@Baroness: I've been thinking about this (too much, surely), pondering why a young woman who lies constantly still seems generally unthreatening.
I wonder if it's because we're so cynical -- even the dirty hipsters among us -- that we don't expect a person of her age (and maybe gender?) to tell the truth about very much anyway. And that in those circumstances, lines like "hot dog down a hallway" are about as much truth as anyone can expect.
Like I said, thinking about this too much. But still I think there's something to this.
@Baroness: Put another way, instead of folks (not you, Baroness) wondering "how anyone could fall for this crap," maybe consider that people, or at least guys like me, want to fall for someone's not-entirely-truthful construction of themselves -- no one expects to get a 100%-accurate version of a person when we're falling for them -- so it's extra handy when that construction is as blatant and obvious about getting our attention as hers is.
If she were smart (which, we can presume all hypochondriacs at least think they are), she would be able to parlay all this super-attention into a C-list something... ..a reality show at the very least.
She's like some sort of superpredator for young, skinny white dudes - it's like her every word and image is coated in geek pheremones. I have full knowledge that this woman was ripping people off for years with callous disregard and yet all I really want is to take her to a Fever Ray show. I mean, it's worth a few grand, right? Who wouldn't do that deal right now?
@ADismalScience: I know. She's kind a hot, right? Her post could have used some more Star Wars and fewer references to obscure music if she'd want to score the Paysan, though.
@ADismalScience: "Full knowledge"? Come on, aren't you dying to hear her side of it. Maybe over some PBRs while the two of you play some old-school Atari and the Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo soundtrack murmurs softly in the background?
If Will Ferrell makes a video with Adam McKay about meeting his distant cousin from Utah, then the circle will be well and truly complete. oddly, I find the Ferrell relation story believable. If she were fabricating, surely she'd go for Perry Ferrell?
I hope she gets the psychiatric help she needs, though I don't expect the Utah corrections system, in whose care I expect her to be any hour now, to be good at that.
@SW-2: I think she would use Perry Ferrell for her musician scams and Will for her comedic scams...she was talking to a comedian when she used that line.
I have to tell you, I'm impressed. She can write a decent sentence and she has a degree of wit.
Kari, if you're reading this. Forget what all those nasty people are saying about you. Get arrested in some spectacular way and go back to Utah. I doubt if you'll get serious jail time.
But while you're sitting around in your cell, write a novel. Well, not a REAL novel -- just a thinly disguised account of your time in New York City. Describe settings. Give us dialogue. Make fun of people trying to be hip.
And then -- if you can come up with about 200 double-spaced pages -- contact your old editor friend Smithhimself via this site. Important: do not contact a man named Andrew Wylie! He's a real scam artist. You're just a True Voice of our Times.
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Of course she's a lying, thieving, opportunistic parasite preying on peoples' emotions. But other than that, I imagine she's really a sweet girl.
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I wonder if it's because we're so cynical -- even the dirty hipsters among us -- that we don't expect a person of her age (and maybe gender?) to tell the truth about very much anyway. And that in those circumstances, lines like "hot dog down a hallway" are about as much truth as anyone can expect.
Like I said, thinking about this too much. But still I think there's something to this.
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And your turn, Liza.
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1.21 jugg-a-watts
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I love that. Like, how commonly? At brunch? While at the grocery store deciding whether you want low pulp or no pulp o.j.?
This is all so fascinating.
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Which would be kinda hot, until you wake up one morning without your wallet, pants or dignity.
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I hope she gets the psychiatric help she needs, though I don't expect the Utah corrections system, in whose care I expect her to be any hour now, to be good at that.
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"Been caught stealin', once, when I was [twenty-something]."
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Kari, if you're reading this. Forget what all those nasty people are saying about you. Get arrested in some spectacular way and go back to Utah. I doubt if you'll get serious jail time.
But while you're sitting around in your cell, write a novel. Well, not a REAL novel -- just a thinly disguised account of your time in New York City. Describe settings. Give us dialogue. Make fun of people trying to be hip.
And then -- if you can come up with about 200 double-spaced pages -- contact your old editor friend Smithhimself via this site. Important: do not contact a man named Andrew Wylie! He's a real scam artist. You're just a True Voice of our Times.
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