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

known feminist

of course i’m not entitled to coverage. but when a known feminist does a tour to 20,000 in your area, talking openly about miscarriage & abortion in a way that nobody is currently doing & you claim to be a progressive, feminist paper, that’s your choice to explain to the people.

— Amanda Palmer Is Touring Europe & the UK (@amandapalmer) November 21, 2019

where is all of the attention that i obviously deserve

nah man, eyebrows

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, September 14, 2012 9:07 PM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Paging VegemiteGrrl

https://www.billboard.com/files/styles/article_main_image/public/media/amanda-palmer-sxsw-live-march-11-2019-u-billboard-1548.jpg

funny that colossal assholes who make bad art can be feminist too

The "Let It Go" moment is actually a false epiphany for Elsa (which may be relevant here)

very

i don't know exactly what kind of history we're making here, but it feels important, and we have 15k patrons cheering us on. like i've always said, when the media disappoints you, don't blame the media.

make the media.

BE THE MEDIA.

here’s the article: https://t.co/dBJjfTnzXE

— Amanda Palmer Is Touring Europe & the UK (@amandapalmer) November 21, 2019

if you want to support this whole circus of new-media-making, free from shackles of click, please join my patreon. i can’t wait to hire more undiscovered, diverse writers. let’s amplify their voices. we’re on fire & almost @ 16k people as of this tweet. https://t.co/StKQnUYJqk

— Amanda Palmer Is Touring Europe & the UK (@amandapalmer) November 21, 2019

love to create a strawman controversy out of thin air and make myself the victim of a deep (music media) state conspiracy

she's got a point, I forgot she existed, so it must be the media's fault.

last night when the front row told me leonard cohen had died. i unthinkingly fell to my knees. photo: @HayleyFiasco pic.twitter.com/NrKNFKKLNE

— Amanda Palmer Is Touring Europe & the UK (@amandapalmer) November 11, 2016

I sit before a stage, night after night. A blue-green spotlight shines against the darkness, and into it strides a woman in an exquisitely tailored jacket, red leather boots and a white shirt. Sometimes she carries a ukulele, sometimes a glass of wine. She looks out at a sea of faces and begins.

“Compassion is very complicated. When I was fourteen years old, a man tied me to a table in his basement.”

wow what great writing

we're just poking the elephant everyone

Reading other people’s opinions of Amanda Palmer reminds me of the parable of the blind men and the elephant. One person opens Amanda’s Twitter account and says, “Ah, Amanda Palmer is a narcissist.” Another reads her book The Art of Asking and says, “Ah, she is a philosopher.” A third and a fourth listen to her music; one says “Ah, she is a healer,” and the other, “Ah, she is a bigot.” And Amanda, the elephant at the center of it all, marches on and trumpets her opinions to the sky.

'Ah, she is an asshole."

anyway, reminder that she's been at jeff bezos' super-secret parties and like... yeah idk what else to say

https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/neil-gaiman-hints-at-the-talk-around-jeff-bezoss-campfire/

honest to god i think this board is the only place I've ever heard Amanda Palmer's name

I love when people do the rhetorical shell game of "I know I am not entitled to (x). But here are the reasons why I know I am entitled to (x)."

free from shackles of click --> please join my patreon

An elephant is soft and mushy...#SamGross pic.twitter.com/zLAlpNJqMW

— MacCocktail (@MacCocktail) June 12, 2015

I find that people who were huge TMBG or Residents fans also are huge into Amanda Palmer. It's weird and disappointing.

what sucks too is she's using her alliance w/marginalized voices as a way to turn herself more into the center of attention, you get the sense that if any one of them ever caught the spotlight for too long while she was in the vicinity she'd get vv testy about it.

well, then they would be marginalizing her voice by actually being visible in her project, right?

I know of many knitters and designers who like her. The same ones also write a lot about being fairly compensated for their work designing and/or teaching. I doubt any of them would accept being paid in beer and hugs!

I want to say the Dresden Dolls were not terrible? At least I am pretty sure I saw them perform at least once and they were not terrible.

I am cracking up at the picture Whiney posted because I keep thinking AP has knees in her butt

we can all put this right by supporting my patreon instead of hers

I think we'd all be better off drinking Patron.

going by that logic, you could also say that my entire album and tour is a blatantly cynical attempt at leveraging feminism and progressive politics for money.

— Amanda Palmer Is Touring Europe & the UK (@amandapalmer) November 21, 2019

ahhhhh

She's so close!

tbh I think it's a certain type of validation that's the target here and not specifically money, but money is the public currency of validation ("hard to sell out shows")

all she did was - poetically - state the facts

a 'press ally'

mookie's gaslighting me, I think

don't tell us, tell your followers

I will do so via the greatest journalistic endeavor yet attempted

*hires someone to write long, glowing reviews of my posting sessions*

https://i.imgur.com/At1AdpW.jpg

*pitches mh instantly*

lad

no amount of anger from them about this episode will make me not love their paper.

Disingenuous passive-aggressive "love" is the best

anger from them

She makes me dislike Neil Gaiman.

honest to god i think this board is the only place I've ever heard Amanda Palmer's name

^^^this

xp Yes! It's a weird feeling, but now I wonder about what Gaiman is really like as a person, versus just enjoying his writing. Feel like over the years, his blog posts painted a relatively humble, interesting guy, whereas I would activate a "Black Mirror" filter for Palmer.

Gaiman's writing is very bad

(having re-read all of Sandman recently)

Amanda Palmer Now Just Going Door-to-Door Trying to Shock People

— S.I. Rosenbaum (@sirosenbaum) November 21, 2019

honest to god i think this board is the only place I've ever heard Amanda Palmer's name

^^^this

― Οὖτις, Thursday, November 21, 2019

I have to remind myself who she is, often by checking this board.

Hey remember that time Amanda Palmer decided to do disability cosplay and one disabled feminist fan was like “wtf” and Palmer was like “lol” at the idea of a disabled feminist and her fans piled on the disabled fan and basically told her to kill herself while Palmer did nothing?

— Malice Walker (@humblecore) November 21, 2019

once when amanda palmer was coming to town an acquaintance of my ex-wife - who she hadn't seen in a couple of years - sent her, and seemingly everyone in his phone, a street teamy type text promoting the show. i thought it was very weird at the time, though now i see that it was probably solicited by amanda herself.

when things like this thread make me check out her music to remind myself what she sounds like, I'm always reminded of that old thing about "good and original, but the good parts are not original and the original parts are not good"