But it could be worse. Bill O'Reilly has to live with Bill O'Reilly 24/7—and I suspect that no matter how big the aforementioned paycheck gets, that's a miserable, utterly unenviable state of affairs.

I also liked the part at the end with the thrusting and the gasping, but that's just because I'm a sixth-grader.

@Pope John Peeps II: I just hate it when they break the rules and then tell the judges, "Well, this is me." Uh, I think you mean, this was you.

@Plague: I actually got it from a close friend who used to work at HarperCollins. I would offer to lend it to you, but someone else has dibs, and by the time they're done it may be moot anyway. But it's a trip, man.

@Hertzey: Maybe you need to see a little film called Ghost Rider, friend. It's a biography of Skeletor, if I understand correctly—so, pretty cool.

I'm wearing exactly the same thing today.

Embarrassing.

Uh, maybe because it's a holiday and the site wouldn't have even been updated today if not for this particularly noteworthy death? But anyway, on behalf of Nick Denton, let me apologize to you for not taking the whole day off to write up a thinkpiece for you.

@bryanswofford: What have we told you about logging in as bryanswofford, Neel Shah?

Some people are mad at her because the Times paid her to write what was more or less a long essay filled with too much personal information about how hard it was to get paid to write long essays filled with too much personal information.

Some people are mad because she's a more talented writer than they are.

Some people are mad because she used to write mean things about other people when she worked for Gawker and now she's upset that other people are writing mean things about her.

Some people are just mad. I think you can trace it back to their dads spending too much time at the office when they were little or something.

And I'm mad because it's "who is mad at whom here." Come on!

But Robert Olen Butler, at least, is 63 years old, so we should cut him some slack for not fully appreciating how the Internet works. Emily, on the other hand, is not only young and new-media-savvy, but was actually in the heart of the beast for over a year.

Emily: Over and over again, some people are going to tell you to ignore the haters and keep on keepin' on. And other people are going to keep hating. And some of us will sometimes support you and sometimes make fun of you and sometimes look at the picture of you in the swimsuit when Mrs. Moff isn't around, but mostly not care too much about what's going on with you. Actually, even the haters probably don't care too much, except when you enter their direct line of sight, figuratively speaking.

Anyway, you've just gotta deal. I don't know what else to tell you, except that your other option is to stop writing and go do something else and everyone will forget all of this in a few months. Oh, and: You'll probably be happier if you stop trying to get the last word in with the Internet. As you should know, that almost never works.

Oh! Probably you didn't count black midget Indiana Jones as a reason not to see it. Midgets are funny!

Add mine to the list of kudos. Nice post.