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[oakenguy]

Okay. There's this journal I stumbled across by accident, and I go back to peek at it from time to time because, well, the writer is so vain it's just breathtaking. It's like performance art. There've been eight-year-old Ming Dynasty boy-emperors more humble than this guy.

So I wander back today, and discover he's said, without the slightest trace of irony,
"I know I am my own worst critic." I almost break my code of silence, I actually type out a response to let him know that if it ever became surgically possible to remove spines, he'd have it done just so he could kiss his own ass....and then I delete it.

What do you think, folks? Ignore him? Keep peeking at him from time to time? Or actually let him know what I think?

Speaking of folks with reality-bending displays of narcissism, the Assistant Chair's being flown out to Minneapolis this weekend to meet with a Certain Artist. I'll give you all the juicy details as soon as he gets back!

Comments

[malterre.livejournal.com]

As someone who tried to lurk for as long as possible and then I have been outed a number of times by my friends I think it would be far more entertaining for you to tell us about him and post in *your* journal. After all it will make Live Journal Drama eventually. And I guess two things could happen if you comment. 1)he might stop journaling as openly (with the ego the size you say, I doubt it) or 2)target you and then, there we are at LJ drama again.

Ah, go with your gut, he put it out there after all ;-)

[faekat.livejournal.com]

Do I know him because I thought I knew the most vain guy ever.

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[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

......mmmmmmmmaybe....in fact, quite possibly....unless you're thinking of the lead singer of the Strokes. But otherwise, yes.

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[faekat.livejournal.com]

Really? Does he had a lord in his user name? I thought I told you about him but wasn't too sure.

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[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Oh! No, a different one.

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

I think it would be far more entertaining for you to tell us about him and post in *your* journal.

I would find it amusing to read. LJ Drama is really boring. I thought it would be more interesting, for some reason. Maybe this is a slow week.

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[faekat.livejournal.com]

Two most vain guys? That's a scary thought.

[frla.livejournal.com]

You know that's a really tough call.

I mean it's his journal he is free to fill it with whatever kind of self-agrandizing crap he chooses to.

It's his own little peice of reality, and really it is intrusive of you to assault him in it.

Then again,.. he has the option open for peopel to comment so he has to expect they will.

Personally I wait until they dosomehtign shitty or stupid publicly before I tear them up,..
and the ones that come to my journal and act like asses get no mercy and no quarter.

SO i'd say comment on it in your own journal and say nothing on his.

Say what you wanted to say abotu him here.
Your doing no one any harm there and violating no ones space with your crap excepot your own which was made for it.

And he will probably figure out it is about him awfully quick and respond here so you can righteously tear him a new one.

KK!

[apocalypsegrl.livejournal.com]

I say rant about him in yours, it's more fun that way.
I'm that way with (thesicashow)
I watch... but in fear of the 16 year old mormon spoiled girl...

~K

[silveroak.livejournal.com]

I would say- spare stroking his ego by giving him attention. Just let him live in whatever fantasy he has created as long as it does not hinder your life without validating that fantasy for him

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Call me a bleeding heart pinko, but really, it seems cruel to go into his journal and tear him apart for things he's written there. If he was being obnoxious on your journal and then self-righteous in his own, that would be a different matter.

I can be pretty self-absorbed and whiny in my journal, but it's /my/ /journal/, so I figure I can write whatever the hell I want, and if people don't like it, they won't read it. (And given the dearth of comments there lately, I suspect people may have taken exactly that option. :P) I'd be--frankly, I think I'd be enraged if someone lurked in my LJ and then started making fun of me for the things I write there. And hurt and humiliated.

And from your description of the guy, I can only wonder what massive, roiling batch of insecurities he has that he needs to bolster himself with such an exaggerated self-image. I think this calls for pity, not mockery.

Stay good, Oakenguy! Stay good!

[faekat.livejournal.com]

Oh ho! I figured out who you mean through a random IMer. I had placed him so far out of my mind I forgot he existed. Yes, he even goes over the vanity of that Lord character.

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[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Oh, 1/3 of his posts are already about how he pities and laughs at all the "petty mockers" who try to sully him and pull him down. I'd just be another name on the long list.

I'll Stay Good, I think...while at the same time reserving the right to cut&paste the best of VanitySmurf's observations over here and MST3K them.