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[oakenguy]

WHAT I'VE ACCOMPLISHED TODAY

1) Decided that for my clown act, I need either two living statues or a karaoke machine.

2) Hung out on the '100 Best Music Videos' compilation at http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/36588/Staff_List_100_Awesome_Music_Videos .

2a) Played a mental game of 'who'd win: Pat Benatar or the Pipettes?'. The jury's still out.

3) Read, in fascinated horror, the worst story of fandom gone wrong that I've ever seen, all laid out like an NSA brief here: http://www.journalfen.net/users/charlottelennox/ . To sum up the 90,000 words of evidence and IP addresses: for the last six years, a woman has been creating 'sockpuppets', both fake online groupies and fake trolls she can be martyred and even 'stalked' by, ALL TO GET HARRY POTTER FANFIC WRITERS TO THINK SHE'S COOL.

Wow. Once again foresthouse has shown me how strange the world can get.

Comments

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely on the side of being more horrified by the woman who created the sockpuppets. Because the investigative reporting? I would so do that if I thought someone had screwed not only me, but my friends and not-friends and people I didn't even know, over. It's a deep-seated, obsessive detail-oriented drive in me, and I have to admire the dedication it took to pull it all together and lay out the evidence coherently.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

When doing something like this you're always damned if you do/damned if you don't: if you take the time to lay out every bit of evidence you're obsessive, and if you don't then you have no proof and are obviously just a troll.