amanda palmer's open poem to jonathan chait (and other crimes)

They didn't go with that front cover in the end, Palmer and Gaiman's mugs on the front.

There's an article by ex-ILXoR Geeta as well - between her, Andrew and Laurie, I should probably pick this up, huh.

amanda palmer would like to talk to you about hitler

http://www.newstatesman.com/2015/05/playing-hitler-card

hitler, guys

th;dr

“If you must use a Nazi as an example, darling, you’d be better off using Mengele. He was the one who did unthinkably gruesome experiments on pregnant women and their babies.”

“Thank you for that lovely image.” I looked down at my swelling belly. “But that’s not a meme. You don’t ‘play the Mengele Card’ . . . Most younger people probably won’t know who that is.”

“He was the villain in William Goldman’s Marathon Man.”

“Don’t change the subject. This isn’t about books. This is about Hitler.”

Neil sighed. I sighed back. This conversation was going nowhere.

so the reality show will happen once the kid is born i guess?

It was the realisation that I was more alone than I had thought in my stance on compassion, expression and how we use art to cope with tragedy. How dare you empathise WITH A MURDERER?

love how she thinks that is the real reason why people raged at her for the poem

(like it was prob the reason for some righties or w/e but that outrage is always there and it was not really the primary source of the backlash to that idiotic impulse of hers)

they conflated marathon man with boys from brazil smdh

ha ha I don't understand Neil's position in that argument

Neil sighed.

lol

It's so exasperating when you try to correct her choice of Nazi and she just won't listen.

Manic pixie Nazi-empathizing dreamgirl

omg

th;dr

thank you for this

was gonna say, that is gonna get some use on my end as well

her essay is supposed to be about Hitler, but she makes it all about herself, good fucking lord!

lol

even when I sympathize with her point she makes it in the stupidest most obnoxious way possible

That's pretty much her m.o.

she's at a friend's deathbed and is p much liveblogging his death w/fb photos etc

Amanda Palmer ‏@amandapalmer 4h4 hours ago
it also feels weird to be tweeting from a deathbed. but then again, we may be here a while and there are no rules...

who is it? how do you feel about it, as her friend? why is she doing this on her patreon page where people are supposed to give her money? isnt that fucking gross?

*his friend

maybe that's what her friend wanted?

how much money to you have to kickstart to get a deathbed visit? is that the gold package?

to me, anyone who liveblogs a death is a little damaged, be fucking present
there's an instagram shot of her holding the front cover of the Times on display with a picture of the fucking charleston killer at someone else's deathbed
get some distance from your online persona for crissakes and respect the moment, i dunno.

exception for Timothy leary because he got there first but otherwise you are moving too casually into dystopia

when does her Dylann Storm Roof chapbook drop?

she's working on a dylann storm rock opera, i think...

set design by Da Sandman.

https://medium.com/@amandapalmer/no-i-am-not-crowdfunding-this-baby-an-open-letter-to-a-worried-fan-9ca75cb0f938

happy wednesday

a) this is old

b) the point is basically valid

yeah i may be missing some new bit of offensiveness but this is relatively light on the cultspeak and egomania, and her point about how misogyny plays into the heroic artist narrative is more than worth bringing up

so i should have posted it or i shouldn't have posted it, and i should have or shouldn't have… last week?

i assumed from the curt "happy wednesday" that you thought this would be gristle for the mill, i'm just saying i don't see much gristle. whether that means you should or shouldn't have posted it is between you are

lol didn't finish that thought, let's just leave it ambiguous

^^^FYI, it's *grist* for the mill.

it was, but not anymore

isn't gristle more cabaret

All that gristles is not grist

this is her most reasonable thing ever

guys what are we gonna do if motherhood makes amanda palmer a chill person who we all enjoy hearing from

We will always have people to remind us that we agreed she was terrible that time.

the worst

do you people have any idea how much more obnoxious normally obnoxious people become once they become parents

also this list is totally fucking stupid, I'm sorry:

"PROS:

It’s not like anything I’ve done before, and I like new things.
Possible spiritual enlightenment?
Possible deeper bond with my husband once we’ve mixed our genepools.
Most importantly, if I believe all the people I’ve anxiously polled, especially female artists, it’s a decision that’s nearly impossible to regret, even if having a kid is a total pain in the ass. So…that’s good.

CONS:

Complete loss of personal freedom and spontaneity.
A whole new world of potential disagreements and drama with my husband, since we’re both control freaks (…undoubtedly followed by divorce proceedings, ugly custody battles and the sorrowful life of a single mother).
All that poop.
But the worst one is actually this: The loss of my identity as an artist."

written by a narcissist

A crocheted Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer blanket!

@neilhimself
Listening to @amandapalmer explaining the plot of Star Wars to @maddygaiman on a balcony. A passer-by below shouted up details she'd missed.

http://pitchfork.com/news/63321-listen-to-amanda-palmer-and-jherek-bischoffs-david-bowie-covers-ep-featuring-neil-gaiman-john-cameron-mitchell-anna-calvi/

"Space Oddity (feat. Neil Gaiman)"