the term somewhere and I knew what you were talking about.

Nick, every time I pass a Radio Shack I think of that artikle.

hey does anyone want to plan a little get together for the weekend of 6/24? we could talk about/watch teen movies and/or eat curly friends <--- yeah i typed this and just left it this way

That sounds grrrrreat but we're going to St. Louis that day!

ooh well that sounds like fun
will you be visiting curly friends?

i just renewed my DL online and it was so much better than going to the dmv

Is that where they mail you a sticker?

hey, i'm downtown. anyone want to see tree of life today? or the new godard movie?

I'd love to see Tree of Life. Or either, really, but Tree of Life is at the top of my list already. I get out at 5-ish.

What theater were you thinking?

i dunno, i'm leaning toward godard actually, since i've seen ToL already. hmmm. tree of life is playing at river east at 5 PM.... godard is at film center at 6 PM.

I can see ToL anytime, and the Film Center is just a few blocks away. Six would be great.

Ok, who else?

Yeah, they're mailing me a sticker.
Have fun at yr fruity French movie.

Well, there's a little time to kill. Meet me at Argo Tea around the corner at 5:30? Near the NW corner of Randolph and State. That is, if you don't mind seeing a movie with me. Looks like there's no other takers.

River's Edge was not as good as it was when I was 16, but it was still good. Crispin Glover is awesome.

hi kenan. just saw your last post. i actually left the film a minute in because it seemed clearly to be projected from DVD. i guess i figure i can see it at home for free in that format.

i hope i didn't abandon kenan to an inscrutable french art movie. :-(

(to absolve myself a bit, i didn't see him in the theater.)