Tangent: Xenisucks made the NYT 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 01:13 PM
And none of you bastards told me? "Violet Blue" pulls the gender card and thinks I should be scared of her. Oooooh, oh noes! What to do, what to do...

Hey, "Violet", I don't hate Xeni because she's a woman. I don't even hate her. I make fun of her, because she's annoying, and banal. Ask your buddy Mark Pauline about pushing people's buttons sometime.

You're fucking lame, just like Xeni is, and it has nothing to do with your ovaries. Don't use them as an excuse, and don't try to frame everything with your persecution complex. You had a crappy childhood. Too fucking bad for you. Don't use that as an excuse for why you're so fucking lame, either, lame-o.

Now, if only I could figure out a way to read the New York Times article in question...

Oh yeah, if your balls drop, send me an email and I'll tell you exactly when I'll be in San Francisco. I will, however, be entirely too fucking busy to meet with someone as lame as you.

And good luck with your crusade!

Yours in Christ,
- mns

xeni 
Friday, April 14, 2006, 07:40 AM
kekeke. lol what.

hhaller 
Thursday, April 13, 2006, 10:48 PM
Are you all 12?

xeni 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 08:21 PM
Perhaps he reminded "Violet Blue" of an abusive male figure from her childhood? As you well know, that totally justifies her being an asshole, if not threatening physical violence against the dude.

Not a diaper guy 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 08:11 PM
Another show of VB's bad judgement and plain rudeness is the outing of an adult baby fetishist just because he was the head of a filter company that dared to filter Boing Boing....

Link

Their defense was that it brought up the question of was he qualified to judge what should be filtered and what shouldn't but I personally think they did it out of spite and clearly just for sensationalism. For someone who claims to be a sexual educator she should know that outing someone as kinky to several thousand people is just morally and journalistically wrong.

b0b 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 12:35 PM
"I was visited by the police, who knew he'd been stalking me, but couldn't do anything about it until something happened. I filed a restraining order and they served it personally. He was finally stopped when he got caught doing armed robbery in drag, and went to jail. This is how our system works."

I call bullshit on her story. You're not supposed to serve a restraining order that you're a party to by yourself. I think that invalidates it - at least the courts say that it does.

And if she *did* do something like that, she's a fucking idiot.

Crimson Green 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 11:33 AM
Crimson Green's San Franciscan Interior Dialogue

I'm really into sex. Sex, sex, sex. Sex is what I think about, what I do for a living, what I talk about and what I write about. It is my hobby and my vocation. Sex. I dream about it. I draw pictures and take photographs. Sex, sex. I write books and articles and I create whole Web sites devoted to it. I vote based on it, and I judge people based on how much of their lives they take up with it. Sex. If I deem people aren't into sex enough (sex), I reject them. Sex. Weird sex is especially important to me. Sex, sex, sex. The weirder, the better. Sex. The more nonsexual things I can introduce into sex, the better. Everything I do, I filter through sex. Sex, sex. Every subject, concept, topic, and idea is sexual (except for love, obviously), whether you know it or not, Mister Straitlaced. Sex.

When I was young, I used to think that one day, I would actually enjoy sex. But who has time for that? There's too much sex to have, to talk about, to infuse into my being, to pour into each hour of every day. Enjoying it seems, I don't know -- superficial, somehow. Like, if I enjoyed it -- or, God forbid, made it a part of a real human connection with someone -- well, it just seems like I would be cheapening it, somehow, you know (sex)? Plus, thinking about it stops me from thinking about..... Uh, well, let's not talk about *that.* I don't even want to think about *that.*

I also used to think that one day, the people I was having sex with would begin to matter to me, somehow. But they never did. Sex, sex. Why should they? We're having sex, for fuck's sake. We're not FAMILY. And what's all this bullshit about "intimacy?" What are you, some kind of PUSSY? Intimacy -- don't believe the hype. "Intimacy," "enjoyment," "human connection" "love" These are just bullshit, racist, sexist concepts invented by middle-aged White men to keep down Women, People of Color, the LGBT Community, and the Sex-Positive Community. Sex is many things, but it sure as hell ain't intimate. It's an area of study. It's *clinical.* It's a *vocation.*

I find myself constantly angry. This has nothing to do with sex (sex). I swear to god, they are two totally separate issues. Really. Sex. I don't know, there are just so many ASSHOLES in the world. (And I don't mean the good kind of assholes, that you can shove things into.). And I just want to KILL ALL THE FUCKERS, all the time. Sex. There's so much rage inside me, that sometimes, it actually stops me from thinking about sex for a minute! Can you believe that? Sex. But then it passes, and the sex comes back. Thank God. Sex. Sometimes, in my mind, I go back and forth between rage and sex several times in a minute. It's weird, how sometimes my thoughts can toggle between these two TOTALLY SEPARATE things so quickly. Sex.

But these PEOPLE. These fucking so-called "normal" people, who aren't always thinking about sex, who don't advertise their weirdness through hairstyles, weird clothes, odd facial-hair configurations, and tattoos. What the fuck is WRONG with them? They just PISS ME OFF, they are so straight. Every one of them is a Republican and a fucking RACIST. What, with their bullshit "relationships" and "human connections." and all that bullshit? What's more Republican than that? What's more racist? Sex. They wear fucking *cloth,* of all materials (seroiusly -- like wool and cotton), and they spend time together doing NON-SEXUAL THINGS, for Christ's sake. They are WOMAN-HATING RACIST REPUBLICANS, EVERY ONE OF THEM -- including the women! Bitches. Racist, Republican, cloth-wearing homophobes. God how I hate them. If they just had more sex, weirder sex, and TALKED ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME, maybe they wouldn't be so fucking RACIST. Really, if they would just piss on each other once, they'd realize how middle-aged White men are controlling everything we do for their own benefit, and to keep down Women, People of Color, the LGBT Community, and the Sex-Positive Community. Just one little golden shower, and they would see the light. But they won't do that, because they hate sex. If Laura would just take a leak on George, or maybe must tie him up with a bungie cord and smear mustard on his thighs, maybe he wouldn't be running around killing Freedom Fighters in the Middle East.

Even people who have sex with each other sometimes do OTHER STUFF. They go to movies and shit. Have "dinner." Then, after all that bullshit, they GO BACK AND HAVE SEX. Or, what they call "sex," anyway, even though usually it's actually just penile-vaginal intercourse. What's the point of *that*? I just want to BLOW THEIR FUCKING HEADS OFF. They'd better not fuck with me, those fuckers, or I'll fucking fuck them up but good. Fuckers. FUCKERS! Sex. These so called "happy, well-adjusted" people. ASSHOLES, ALL OF THEM!

One time, this ASSHOLE in a bar told me I was an "open book, psychologically" and that I had "really, really transparent issues" and that I should seek therapy. What the fuck did that mean? All I did was explain my philosophy of life. Sex. The thing is, we had JUST MET. As if he could sum me up in the space of a few minutes, like I'm THAT SIMPLE and one dimensional. Sex. Fuck him. I wanted SO BADLY to KILL him. Fucker. Sex, sex. I FANTASIZED about SHOOTING HIM THROUGH THE BRAIN, and I was just about to do it (sex). But I guess I passed out or something, because I don't know what happened next. All I know is that I woke up several hours later naked and covered in dried boysenberry jelly. Also, I didn't have a gun. Sex.

Well, time to go to work. Lots of important stuff to do today, people to help, and projects to finish. Dammit, where did I leave my dildo?


xeni 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 11:13 AM
Careful, she'll threaten to kill you, too!*

* provided you're willing to come to her city of residence, and let her know ahead of time, such that she can make the appropriate arrangements.

pearlby 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 10:31 AM
Obviously, mocking someone's vapid journalism is like raping a 13 year old. And the mocker should be killed before he ends up doing an armed robbery in drag after beating up the guy who just sucked him off.

Violent Blue is a fucking loony.

xeni 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 10:06 AM
Same stuff all geriatrics use; Pom-ade!

It's a gel made from the drippage of "rimshotting", filtered through unicorn snot, and then condensed on the threads of dildo cozies.

There'sSomething 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 09:44 AM
What do you think Jenny uses to get her hair shellacked into place like that? iew.....

JM 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 08:36 AM
"Check out this shot

http://www.bartnagel.com/images/xeni_3947.jpg

Doesn't she look like an old woman? If you took the hair away she'd totally look like an old dude. "


Or Rutger Hauer from Bladerunner

JM 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 08:32 AM
"This is the same kind of pschopathology that lurks behind the man who beats up the guy who just sucked him off;"

That's Hilarious. She called you "gay"!

xeni 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 07:43 AM
That's my problem, as well. Pescovitz excluded, they're all only marginally journalists, and none of them have anything resembling tech credentials, thusly their understanding of the subjects they "write" about (excluding all the vapid self-promotion, in which they're most decidedly experts) is non-existent. Sadly, this makes it twice as difficult for legit tech journalists to do their job and maintain the respect of those they write about. They're put in the awkward position of trying to explain complicated things to a wide audience, yet not dumb things down that they miss the point, or misconstrue what's actually being done, and then they have to deal with backlash from legit tech people who assume they're all like Jardin or Doctorow; poseurs, collecting advertising money to promote their friends, and their "projects", all the while pretending to comprehend the very nature of technology.

I mean, for fuck's sake, in the initial posting on BB about this site, she got the fucking place that I live wrong. What kind of fucking nerd doesn't do a fucking WHOIS? Or, say, read the fucking site you're linking to for context? Oh yeah, I remember now; faux-nerds, using "nerd chic" (like there is such a fucking thing in the first place) to disguise shortcomings and get the attention their shitty childhoods didn't provide.

It's been said elsewhere, but succinctly: THE INTERNET IS NOT YOUR PERSONAL THERAPIST.

LameEmoBuddyHollyGlassesZen 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 07:28 AM
What I don't get is how these people can be so oblivious or un-self-conscious. I followed one link in the thread here to the pro photographer's shots of the BB crew, and holy shite. They look like the Hives or the Killers or something!

This is what I hate about famous blogs and Web 2.0 and all the other nonsense that Xeni and Cory and crew espouse: it's so much more about them and their look and their elitist culture than the technology or the information.

hostile 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 07:14 AM
Man, I hope this snowballs too. Whadda bitch! I just want to read this again:

"You're fucking lame, just like Xeni is, and it has nothing to do with your ovaries. Don't use them as an excuse, and don't try to frame everything with your persecution complex."

Oh yes, that was great. Keep up the good work. xenisucks!

Cunty McCuntface 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 06:48 AM
Thinly veiled death threats are so zen.

Wookie 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 06:44 AM
Violet, I'll make you a -sucks page if it will make you feel better. You're special and deserve attention, too.

joe 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 06:33 AM
people, people! you're all missing the point!

it's not about misogynistic torture fantasies or putting down her unique appearance - IT'S ABOUT THE RIMSHOT POST! let me recap:

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/23/mo ... ine_z.html

she posted that rimshot is a dirty word (lol)

then when called on it, rather than admit she was sex-obsessed or stupid, she insisted that SHE is right and everyone else is just too IGNANT to recognize porn when we see it.

as everyone knows, a rimshot is the sound you get when you hit the rim of a drum! duh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimshot

/fume

xeni 
Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 05:19 AM
Damn, Joey. *NOW* I feel bad. I promise, if anyone ever bothers to actually call me before they write about this thing, I will point them at your inspirational (and vastly technically superior) site. In fact...

joey 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 10:50 PM
damn, you made the new york times and corysucks is getting like 20 hits a day? where's the justice?!?!

HonkIfYouHeartGoatse 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 07:07 PM
I just fucking hate women like this. Stupid martyrs. I'm sure it explains a lack of good sex or a functional relationship for Jenniefoofoo and Violent Blue. I say this as an educated woman who happens to like men and don't view their existence on this planet as peons to test, to demand, to denigrate and to ridicule. That probably explains my multiple orgasms and extremely happy marriage of seven years. It could also have to do with my not looking like a raging case of fetal alc. syndrome....................

If Jenny Hamm doesn't want ad hominem attacks on her looks, then she should quit posting "hooray, look more photos of me!" posts.

If she wants to be taken seriously as a journalist, she should try a truly neutral point of view.

If she wants to own up to the truth, that she is an ultra left wing commentator, great. If she posesses even the tiniest hint of self awareness to see that her site is being censored because of the links , ads and sexual posts on Boing Boing, hooray.

I won't hold my breath. Blue makes me look fat.


joe blow 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 06:12 PM
OMFG I just read the Violet Blue piece and I am absolutely at a loss for words (I was behind a corporate firewall that blocked the site earlier). This is one of the most bizarre, unhinged, OTT things I have ever read. Apparently, there is an evil force in the universe that connects everything bad that ever happened to her, including rapists, stalkers, not being asked to the prom, and xenisucks.com. In case you hadn't figured it out, that evil force is made up of PEOPLE BORN WITH A PENIS, who are all colluding to take down 3rd rate female bloggers who get too uppity. The really weird thing is that she accuses this site of including violent fantasies, then she concocts some violent fantasies of her own, including a threatened confrontation in San Francisco. Rage against the machine, Violet.

Also, I didn't get her take on the NYT thing at all. It seemed to me to be plainly criticizing, not applauding this site, but I guess in her mind, all men are equally part of the big anti-woman conspiracy.

Anyway, I hope this blog stays around for a good long time, because it seems to be pissing off all the right people.

xeni 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 05:58 PM
Wait a minute; you mean you aren't all a figment of my imagination?

Also, I used to think SRL was pretty cool. In 1988. Then I grew the fuck up, and realized that if I wanted a machine-violence fetish, there's plenty of kickass defense hardware out there to jerk it to.

Mr. Quicksilver 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 05:08 PM
"Well, Matthew Neal Sharp and his "commentors" can write all the corpse fucking fantasies about me he wants."

Commentors unite!

Perhaps Violet Blue should take a deep breath and remind herself that since Xeni Jardin is a "public" figure she technically opens herself up to this kind of exposure. It has nothing to do with stalking anymore than websites like www.bushisantichrist.com has to do with stalking.

This isn't some sort of misogynistic agenda to push women out of the tech reporting industry. Its the agenda to push obnoxious sex-obsessed self-congratulatory mandroids out of the the spotlight. There aren't any amount of chained up blogger terriers that are going to scare this kind of thing into submission.

This is a testament to just how far into the public persona Xeni Jardin has gotten. In seriousness, this website would not have existed without Xeni-- and it is her existence that sustains its readership. Isn't that fucking zen??



Dude 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 05:04 PM
This has to be the most poorly constructed sentence I've read in A WHILE:

"This type of pathological, psychotic behavior isn't a pastiche of a parody between witers [SIC]; it's a big red flag."

Coming from someone who claims to be a hardcore "witer" too...

gbc 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 04:51 PM
So what is a 2x4 loaded lethal machine you ask?

According to Survival Research Labs, this device is "Arguably the most dangerous machine ever fabricated at SRL. Going by the inoccuous title of the Pitching Machine, this device launches 6 foot 2x4s at a velocity of 120 m.p.h.. This provides a calculated range of 800 ft. It is equipped with an automatic loading system holding 20 boards and is powered by a 500 cubic inch El Dorado engine."

Jim 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 04:42 PM
I like how Xeni and her blog-buddies only tout free speech when it's something they agree with. Otherwise, they use the same tactics their "corporate enemies" use.

Kris 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 04:31 PM
Wow - this girl considers herself a journalist? Someone needs some deep dicking... ;)

This is a farging train wreck to watch man!

Look at it this way.
You, your (kick ass) site and your band were mentioned in the NYT.
Any press - even bad press - is good press.

Wait until just before this is some sort of 'movement' and sell out. I'm talking T-shirts, hats, merch, the works. I stopped reading B-boing about a year ago when I realized that every other post was a plug for someones: (show, book, article, appearance, suicide girl, or t-shirt)

Matt, I think YOU can sell out better then any blog ev4r.
I'm talking even better then the Ninja.
P1MpIt J0!




OMG 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 03:51 PM
I was thinking the same thing about the eyglasses. I guess it's part of holier-than-thou ensemble.

joe blow 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 03:45 PM
Bill, re the pics:

Holy fuck, do all of the boingboing bloggers buy their eyeglasses from the same source? Is it a prerequisite that you need to wear the big black plastic faux-ironic eyeglasses to write that kind of drivel?

Also, why do I feel so afraid every time I look at Xeni's huge eyebrows? Are they mad at me?

xeni 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 03:43 PM
Awww, you all RULE! YOU RULE, I SAY!

Also, I suppose this will be the perfect workout for my Level-IV Kevlar vest.

ATTENTION HATERS: AIM FOR MY HEAD.

Bill 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 03:29 PM
Check out the ultra ugly shots of Jenny at this pro photographer's site


http://www.bartnagel.com/series/bb_index.html

She looks like some sort of Marilyn Monroe knock off from a distant future ruled by the Japanese. Like she's trying really really hard and going full throttle on the attention whoreness.

Check out this shot

http://www.bartnagel.com/images/xeni_3947.jpg

Doesn't she look like an old woman? If you took the hair away she'd totally look like an old dude.

And that dress! Sheesh! Don't get me started!

cjr 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 03:22 PM
Damn, I didn't read all of that Violet Blue article, but I believe you're about to get shot by a girl in a gimp suit :S

supermega 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 03:07 PM
Christ on the crapper! I was speechless after reading that violet blue article! somebody atcually sat down and wrote that without thinking "what the fuck am I saying?" at some point? You rule dude, I crackup everytime I read it, please don't stop! I think xeni is a talentless hack aswell.

joe blow 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 02:59 PM
Oh, so now according to the NYT you can't call bullshit on a solipsistic little vanity blog without being "nasty," "enraged," or full of "hate." OH, INTERNET, CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG???

PS: It's interesting to note that the author of that NYT piece has received praise on boingboing before. I guess he felt bound to repay by trashing xenisucks. Great use of NYT resources.

OMG 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 02:26 PM
http://www.bugmenot.com is useful for anonymous nytimes reading...

Bud 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 02:22 PM
http://nytimes.blogspace.com/genlink
this will get you into NY Times articles until the next round of website updates and workarounds.



zomo 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 02:21 PM
As best as I can tell, this is relevent portion of the article in question
"""
WORST. HATE BLOG. EVER. Matthew Neal Sharp, a programmer and blogger, has concluded that he does not think much of the peripatetic technology journalist and blogger Xeni Jardin (NPR, Wired News, Boingboing). So Mr. Sharp decided to create a blog dedicated to continually dipping her virtual pigtails into the digital inkwell. The site is replete with nasty, sarcastic invective delivered in spot-on Comic Book Guy tone.

Ms. Jardin tried to be a good sport, posting on Boingboing that Mr. Sharp's blog is "a total hoot." But that only enraged Mr. Sharp further.

You can see the love er, that is, the hate at xenisucks.com. An interesting side note: Mr. Sharp plays in a band, Mathgeeks, with Ms. Jardin's colleague, Rick Karr, who reports technology and culture for public radio.
"""

(found via a google search for "xenisucks site:nytimes.com", from a cached link: http://tinyurl.com/e8m97 )



Huge Seagull 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 02:21 PM
Click my name for registration-free version of NYT article.

Travis Finucane 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 02:16 PM
I wonder if that stalker guy ever got the money she owed him...

Super Rape Allstar 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 02:14 PM
GRRRRL POWER!

xeni 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 01:57 PM
From: mns@mnslab.com
Subject: Greetings
Date: April 11, 2006 4:55:36 PM EDT
To: violet@srl.org
Cc: legal@mnslab.com


Hey, you wouldn't happen to have any quotable proof that I "write[s] in detail *several* times a day including [my] violent fantasies about ["Xeni"], now, would you? Speaking of inaccuracies, your blog entry, located here:

http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives ... _hate.html

Is riddled with them. I challenge you to prove that I've ever written anything *remotely* violent or even, for that matter, something that could be considered "fantasy'. I'll happily post your response to xenisucks.com, regardless of the content matter. I mock Xeni based on her content; nothing more, nothing less. While I'm sure it's infuriating to see your friends mocked on the Internet, that doesn't make it OK to just make things up and attribute them to me. Further, my dislike for "Jardin's" journalism has absolutely nothing to do with her gender. Accusations to the contrary only indicate a serious socio-political bias to portray your "enemies" as being much more heinous than they actually are, and, as well, serve as a prime example of a psychological phenomenon known as "projection". Men and women, both, do it all the time, and it's lame. Again, it has nothing to do with gender.

When you come to the realization that you're full of shit, I highly suggest you admit, publicly, that you're full of shit. It may make you feel better about yourself as a person. Who knows? Regardless, I am not the dude who tried to rape you when you were 13. I'm not the dude who broke into your house. Now, you may not like them, and you may not like me, but that doesn't make me them. For example, I don't care for lima beans or syphilis, but I'm smart enough to know that the two aren't interchangeable.

Cheers,
--
m a t t h e w n. s h a r p | mns@mnslab.com
"I now realize I smoke for simply one reason, and that is spite. I hate you non-smokers with all of my little black fucking heart, you obnoxious, self-righteous, whining little fucks. My biggest fear, if I quit smoking, is that I'll become one of you" - Bill Hicks

zeni 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 01:56 PM
Wow. That was a incompehensible pile of fun!

May I suggest a new tagline? XeniSuck.com. Because corysucks.com was already taken.

Ovaries are so zen.

xeni 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 01:34 PM
Yeah, there's an inherent beauty in all the protesting about the nature of this site; the more out-of-whack people like "Violet Blue" and "Xeni Jardin" get about it, the longer it lives.

Still 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 01:31 PM
I hope this snowballs. I want xenisucks.com to get on Fark or Slashdot and see a true BB/Jenny flamewar erupt. The Passion of the Xeni...

xeni 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 01:30 PM
So scary. What I love the most is that I'm accused of penning "violent fantasies about her". Then again, agenda uber alles, I suppose! Why not add on how I want to anally rape kittens and wear the skin of the virgin Mary?

I 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 01:28 PM
...she also totally threatened you with a dildo cozy. A zen one, I bet. Or whatever a 2x4 loaded lethal machine is. Sexxxxxx?

Jesus 
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 01:26 PM
What a bitch!

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