Hiatus Interruptus
Well, hot damn. I take a break from Blogistan for a few weeks to get a bunch of work done, and I come over here to find out there’s been some sort of hate-fest going on.
Looky here: John asked me to fill in while he was on vacation. I jumped at the opportunity. I respect him, his writing, his politics, and the community he has built here.
But I don’t need to be here. I am happy as a pig in shit writing my cringe-inducing posts for myself and my six readers.
I’m running on zero sleep, so it could just be the cranky talking, but for now, I’ll be seeing you in my corner of the Internet where people are happy and drunk.
Carnacki
I’d prefer you to stay myself.
Ross Hershberger
We get to be cranky too.
And yes, please stay. Your humor is a good counterpoint to… pretty much everything.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
I like having you here. I like Balloon Juice being the table where all the cool kids, and Kain, hang out.
There are some people who don’t like change. We used to call them conservatives, but that term has taken on a whole new meaning.
Stay, please.
fouro
Don’t go, we need angry with style, and fewer typos.
Trinity
I am a loyal lurker at your site and a happy drunk to boot – but we all get angry from time to time ya know.
Times like these, I seek the sweet comfort of top-shelf Mojitos.
MattMinus
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya. The C-rate rude pundit act really isn’t that amusing.
Cat Lady
There is no such thing as too much cranky, there is only too much emo. The BJ sista’hood needs you here girlfriend.
gogol's wife
I love your posts, which always make me laugh out loud (not easy to do).
Trinity
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
FTW!
kindness
You know the saying ‘you can’t please everyone’? It’s true. Herding cats is more like it most sites that let people post, well other than the reichtwingnutz places…..
You have thicker skin being a front page poster. Go with that.
Omnes Omnibus
Some people are idiots. John asked you to come. A lot of us enjoy your stuff. Those who don’t are free to scroll. God, this whole thing smacks of readership capture, and I, for one, will not stand for it. As a reader, I demand that this blog be exactly what I want and nothing else. So fucking there!
Punchy
LOLWha? Please knock the drama down about eleventeenillion notches.
debit
Please stay. I enjoy your posts and think you bring a lot to the table. Don’t let a few assholes get you down.
simonee
OHMYGAWWW THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A COMMENT!11111!1111!!
Hawes
Shane! Come back, Shane!
geg6
You are awesome, despite whatever some asshole says.
You are now on my blogroll. I think you’ve been great addition to BJ’s front page.
Svensker
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yes, this and more. Plus, also, too.
Also, I got bored with all the E.D. stuff and didn’t read it — did all the silliness slop over to ABL? Dumb and boring.
Stick around!
Fuck! A Duck
I’m largely agnostic about your posts, but would encourage you to ignore the critics.
I mean, c’mon, there are even commentors that hate the pets.
BR
Stay. Only one request though: when formatting your posts, could you press either zero Enters/Returns or two of them between sentences. It makes the formatting easier to read. For example, between sentence two and three it appears you have one Enter/Return.
victory
I’ve sen that Louis CK bit around a few places and every time I see it I can’t help but think of his grandfather, standing next to him, as a kid, and commenting…
“Zeros? You’re complaining your friend has too many zeros in his phone number? Let me tell you something, when I was growing up we couldn’t just pick up a piece of plastic and talk to someone hundreds to THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY! There was no plastic. There were no phones! If we wanted to talk to someone we had to write a letter and wait. Wait days, weeks before we even hear anything from them. They could DIE before my letter even arrived to them!
I swear, we live in an amazing, amazing world and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of just spoiled idiots that don’t care.”
mistermix
Your posts are a breath of fresh air, and I’m enjoying them, a lot.
Those of you who are bitching can STFU and GTFO.
Josh James
Don’t go! We need you here!
Please?
As far as I can tell, folks mainly be pissed at a certain libertarian new addition with a tendency to avoid factually based arguments … that’s who’s got folks dander up …
But not you!
Please stay, please!
Odie Hugh Manatee
You’ve captured this reader…lol!
Stick around, you’re a perfect fit and I enjoy your work (rant, screed, howling, screaming, whatev).
jeffreyw
You can’t go now! I just made a batch of red beans ‘n rice and I was just gonna offer you a bowl!
Omnes Omnibus
@Fuck! A Duck: I am allergic to cats.
roshan
Look what ED has wrought.
EDIT: I find it a bit amusing (in a sad way) since every time there is vitriol in discourse, liberals tend to take their leave. This is the exact way that the republicans and the GOP tactics work, to make civil discourse so full of friction that let alone the liberals even the regular Joe just want it to end and let the conservatives have what they want.
JGabriel
Fuck! A Duck:
Fuckin’ cats! How do they fuckin’ work?
.
schrodinger's cat
@Fuck! A Duck: Hate Tunch, blasphemy!
ETA: May the ceiling cat forgive them, *makes the sign of the paws*
Just Some Fuckhead
Tell me this is a riff on EMO Kain.
That not being the case, why in the world would a so-called hate-fest preclude you from being here? I’m missing the nuance.
meh
so long and thanks for all the fish…but if you decide to stay, can you pick up the some of the empty liquor bottles you dropped on the floor?
gnomedad
Illegitimi non carborundum. Please stick around; I enjoy your posts. I’m usually happy, and can get drunk if it helps.
R-Jud
@jeffreyw: THAT is exactly what I want for dinner tonight. Thanks!
eemom
I’ll chime in too. Don’t leave us ABL.
In addition to all the above there is the fact that you’re one of only about 5 of us left — including our esteemed hosts — that have not joined the 24/7 ObamaSucksHeSoldUsOut zombie brigade.
What a bizarre joke this place is becoming. 853 posts wrestling with the momentous Question of whether E.D. Kain, who pretty much nobody liked in the first place — should stick around……and one or two random asshole nasty comments about ABL, who was a huge hit from the get-go, drive her away?
Fuuuuuuuucked uuuuuuuuuup.
Winston Smith
I like that Balloon-Juice is a one-stop shop with more than one voice.
I may disagree with ED, but I like that he posts occasionally here so I don’t have to spend time tracking down viewpoints like his.
matoko_chan
Please dont go.
Im sry if i contributed to the appearance of Hatefest but i really DO currently hate juicers for sucking Douthat’s cock, reading FAILURE, and general intransigent cudlip stupidity on wikileaks and Assange.
But you already have your demodynamic nanotech switched on.
I need you.
the reason the adversary is ramping up the nasty is that that they are going down and they know it. 2012 is their last chance to take the WH for the next half century, because of economic recovery and the demographic timer.
please ABL, you represent.
dont let the bastids shut you up.
if its about ED, hes a non-event.
to us sapients at least.
if Cole wants to keep him around as a token, who cares?
im waaaaaay more concerened about Cole approvingly linking that lying poseur Douchehat and spreading eumemes without bothering to actually read the post.
Anya
ABL, you’re cooler than to be run off the stage by some cranks yelling –damn black lady, get of my lawn. I love you’re angry style and I enjoy every freaking post. You are not allowed to retrieve your tampons from John’s medicine cabinet.
I don’t get this hostility to front pagers. I don’t agree with every post, but I enjoy the diversity of the voices. If you don’t like someone’s style, then don’t read their posts. It’s that simple!
dan
@MattMinus: Gotta say, I’m with you, MM.
eemom
@Just Some Fuckhead:
oooooh, there’s a shocker!
eemom
sorry fuckie, but the gods would have punished me if I let that one slip by.
schrodinger's cat
@jeffreyw: That looks delicious. Also, Homer fan wants Homer. How is the little fella?
nancydarling
ABL, Please stay! We need your help in delivering the whup-ass sometimes needed around here ( you all know who you are).
Besides you make me laugh.
slag
@MattMinus:
Well, then, this entire blog must really be a drag for you. I wonder why you even bother showing up.
ABL, I cannot support this decision. A couple of haters does not a majority make. If it makes any difference at all, I would prefer if you stayed.
HRA
who? what? where? I missed what is going on here.
I could not access the video. It says I have to go elsewhere to get it.
FYI I ignore some threads. I read your threads more so than any other ones.
You have to stay. You bring back the days of my youth and they were the good days.
Death Panel Truck
Please stay. Apparently some people here (I won’t name names…aw hell, yes I will: Punchy, MattMinus, etc.) haven’t mastered the scroll technique yet. And seem to think “eleventynillion” is either funny or insightful, when in fact it’s really just fucking annoying.
JPL
I missed the hate fest but please stay. We need your educated rants.
Legalize
I must have missed the stuff where folks were clamoring for ABL to go away. Thus far she has posted at least 2 Louis C.K. videos; she’s smart as hell; and she always seems to be pissed about something, i.e. “crankly,” as Mrs. Legalize says. I’m always pissed about something too. And I love Louis C.K. Plus it’s my understanding that ABL really is angry, black, and a lady. So … what’s not to love?
Death Panel Truck
I wish Kain would get the message and go peddle his snake oil elsewhere. If ever a front-pager has worn out his welcome…
Odie Hugh Manatee
Ahhhhh twatwaffles!
I just had to say it. I like that the two people who have spoken up against ABL staying are nyms that are new to me.
I am sure that they have been lurking here since 1982. ;)
Maody
isn’t hatefest the new american patriotics? think of how patriotic you are ABL. this comes with responsibility to not only entertain/inform us with your poignant posts, but to yell really loudly about stuff other front pagers don’t.
Citizen_X
Count me as another voice crying, “Don’t leave us, ABL!” And for all the haters, Tunch says: Die in a fire!
Kitty_Sanchez
Well, count me as one who wants you to keep posting here. But if you decide not to, I’ll keep reading over at ABL and in the comments section at RR.
Why don’t all the people nursing butthurts just avoid the posts by people they don’t like, for crying out loud? John Cole isn’t obligated to cater to every cranky idiot hanging around here at BJ.
Omnes Omnibus
@Kitty_Sanchez: I tend not to read randhino’s (sp? no offense intended) posts. International soccer just isn’t that interesting to me. Per the new trend, I suppose I should demand his (?) ouster.
Corey
@slag: “Rude Pundit” really isn’t the vibe of the FPers other than ABL
JMC in the ATL
There are too many places in the world that have been ruined by a small handful of clueless straight white men showing their asses. Don’t let this be one of them, ABL. I’d rather read one hundred of your so-called “incoherent” (hat tip to WyldPirate for that one!) posts than a single comment by any of the half dozen douchebags that think you don’t belong on the front page.
Stay.
WarMunchkin
This smacks of readership release.
matoko_chan
man…..i hope this isnt about ED.
i told you guys that ED is not an honest dealer in the beginning.
Hes Coles token conservative so just treat him as such.
Cole says ED has “good ideas”……but that is a lie on empirical observation.
until Cole stands and delivers on those “good ideas” we can all just blythely ignore him.
Kain refuses to engage, runs away and trash talks BJ to his homies, and come back and has a pity party that draws Cole in.
How many times has he done this?
Just let Cole have his token and quit falling for it.
eyepaddle
I must be in the minority–I like all of the front-pagers. Even Kain. However for ED it is for a bit of a differnt reason than he might have hoped: I read his posts, and if they ever seem to be making “libertarian sense” I enjoy going through the comments and seeing the aggregate well reasoned and backed-up arguments as to why the libertarian take is completely full of shit.
See Microbrew, and TSA for specific examples.
And let’s be blunt: political blogs in general have “A” totally covered, but could really use more “L” and especially “B.”
So ABL thanks for adding a missing dimension to the choir.
birthmarker
Don’t go. Humor is so important, and a big part of why I browse (and enjoy your posts). Are there conservative sites with humor? I don’t know b/c I don’t frequent conservative sites.
Also, sometimes haters have an agenda (I’m looking at YOU, DKos commenters) and they win if we fold.
JC-if you bring on a republican, can he be required to be funny? Amusing? Please? Is there such a person out there?? I honestly don’t know.
matoko_chan
please stay.
ABL you are brutally honest and severe.
Dont leave me here alone with the PC cudlips.
Brachiator
I missed (or ignored) whatever hate-fest was happening.
I also hope that you stay around.
Suck It Up!
Haters gonna hate…. so fuck ’em. don’t let faceless, mostly anonymous people run you off. this goes for ED. Kain also.
Rosalita
I enjoy your posts and I check out your blog too. Fuck the assholes who griped, they can scroll down if they want.
Please continue to hang with us.
J.W. Hamner
Sometimes I wish I had more readers, and then I see the drama and hate here and realize my ego would never be able to handle it.
Anyway, I hope you stay… and I also hope this is the last of these types of posts. If John Cole wants you to post on his blog then that should be enough for any front pagers.
Alex
I really think this post could have been inserted into the comments section. I’ve never been more reminded of what an Atlantic-style circle-jerk this site has become. I’d rather have this blog return to everyone beating self-righteously down the same trodden path, agreeing with each other, directing ever-greater amounts of rage at the same targets, etc. Leave exploring nuances, engaging contradictory arguments, feigning civility, and other such claptrap to the Serious Establishment Types.
Xenos
Screw that emo gbcw shit. Tell us all to get bent, already, but don’t get pissy because some random commenters don’t think you are up to the community standards. The only person defining the community standards is Cole, and he gets told off constantly.
Any good MERS anecdotes out there? All I can find is random crap from Firebaggers who have no clue how about property law.
DaBomb
Stay ABL… I love your posts! Also, if you continue writing I can continue to keep giving you shout-outs on my blog!
Keep representing!
dopealope
I don’t comment a whole lot, but I always enjoy your posts and your humor. I hope you stay.
stacie
This blog has the whiniest front pagers in the universe. GTF over it.
Mnemosyne
I dunno, I have a sneaky feeling that ABL is fucking with us to make people say nice things about her.
But that’s one of the reasons I love her, so I don’t mind at all.
gnomedad
@Xenos:
I’m mostly defending ABL, but you make a good point, especially since Cole is so admirably reluctant to ban people. Like @Alex
Just Some Fuckhead
@eemom: I thought we had a deal where we’d just work around each other here? I’ve faithfully adhered to that framework since you proposed it but you don’t seem to be able to follow through on your own word. Do you want to go back to the way things were?
IrishGirl
No, stay ABL! I think you’re hysterical.
West of the Cascades
Please stay. Your posts are funny, interesting, irreverent, and a good match for this site. It would be a boring blog indeed if it didn’t have some spice and the occasional circular firing squad. But please stay and keep firing …
Mnemosyne
@gnomedad:
I think Alex was snarking, but it was extremely dry. Hence his slam on BJ for not having its front pagers constantly agree with one another.
fasteddie9318
WTH? Is there some push to evict ABL too, or is there a new front pager rule that there must be a GBCW post once a week or so? Where is this coming from?
jeffreyw
@schrodinger’s cat: He’s growing up! 6 lbs of pure kitteh, he weighed 1 lb when Mrs J brought him home. He has reached something of an accommodation with Toby, but he still pursues Bea, much to her dismay. If he wasn’t all in her face every chance he had I think they could get along without scaring the dogs.
Admiral_Komack
Fuck the haters.
Gin & Tonic
I’ll be happy if you stay; I like your writing.
I’ll be WAY HAPPIER if all this emo shit goes away and never comes back, you, Kain, whoever else.
Stillwater
@Alex: Heh. 2funy.
This whole episode is reedikelus. From Auliridae trying to ‘preserve’ some sort of BJ purity ideal, to DougJ fomenting the Kain mutiny by concern-trolling his own blog, to the subsequent free-for-all bash of EDK. Now ABL wants to bolt.
FucknA, people. BJ isn’t hallowed ground. It’s an internet blog!
Gin & Tonic
@Xenos:
Not anecdotes so much, but I’ve seen a few developing stories, just can’t recall where, about some county governments starting to begin legal action against MERS to recover recording fees. The various fees related with title and mortgage work are a real revenue source for town and county governments which, if anything, are more financially strapped than state or federal governments. MERS was basically set up to avoid paying those fees. Liabilities here are potentially significant.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: Good.
eemom
@matoko_chan:
goddammit, kid, if you hadn’t stuck that nasty word in there you could actually have written the first coherent comment of your lifetime. I would even have agreed with it.
Srsly, where the fuck did you FIND that? I’m not one to shrink from graphic insults but that one is just disgusting.
Catsy
Let’s see. By my count, there were something on the order of eleventy-fraptillion BJ commenters in each of the “hate-fest” threads who couldn’t stand EDK and wanted him gone, usually with a fair degree of vehemence. It wasn’t unanimous, but it was far beyond a clear majority.
I counted maybe three to five people across the various threads who said they disliked your posts. I am not, as it happens, one of them–though I think you could stand to go a bit easier on the “hyperactive gerbil” school of text formatting. :>
Just sayin’. There was indeed a bit of a hate-on happening for EDK, and because the subject was one of the BJ stringers naturally some people felt they had to mention the ones they disliked too.
But that doesn’t mean it was about you. It wasn’t.
debit
@jeffreyw: HOMER! Thanks for the pic. Oliver reminds me a lot of him in the sheer persistence factor. He will not leave Max alone, no matter what measures we take, leaving us with no choice but for time outs in the basement where he can tear around to his heart’s content.
Jane2
@Punchy: Word.
It’s supremely boring to read one front pager after another upping the drama and threatening to flounce out.
Go. Stay.
Taylormattd
Grr. ED Kain breaks the site yet again, a few asshole commenters use the opening to trash all guest bloggers, and ABL leaves. Goddamit.
jeffreyw
@debit: LOL…Mrs J had to lock him up in “his” room last evening-laundry room by day, Homer’s solitary cell at night.
Loneoak
ABL, I think you are a supreme empress of rant. Even though the intertubes are full of ranting, you do it better than most, if not all, of the rest. It’s a fine art, and some people will always be ignorant scrotums who have no artistic taste. Please stick around BJ, but rest assured a lot of us will follow your blog too.
ED can rest assured I will not be following his other blogs. I don’t mind if he stays, though.
Chris
Adding my voice to the chorus. ABL, PLEASE stay.
Also,
Why is a token conservative necessary?
I have the same reaction whenever I read Ruben Navarette, token Hispanic/liberal at PJM. I mean, if you’re actually trying to have a bipartisan blog, fine, but in cases like this, why bother throwing in a token person that you know everyone’s just going to throw tomatoes at?
arguingwithsignposts
@eemom:
if you’re talking “cudlip,” she’s been throwing that shite out for the better part of a week now.
I think she means “cows,” but I’m afraid to peek at the Urban Dictionary meaning.
Jules
wow.
I guess I missed more drama.
Well I say please stay (I hate asking posters to stay on a blog, but really pleeeeese) if for no other reason that we need more va jay jays around here and it is nice to see someone stand up and defend the President loudly.
Evolutionary
Very well said. @eyepaddle: I enjoy your posts ABL, Please stay.
Larry Bird
Clearly there are no circle jerks at this place.
WereBear
I love your stuff. Don’t let the cranky ones get you down.
Genine
I think you should stay, ABL. I thoroughly enjoy your posts and always look forward to more.
It bears repeating: Screw the haters!
WyldPirate
@eemom:
Two things.
1. Next to no one asked her to leave apparently. A couple of people said that they don’t like her style or her humor. That’s out of literally hundreds of commenters and who knows how many readers
2. It appears that she has a very thin skin. Whether that is due to the comments of the vanishingly small number of people who said they don’t like reading her or she simply doesn’t like the fact that the place gets a little heated in discussing the efficacy of our President is the question.
Doesn’t matter to me much one way or another. However, expecting a place this large with the diversity of opinions it has to constantly validate your opinions is, to put it bluntly, fucking unrealistic.
Alwhite
I must have missed the hate directed toward you ABL. In fact I have not seen much hate here at all. A lot of angry arguments perhaps but thats part of being family. For my part, I noted in a thread about front-pagers that your posts were good but about 50,000 words too long. If that hurt your feelings I apologize but still think you would be more fun in a smaller “Fun Size” like Halloween Snickers :)
WyldPirate
@Legalize:
No you didn’t. They never existed.
gwangung
Practice. Can never have too much of it.
(And I suspect many commenters are missing the irony tag).
harlana
jeffreyw: What a great pic, and here’s one great big “awwwww” for the pretty, pretty kittehs, and white! Don’t lose them in the snow!
matoko_chan
@arguingwithsignposts: it means unselfaware cattle.
like morons that approvingly suck Douthats cock without actually reading his lying poseur posts.
its from scifi.
from Richard Morgans Thirteen, published in the UK as Black Man because there are fewer fucktard racists there.
Just like there are fewer cudlips there i guess since they are not handing Assange the traitor rapist over to interpol.
Omnes Omnibus
@matoko_chan: I’ll hate myself later for responding to you, but, oh well. What are you talking about WRT Douthat? The guy is known around BJ as Chunky Bobo; he is a figure of fun as a general rule.
Scott
Late to the party, but don’t leave, ABL — you’re too much fun to read!
Tim
ABL, wouldn’t it have been more in keeping with your online personae to post something like “I hear some of y’all don’t cotton to my bullshit. Well, fuck all y’all; I’ll be posting more.”
Instead we get another BJ front pager codependent cry for affirmation and pleas to stay.
Oh well, I remember when I was small I would not infrequently “run away” from home, after making a grand announcement of my intention to do so; then lingering near the front door to savor the expected requests that I stay. Until the time my mom wished me well and said “have a nice trip…”
bitch.
Kiril
Angry Black Lady you are SO ANGRY!
16shellsfroma30aught6
Certain commenters got it in their heads that people give a shit what they think about front pagers, ABL. Don’t let it get to you. But if it does I’ll just read you at your site, makes no difference to me.
sukabi
ABL…. love your spunk and attitude, please stay. You’ve been a nice diversion / healthy outlet for this place… you bring a bit of levity / rudeness / and quality snark to this place that sometimes is overwhelmed with emo darkness.
matoko_chan
@Omnes Omnibus: that would be the fearless leader of
BJLowrent Atlantic Circlejerk, John Cole.Apparently he failed to notice that the very same article Pudgy Reese Witherspoon quotes, demolishes Chunky Bobo’s argument by Aaron Bady pointing out that Assange’s strategy IS ALREADY WORKING.
Remember Douchehat blamed us for Dr. Tillers death because we wouldn’t overturn Roe to make the christofascist life warriors happy?
I dont forgive that kinda sleazy scumbag.
But Sully and Cole apparently do.
Omnes Omnibus
@Kiril: … and black.
Tim
A note on general style, ABL:
I loved and laughed my ass of to your first two or three posts, but then suddenly your ABL voice and demeanor began to strike me as a SCHTICK and it seemed too labored. That’s when I found myself strolling past your front page posts.
That’s just my gut reaction, for what it’s worth, if nothing.
I love BJ even though I frequently disagree with Cole. However, the shear number of new front pagers has massively diluted the focus/flavor/style of this blog.
Quaker in a Basement
Hate-fest? Where?
Dang, I always miss out on the juicy stuff.
hypusine
The two new default phrases in my household are “Jesus H. Bieber” and “don’t step on my DING DANG head.” You’re hilarious. Calm down and stay put.
Or whatever. On a good day I do know how to navigate a browser to other websites. Say, yours.
TooManyJens
@BR:
I second this request.
BombIranForChrist
I like Angry Black Lady.
She’s angry.
I’m angry.
Works for me.
licensed to kill time
I seriously hope this is just a joke, ABL. Your voice is welcome here and I think I’ve only seen a handful of grumpy farts complain about you. IGNORE THEM! and listen to the multitudes who value your input. Screw those other guys if they don’t “get” you, let them eat scroll.
RareSanity
Oh good grief, not another one…
No wonder as Democrats, we keep getting our asses kicked! Anytime a discussion goes rises above an NPR/Quiet Storm DJ, level we want to be reassured that, “people still like me”, or we’re leaving.
Fuck that shit, ABL!
You and Kain need to man up goddammit! Until Cole revokes your password, shoot the haters a bird, and go about your business IN SPITE of them!
Jeebus what a group of WATBs this blog has become…
Come on sister (I am a black guy, for the record), you’re stronger than this. You have dealt with worse in your life than some dickhead saying something in a blog comment section.
Joseph Nobles
I, too, would be sad to see you stop posting here, Angry.
asiangrrlMN
Don’t make me cut you, ABL. I will do it.
SiubhanDuinne
@matoko_chan:
I’ve meant to ask this many times after reading your posts, because you use this word (as a pejorative) quite frequently: what the hell does “cudlip” mean? I’ve tried to find it in the Googlewebz (gives me Cudlip as a surname) and Urban Dictionary (“cudlip isn’t defined yet”). Makes me think of cows a little bit, but I’m not sure that’s what you mean.
fraught
ABL is leaving and Kain is staying? No way. John, lock the doors. No one gets to leave. Kain has his 6 assholes who like him, ABL has everyone else loving her. It’s th’merican way.
Everyone stay where they are. And no more drama-queening! (I’m looking at you E.D.)
asiangrrlMN
Don’t make me cut you, ABL. I will do it if you leave.
@jeffreyw: Love the beans and rice. Love Homer even more.
eemom
@arguingwithsignposts:
.
heh. Same here.
gnomedad
@Mnemosyne:
Hmm, I can buy that, but he musta snarfed down one of those DO NOT EAT desiccant packets that comes with your cell phone. Also, too, he posted a comment about ABL yesterday I thought was out of line.
Betty Cracker
I skipped all the meta posts because I generally hate that Heathers bullshit. But I was one of your six readers before you came here and will continue to be one if you leave here. Which you shouldn’t.
Lysana
Let’s hope it’s just the cranky/zero sleep talking. I like the mulligan stew this blog’s become, and you’re one heck of a dose of spice.
arguingwithsignposts
@matoko_chan:
I’m thinking of a cliche that fits you – specifically – using that word. hmmmm. i’m working on it.
Takes some to know others? Pressure Cooker calling the Frying Pan stainless steel? No, that’s not it. Maybe some more coffee will help.
Kiril
@Omnes Omnibus: I have seen no evidence to that effect. Wait–are we even sure she’s a lady? Maybe her/his handle should be ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY!
all these caps are making me angry too i am going to make some tea
Omnes Omnibus
@Kiril: A picture was posted of a puppy, with a black lady holding said puppy. In the pic, however, the black lady did not appear angry. This is the evidence on which I rely for my statement. I will admit to assuming that the lady was ABL.
Anya
@Tim: Oh, my god, the same thing happened to me. Except it was my dad and he said that since I come from a long line of nomads (from his side) and back where he came from people my age do that sort of discovery and seek their adventure at that young age (10). He advised that I should do what the nomads do, first stock up food supplies and then go on my way. That was the last time I threatened to leave.
Ruckus
@Tim:
Thanks for the laugh.
Bitch.
ABL, what Tim said. Fuck’em all. Keep up the good work.
Catsy
@matoko_chan:
Oh, good grief.
I am strongly reminded of that particular flavor of Shadowrun fanboy back in the 90’s who thought injecting slang like “chummer” and “drek” into everyday conversation made them sound cool, and couldn’t grasp why nobody else knew or cared what the fuck they were saying.
Hint: nobody knows cares what the fuck you’re saying when you start bleating “cudlips” at everyone. But if it makes you feel better to have a super-seekrit language understood by nobody but you and the voices in your head, knock yerself out.
Actually, come to think of it I have yet to see anyone who cares what the fuck you’re saying anyway. So, have at.
matoko_chan
@SiubhanDuinne: I SAID!
cudlip means unselfaware cattle.
like morons that approvingly suck Douthats cock without actually reading his lying poseur posts.
its from scifi.
from Richard Morgans Thirteen, originally published in the UK as Black Man because there are fewer fucktard racists there.
Just like there are fewer cudlips there i guess since they are not handing Assange the traitor rapist over to interpol.
matoko_chan
@arguingwithsignposts: try arrogant elitist intellectual snob with moar desu than you gormless woeful cudlips can evah imagine.
matoko_chan
@eemom: the UD is passé.
try encyclopediadramatica.
:)
Kewalo
Better late then never, I would like to add my voice to those who are hoping you stay. I’ve loved having your opinion posted here.
Please stick around.
Jim Pharo
C U at your place. Loved having you here – hope you don’t give up on this place.
Darkrose
Look, there are already too few Angry Black Ladies around here. Don’t go.
DougJ
I enjoy your posts and I didn’t see much hate aimed at you, unless your real name is ED Kain.
Ann
That’s the problem with this site — the vitriolic posters (not all posters by far, but enough to make one tired of the shouting). If it’s engaging conversation you want, this sadly isn’t the place. I gave up daily (+) reading of the site about 6 months ago. Now I just scan the front page posts about once a week. Sorry to see you go.
matoko_chan
ABL, behold my coterié of hatahs!
it only makes me stronger.
do what feels right.
that is always the right thing.
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
@DougJ: I thought her whole post was snark/spoof of ED Kain’s. But I’m usually wrong.
ABL if you’re serious, what asiangrrlMN said.
@Tim:
LOL
matoko_chan
@Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people): i dont think its a spoof or she would have ax us to vote.
Cassidy
Someone missed some central themes from Thirteen. And I’m guessing that the cover of your version says “Thirteen”, so while it’s fun to bitch…..
Quicksand
@DougJ:
Huh. I admit, I have never seen the two of them in the same room.
parsimon
@Ann: I don’t know this place historically well enough to remark on its trajectory, but yes, it is true that vitriolic posting and commenting is not hard to find in the blogosphere.
MTmofo
You had me at ‘twatwaffle’
Please stick around.
IrmaLaDuce
I can not believe I am reading a flounce post on Balloon Juice. This shit belongs on your livejournal.
ruemara
Haters gonna hate, so, fuck those tools and get your ass working on the next post. You’re not allowed to flounce.
jacy
@Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people):
I’m with you – I read the post as snark theater. People have been not getting satire since that guy suggested eating Irish babies….
But I’m working on no sleep and my children keeping informing me I AM NO LONGER HIP, so I could be horribly wrong.
I for one love ABL, mostly for the curse-filled ranting, which is a hobby I myself engage in whenever I have the energy.
Keith G
Just got in.
I’m thinking ABL is jerking some cords in a bit of performance art.
As I recall besides being an angry black lady (no quit in that group), she is also a lawyer. That is a group of people who tend to be exceedingly thick skinned.
This is a tease.
Internet Dragons
Then go. Just go away. Get out.
Do I like your posts? Yep. Do I think you were a good addition to BJ? Sure do.
But I am so fucking sick and tired of this internet melodrama crap from front-page writers on this and other websites who get all hurt and stomp off to their corners or ask people to vote on whether they should stay or not.
Really, it’s disgusting. I like what you write a lot, but don’t do this shit. And if doing this shit is going to be your response any time you don’t like what someone here has to say, then yeah. Go.
mclaren
Well, this is a darn shame. Angry Black Lady is by far the best writer on this blog. Hands down. No contest. She’s just absolutely first-rate. In fact, ABL could easily get a paying gig as a columnist, she’s that good a writer.
Plus, she’s got a feisty in-your-face attitude that’s wonderfully refreshing. Reminiscent of Molly Ivins or I. F. Stone.
And third, dare I say it? This blog seriously needs some non-male non-lily-white perspective. You read these screeds by upper-class white guys with PhDs bitching and moaning about how much gas for their SUVs costs and frankly…y’know…fuckit. I have zero sympathy.
There are lots of folks hurting in this recession, but they ain’t white guys with rock-solid jobs like John Cole or DougJ or E. D. Kain or…[fill in the blank].
Frankly, my advice to ABL would be: listen carefully to the howls of hysterical hate from the Balloon-Juice commentariat…and then go in exactly the direction that enrages them far beyond the capacity for rational thought. The more the BJ commenters shriek and gibber at you, drunk with hate, the better a job you’re doing.
Angry Black Lady
@BR: that’s a wordpress issue. i try to insert brackets as hard returns, sometimes to no avail. you know, there’s an old saying: Fuck You WordPress!
Angry Black Lady
@Internet Dragons: what is all this “front pager” business. is that to differentiate between the contributors and the commenters? seriously, i’m asking.
and, i can do whatever shit i want, TYVM.
Angry Black Lady
@asiangrrlMN: i know you’d go straight ninja on my ass. and then i’d teach you how to speak jive. it’s win/win.
Angry Black Lady
@matoko_chan: it’s like you’re speaking another language! i need to catch up on my BJ lingo.
waaamp waaaaaamp.
thanks all. i really was losing my mind a bit this morning… what’s left of it. it was part snark part “damn, people were taking the piss and i wasn’t even around to pee on them!”
(or something less gross.)
i like it over here. you can pry this place away from my cold dead hands.
(or something that makes sense.)
my hiatus is over and my brain is doing donuts in the parking lot of my mind. i don’t know where to begin. i’m sure over the last couple weeks, obama fucked something up. has he exiled all the gingers? that’s the real issue. (kidding.com. some of my best friends are gingers.)
Keith G
@mclaren: Oh, please don’t be a dushyant.
I read the whole thread twice. There were 3-4 anti ABL comments and about that many “Me too’s”. Maybe a few more – in a 280+ thread. There were easily triple that number weighing in to support ABL. Mclaren, facts do not support your claims, again.
Which is why I think this is snark….or I want some of whatever ABL is drinking.
ETA: I see ABL has weighed in.
Claude
I don’t really care for your posts, but I just skip ’em. No reason to stop posting if other people like you!
Whitney
I have found a home. Bless u ABL. After limping away from the biggest doom and gloom dem website around, I was looking for some ass=kicking fun.
Thanks from one pissed off black chick to another.
Steeplejack
@Anya:
What you said.