Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

[docbrite]

I've decided my "well-meaning" commenter from yesterday was actually Elton John. He didn't get the reaction he wanted from his "tough love" for Billy Joel in Rolling Stone, so he decided to bug me instead. With a sense of entitlement befitting a diva, he continued to comment and even promised me an e-mail after being politely told to go away, so

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[docbrite]

Jesus, what a coward. Here's their original, out-of-the-blue comment:

You're unhealthy, dysfunctional even, and everyone encouraging you and keeping you company on LJ and Twitter is just enabling you. If you give the slightest shit about yourself and your loved ones, you need to require more of yourself, and so do your loved ones. The solutions are not simple, but that's not an excuse to regress and withdraw and self-parody instead of starting a serious return to wellness and better functioning. In theory you don't need anyone's rules or models to do this, but how many more years do you need to see that you're not getting better on your own? For now, you need help. Get your loved ones together and make a serious plan. A self-intervention, if you will.

I've lurked on your LJ for too many years. I am either going to stop reading your stuff or keep speaking up about this. Haven't decided which yet. It's in your hands too--feel free to ban me if you don't want to hear what I think.

Their only other comment that I can recall was about how they weren't going to reply to any of y'all's responses because "last I checked, this was your journal, not a PZB forum."

[rapscallion]

That is worse than I imagined. I'm sorry. You really didn't need to dredge it up for me, but I appreciate you doing so. I don't have anything eloquent to say about it, even. It robs me of all words that aren't profanity. This person is a bigger moron than I gave him credit for without having seen it.

As for not being a PZB forum... Well, no, but it's still public. After all, it's on the internet. If he didn't want any criticism he ought not to dish any out in the first place, let alone put it up where anyone at all can answer. Damn, what a waste this guy is. Ugh, I'll stop, lest I cause both of us to dwell on this worthlessness any longer.

Feel better, Doc. You deserve it.

[elissa_carey]

Wow, it's so easy for him to point and say "you" a lot, isn't it? I wonder how eloquent and helpful he'd be if that finger were pointed right back at him.

[rosefox]

I did that in one of my comments, actually. I can only hope to have been part of the reason the person flounced off.