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PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

JAN 11, 2006 06:10 AM

I like you. Like, a lot.

Anton

Anton

Australia
September 2003

JAN 11, 2006 07:12 AM

mrsMF said:
And for the record, my friends threw me out for my drinking problem.


Best defence ever.

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

JAN 11, 2006 07:33 AM

Anton said:

mrsMF said:
And for the record, my friends threw me out for my drinking problem.


Best defence ever.


Completely agree. I take everything back. Seriously.

Changes

Changes

Boston, MA
October 2005

JAN 11, 2006 07:59 AM

In the best case scenario, the author can make him / herself as much a part of the story as any of their other charcters.

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

JAN 11, 2006 08:05 AM

Lisp said:
In the best case scenario, the author can make him / herself as much a part of the story as any of their other charcters.


I just don't get why, after the books were published (and very successful) they had to then claim that s/he was "dying of AIDS." That just seems like a really, really shitty thing to do to people.

Anton

Anton

Australia
September 2003

JAN 11, 2006 08:13 AM

That's the thing that'll ensure I never read a JT LeRoy book. I'm not interested in the kind of fuckhead mystery author who'll claim to have AIDS for no good reason. That's not cricket.

Changes

Changes

Boston, MA
October 2005

JAN 11, 2006 08:13 AM

PointBlank said:

Lisp said:
In the best case scenario, the author can make him / herself as much a part of the story as any of their other charcters.


I just don't get why, after the books were published (and very successful) they had to then claim that s/he was "dying of AIDS." That just seems like a really, really shitty thing to do to people.



That is my one problem with this whole thing.

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

JAN 11, 2006 08:24 AM

Anton said:
That's the thing that'll ensure I never read a JT LeRoy book. I'm not interested in the kind of fuckhead mystery author who'll claim to have AIDS for no good reason. That's not cricket.


To be fair, noted "mystery author" Ellery Queen used to say the same thing all the time.

LizFitts

LizFitts

USA
May 2003

JAN 11, 2006 08:44 AM

PointBlank said:
I like you. Like, a lot.



Well, a (qualified) thanks..............only because I don't know who to believe anymore! wink

James_

James_

United Kingdom
March 2003

JAN 11, 2006 09:39 AM

In the great tradition of pranks, tricks, and hoaxes that stretches back through human history.. the piltdown man, selling london bridge, etc.. this is a good one. The sheer uproar has made me chuckle from the start, and it makes a point, which is a prerequisite of a good hoax. That point being: who cares who wrote the book? it's the words themselves that are the art, not the artist. Loki Laufeyjarson would be very pleased. smile

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004
PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

JAN 11, 2006 09:54 AM

Coi said:

James_ said:
In the great tradition of pranks, tricks, and hoaxes that stretches back through human history.. the piltdown man, selling london bridge, etc.. this is a good one. The sheer uproar has made me chuckle from the start, and it makes a point, which is a prerequisite of a good hoax. That point being: who cares who wrote the book? it's the words themselves that are the art, not the artist. Loki Laufeyjarson would be very pleased. smile




^^^Ditto, ditto, fucking ditto.


Fooling people who think they have a connection to you into thinking that you're dying of AIDS is pretty shitty. To me, there's nothing funny about some kid with a tough life of prostitution dying of AIDS--that's something that really happens all the time, and using it (after the hoax has already worked) for whatever reason is needlessly cruel to people who really do have that life, as well as to the people who have done nothing but support you and your art.

Anton

Anton

Australia
September 2003

JAN 11, 2006 09:57 AM

Bingo.

Besides, artists have never been completely removed from the art they produced, and so it should be. If Edward Munch painted his Self Portrait In Hell or The Scream but was actually a pretty charming, happy-go-lucky guy, the works would lose some of their impact. If Joseph Heller was actually pro-war, but decided to write Catch-22 in a cheap attempt to appeal to left-wingers, it'd devalue the book.

LizFitts

LizFitts

USA
May 2003

JAN 11, 2006 10:32 AM

PointBlank said:

Fooling people who think they have a connection to you into thinking that you're dying of AIDS is pretty shitty. To me, there's nothing funny about some kid with a tough life of prostitution dying of AIDS--that's something that really happens all the time, and using it (after the hoax has already worked) for whatever reason is needlessly cruel to people who really do have that life, as well as to the people who have done nothing but support you and your art.




If I had been less exuberantly vindictive, that would have been my first point.

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

JAN 11, 2006 10:38 AM

mrsMF said:

PointBlank said:

Fooling people who think they have a connection to you into thinking that you're dying of AIDS is pretty shitty. To me, there's nothing funny about some kid with a tough life of prostitution dying of AIDS--that's something that really happens all the time, and using it (after the hoax has already worked) for whatever reason is needlessly cruel to people who really do have that life, as well as to the people who have done nothing but support you and your art.




If I had been less exuberantly vindictive, that would have been my first point.

After I relaxed, I learned to enjoy the exuberant vindictiveness.

LizFitts

LizFitts

USA
May 2003

JAN 11, 2006 10:39 AM

PointBlank said:

mrsMF said:

PointBlank said:

Fooling people who think they have a connection to you into thinking that you're dying of AIDS is pretty shitty. To me, there's nothing funny about some kid with a tough life of prostitution dying of AIDS--that's something that really happens all the time, and using it (after the hoax has already worked) for whatever reason is needlessly cruel to people who really do have that life, as well as to the people who have done nothing but support you and your art.




If I had been less exuberantly vindictive, that would have been my first point.

After I relaxed, I learned to enjoy the exuberant vindictiveness.




wink

LittleRedWriter

LittleRedWriter

Brooklyn, NY
January 2004

JAN 12, 2006 12:48 AM

This does not amuse me.

s5

s5

STAFF

San Francisco, CA

JAN 12, 2006 01:46 AM

Everything about this fills me with great delight!

Bastardo

Bastardo

Boston, MA
January 2005

JAN 12, 2006 07:33 AM



Why bother with all that when I can have other people do it for me?

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