Fuck you, Austinist.

[aeryn42]

This is long.

Several weeks ago I attended a friend’s birthday party at a local karaoke bar. When the waitress came around to take my order, I asked her if they had "blasters", to which she replied, "where are you from? ‘Cause it sure as hell ain’t from around here". Apparently the correct term in Austin is "Jager bomb" and not blaster. When I

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[minorlight]

1. no face punching for me. but i will go with this guy:

[minorlight]

oops. try that picture one more time.

[aeryn42]

Hey, I think I own that lip gloss.

[amp23]

3) no and i'm not lying.

all my entertainment (tv shows, movies, music, readings) comes through my data connection. plus CRTs are dangerous energy wasters.

[shesbeenelected]

1. Hitler doesn't have a very punchable face, in my opinion. I probably do, though. And Stephen Bush has a TOTALLY punchable face. His is the first that comes to mind. He's fun to punch. ( ♥ )
2. Carebears!
3. I do currently , but I only have cable/tv by semesters. I'm in a semester where I have it (only 13 channels, because I have to have it to have the internet - lame). Next semester we'll go without. It makes me take advantage of my giant library instead of vegging out to shows I don't even like that much.
4. On the funny scale, that gets a 1.
5. Never heard the term blasters, but know of Jager bombs (hate them).
6. I need to check the cheat sheet.
7. Do not think you are an asshole retarded pansy, but still think you super-overreacted. Knowing that you'd had a shitty time with your therapist prior to responding to the whole thing explains a lot, though. Glad it's over with now

[shesbeenelected]

p.s.

i really want to see your nun outfit

[aeryn42]

4. Ouch.
7. I don't agree, but then again, it's difficult to see it from my end of things. That said, it also kinda hurts when my friends make me feel foolish for being sad about something.

(sorry for the deleting/pasting massacre )

[shesbeenelected]

4. Why ouch? I thought that was someone's band name?
7. I answered because you asked -- now I feel like I'm supposed to feel bad about being honest or for answering or something. I don't think you're foolish or foolish for showing emotion, I just thought it was situation/chain of events that didn't necessarily warrant the kind of reaction you gave it. Not that you should even care what anyone else thinks, but it just made me sad to see you waste all that energy and time being sad about something that shouldn't matter at all. You've shown how eager and excitedyou are about doing some kind of professional writing or blogging in the future, and letting one dumbass anonymous commenter (or string of comments) affect you to the degree that it obviously has is just a big ole' waste of time. Put all that energy toward new hilarious comics or getting an online portfolio together or writing emails and letters to online or print publications that you do want to write for. Screw the rest of them.

[baldomom]

Well, here's what I think, not that you (or anyone) asked.

When I write stuff and publish it, I'm basically inviting everyone in the world to take a crack at it. It's always been that way--sometimes people just have to write a letter to the editor excoriating the film critic--and now we're all in comments/trackback overdrive.

I don't follow people back to their rabbit holes on The Internets and smack them for saying something unflattering about me. I think it's tacky. I don't do "No, fuck you" because I think we're all capable of higher-order discourse, and "No, fuck you" ain't it. I don't Google myself or my publications and hunt down people who disagree with me. I said my thing, the other person says his or her thing, and then we all move on to writing something different. Intellectual progress, ostensibly, instead of a battle for the last word, which is as productive online as it is in real life. Not

[shesbeenelected]

Well said.

[aeryn42]

That's a really good point, one that has been sitting in the back of my mind for a while. Why do they need to prove to me they can take "some criticism" in my own journal? I don't shit on their webpage, why do they need to shit in mine? As far as insecurities go, and I certainly have a good knowledge of that, this is beyond what I would expect from a staff of writers.

If I said "fuck you, Coldplay, for being a crappy band!", I don't expect members of Coldplay to come defend themselves anonymously in my journal. What they did seemed amateurish and I felt I needed to defend myself, along with all of the other feelings that went along with it.

[katherinecraft]

I own a television, but for a while I put a piece of fabric over it and pretended it was - a big box with fabric on it. That stopped when Dan moved in, probably because he made fun of me for it.

I don't care what they're called, anything involving yager is naaaaaasty.

Why is the Austinist all up on your shit? They're not even unique - they're one of hundreds of "ist" sites for cities all over the country. We got the Chicagoist, which I never look at, much like I never read the Austinist. Oh hipsters, why do you think you're so important? The rest of the world thinks you're kind of funny.

And I just put kitten stickers on my laptop 'cause that's the kind of girl I am.

[aeryn42]

Maybe you should put a piece of fabric on your laptop! Or knit a lapto-coozy. Oh man, I just came up with that idea on the spot, we are SO going to be rich and famous, Kat!

[katherinecraft]

Don't laugh Erin, 'cause I hear something - what's that? Oh, it's the money truck! It's backing up to our apartments - it's buried your downstairs neighbor in a solid ton of cash!

All for the laptop cozies. That's some serious shit, right there.

[aeryn42]

My downstairs neighbor wouldn't hear the money truck coming even if it was playing loud and obnoxious country-metal music at 3am.