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

How many people were behind this coffee counter exactly?
I'd say you need 20-25 people applauding pretty bloody hard for it to count as an eruption. Anything else is a light round or a golf clap.

i see we have covered this

Okay so clearly this was a flashmob

The slow hand clap means something different in the US, right?

I wanted to go to New Zealand but they told me I'd have to stay in my hotel room for two weeks until they could be sure I wasn't Amanda Palmer

It also stretches belief that she had not told those people who she was
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:48

I like to picture an unpaid intern preceding her to hand out "you have met me" cards, like Steve Martin did.

"And I said to myself: this is fair."

takeaway = stick to the coffeeshops, where the people seem to be consistently kind ♥️☕️🙏🏼

I checked but somehow she has continued tweeting after this?

come on - i simply cant imagine that amanda palmer could find a way to bring up the election and talk about herself while placing her coffee order. nope, simply not possible. it was "spontaneous".

tbf I assume that after ten months in an airbnb in a town of 60,000, staff at a place she goes to regularly "not knowing who she is but knowing the loud lady with a loud American accent and fake eyebrows is American" is probably as common as she says

Well, it happened. Sort of. https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/22-01-2021/did-everyone-spontaneously-applaud-amanda-palmer-in-a-havelock-north-cafe-a-spinoff-investigation/

Lol, "the guy I talked to about the inauguration the day before clapped and said congrats" is not quite the same story.

guys, let's try to get her twitter banned for spreading misinformation and FAKE NEWS

(update: town of 15k now we've narrowed it down, too)

first the Hawke's Bay region had that earthquake in 1931 and now they have to deal with THIS

brilliant

I'm imagining a version of No Exit with Donald Trump and Amanda Palmer stuck in a room forever ... hopefully I wouldn't be the third person.

sarahell is other peo- ah, forget it

just c&p to "username/post" lj

lol @ kiwis getting riled up over ppl believing or doubting this story

fwiw, i'd be pretty riled up if i were falsely accused of participating in a standing ovation for this clown too!

oh dear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7ZDbBsjMt8

dear god

don't make the mistake I did and start reading the comments

don't make the mistake I did and let jon's advice to not start reading the comments induce you to stubbornly start reading the comments

i'm gonna guess they're pro-rape

i mean, that's probably in there too, had i scrolled farther, but no. it's no surprise that YouTube comments are a cesspool, but it's not like these are offensive in the traditional sense, rather offensive and terrifying in that there is apparently some alternate layer of reality superimposed on ours in which Amanda Palmer is the epitome of creative genius and this song is the most powerful artistic creation ever uploaded to the internet.

Ok, that is obviously extremely "on the nose," but I think that may be the best thing that Amanda Palmer has ever done. I don't think it's "creative genius", but it's not the worst idea in the world and they executed it pretty well. Additionally, I really like the natural eyebrow look as opposed to her trademark artsy doodle thing.

that's it, folks. im never listening to music ever again.

jeezo beezo that's bad

Comments are amazing

I wonder what it would do to my personality if everything I did were greeted with hundreds of comments like that. Seriously, I think it would change me.

insofar as the computer geeks have taken over the world, perhaps it's just as well that the theatre nerds have yet to

Literally beyond parody, the singularity of narcissism

Amanda Palmer is many things: musician and Dresden Dolls lead singer, writer, performer, activist, mom, and self-described “happy and hyper-social weirdo who likes making feelings into art.” Starting in February, she’ll be adding Substack Writer in Residence to her long list of creative pursuits with the debut of her new publication, Ask Amanda.

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Amanda’s new publication will explore the possibilities of the direct relationship between a writer and reader community with a fresh spin on the advice column format that she calls “a crowd-sourced, everybody talk, conversation salon, kicked off by questions from you” and accompanied by original artwork from longtime collaborator Sarah Beetson.

noooooooooooooooooooooo
she has soiled the good name of amandas everywhere enough!

Amanda Palmer and Substack: water finding its level

a crowd-sourced, everybody talk, conversation salon

lol she will not be doing any writing there

long walk to say a chatroom

coming soon
Clusterfuck: The Newsletter

ohhhh its a “salon”? (rmde)

conversation salon

any time someone says there's a q&a at an event i will be like "oh you mean a conversation salon"

web 2.0, crowdsource the content, privatise the profits yes baybeeee

lol brad

I've learned to brace myself for the worst when this thread gets bumped, but this was disappointingly low on the APCES (Amanda Palmer Cringe Event Scale). I give it a 3 out of 10.

maybe it’s hosted on Jeremy Renner’s social media app?

that would bump it up to an easy 4/10

i think my most cherished amanda palmer byproduct is the consternation that arises whenever she pulls another innocuous stunt. omg she’s writing a column o no!!!

effortless trolling, it is like an art, she should sell a series of seminars (because peeps wld get mad and it wld be funny)

I’m still back on the time she chewed on things and auctioned them off to her fans

just a rehash of one of her original controversies (crowdsourcing her string sections and not paying them for their labor). i give it a C-

Is it a coincidence she and Chait announced Substacks on the same day or do the Substack masters read ILX?