when the status quo frustrates.

In which it turns out that everyone’s got the attention span of a stunned ameoba

Apparently Bussel’s boobs were just too fuckign fascinating for anyone to actually think about anything else if they get so much as mentioned ever.

Fuck you all, I’m getting drunk.

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32 Responses to “In which it turns out that everyone’s got the attention span of a stunned ameoba”

  1. zuzu says:
    July 22, 2006 at 7:45 pm

    Do you not get that the writer and the photo editor are two different people?

  2. R. Mildred says:
    July 22, 2006 at 7:50 pm

    that hasn’t been explained to me before.

    Actually.

  3. zuzu says:
    July 22, 2006 at 7:51 pm

    Well, shit, you keep going on and on about it as if the picture were her choice. Let it go already. It’s a shitty photo, but it wasn’t her decision to run it.

  4. R. Mildred says:
    July 22, 2006 at 8:01 pm

    It’s a shitty photo, but it wasn’t her decision to run it.

    And I was supposed to know that how exactly? Seriously, I was JOKING about being the fucking messiah, not actually omniscient nor do I have enough fuckign time to read every single one of B|L’s stupid ass, strawman filled, hypocritical auto-fellating whine fests on her blog.

    You can all have the original post that went here when you’ve all grown the fuck up.

  5. zuzu says:
    July 22, 2006 at 8:38 pm

    And I was supposed to know that how exactly?

    It’s a fucking newspaper, Mildred. Use your common sense. Failing that, think back to any movie or TV show you’ve ever seen set at a newspaper.

    You can all have the original post that went here when you’ve all grown the fuck up.

    Oooh, are you going to hold your breath and stamp your little feetsies until you get your way?

    Jesus, how old are you?

  6. zuzu says:
    July 22, 2006 at 8:41 pm

    Apparently Bussel’s boobs were just too fuckign fascinating for anyone to actually think about anything else if they get so much as mentioned ever.

    Then perhaps you should stop being so obsessed by them. I couldn’t read the original, fabulous post past this shite because my eyes kept rolling back in my head.

  7. Anthony Kennerson says:
    July 22, 2006 at 8:43 pm

    Oh, please…just stop it.

    If the editors of the Village Voice had selected a more…shall we say, modest photo of RKB to accompany her essay, you still would have created an excuse to slam her as an ignorant slut due to her beliefs.

    Just spare us all the BS and come clean and honest.

    Bitch | Lab’s analysis speaks for itself, and so does yours. You may disagree with it, but accept it.

    If you can’t…well, to each his or her own.

    Anthony

  8. JackGoff says:
    July 22, 2006 at 8:48 pm

    Anyway, R. Mildred, get drunk. I’ll pray to Teh Chupacabra that alcohol flows for you tonight.

  9. zuzu says:
    July 22, 2006 at 9:14 pm

    More editing!

  10. Pony says:
    July 22, 2006 at 9:26 pm

    She decides how she’s going to pose. The photog can suggest, but it’s her call. Of course once the photo is taken, she may not have say.

    Anyone here ever worked as a media photog?

    Why yes. Now that you ask.

  11. Pony says:
    July 22, 2006 at 9:30 pm

    Anyway, I thought your post was smashing RM. I was just all raged out and came here to relax. Check out…er…any other blog today, didja?

  12. JackGoff says:
    July 22, 2006 at 9:31 pm

    I’ve worked as a photographer before and whoever gets the pics in the end chooses which one to use. I would normally take multiple photgraphs of the same thing or the same person, in order to give the editors a wide range of pics to choose from. Normally, the person being photographed is sitting there for so long they begin to not care about their looks and begin to slouch towards the easiest pose to maintain. Granted, things may be different for this picture.

  13. R. Mildred says:
    July 22, 2006 at 9:38 pm

    Oooh, are you going to hold your breath and stamp your little feetsies until you get your way?

    What is my way again? Oh right, not having people fixate like freshly hatched magpies on what has generally speaking been an excuse for extremely cheap gags.

    I have spent, in total, about a minute, over what? 4 posts now, a minute, slightly less than a full 60 seconds even, over 3 or 4 posts, making cheap, off hand gags about that picture, one of which drew upon my deep seated dislike for the entire turdy culture that is GOTH (Fuck whiteness does not begin to describe my hatred of that entire shitty culture of white faced posers), and what has happened every single time? They’ve been, at most, a cheap way to segue between paragraphs, yet no one can seem to not fixate on the damn things.

    The actual points in the posts? Oh fucking no, you spent more than a handful of seconds thinking about those Millie vanillie, so of course no one can fucking even spare them a second of their crazy peabrained attention spans on those.

    I am pissed off, pissed off for the wrong reasons, pissed off at the seemingly endlessly pedantic nature of people who I thought were actually sentient several days ago.

    Obviously I’m trying to write something to replace that stupid fucking picture reference but still, my anger is currently the sort that usually turns physically violent.

    Oh, nope sorry, I said turns didn’t I? as in past tense? Well, no food this week because I just lost what little temper I have and punched two dirty great dents into my crappy apartment’s crappy plaster based wall which is going to come out of my crappy paycheck which I earn at my crappy job.

    Which strangely enough, has nothing to do with newpapers, nor is it in any field that might have enlightened me as to how accompanying photos are selected in crappy little newspapers. nor have I seen any such movies that you mention, nor anything of the kind. I have in fact, lived an amazing sheltered existence in which the intricacies of newpaper picture selection protocols were never even hinted at, let alone explained so that this whole ugly mess could ahve been avoided.

    But don’t tell me that 3 posts ago so I can save myself some bother, oh no, that would have been, helpful, useful. There are, I raelise, a rather large number of adjectives that I could choose from which you have failed to be, regarding this whole thing.

    Obviously the first time I mention that I think Bussel has chosen the photo hersesf, no inclination to enlighten me was spawned in your cold black soul? Nothing? No, you tell me, <>now, and make sure that you point it out in the first fucking comment so that I will know that there is no chance, on this or any other earth, that anything other than a guzillion half-witted drooling labotomy victims like Kennersen will drift along and have a spastic fit on their keyboard to enlighten me about how I wrote something.

    Praise be to you Zuzu, I doff my imaginary hat to you sir (I use “sir” in the gender-neutral sense fo course to show respect). May you live a thousand short and very painful lives that I may have the opportunity of watching from some high vantage point with a pair of binoculars.

    you still would have created an excuse to slam her as an ignorant slut due to her beliefs.

    WHAT BELIEFS!? What is she, a fucking muslim now? (cue fifteen people telling me that she is a muslim and calling me a racist, again, for “mocking” her religion) Have I accidentally peed on her holy site? Invade lebanon? What one earth are you gibbering about man?

  14. Pony says:
    July 22, 2006 at 9:45 pm

    Mr. Goff

    Ahahahaaaahahahaaa. Ha.

  15. JackGoff says:
    July 22, 2006 at 10:26 pm

    uhhhhh, ok Pony. Glad I amuse.

  16. BLackamazon says:
    July 22, 2006 at 10:51 pm

    YOu made post in jest or not and you got called for it. You spent post after post attacking women for their beliefs invarious means abd then critiquing someone who gave you MUCH more respect than you deigned to give them ( by even trolling their blog) a so so feminist because you not once addressed her actual points . so you call HER a strawfeminist while asking ( well cursing and stomping and telling us well get it when we earn it) us to forgive you for speaking with out thinking and using that speaking without thinkg to be mean and corrosive.

    BUt you were joking right

  17. Pony says:
    July 22, 2006 at 11:33 pm

    Nah. Your naive *idea* about the column, the purpose of the chosen photograph and how product is created in publishing amused. That you see is that I was laughing at. Not you. A person. Heaven forbid.

  18. McBoing says:
    July 23, 2006 at 1:06 am

    If the editors of the Village Voice had selected a more…shall we say, modest photo of RKB to accompany her essay, you still would have created an excuse to slam her as an ignorant slut due to her beliefs.

    I love it when people make assumptions about what one might have said if. It’s so unbelievably slippery that I don’t know why people don’t call it out more often. Talk about dishonest.

  19. JackGoff says:
    July 23, 2006 at 7:50 am

    Rock on, Pony. You obviously know more than me regarding my experiences. And while your at it, reread this sentence: Granted, things may be different for this picture..

  20. zuzu says:
    July 23, 2006 at 8:53 am

    Good lord, Mildred, get a grip.

    What is my way again? Oh right, not having people fixate like freshly hatched magpies on what has generally speaking been an excuse for extremely cheap gags.

    People? You took down the post after one person — me — commented. And talk about fixation — you haven’t been able to let the goddamn thing go.

    Obviously the first time I mention that I think Bussel has chosen the photo hersesf, no inclination to enlighten me was spawned in your cold black soul? Nothing? No, you tell me, now, and make sure that you point it out in the first fucking comment so that I will know that there is no chance, on this or any other earth, that anything other than a guzillion half-witted drooling labotomy victims like Kennersen will drift along and have a spastic fit on their keyboard to enlighten me about how I wrote something.

    Somehow it was my responsibility to wade through three previous rants to educate you about the way newspapers work, when any idiot could have seen, say, Spiderman, and realized that there are reporters and there are photographers and there are editors and they’re not the same people. You may also have picked that up from your high school yearbook.

    Do your own damn research, Mildred. I’m not here to save you from your trolls, or from yourself.

    And, what, I’m responsible for the hole in your wall and your lack of food for the week because you lost your temper? Over what?

  21. R. Mildred says:
    July 23, 2006 at 9:13 am

    when any idiot could have seen, say, Spiderman

    I haven’t seen serenity yet for god’s sake, my movie watching life is frozen in the mid 90′s. And BTW it doesn’t logically follow that the wirter has no over say over what pictures get put next to their peices either, in fact I could see serious problems arising because of such things, so it makes a certain amount of logical sense that Bussel has some say in what picture went in with the oped, as well as the caption.

    I know, my fault there was using something as evil and misleading as logic, so shoot me.

    And yeah Zuzu, I’m sending you the magic invisble bill in the magic invisible envelope because OMG, I’m so serious.

    Get a grip yourself ffs, who on earth talks in so utterly overblown a manner without even a hint of sarcasm and self-defecation being involved?* What am I? Jeffy-poo? Jesus christ…

    Again, I was JOKING about being the messiah, yeesh.

    *I know, I know, it’s usually the writer’s fault for their readers misundertanding them, I’ll use more hyperbole next time yeah yeah….

  22. zuzu says:
    July 23, 2006 at 9:20 am

    Don’t blame me for your “satire” coming off as petulance.

  23. R. Mildred says:
    July 23, 2006 at 9:34 am

    You’re being too obvious now, willful ignorance of points I clearly made to prolong the trolling ruins the entire effect.

    D-

  24. animeg3282 says:
    July 23, 2006 at 9:56 am

    I don’t think B/L was called a strawfeminist. I think she was accused of bringing up the strawfeminist. She may or may have not actually done this.

  25. Anthony Kennerson says:
    July 23, 2006 at 10:53 am

    Oh, so this whole matter was simply in jest, ehhhh??

    The bashing of Bussel as a “crack-addicted whore” and essentially a slut who simply wants women to kneel before men?? Just a joke??

    The part trashing “sex-positive” feminists and anyone who dares to be critical of your ranting?? Bwaaaaaaaaahahahahahaaaa….just pulling your leg??

    Trolling other people’s blogs to cuss and holler about how you were distorted, then continuing to distort others? Just a fantasy?

    Accusing Bitch | Lab of bringing up strawfeminists, while inventing your own??? Naaaah, just kidding.

    Yeah…..a real jester you are.

    Take a gander over and reread what B|L actually wrote….or pay a visit to my blog where I do respond in full to all your rants and raves:

    http://ajk-sdchron-sexposleftist.blogspot.com/2006/07/punkass-bitchslapping-of-rkb-when.html

    http://ajk-sdchron-sexposleftist.blogspot.com/2006/07/punkass-bitchslapping-of-rkb-continued.html

    Anthony

  26. punkass marc says:
    July 23, 2006 at 11:05 am

    Oh, Anthony, you’re every bit as nasty as RM. These vindictive threads aren’t my cup of tea at this point, but don’t give me this holier-than-thou crap. You’ve been no better to RM than RM was to Bussel.

  27. belledame222 says:
    July 23, 2006 at 11:27 am

    Can’t we all just link hands and sing about peaceful fluffybunnies or some shit like that?

    No? Oh, wait, I don’t actually want to get along with anyone either, my power’s been out all week and I’m writing this from an overpriced Internet cafe where they have no bathroom and are arguing in Chinese loudly enough to drown out the surrounding traffic. and in a couple of days it’ll get hot again and Con Edison will still be explaining irritably to anyone patient/with a working phone/not already self-defenestrated that they are WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK on the problem and no they are not allowed to give any estimated time for when the problem might be fixed, so sorry for the inconvenience, especially to the 96 year old guy on the sixth floor who’s now probably dead, is there anything else we can do for you?

    AHAHAHAAHAHAA!! I AM NOW COMPLETELY INSANE!! I WIN!! FUCK YOU ALL!!!

    and kumbamotherfuckingya to you, too.

  28. R. Mildred says:
    July 23, 2006 at 11:31 am

    The bashing of Bussel as a “crack-addicted whore” and essentially a slut who simply wants women to kneel before men??

    Actually it was “crackwhore” and referred to her vacant, staring, zombie like gaze (which brought to my mind a stereotypical crackwhore), but you know, I never said that she was essentially a slut who simple wants women to kneel before men either so this is basically a strawman ffs, and makes your entire comment unintentionally ironic.

    The part trashing “sex-positive” feminists and anyone who dares to be critical of your ranting??

    I consider myself a sex-positive feminist actually, a point I’ve clearly said but only briefly rejected during the 3 or so posts I wrote after I foolishly falied to have an encyclopedic knowledge of newspaper picture selection processes.

    Trolling other people’s blogs

    That, wasn’t me actually. I trolled my own blog because I am a creature of satan and thus have a reputation within the various circles of hell, which I must occasionally live up to.

    I’m not entirely happy with how Mcboing and Marc went over to B|L’s place and caused trouble, I know it was a loyalty thing and I’m not their keeper, but there were some comments which did stink of male privelage (imho obviously), which of course made everything even worse. I’d prefer it in future if the other bloggers here would see themselves clear to not go over to other people’s blogs and defend me, if only because it makes sure that any stink that gets stuck to me is confined to me and doesn’t effect the other bloggers (not to mention I’m not too happy with other people going about and telling people what I mean when I say something, when you don’t neccesarily know what I meant)

    Accusing Bitch | Lab of bringing up strawfeminists, while inventing your own???

    Huh? First of all, my strawfeminists (the non-existent ones) do not make B|L’s strawfeminists okay, if of course I’d actually accused B|L of using strawfeminists, Stramen, yes, she used those, so did I (I think), but the closest thing to a strawfeminist B|L used was her perhaps reading a close interrelationships between the ideological theories of Dworkin, the other one (who’s name I can never remember) and Twisty, where such may not always exist in certain cases.

    I’m still intrigued by what beliefs of Bussel’s you think I object to, she’s not a heliocentric type is she? Or a TimeCube believer?

  29. R. Mildred says:
    July 23, 2006 at 11:34 am

    Belledame222 wins.

    Official poking and pwning ceremony for everyone involved will begin noon tommorrow, bring your graduation robes and no underwear.

  30. JackGoff says:
    July 23, 2006 at 11:41 am

    What if we can’t find our graduation robes. Do we just show up naked?

  31. belledame222 says:
    July 23, 2006 at 12:44 pm

    We do if the power goes out in the goddam laundromat again.

  32. JackGoff says:
    July 23, 2006 at 8:40 pm

    That cat’s the bomb.

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