<![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> Watch the whole event at LIVE from the New York Public Library on April 10, 2008 at:

[www.nypl.org]

sarahes

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> Siegel's been peddling the same bogus story about why he got shit-canned all over town, and no one's called him on it. Event 1: He sucked as a blogger and everybody who commented on his blog said, "Hey Lee, you're dumb and have nothing to say." Then -- Event 2: -- he accused one James Kinkaid, an academic who wrote for Slate, of being a pedophile. 3: Commentors said, "Hey, Suckhead, you just called someone a pedophile with no evidence. Um, libel?" 4: He accused one of his own commentors of being a pedophile. 5: Another commentor dug up an article Siegel had written in which he said he'd wanted to sleep with Uma Thurman when she was 16 and he was her tutor. 6: As "Sprezzatura" was acting batshit nuts in Siegel's threads, one of his commentors called him out as Siegel, and 7. Siegel got shit-canned.

The next time Siegel claims people accused him of being a pedophile, can someone please call him out?!

A_Boojum_You_See

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> @flossy: Sheila does not deserve any See You Next Tuesday, but I still laughed out loud reading it. Heh heh!

hhpeterson13

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> A carefully paired whine greatly enhances the complex flavors of a hearty plate of comeuppance.

blix

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> a false illusion of community? this is stupid. who wants to hang out tonight?

@tortious: no, seriously, that's awesome.

izzodee544

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> sorry to digress here, but Holdengraber???

yes, i am twelve.

tortious

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> Gawkwer,

Who gives you the right to tell me who to call a assclown?

miss_msry

miss_msry

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> The Blackberry quote is great.

I love that Nicholson Baker was there. You know he's going to spin this into some long novel that takes place on a message board.

Steverino

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> A columnist friend used to get hate email all the time. He delighted in writing back things like Always nice to hear from you! or You brighten my day! or GFY -- if the mood struck him. Then he'd block their address so he never had to hear from them again.
(Does that work for you, Sheila?)

Also, FYI, Manny Schivelbusch was Schopenauer's first cousin. He postulated the theory that exactly 7 angels could sit on the head of a pin, but he could never get any of the angels to volunteer for clinical trials so nobody would publish his findings. He died a broken man, slumped over a cup of Cafe mit schlag in a Viennese Inn.

PandoraSpocks

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> Dear Assclown,
The first medium to serve the "isolated asocial elevated individual" was writing, not the Internet.

I can see it's served you well.
-anonymous

They Live

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> So it's OK for him to write for Slate for money but not for Jobs to sell computers for the same. Relativit-y!

TallulahSkankhead

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> I agree with CCC. You are one of my favorite writers here. You manage to be funny and biting with a high level of honesty and a low level of snarkosity. My Internet reading machine thingy inside my skull has fallen in love with your Internet writing machine thingy. In fact I have fallen in love with all your thingies. You have very nice thingies!

Don Is

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> Where does he stand on asshat and assface? Assburglar?

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> @belltolls: Yeah, it seems like this guy has spent too much time on Fark.com

Nic Fit

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> I find I became much more human when I lost my identity.

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> For a guy who has written a book about blogging and internet culture he has the most rudimentary knowledge of how things like the Amazon sales figures work or what they mean--though it is good to know with a few purchases and a couple of well placed "buy withs" I can give him a woody or a heart attack; catbag is way funnier than assclown; and I much prefer the false illusion of community to having to clean-up the dirty Solo cups or hunting down the stray Cheetos the guests always drop.

belltolls

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> Sprezzatura is like cool: if you have to say about yourself, you don't have it.

Smitros

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> @Nic Fit: It's Italian for "assclown." Pretty clever, Lee!

They Live

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> The bearded one, Nicholson Baker, is a very funny man. I recommend "The Mezzanine."

As for the assclown, the less said the better.

They Live

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> Sprezzatura is a clever online nickname? I think I am too much of an assclown to get it.

Nic Fit

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> Please tell me Lee Siegel did not equate relativity and relativism. Please, please, for the love of God, tell me he didn't repeat that mindless Paul Johnson horsepucky.

Dickdogfood

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> Sheila: I just wanted to say that I enjoy you writing very much and also find your haircut to be cute. Love, The Internet!

collegecallgirl

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> Excellent report, Sheila. See you next Tuesday!

flossy

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> The commenters had Little-Wee Lee pegged at "assclown."

MrInBetween

]]> <![CDATA[Don't Call Lee Siegel an Assclown]]> So Baker's just discovered Office Space AND Wikipedia.

When he gets to Donnie Darko and Facebook....look out.

Catfish_Jones

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