Y’all my life is over. Quite literally. They’ve come for Facebook, they’ve come for Jezebel (not like I really comment there anymore, but it’s nice to read occasionally) and soon they’ll come for WordPress, too.
I don’t have time in my life outside of work in order to blog, keep abreast of the news, and BS on the internet with my friends. There are only so many hours in the day, and my less-than-busy moments at my vocation were the only opportunity I had to do such things. Nights are for working out, cooking, eating, sleeping, and seeing my fiance’. Weekends are for sleeping, cleaning, working out, and doing all of the things I wish I could do all week while I’m stuck staring at a computer all day during the week. So yeah, I loathe to turn the home computer on, even on the off days. Hell, especially on the off days.
I am hereby committing internet suicide. It’s been nice knowing you all.
ButtercupPunch - "La clique, c’est chic!" 
June 18, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I totally feel you. I’m still sporadically posting but feeling like it’s time to wean myself.
Stay fabulous.
June 18, 2008 at 12:37 pm
NOOOOOO!!!! Oh, Panda, I’m so sorry.
June 18, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Jez was blocked at my work about a month ago. I am still mourning the loss to this day. :(
June 18, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Come on!!! Why?? Were they criticizing your work ethic or something?
June 18, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Nobody’s said a damn word to me about this at work. They’re all such spineless wusses. It’s not like I’ve been failing to get my shit done. I get it done, and pretty fast, usually, so I don’t get it. So basically, it’s a slow time for us right now, and I’m just expected to sit here and pick fucking staples out of the carpet while all of the oldies fuck around on eBay all damn day. See, it’s OK to waste time, so long as you’re not socially connected while doing it.
June 18, 2008 at 1:13 pm
no-no-no-no-NO!!
do you have a laptop and cell phone? we can totally subvert this orwellian ban.
Damn The Man!!
June 18, 2008 at 1:16 pm
I have a celly here. Laptop is at home. Proxies are all banned. Even an ARTICLE about proxy bypassing on Digg is banned. WHAT THE FUCK? It’s like they planned an all-points attack on me.
I’M GOING TO QUIT THIS JOB! DO YOU HEAR ME, BIG BROTHER? I’M GOING TO CRUISE JOB POSTINGS ON CRAIGSLIST AND THEN I’M GOING TO PEACE THE FUCK OUT.
June 18, 2008 at 1:35 pm
OH NO PANDA!!!!! I would totally quit my job if they blocked the interwebz. Fuck them.
June 18, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Oh Panda, that sucks. The internet is the only thing that keeps me (relatively) sane at work. And even it’s not enough some days. Jez kept me going for a while, but lately I haven’t been as interested. I need a new drug.
June 18, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I got Jez, but no FaceBook or MySpace, thanks to ONE STAFF MEMBER who was on it all damn day and lost it for the rest of us who checked in occasionally. There have recently been some… troubling, ominous comments hinting at further bans and/or internet monitoring. This makes me very, very nervous.
June 18, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Tailfeather- What the fuck, dude? The way I see it, if all the work gets done and done on time, what’s the fucking problem? Who is it hurting? And, how is Larry back there playing on eBay any better for the company than me facebooking a bit throughout the day? And what about break times? Lunch hour? Shouldn’t I have the freedom to do whateverthefuck during those times? I mean, I understand blocking MySpace, b/c that shit is virus city, but facebook and Jez aren’t harmful to the computers.
UGH. This is so depressing. All my friends are scattered all over the country/Northern Hemisphere, and the only way for me to have a social life is online. Without my FB time, my life is going to revert back to solitary confinement. It’s too depressing to fathom right now.
June 18, 2008 at 3:50 pm
@BDJ: It’s the Jez blocking that I find most troubling in your situation. FB could be attributed to other factors and I don’t know what your office is like, but I am willing to bet there aren’t a slew of people eagerly pulling up feminist blogs all day (this is how I imagine I have thus far escaped notice).
I don’t know what to say but: Do not despair. Write some more excellent blog posts, because THAT you can do on your own damn email and they cannot censor.
June 18, 2008 at 4:06 pm
OMG, Panda! NOOO! This is terrible! When does it officially take effect? Are you already booted?
June 18, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Failing any success in getting them to fuck the hell off, make sure you snitch on the eBay fuckers!
June 18, 2008 at 5:41 pm
That’s grim Panda. I hope you find a way to subvert this ban. Do you have any in-roads w/the IT folks so your account can be routed around the blocks…it can be done, but you’ll need their help.
June 18, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Hey…you need a new job? We are always hiring at The Firm. We have good benefits and the office is SO close to your home that you could take the trolley. Or bike it.
June 19, 2008 at 12:45 am
I think we all know how I feel about my douche boss. EAT A BAG OF DICKS, “MS.” ___ ______!
June 19, 2008 at 2:20 am
Fuck, Panda. That’s a bunch of bullshit right there. I do sometimes think I should voluntarily cut off my interwebz access so I can get actual work done at work, but then I realize that without FB I would turn into a slobbering moron because my job is slaughtering my brain cells with its inanity.
Let’s us both find new jobs!
June 19, 2008 at 2:36 am
I wish you the best of luck in finding a new employer who isn’t stupid; bonus if you do end up alongside BAngieB at The Firm.
Until then, I’m gonna miss you, Ms. Panda, especially around karaoke time.
June 19, 2008 at 11:08 am
Thanks Cam, you’re a doll!
SBJ: You should write “MS.” ____ into your superhero Jonesey movie. Ka-POW!
Hey BAng: That sounds fabu, and OMG, I could be your lil’ helper monkey!!!! Tell me where to go & who to call and I’m THERE!
June 19, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I hope all the commenters I see here find more time for Jezebel. It is seriously tanking in the comments department. And Slut Machine’s behavior has me ready to block them from my own computer.
I hope this site grows because reading it makes me feel like I use to when I would read Jezebel. Happy.
Keep up the good work!
June 19, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Panda this will not stand. How can we reach you? BCP? The Not? Carrier pigeon? I need my daily dose.
June 19, 2008 at 2:20 pm
y’all come hang out here and keep Panda company, our url does little to arouse suspicion.
June 19, 2008 at 2:37 pm
MBB- You can always add me to your gchat- my name at gmail. So easy!
But no, hopefully I’ll still be able to blog. I’m’a lay low for the week and all that, though.
June 19, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Tai- Yeah. Aside from many of the posts themselves, Jez has basically become unreadable. I think they’ve been way too inclusive about commenters. If they’re tanking, it’s their own fucking fault and I don’t think the folks who read and post over here can really do anything about it even if we wanted to.
The site built it’s popularity at least in part on the backs of witty, insightful commenters and then the site completely turned it’s back on the foundation group once the hits (and inane new commenters) started rolling in. Now it’s just a boring, oversharing circle-jerk in the comments and I’m almost embarrassed to read it. Yesterday there was some 1/2-assed, insulting post by Slut Machine, and all these brain-dead sycophants started posting shit like, “I didn’t even read this post, or the post that started all this drama, b/c I found the topic to be boring, but I just wanted to say I luv yooo Slut Machine! Fuc tha haterz!”
I find the whole thing really hilarious, b/c now the site is finally living up to it’s (previously unfounded) reputation as the laughingstock of the Gawker-verse.
June 19, 2008 at 2:56 pm
@Tai
yea, Jezebel is seriously tanking in comments. And I am not all about SadieStein being brought in.
I hope you guys keep posting more and more, you’re my sanctuary from work and last minute phone conferences that make you stay 2 hours overtime.
Its ok Panda, we’ll keep you company. My job banned myspace, facebook messaging, any other form of email besides their own, and radio (I know keep a stack of cd’s at work in defiance.) I feel your isolation pain.
June 19, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Lush- Actually, I like Sadie Stein’s stuff. She seems to be more into fashion on the personal level, whereas Jennifer was more into designers and such- which, in general, I find kind of elitist. Not that I think Jen was elitist, but I think high fashion itself is.
Anyway, Sadie Stein beats the hell out of that Chloe Sevigny-loving hipster pit they had on there before- Lesley Arfin. UGH. There is only so much room for Vice-iness on that site, and SM has it on lockdown as it is, wouldn’cha’say?
June 19, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Panda
ha! oh Lesley Arfin was awful. I used to really like SM too but she’s kind of gone super half assed lately. I think the only one I really like reading now all of the time is Dodai. I liked Sadie until she made that comment about ghetto jeans, but she did apologize so I guess I’m being bitter about it. How she addressed her commenters did win me over a bit.
also, I thought you would like to know I blatantly told my coworker I was too busy to help her while posting this response. She’s the one that makes me stay late all of the time.
June 19, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Tai, Panda, Lush – I keep going back in the naive hope that things will get better. I came in too late to enjoy the glory days that many of the Buttercups mention, but even I notice a difference in the quality. I’m reading fewer posts and hardly bothering with comments (reading or posting them). I was reading the latest SM debacle in hopes that some people might gain an iota of sense, but instead I feel like gnawing my arm off. It would probably be a better use of my time.
June 19, 2008 at 5:03 pm
I’d like to echo you guys- Jezebel is a sinking ship. I haven’t been too regular of a commenter – off and on, but I was reading it way back last summer when all y’all were on there bringin’ teh funny and teh smart. And now it’s a total clusterfuck.
And, yeah, BDJ- Yesterday’s SM post was ridiculous, but what’s worse is all the goddamn teeny boppers squeeing about how SM is sooo great b/c she has awesome bangs and cool nail polish. Any intelligent discourse is quashed and anybody who disagrees is openly insulted. (“assy”? gimme a break.)
Gag me with a spoon.
June 19, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I just can’t handle the “assy.” I really can’t.
June 19, 2008 at 6:57 pm
You know, in the salad days of Jez, I really loved SM’s posts and such. But over recent months, she’s shown her true colors on that site, and it is truly disturbing. The whole cooler-than-thou, faux-feminist (seriously), bratty, immature, refusing to admit mistakes STEEZ makes me want to stay far, far away.
Uh, and the fucking brain-dead comments make me want to stay away. I think I’ve strained an ocular nerve from all the eye-rolling most of the comments inspire. You like that dress/handbag/shoes? You wish you looked like Zooey Deschanel? You’d like to eff Clive Owen/Johnny Depp/Tilda Swinton? You think someone’s CLEARLY thinking “bish plz”? Really? Thanks for that. So very fucking interesting and enlightening. You’re unique voice and singular perspective is just what this world’s been missing!
June 19, 2008 at 7:36 pm
But her bangs, BDJ. People will follow her bangs anywhere. She’s like the Pied-bloody-Piper of Hipster Bangs. You can hear them calling…
HI, KIDS! I know you’re new here, but these two things can be your friends AND stab you in the face:
Wet ‘n’ Wild
Scissors
Pls. to use caution.
SIP SHINKING!
SIP SHINKING!
June 19, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Hey y’all,
I quit Jezebel today for all the reasons that you’ve stated already. SM is a headcase and her fangirls are asinine. I got drunk last night and overshared in a snarky way and some special snowflakes told on me to Hortense.
I hate that Anna has to come back from vacation to this immature bullshit.
June 19, 2008 at 9:56 pm
The trolling at Gawker of a commenter by Ms. Egan was the first shot over the bow. Anymore of these, and she may find herself and/or Jezebel written up at Encyclopedia Dramatica one day.
May God have mercy when that day comes, for Anonymous knows none, despite what y’all may have seen once a month since this February.
Anyway, I think I may just abandon ship; this one’s more fun–and easier to read–as far as I’m concerned.
Just my two euros.
June 19, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Aww Cameron, you’re a doll. Unfortunately we cannot post nearly as often.
And I still love Jez. It’s a love affair that I don’t want to end. Growing pains, is all!
June 19, 2008 at 10:20 pm
thanks, Cameron! we love having you here in our little punchbowl of the blogosphere, and like Trixie said, we can’t post quite as often as the Jez eds. do but trust that we are all working to step it up for the BCP!
June 19, 2008 at 10:37 pm
I appreciate that Buttercup places quality over quantity in posts and comments. The Jez is a ship adrift in a sea of maddness. I hope a stern editorial hand is applied to right the course.
June 19, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Your navel gazing is obnoxious and obscene.
Your comments (the collective you, Angie B, Lanidough, Skinny, Pickles, Trixie and Bowling) never amount to anything anymore.
You are not Jez.
Suck it.
June 19, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Take as much time as you desire; my work has me using a PC to proofread ad photoboards and transcripts all day for whatever it is they’re used for by our clients (I work at VMS), so by the time I visit Jalopnik and Jezebel (and Fleshbot, but who, um, really comments there), all the fun’s pretty much happened and I have to fight my way through 600+ comments if I even care to say something.
This little boat’s much better, I think.
June 19, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Hey NOLA?
Those special snowflakes are right here.
Pickles called you out.
June 19, 2008 at 10:50 pm
agreeneyedevil: A “stern hand”? This is not a post about spanking, try to stay on topic.
Such as.
June 19, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Well BAngieB, the editor probably does need The Court of Country Justice to right the woefully wayward path that has emerged over there! Oh yeah, naughty banter was elsewhere….
June 19, 2008 at 11:38 pm
EQBB? Pickles doesn’t write for BCP. Neither does Bowling. But thanks for dropping by. How’s Westfield?
June 19, 2008 at 11:42 pm
um, what?
I am in NYC, but I am mobile as you well know.
June 19, 2008 at 11:43 pm
ZOMG, Queen Bee his/her very own self came by to give us a noogie! Charming.
And by charming I mean dull.
June 19, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Why don’t you e-mail me at my gmail account and we can discuss whatever you’re so pissed about? I’d like to sort it out. I don’t know what all this anger is about, but would like to have a “detente.”
June 19, 2008 at 11:45 pm
EQBB@
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! Who are you and from whence did you crawl?!!!!
June 19, 2008 at 11:59 pm
@elitistqueenbeebitch: seriously, on Jez you are always accused of being a “sock puppet”. Are you a sock puppet? Whose hand is in your sock?
Is it a dirty sock?
Dirty minds want to know….
June 20, 2008 at 12:05 am
I think what Katastic – and I – would really like to know, elitistqueenbeebitch, is what crawled up your ass and died?
June 20, 2008 at 12:06 am
@EQBB: C’mon, wimp. There’s no moderator here. Come and engage people. You know, as if you could say things to people’s ‘faces’.
…..chicken.
June 20, 2008 at 12:06 am
SOCKPUPPET!!
And hey, I don’t write for BCP, and I hardly comment on Jez anymore. It’s pretty clear why – no one values good commenting any more over there. Thank God BCP is here.
Your postings confirm for me that Slut Machine *is* actually EQBB, though.
June 20, 2008 at 12:15 am
Kumbaya, my lord, kumbaya …
June 20, 2008 at 12:20 am
I never thought I’d see the day Denton Media would hire–unknowingly, of course–a troll and her sockpuppet.
Alas, she’ll never be anything likeRobert Paulson, nor shall her sockpuppet ever compare to Sifl & Olly.
June 20, 2008 at 12:27 am
I have to admit, I enjoyed the way EQBB called people out at Jezebel. Do you really think she is SM? Because she really laid into her before she was banned.
I do find it funny she came here to slam you in defense of Jezebel since she is no longer welcomed there. A Queen Bee with no place to rule. How sad.
June 20, 2008 at 12:29 am
@EQBB: Whatever. Whoever you are (or aren’t), you’ve proven that you’re a weak-willed coward, without the intellect or spine to defend her (presumably her, although I suppose it could be his) point of view.
Sad/pitiable.
June 20, 2008 at 12:29 am
Awww, EQBB, reading our little blog now? Aren’t you sweet?
And, bless you heart, you think we care about what you have to say? But then again, you are right: our comments don’t amount to anything anymore because we are bored over at Jezebel. We were Jezebel, but we are leaving it to the second string. Y’all can have it. Such as.
And that’s Ms. BAngieB to you. Thanks.
June 20, 2008 at 12:49 am
EQBB/SM…Nero fiddled while Rome burned! I suggest you return to the bonfire and groupies that comprise the current state of The Jez.
June 20, 2008 at 1:24 am
booo, I’ll call you lots during the day!
June 20, 2008 at 2:24 am
@Tai: It can be done, as Exhibit A demonstrates.
But either way, ’tis very sad indeed.
June 20, 2008 at 2:40 am
@Cameron: Sifl & Olly are the shit, dude – I have every episode.
June 20, 2008 at 2:50 am
@kadinsky: I had most of the episodes on cassette, but not anymore.
I am glad YouTube has them, though. Got to see the one with the magnetized car.
Also: loved watching Olly slowly lose his shit during the season with the Precious Roy segments. PR must’ve messed him up bad for that to happen.
June 20, 2008 at 7:32 am
I doubt very much it’s SM. I can’t imagine why she’d be bothered. It’s someone else who just seems to enjoy stirring up shit for no reason other than to stir up shit.
I don’t even understand the whole Nola/Pickles thing. I went back and looked in that long thread and it seems Pickles wondered aloud where Hortense was when things were — once again — getting uncontrollably high schooly and adolescent in that thread. I can’t see that it had anything to do with Nola.
What I don’t really understand is why people are so emotionally invested. It’s just a blog, and it’s usually a very fun place to visit. But we are all anonymous people posting under silly fake names and most of us wouldn’t know each other if we walked past one another on the street. Why are people taking it all so seriously? Why does it bug some anonymous posters that other anonymous posters are Facebook friends and friends in real life? Does it affect their real-life existences in any way?
I just cannot for the life of me understand what must be wrong elsewhere in their lives to care so much about what goes on in the commenting threads of a celebrity gossip blog. I feel bad for them and sad that it spilled over here, and I wish that whoever EQBB is, she’d be in touch off boards so we can sort it out and put it to rest.
June 20, 2008 at 8:40 am
Oh, EQBB. IF you are SM, don’t you have some fawning teenage acolytes to pander to and some Judge Judy to watch? I know your days are SO long, so I don’t know how you have time to wander over here.
If it’s someone else, I hope they are enjoying themselves. After all, if your life is such a tepid, boring mess that you have nothing better to do than follow Jezebel commenters around and stir shit, then I pity you and your petty, petty existence.
June 20, 2008 at 8:54 am
I love this. LOVE THIS. EQBB attempted to call me out- using, get this, my “real” name from Facebook!! Which is as fake as Jeremy Piven’s head of hair. OMG, hysterical! So, this EQBB doesn’t know the bloody first thing about me, although I know evvvvvvvvverything about her. That’s right, betch, I know who you are.
Everything you claim to be is nothing that you actually are. You claim to be a fun-loving gal-about-town, a flaxen hottie from Golden shores who also cares about the civic state of things. When really, you’re a sad, sad, insecure flapping head with nothing to offer. The comment pool would have eaten you alive if it weren’t for your little cabal protecting your ass. You ass which in real life resembles Melville’s albescent titular nemesis. I suspect you’re also the troll-like creature who changes names often so as to obfuscate the identity of the other sock-puppet accounts you use from time to time, b/c you KEEP GETTING BANNED. So, new identity after new identity, you keep truckin’ along although you’re clearly not wanted. Pathetic.
June 20, 2008 at 9:41 am
Okay. So I woke up this morning, and realized that I have taken this too seriously. My comments were childish and rude- and on a level that is beneath me.
So please accept my apologies.
June 20, 2008 at 9:44 am
Jeremy Piven’s hair! ahahahahaha! That was brilliant.
June 20, 2008 at 9:53 am
Silly EQBB, nothing is beneath YOU!
June 20, 2008 at 10:01 am
Apology accepted, EQQB. Drunken late-night comment-posting — we’ve all been there. But please e-mail me and we can try to figure out how all this high school warfare started, why, and try to stop it. Because I am too old for this silliness.
June 20, 2008 at 11:00 am
@biscuitdoughjones: Behold, the Underminer! I am always beneath you, but nothing is beneath me!!!
(Oh, how I love The Incredibles.)
June 20, 2008 at 11:04 am
Ms. Director- I’m so glad you caught that reference. I heart you.
June 20, 2008 at 11:04 am
hahahaha Trix you would post on #69
June 20, 2008 at 11:05 am
Panda, you’re cracking our shit up over here.
June 20, 2008 at 11:09 am
I’m kinda po’ed that we found this fun little blog and then we get assy commenters over here too.
I mean, we all gave up the Jezebel for the most part cuz it sucks. Can’t the assy commenters just stay over there?
June 20, 2008 at 11:09 am
BDJ – You mean you meant it? I wasn’t just a crazy, pop-culture-addled freak?
Oh, I heart you, too. You’re a total superhero.
June 20, 2008 at 11:17 am
Sparkle: I am not a big fan of the 69. I sense another sex post!!!
June 20, 2008 at 11:22 am
@Bowling: ahhh, but difference is, this here is the fucking dyke mountain – if it gets too assy, off the side you go!
June 20, 2008 at 11:27 am
@kadinsky: WHAT? Are you saying you will ban assy people? Sweet!
June 20, 2008 at 10:48 am
I just noticed the new tagline: “All Classy, No Assy!” Awesome.
June 20, 2008 at 10:50 am
Okay, how the fuck did a comment I just made magically appear at #70? What clock thinks it’s an hour earlier than it actually is?
June 20, 2008 at 11:05 am
@Trixie: I already regret my post here. That wasn’t an accurate explanation. If I upset anyone, Pickles or otherwise, I am very very sorry.
Also, I know I’m not a part of this group and I’ve certainly disagreed with several of you in the past, but I respect all of y’all and look forward to reading your posts.
June 20, 2008 at 11:11 am
@NOLA: we’re glad you’re here, girl – it’s all good.
June 20, 2008 at 11:23 am
Nola: Don’t sweat it! You didn’t say/do anything you need to apologize for!
Unicorns and rainbows, people!!
June 20, 2008 at 11:41 am
@Bowling: Not just ban…throw them off the side of the mountain!
@Panda: You have my sympathy. Have you read “And Then We Came to the End?” You should make like the character who copied novels to read at his desk. You could do that with Jez posts =P
@EQBB: Sit and spin. At another blog, please.
June 20, 2008 at 11:52 am
NOLA- You know, there really is no “group” to be part of. A couple of us Jez commies started this blog, and some more Jez alums come here to comment. That’s all it is, so you’re welcome any old time!
June 20, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Panda Dough Jones! I am speaking in my “mom” voice, as I am an old lady. Please do not leave us. I haven’t read through all the comments, so maybe a solution has already been found– we need you!
I have had jobs with similar internet policies. Screw ’em. I am looking for work now too. We need a BCP job seekers support group, since we all know that job hunting is sooooo uplifting and soothing to the ego.
I know you all don’t know me well, but I am gonna ‘fess up to something. I have been going through a period of serious panic attacks and agoraphobia. So job hunting really is hard for me. And I rely on the internet for news/laughter/eyebrow support on those days when I simply cannot leave my house, or sometimes cannot leave my bedroom.
I need all of you.
June 20, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Okay, I feel really stupid now.
June 20, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Don’t feel stupid, oversidi. I have been there, as well, and know exactly what you’re going though. Just keep taking small steps- break down the scariest things into tiny pieces and do whatever you can. I know it’s hard, but as someone who has been through it, I promise you that it gets easier. :)
June 20, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Hi everyone. Wow, I step away from the computer for 24 hours and all hell breaks loose. Someone told me I might want to check out this thread because they thought that BDJ was referring to me — blonde, from the beach, civic-minded and all — and accusing me of being the puppeteer to ElitistQueenBitchBee’s sock puppet. If you weren’t referring to me, then this is a damn huge coincidence and please disregard this. I’m sorry that someone was leaving unfriendly comments on your blog last night. It was not me. I know you all have no reason to believe me, and I have no way to prove that I’m not EQBB. I’m not quite sure why I’m here except to defend myself, as pointless as this may be. So here we go.
I have never commented under any name or account other than my own. If I have a problem with a commenter that I feel needs to be hashed out, I will say so. As myself. Once or twice, I have emailed hortense with concerns. I’ve complained to other commenters privately. Nothing more. I’m not organizing a rebel uprising; I’m not interested in taking over Jez, and all these references to “second string” and “JV” are unnecessary. So I’m not considered a “top” commenter by your standards. Fine. But I’m not trying to take over, nor am I trying to get any of you to leave the site. I honestly don’t believe I possess that much power, nor do I wish to. I didn’t like some of the bullying that was happening in the threads, so now that means I want to “rule?” No. I too am saddened by the increase in quantity and decline in quality comments. Some of you and I disagree as to how to handle/address this situation. That’s all.
I lost my cool with Utter-SHOCK yesterday — something I regret. However, I stand by my words. That commenter did nothing but attack commenters and editors. I didn’t like it. I said so. As PPG. As myself. I don’t need to hide behind a fake name. I also mentioned a few people removing me from their FB friends. Silly of me? Definitely. Do I regret it? You bet. Still, I was truly disappointed (and confused) when some of you decided to defriend me, but that is your decision. If I lost my cool with you or said something insulting that prompted you to do that, I would much prefer you tell me so I can apologize. I rarely comment with the intent to insult (with the exception of perhaps rachy and rsr.) As a lover of politics, I am in favor of diplomacy. I’m no GWB. Starting an unnecessary war or resorting to drastic measures without exhausting all other means of communication just ain’t my style.
(Oh, and BDJ — Congrats on your detective work. I’m not trying to hide my “true identity,” or pretend to be anything I’m not. I know I’m not Lo any more than you’re a panda, but like you, I would rather not have my real name associated with my Jezebel commenting account. And I really didn’t appreciate your calling me fat. I think that was low, uncalled for, and frankly, uncreative. See? Me. Telling you I don’t like what you said. Directly.)
Apologies for my novella of a comment, but it’s been a long week. If you ever do find out who EQBB is, please let me know. I’m as confused as you are.
Best of luck to you all in your new blogging endeavors,
The *Real* Political Party Girl (Accept no substitutes/poseurs.)
June 20, 2008 at 9:18 pm
@Queen Bee: Ahh… drunk posting.
My apologies for comparing you to Margerie Brubaker and her drama.
Also: Hello, Hortense!
June 20, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I’m too fucking drunk for this. (Thank God.)
June 20, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Good Lord. Political Party Girl. Seriously? Get over yourself.
If you will remember, EQBB had an avatar: Regina George. “A fun-loving gal-about-town, a flaxen hottie from Golden shores who also cares about the civic state of things” describes Regina, not you.
I read every comment on this page and not one person suggested that EQBB was you. Sorry to disappoint.
So kindly keep that crap off of this beautiful place that my friends (Yes, they are my friends, I know them…they are smart and fabulous and Kadinsky is so fuckin’ hot you would faint) have created. They even wrote a welcome which tells you that we don’t have to be nice here, so we can refer to anyone has JV or second string as it pleases us.
And I know you wouldn’t want me to leave this out:
Such fuckin’ as.
P.S. You comment under your own name? Your parents named you Political Party Girl? Interesting choice.
June 21, 2008 at 9:23 am
Okay, a) I think we all need to calm down here. Seriously. I think that paranoia is OVER THE EDGE, yo. If there are sockpuppets out there, then so what? They say mean things about us? Oooh.
b) PPG, I do want to apologize to you. I shouldn’t have posted what I did on Utter Shock’s page. I still thought it was funny, but she was also talking shit on the supposed “cabal of bullies,” of which I would assume I’m a part or at least associated with because of my friends on the site. In other words, I was, in part, playing the role of “bully” to make fun of myself, as well. I also thought that the “JV” thing referred to people being bullies, not their quality as commenters. I’m sorry if it hurt your feelings, truly. It bothers me more that it seemed like it was underhanded; it was not.
c) BUT, dude, please don’t lecture people on being honest or straightforward about how they feel about people when you immediately de-friended me on Facebook without any explanation.
Look, everybody talks shit about everybody. I think we need to ratchet down the paranoia and accept the fact that some of us don’t get along with the others. It doesn’t need to be fucking WWIII. I, myself, am taking a deep cleansing breath and a break from the computer.
June 21, 2008 at 10:02 am
Whoa, whoa, whoa!!!! PPG be taking stuff WAY out of context. I was describing Queen Bee Regina in contrast to the holder of the sock puppet- which was a description of your garden variety internet troll, whom I had every interest in insulting, given that she was blowing up my spot for navel gazing ON MY OWN DAMN BLOG. But that was before the REAL detective work even began. And guess what? The last bit of my description was spot-on.
See, the holder of the EQBB sock was not smart enough to cover her tracks on the damn internet (rookie move, waaaah!), and we’ve traced the IP address down with the accuracy, and we know exactly who it is. We’ve got her in the cross-hairs, such as. Trouble is, I’m just really, really bored of her garbage, so I really don’t care anymore. And no, I’m not going to bother telling you who it is, because as luck would have it, it’s someone you already know! Doth. Protest. Too. Much.
June 21, 2008 at 11:35 am
Dear God, why is there drama spilling over to this blog? I thought this was a nice, clean place I could even bring my mom.
Is there no place nice to play anymore?
June 21, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Noooooo! No drama here, please! I come here to read and laugh and not have to worry about drama!
Come on, you guys! It’s the internet! Let’s just be nice to each other and laugh at the funny shit and get along. Please?
June 21, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I’m scared.
Hold me.
June 21, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Come over here, IdenticleBaden, I will hold you and play with your pretty earrings.
June 21, 2008 at 4:06 pm
PPG: Fret not. Thanks for coming here to explain, but all is cool. As for the other matter, we can discuss that another time. But I do appreciate you coming to explain yourself and state how you feel.
Peace out, sister! All is good!
June 22, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Hello again. Not here to stir up any trouble. I promise I’ll make it quick and leave you in peace. Just want to say I appreciate your clarifications. I reiterate that I am not looking for a fight here and was merely standing up for myself when I felt it was necessary.
@Truculent: You are absolutely right. (Check your FB inbox.)
@BAngieB: True that while Political Party Girl would be quite an unfortunate name, it is still eminently better than Ima Hogg. http://www.coe.uh.edu/webscapes/bayoubend/ima/bio1.htm
@ALL: I hope to see you tomorrow on Jez.
Best,
PPG
P.S. If I must be relegated to JV, can I at least be captain of the JV squad? Although, as I said, I don’t think I deserve that much credit. Perhaps Watergirl or Bat girl would be a better position? Or maybe the debate team or Model UN has a spot for me… :)
May 27, 2010 at 5:41 pm
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March 26, 2011 at 10:55 am
On this blog, privileged bourgeois children complain about losing their right to not work while on the clock, because it’s so hard to find extra time to waste at home, with all of the other crap that they just HAVE to do with their off-the-clock wasted time. Wah, wah, wah! Get a real job. This is so pathetic that I don’t even care that it’s over two years old. Those of us who have to actually work for a living (If you can call worrying whether you are going to get enough overtime to make rent a “living”), find this disgusting.
March 28, 2011 at 4:04 pm
We all work quite hard for a living, and we all find a little time to surf the internet during the day or in the evenings. I presume that that’s how you found us. Sometimes we read news, sometimes we read culture blogs, and sometimes we look at animal pictures or flick through Wikipedia to learn more about the Vietnam War or the history of the Mormon Church. I’m not sure I understand your complaint. The internet is a mental and informational free-for-all, and we’re privileged to participate.
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