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15 threads but where do they go?

been there no luck at all nothing left to looose

Name me a blog that everybody knows
And I'll bet you it belongs to Buzznet

give back the keys to my blog

Down here, where we're at
All we do is post on our blog
And get our lols, and nothing's wrong
Sometime friends come around, they all lol along

haha
welcome back whiney what is your favorite uncle tupelo song

http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/idolator-2no-blind-item-what-british-bandmember-banged-bartenderblogger-beck-bain/

O_o

i'm just glad the daily swarm never got a hold of any of my ilx-related tmi's

"jess harvell schtupped the drummer from gay dad."

Let's not forget the watersports with Lord Custos.

okay that is just vile

dan you never tell me anything anymore xxpost

i am very happy for both of you however

a man does regrettable things on orally-ingested opioid analgesics

the way she sleeps around (or claims to) - she is either more of a man than me or severely dissociative

two days in and everyone's a blogger pathologist

That kind of writing is just Scary Sadshaw, but if they are going to be picking on Becky's foibles they should probably post something about Robbie as well. Or creepy Jeff Leeds.

so I've basically been watching via a Twitter search to see what they're writing about since I refuse to keep giving them pageviews and I think something like 60% of the posts made since they've taken over have been about Lady Gaga...?

there is almost no kind of person i am less interested in spending time with than anyone involved in the los angeles improv community

nazis-in-hiding?

i supposed they'd at least have some good stories.

I refuse to keep giving them pageviews and I think something like 60% of the posts made since they've taken over have been about Lady Gaga...?

They're biding their time until Jon or Kate makes an album.

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work is sloooow maaaan

i want to get into opioid analgesics which do you recommend?

lady gaga is 60% of record sales at this point, isn't she?

also she is avantgarde like john cage or tickle me elmo because of new ideas in lipstick application

dilaudid

not that i'm advocating anything that leads to lord custos and watersports.

how does it interact with alcohol?

chemically

disappointed that john mclaughlin isn't that good in the sack, my goal's beyond my ass

hahahahahaaaaa

help me waste one more hour at work

Yeah, there's something really quite distasteful and creepy the way they keep piling the abuse on Becky - it's just smacks of the old "let's use a woman's sexuality against her..." trick. While Robbie gets a free pass for being a functional idiot.

^^^^^ yes

Although I think the only thing saving Robbie is that he was smart enough to not write several blog posts about how easy it is to have sex with him.

maybe he's a virgin

Also, I thought Whiney was gonna come in here and bust out some serious gossip about what went down, but after making such an excellent entrance, he disappeared. Did you guys sign some kind of nondisclosure agreement or what?

they = us or bloggers blogging about idolator blogger?

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yeah Dan that is difference

they = mostly those swarm posts TBH but it's getting a bit uncomfortable in here

Those Daily Swarm posts were kind of the epitome of "please stop helping".

Also, I thought Whiney was gonna come in here and bust out some serious gossip about what went down, but after making such an excellent entrance, he disappeared. Did you guys sign some kind of nondisclosure agreement or what?

― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, November 12, 2009 4:52 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Eh, I don't know if there's much to tell. Actually I don't know much at all.

eh i think i was really more reacting to the way she writes about her sexual exploits than anything else. she is her own person and she should do what she wants without trying to appease the double standard. i guess i just dont live in a world where all sexual contact is effortless and consequence-less and can be written about withe the same insouciance as, say, getting a cup of coffee.

Whiney return v v v v anticlimactic.

i dunno what juicy gossip you guys expect, other than like "the whole buzznet thing was kinda doomed from the start and it was just a matter of time before the other shoe dropped"

My take is that this thread/idolator comments/daily swarm is kind of acting like it's this insidious thing when it's probably just BUSINESS. I'm sadder than anyone about it, but you can't really blame anyone. It's not rocket science that

a) It's cheaper to pay two struggling L.A. improv comics/bloggers than one experienced New York editor/media type who was probably holding on to a Gawker-circa-2006 salary.

b) Intellegent, well-reasoned criticism on things like Alphabeat isn't gonna get the same Google traffic as a constant stream of Britney Gaga Penis Lambert Cyrus Nude Winehouse Nipslip keywords

yes, they've lost the important urbane ILXor demographic, but as someone who was top brass at Paper Thin Walls, I can tell you that's not really enough to keep the lights for anybody anywhere. We're but a drop in the bucket, y'all.

I can post more koolaid.jpegs if it will make you guys feel better.

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all true.

Yeah, there's something really quite distasteful and creepy the way they keep piling the abuse on Becky - it's just smacks of the old "let's use a woman's sexuality against her..." trick. While Robbie gets a free pass for being a functional idiot.

I don't think her sex had anything to do with why Becky was getting ridiculed, though I don't like it when someone's past idiocy is unearthed by too much internet detective work. Everyone who runs a blog or posts on boards says stupid or embarrassing shit occasionally.

I mean "look, here she was talking about her sex life once on a thread" just makes me cringe. Here recent work on Idolator is fairer game.

In a post-Candace Bushnell - heck - post-Lisa Suckdog/Carver world I'd really kinda hope that a woman writing about her sex life/drugs habits would not provoke that kind of Victorian aunt "oh my!" and hankies reaction. She's a bad writer BECAUSE SHE CANNOT WRITE, not because of her subject material.

I'd hope, if anything, that writers like Miss AMP et al could prove that women can bring their sex lives/drug experiences/musician digging lifestyles as background material into their prose *and* provide engaging and meaningful discourse about music.

Becky sucks because she's a shit writer. Not because she writes about sex.

i think there's only one post on this thread remarking about her article though, besides the original link to the article

i agree though that she should be judged on the awfulness of her prose

kool aid man sure couldn't hurt