Have You Ever Had a Stalker?

I Should Coco · Nov 12, 2019

Bubbler said: ↑

I always wondered what SJ would end up like once it reached it’s oldies, playing at state fairs era. Might have even done a (theoretically) humorous thread about back in the day, though I can’t check for sure because of the shithouse state of the site.

(Who owns this site these days anyway? Is it the same MF’er who bought it five years ago or so and wanted to make it overly nicety-nice? I can say now what I never would have said 10 years ago, because I would have feared a ban, but fix this fucking place whomever you are. There’s still a lot of people who contribute and care about it. Stand and deliver. Don’t be the digital equivalent of a slum lord.)

I actually think it’s pretty cool that some long-time board enemies can break some bread these days. And I also think it’s kind of cool you still have people being dicks to one another too! I believed in its heyday and I believe now that this place was at its best when it was a mixture of both. When it veered too far one way or another is when it got tiresome or boring.

Me? My behavior here and the very nature of message board communities in general were/are a mass of contradictions.

I’m pretty shy, socially-awkward even, in real life. (I never had the financial ability or freedom from family responsibility to do the outings back in the day, so I’ve actually only met a handful of SJ’ers in person. The few I have met have likely been surprised I wasn’t really a deer-fucking loon.)

This place allowed me to live through my id or superego or whatever the fuck. It wasn’t a persona, it was genuine, but a genuine side that I suppress our of fear of social embarassment elsewhere. Here? I could be myself and If I was judged? Well, at least I was judged on the same level everyone else was.

Eventually, I got sick of it and left for five years, but I can’t deny it’s a part of my life and that I know and love a lot of people because of it.

That last sentence seems absurd to even write, because it comes off as both self-indulgent and self-parody, but it goes straight to the contradiction I’m talking about.

This place is meaningless and meaningful ... often in the scope of one post or one thread. And that’s always how I’ve felt about it.

What is the point of any of this? Who the fuck knows? I read a few posts that smacked of the good ole “state of the board” threads from back in the day, so I chimed in. It has zero to do with stalking, but as Tommy Lee Jones said, my mind wanders.

I’m old too, I put my time in on this site, so this post is the SJ version of a Pete Townsend concept album about obscure deaf English farm animals doing a musical together that actually stands as a metaphor for Townsend’s youthful confusion about his own penis. In other words, self-indulgent bullshit.

Same as it ever was.
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Short version: This thread is like the Psychoderelict album, minus the witch's teets.

Cosmo · Nov 12, 2019

Hi Sandy?

CD Boogie · Nov 12, 2019

Songbird said: ↑

I didn't cut and paste. It was a full-throated defense of YF.
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Good god why.

Stoney · Nov 12, 2019

typefitter said: ↑

Jesus Christ.

The narratives that get spun, that become fact in addled, aggrieved minds... The people defending certain other people have no idea the stuff that's gone on off-board, in PMs, the unhinged emails. Threatening to torpedo someone's career? That's something we do now? That's something that's okay? Yes, he needs your support—but to get real psychological help. I say that as someone who's been to therapy and been on meds, so I'm not casting aspersions or making light. He's not well, and he's not getting any better. And stuff like this, claiming deletions from "on high" when that hasn't happened, doesn't help.
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I think you're trying to drama queen this into more than it really is. You don't have a true stalker, instead you have a message board rival, as part of a longstanding board rivalry in which you''ve quite willingly participated by delivering quite a few cruel and nasty shots of your own over the years.

He's not "stalking" you in the sense of trying to "torpedo your career" or mess with you real life beyond these boards. And I believe his comments regarding you are now almost entirely confined to just one thread on another board. Well, you're a pretty well known writer, and threads discussing such writers ...in both good and bad ways ...are entirely fair game on journalism boards. Nobody's forcing you to go there and click on that thread.

Songbird · Nov 12, 2019

CD Boogie said: ↑

Good god why.
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Because I like him and I like what he brings to the table even when he runs away to Paris or Ireland. -30-

CD Boogie · Nov 12, 2019

Songbird said: ↑

Because I like him and I like what he brings to the table even when he runs away to Paris or Ireland. -30-
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Ya like a guy who traffics in whataboutism and has a PhD in dishonest discourse? I ain't got time for that bullshit, which is why I generally avoid the cesspool that is the politics page. I'm pretty middle of the road when it comes to politics and I have no interest in discussing anything with extremists on either side.

Moderator1 · Nov 12, 2019

Songbird said: ↑

I don't think I deleted my post. I'll buy if there was a technical glitch but I wouldn't be deleting that post.
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For reasons I don’t quite understand I will take
you at your word. When I get home I will try to restore it

Moderator1 · Nov 12, 2019

OK, I can't restore a post I didn't delete but since Songbird says he didn't want to delete it, here is the post in question:

It is pretty funny. And look, you don't have to like -- and can even loathe -- his politics or the way he argues them, and the way he questions the way media operates, even if he doesn't always get it right or makes false assumptions (then disappears to France or Ireland lol), but nobody here is more fucking read or brings more information-based intellectual curiosity to a conversation about the human behaviors of life than YF does. Some highfalutin folks here have even invited YF to bro it up over scotch. Too bad YF isn't here. He'd have a field day with this thread. Oh, and 90% of his business is espresso machine repairs. Get it right, Fart.

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Let me add that it is very difficult to accidentally delete a post. It is a two-step process. You hit delete and you get a message asking if you're sure and you have to hit that, too. But, whatever, he says he didn't delete it so there it is for all to see. Enjoy.

And with that, I'm closing this at the OP's request. That type of thing is something we've done numerous times. When this started, I didn't think it would have a long life but it chugged along OK with no deletions from the moderators yesterday.

Carry on.

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