Giant project of dooom

[lilapaddy]

Guess what I am undertaking?

Archiving!  Archiving my truly insane number of ficlets.

I don't do epic, novel-length love stories like the great katieforsythe  or janeturenne .  You know what I do do?  Crack.  Crossovers.  Abject PWPs.

Selfishly, I adore the feedback I get on these little ficlets.  And I have been on LJ for YEARS.  It's time I got my act together and tried

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[shoedog]

lilapaddy replied to your LiveJournal post:

"Wow, I cam here from the discussion posts, and I have to say I stopped reading when you described Chicago as a Rust Belt city not as sophisticated as either coast.

Because FUCK YOU."

'Thank You' as well!

It's kind folks like you that make the SHkinkmeme so great!

Take care,

Kim aka 'Shoedog'

[lilapaddy]

What you wrote about my city was not only the most condescending bullshit I had read all day (and I read a lot!), but factually inaccurate. I am not sorry, but I did do you the favor of deleting it afterwards, realizing that I didn't actually want to have a big wanky fight about it. But you were in the wrong, and I stand by that "fuck you" with every fiber of my Chicago-born soul.

[shoedog]

I am going to refrain from calling you an idiot on your own live journal.

I will, however, suggest, that you Google the following term, "Is calling Chicago a rust belt city considered pejorative?"

I would also like to inform you my childhood years were spent growing up on Lunt in Chicago, the North suburbs of Chicago when my father's GI bill came pouring in and back to the Clark and Diversey area in my twenties.

And the late, great Mayor Daley Sr once proudly called Chicago "The Belt Buckle of The Rust Belt."

By the way, your user name sounded familiar. I checked w/some old cronies from CAPSLOCKHOUSE and we seem to remember you as quite a, how shall I put this?, thin-skinned, defensive, tiresome soul.

Maybe we should just consider this a draw and heretofore ignore each other in the future?

[lilapaddy]

You know, I was fifteen when that happened. I hope you feel really good about yourself.

[lilapaddy]

Also, I didn't say the Rust Belt was the factually inaccurate part. I detested your attitude of Chicago being inferior to the coasts. Most importantly of all, the suburbs are not the city.

Saying you're not going to call me names on my own Livejournal is no better than doing it, which really, someone of your age ought to know. I'm happy to ignore you, but this isn't a draw.