:) ask your partner if they remember feedback, HeadOfState, or penisfingers on that board. for a couple years i was in the top 5 posters (by quantity, not quality)
i actually found ilx through the rhmb!we actually talked about radiohead all the damn time
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
top poster by quantity not quality by poster penisfingers #humblebrag
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
:D
feedback was my main name. penisfingers was my first sock!
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
i learned a lot on that board, about how to a complete weirdo on the internet
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
Ah, the glory days!
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
my man :D
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
jia is proof that platform is 90% of intellectual success these days, which feels related to the vertical internet phenomenon
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
otm
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
maura is that a burn on jia? :(
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
she’s bad, sorry
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
actually i’m not sorry but
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
she's good
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
no
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
she’s an adderall-fueled solipsist with boring arguments
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
:,(
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link
i gotta be me
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:47 (four years ago) link
Adderall-fueled solipsist makes me shrug and doesn't mean a whole lot. The boring arguments though, that's def true.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
I like Jia sry I guess
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
and boring is a fake idea
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
i should have said banal instead, you’re right
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
a friend of mine once summarized tolentino’s work as “clever but not smart” and that reads 100 percent correct to me. everything i’ve read by her on any subject i have remotest knowledge of has had its routine incidents of bullshit and received wisdom. she is good at affecting an intellectual surface through sentences. she’s done some good reporting too
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
anyway it’s fine to like her, so many people agree with you
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
I have very little confidence in my own taste, if someone on a messageboard posts that a thing I think is good is bad actually I get all kerfuffled
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
:O if i ever kerfuffled you i'm sorry silby!
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:13 (four years ago) link
Silby! <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
she's the one from the hulu fyre fest doc?
― 10,000 mani-gecs (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
i should also say i like exceedingly few modern writers, probably because i am one, adjust for inflation
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
i still consider myself a late 90s writer, protoblogger
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
brad posts for me / i get anxious when i dislike stuff a lot of people are into, so
― maura, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
'Here We Go. The Chaos Is Starting': An Oral History of Y2K
― blatherskite, Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:20 (four years ago) link