<![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> As of this comment, this post has 10,039 views. I think it's safe to say that hate sells in blogonomics.

vulturesquadron

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @mackintosh-toffee: God I love you.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto:
Yeah, the rereblogging Jackles is totes the triad of retardation. I can't even get through one sentence, so obvi Mary wrote, with some coaching from Jackles. It ooozes with the Pink Lady's make-up stains.


mackintosh-squidbrains

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto: it's funny how unfunny that blog is, besides other things like horribly boring and pointless.

Wortavious

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> By the way, how BAD is that rebloggingrebloggingjulia tumblr. And Mary thinks that's funny?

It's a stream of barely literate blog diarrhea and the person writing it is too thick to even pick up on the wicked and subtle wit of the Baugher blog.

Hey, rebloggingrebloggingjulia person (hi Mary, Meaghan and Julia!!): It's not that Baugher isn't funny, you idiots, it's that you're too stupid to get it.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @ninety_nine: She is as soon as she reveals the person's name, and she knows it.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @tracyflick: Haha. I saw the movie Election last night on cable and my brain just associated it with your screen name!

Swifter

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> If I started a JA "fan" blog, using ONLY the plethora of information she herself continually feeds online, but with a strictly flattering spin, would I be "stalking" her too? Damn!! Too late to test the theory ... there already IS a JA fan page ... no wait, there are already at least FOUR of them (tumblr, twittr, flickr, vimeo) ... ALL authored by who? Oh right, JA herself.

ThereMustBeAPony

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @mackintosh-toffee: Or...Denton knows who it is and knows JA is wrong. By printing JA's suspicion, he's really just assisting in the inevitable ridicule she'll reap when it's revealed that she's wrong.

The whole reason why JA is trumping this crap out is because the Baugher blog was shutting down. Can't have that, now can we, Pink Lady? Not when your new TV show is about to be greenlighted?

Special place in hell for cuntastic women like you who use heinous crimes like stalking to their benefit.

tracyflick

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> Unless I misread it (I did just wake up at 11:55am after an all-night Benadryl bender), the ABC News article says that Julia's parents have disowned her over this?

Disowned?

Over this?

It's almost a little bit as if they never loved her in the first place.

Ha Ha Sound

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto: I'm not sure she's actually slandering anyone. Esp. when the entity she's accusing doesn't actually exist.

That Nick may or may not re-repeat the phrase 'stalker', well, let me point you to the gleeful feature that used to be very prominent on this site. Rhymes with Gawker.

ninety_nine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto:

I have to agree with this. I think that Nick could have reported the ABC story and Julia's "I'm scared" bologna in such a way that did not draw attention to her inevitably wrong suspicion.

It was just kind of sloppy and did not delineate his own position clearly enough, and that's what makes me uncomfortable.

A 40ish, Gawker commenter, lawyer in Seattle is TMI from the proprietor from the site.

But obviously it is just more fuel to the Baugher fire, and methinks this is exactly what Mr. Denton had in mind anyway. If i step away from my discomfort from the TMI Gawker commenter overshare, i am fucking thankful the war rages on. It is entertaining and i am very bored at work today.

This is all a little weird and i hope can count as "research" somehow.

mackintosh-squidbrains

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> Again I ask for clarification.

When Gawker posts its now almost daily JA posts, detailing her emotional breakdowns at Beatrice Inn with Hud Morgan, that's not stalking. That's reporting. And there's no fear involved because Jules knows who is writing it and, really, she loves the attention Gawker gives her.

But when an anonymous blogger outs the fact that she e-mailed her ex begging for a Mac Book Air...that's stalking?

So, let me see if I have this figured out. When Julia approves of the dirt thats spread about her, like letting Zinc finger her at Balthazar (because we all know sex columnists are sluts! Weeeee!), then it's not stalking. But when the pieces that become circulated about her are not the ones she's carefully chosen to be revealed...it's stalking. Am I close?

Here's what I do know. Julia? You're a dumb whore with friends who stay with you in hopes of being famous. And when that doesn't work? You'll be posting an ad on your blogger looking for new friends. Thank you (and equally pathetic Kelly Kreth) for making what we do for a living look comical. Thank you for stripping us of any credibility we may have and forcing us to have to work harder to make sure people know we aren't all as useless, self-obsessed and psycho as you and Kreth. 'preciate it.

tracyflick

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> NEW TO JEZEBEL!! Wasn't she from Seattle?

crotchety

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Swifter: i will take a look

it's not easy, this writing thing

i wrote for dead trees for a decade, until the intratubz came along and either (a) saved me or (b) stripped away the last of my soul in exchange for some fun clickz

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> We've never really trusted Julia when it comes to age reporting. The stalker could be anywhere from thirty-something to fifty-something according to JuliaMath.

crotchety

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @ninety_nine: My only issue is that he gave her a forum, again, to get it out there that she's "scared." Scared my ass. If she's scared of anything, it's the certain knowledge that if she outs whoever she thinks it is after publicly calling this person a stalker, she will have a nasty lawsuit on her hands because what Bauhger is doing is most certainly NOT stalking.

You can't Twitter your whereabouts, blog, Vimeo, out your ex's mental health issues on Gawker, etc etc etc, ENDLESSLY and demand that people pay attention to you and then scream "stalker!" when the attention you attract isn't positive.

And who knows for certain it's a Gawker commenter? That's JA's reasoning and once again, Denton should have protected his own and left that JA speculation out of any recounting of his communication with her.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> I'm just crossing my fingers that the Baugher Blog coalition has some career-ending dirt on JA in their collective pockets.

vulturesquadron

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Choire: I never talked to Nick about it. I'd heard from maybe three people about it (none of whom I trust to be better informed than me), and they all said the NYT wasn't interested in the relationship angle. I'm just repeating gossip.

I should have said 'if Nick thinks you cross him' since, as we both argued, it's all grist. I have no position on whether or not she did, but, yes, I was referring to that comment.

I think he put the Gessen/Russians! thing in there to cast some doubt on her traditionalist journalist chops, meaning something that starts as a 'Modern Love' story writ large becomes a potential sink hole of calling everyone in every anecdote and trying to get them to confirm something that likely casts them in a bad light, to avoid a massive game of gotcha. Given the already grey area of he said/she said about Emily/Josh, finding another instance involving another (ostensible) boyfriend and writing, well, he did successfully plant the notion, fair or not, that Emily has a curious approach to disclosure.

ninety_nine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @ninety_nine: You're right. Fuck you all. I'm over it.

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> "who tracks the every move and saying of Julia Allison"

pot, meet kettle

dontchuknow

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @ninety_nine: The only person who suggested that Emily's forthcoming NYT mag piece has anything to do with Nick... was Nick, when he wrote that post. And why would you think that item would raise the bar on fact-checking? The fact-checking practices at the Times mag are their fact-checking practices. I suggest that you are deep in the echo chamber, my friend. More importantly, Emily didn't cross Nick in any way, even though he went so far as to say in the comments that she "fucked" him by quitting, which is crazy talk. Since when is quitting an at-will monthly employment contract and giving a month's notice "fucking" anyone? That's absurd. (The only people who are getting "fucked" around here are the people who aren't getting their 2007 tax documents from Gawker Media until sometime in May or June. Thanks for the IRS penalties, Gawker.) Anyway, that post was a preemptive and blind strike by Nick against what he suspected the NYT piece was about, as far as I'm concerned. But why would he care anyway? It can't possibly matter or have any impact on him or the company. (PS: Though he doesn't see the Emily item that way. He saw it as good gossip, which, as always, is in the eye of the beholder. Your mileage may vary, as always.)

Richard, you may agree now, but let's talk in six months.

Annnnd now back to having a life.

Choire

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @tracyflick: Ach, sorry. I misread your first line. We aren't that far apart on this particular point. Sorry for wasting air.

ninety_nine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @KarenUhOh: You think Gawker is a family? Wow.

ninety_nine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @hamburgerhotdog: if Baugher gets outed, Nick will report on it, and we will comment. It's news. But what has he done to further a story that is already in play? Gawker cannot not report this story.

ninety_nine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @ninety_nine: I think Julia wants to out this person, but doesn't want to look like an asshole and needs confirmation. She goes to her buddy Denton and says, hey, this is what I suspect, throw it out to the sharks and see what they come up with. That way, she gets her name (or confirmation of what she suspected), gets it without looking petty and we're left with more JA chud and no more awesome Baughering. It wouldn't be the first time she's used gawker for her own purposes...

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @tracyflick: You are really underestimating how big the hard on is for anything Gawker-related in the New York media scene. It doesn't matter than no one past Metuchen knows anything about any of this. But it means everything here.

ninety_nine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @ninety_nine: How exactly did Baugher cross Denton? If anything, Baugher played the game better than gawker in terms of getting the dish and they did. There's enough Julia Allison to mock that gawker can't really claim any rights to it, and they haven't gone after everyone who has mocked her (and there have been many).

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto: I was talking about Emily, Gutfeld, etc.

What has he done to out Baugher? What if maybe he knows who it is, what Julia said to him was flat out wrong, but he was fine with quoting her?

ninety_nine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @if_i_only_had_a_heart:
Why do you think this story even hit ABC news? It's like the Kristen Davis sex tape being unearthed mere weeks before the film premieres. It's all spin. JA went to her publicist, who I'm sure is as busy putting out fires as Pat Kingsley was when she repped Tom Cruise, and had them pitch this story. She wants her name out there so that they can sell the show. What better way to do that than to say you have a "stalker." You're nobody til somebody stalks you (I'm TMing that, btw.) Now, when suits at Bravo or wherever review this show they won't go "Who the hell is Julia Allison?"

Next up? JA was touched in her no-no place by a family friend. Nothing gets ratings and viewers like sexual abuse!

tracyflick

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @if_i_only_had_a_heart: I'm not retired...it's more like I escaped. I managed to save up about 50 grand, after which I'll have to get a job unless I manage to get a book deal or something. You can always check out my practice efforts at [mcbragg.tumblr.com.]

Swifter

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Swifter: the machine i am on this minute is xp but i have another w/vista and i will do that later

wow

i've spent enuf time in seattle to have met many 40 yo retired m$ofties ... not so awful if u get out

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @ninety_nine: But how has Baugher crossed him? What am I missing here?

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Richard: Can I have a star now? I promise not to kill any more puppies.

ninety_nine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @ninety_nine: You didn't say a word I disagree with. I know the rules of this game perfectly well. I play by them, and when the day comes that it's me who dies by them, c'est la guerre.

So it's settled then. And you know what else? If you got anything at all in your chest, you don't fuck the family you raised.

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @BK_KT: "will" think. Cannot comment and text at the same time.

BK_KT

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> This ABC News article is so hilarious! Basically it concludes that JA is a whiny self-promoter who brought this all upon herself! Maybe next time you with think before you post some inane photo of yourself. Also, wouldn't "stalking" have to constitute some kind of actual, physical, attempt at non-Internets contact? JUST SHUT UP AND IT WILL ALL GO AWAY.

BK_KT

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @if_i_only_had_a_heart: Do you have Vista? If so, go to the Start pearl, click on Control Panel, System and Maintenance, and then Performance Information and Tools. See the applet that tells you your Windows Experience Index score? I built that. It took about a year and a half. A lot of really smart people worked on the underlying tests. I also worked on the Out-Of-Box-Experience tool that comes up the first time you boot Vista and performs the initial tests.

I took about six months to decompress after leaving the company, and now I'm writing a novel, because its something I've always wanted to do. I have about a year until my money runs out.

Gawker has been publishing my "practice" fiction whenever Pareene has the notion. It gets more page views than most of his regular posts, so I don't know why he's rejected my last couple of efforts.

Swifter

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> so, do you think the tv show is really greenlit, or just more hopeful gossip being passed along, knowingly and/or unknowingly by various links in the chain?

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @ninety_nine: I never thought I'd say this, but I agree, ninety_nine.

Richard

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @KarenUhOh: You need to give Nick a little more credit. Julia said the story was being reported on by another large media outlet. She's not so clever as to bait him. He gets in front of it, and maybe deflates the interest by ABC. But even if he doesn't, he's not participating. Best case scenario, he undercuts by getting out there first, worst case scenario is it rolls forward, with a certain denial like he's already made (the he doesn't know who Baugher is).

Remember the big post about Emily's belt notches? That came a couple days after everyone was chattering about how she was prepping a front page story for the NY Times mag (ostensibly not in response to Josh's live journal piece for Page Six, but a hatchet job on Nick, but the blood everyone wanted was about the relationship). That story hasn't happened yet. If they didn't spike it, at the very least he really raised the bar on fact checking.

I have no love for Nick's business model and don't agree with him about what is good vis a vis Gawker, but as long as you roll with him, he's a pretty solid fellow. Cross him and you are fair game. It's sharp practice, and whomever is Baugher, well, you made your bed.

It's like the scene where Levy tells Orlando: you wanted to be in the game? Now you are in it.

ninety_nine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @LolCait: It is. Say something funny, will you, please?

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @tracyflick: I heart you.

Wortavious

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Swifter: u? u did vista? omg. and they let you out, alive?

get plenty of rest and drink lots of fluids

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Darienlake: Also, for the record, I did not intentionally add that photo of JA -- it automatically appeared when I included the link to the story. Which is kind of creepy, though not nearly as creepy as JA herself.

Darienlake

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @fiveinchtaint: Maybe your Connectedness Index brought to you by Acura TSX isn't high enough?

Nard

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> I'm sorry. But this all seems deeply silly to me.

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @fiveinchtaint: You've. That's why I don't have a star.

fiveinchtaint

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Nard38: Oopsies. Nice work on the hilarity. You're earned your star.

fiveinchtaint

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Nick Denton: My point is not that you told Julia anything. My point is that, in doing what you feel you must, perpetuating a story with spindly legs, you crossed yourself up with a promise you made to all of us when you were so kind to let us play on here, in exchange for tips (how's that part going?), wit, pageviews, whatever it is you're using us for: you made it clear we could hide behind the personas as long as we chose to, here.

If your pledge is to matter in the least, sometimes you have to back away from a "story" that breaches the trust we thought we had.

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @fiveinchtaint: Some think Nick told JA who her re-blogger is. Nard38 wrote two hilaious fucking posts. I think that's all.

Nard

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @tracyflick: the thing that's also weird is that this person isn't researching Julia's past--it's people emailing in this information, and apparently plenty of people have dirt and are all too happy to share. That's not stalking--that's just redistributing.

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> I'm confused. People are upset. So many comments. Too much work. Can you do a follow-up post summary of this madness?

fiveinchtaint

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Nick Denton: You didn't shoot the gun but you provided the weapon and the bullets.

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> Let me get this gay....

The girl who outs her life on the internet for all to see is crying wolf saying that the Baugher blog is "scaring" her. So much that she seeks out more publicity. So, really what this girl is doing is using a heinous act like stalking to further get her name out there?

Pull up a chair, Jules. Let me tell you a story about a Manhattan based female blogger who writes about sex and dating and who gets a sufficient amount of press herself. I mean not as much as you but that's probably because she doesn't seek it out in the aggressive manner you do. One night, because her address is listed on her company's website, some guy decided to come by her home at 11pm and ring her buzzer. When said blogger answered the buzzer, what she got was an earful of dirty talk. This continued to happen for several weeks, all hours of the day and night. Why so long? Because when the blogger called the police, each time, they took their own sweet time getting to her home and once they arrived they all but laughed at her. Cuz, see, there are a lot of crazy, fucked up, attention seeking cunts like you who cry wolf. Said blogger had to hire a private investigator to wait outside her apartment building for several nights until the guy was caught red-handed.

So, you fucking brat, you want to talk fear and stalking? Go check court records for the summer of 2006.

Boo fucking hoo. Someone checks your Facebook page. You seem to be ignoring the fact that that blog wouldn't exist if there weren't so many people out there who you've fucked over.

You want the freedom to be an entitled, vapid, attention whore but you don't want people to call you on it. Gotcha.

tracyflick

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Darienlake: "It's just crossed the line, at this point. This person knows every move I make. S/he will probably soon know that I moved my bowels at 6:55 this morning while my pwetty widdle doggie looked at me, like, 'Mommy, why all the grunting?' Then s/he will probably know all the details about my break-up with my ex who suffers from a mental illness I won't mention (it rhymes with "die-roller bisorder" hee hee wink). For all I know, this person will see the photos I'll post later today of the new dress I bought for my appearance on Fox News tomorrow, an appearance this crazy little sicko will probably discover on my blog. It's just creepy."

Nard

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @KarenUhOh: Karen, I *don't* know who Baugher is, and would not dream of providing any information to Julia Allison. She told me that she thought the mystery blogger was a Gawker commenter, which is hardly surprising, and that an ABC News reporter was doing a story. I passed that on.

Nick Denton

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Darienlake: Kudos to her agent at William Morris, who is probably ready to shoot himself in the head after dealing the with the axis of vapid.

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Darienlake: How ironic a woman who, months after the breakup still mentions Jakob Lodwick in nearly every Time Out column, dare call anyone else "obsessive".

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @vulturesquadron: She identified the "stalker" as a Gawker commenter. I have no idea.

Nick Denton

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @KarenUhOh: "hysterical," not "the hysterical," dumbass.

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @ILovePuppies: Noted. Thanks.

@Darienlake: The ABC article is the hysterical, for all the word implies.

@Julia: Settle the fuck down, will you? You're not in danger of anything but choking on your ego.

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> Furthermore, some asshole keeps stealing my newspaper off my doorstep, can you get on revealing their indentiy as well. Or, you know, I could just get up an hour eariler and deal with it myself. You hear that, Jules?

Maybe we gawker commentors can just start writing Julia's column for her as well?

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @KarenUhOh: Check your activity page.

Sargasm

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]>

Here it is -- way to go ABC. Nice how they added 40 years to Loren Feldman's company, also.

Darienlake

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Nick Denton: If you had a lick of sense you'd hire this person, not out them. What on earth are you thinking? Have you lost your mind?

hamburgerhotdog

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @KarenUhOh:
Perfectly said. I was reflecting on this last night. I had finally come back to reading and commenting more regularly after the mass-exodus and the distastefulness that followed.

And then Denton goes and pulls this shit.

The allegory to "War on Terror" articulated by Baugher is fucking perfect. No collateral damage is too much collateral damage and your privacy? Fuck you.

Sad, sad, sad.

Oh, and i never had any doubt at all that the writer of Baugher is a New Yorker. I think that is where the rage towards JA and her ilk comes from.

Oh, and s/he pointed out muffin-toe on Meghan and Princess of Passive Aggression not being friend enough to tell her about it. Seattle is a lot of nice things, but that cutting? Nope.

Not cool, Denton. Not cool.

mackintosh-squidbrains

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> I have to tell you. I know we're not any of us big on--parsing--morality here, or being particularly noble. Or having much of a "code" that guides us through the thicket of living as --anonymous--beasts. That's a cross we all agreed to bear in the bargain: that we'd live with the ignominy of having any outsiders who read us think we're just rotten awful souls.

But then there's this:

"3. Can I comment anonymously?

"Yes, totally. Gawker's comment system is designed so that you can register and post anonymously. We won't even know who you are.

"Here's how to ensure that you register anonymously. When you create your username, choose one that's unrelated to your real identity. Then, add an anonymous nickname in your user profile. We won't be able to link your username/nickname with your offline self."

I'm a lawyer, so yeah, I get it that your story is about the blog, not the commenter. I know you think any collateral damage is the cost of doing business here.

But frankly, you made a promise, that we all get now you're not interested in keeping. And, perhaps, there's a cost of doing business associated with that.

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> I think JA got her "lawyer from Seattle" information from the psychic who told Pee Wee Herman his bike was at the Alamo.

Also, that reblogging of the reblog is some scary, dark shit. I picture JA naked in front of her computer wearing sad clown make-up alternating between sobbing and laughing maniacally as she hunts and pecks.

Nard

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> My, what a coup you have here.

I'd say you'd stepped on your dick this time. But then you'd have to have one.

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> Word to the wise for all of you reading; outside of New York, Georgetown, and the Web 2.0 250, nobody knows who Julia Allison is and nobody cares.

Always think before you post a comment! What I actually mean to say is that few people know who she is and fewer care. Now, back to our regularly scheduled silence.

Swifter

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Go Like Hell Machine: Nah, I used to work at Microsoft and now I'm working on a book. I wrote the Performance Information and Tools control panel for Vista.

Until a month ago, I had no idea who Julia Allison was. She's cute, but Mary would be more my style.

Word to the wise for all of you reading; outside of New York, Georgetown, and the Web 2.0 250, nobody knows who Julia Allison is and nobody cares.

It's like a real world soap opera though and kind of fun to follow. Actually, I wish them nothing but success.

Swifter

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> I was right. You guys were at this all night. And on a Thursday, at that. Spring fever?

SarahHeartburn

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Swifter: Oddly enough, you were a guess I had.

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> If only it were me. I live in Seattle, I'm divorced, but I'm not in my 40's, I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not as good a writer as the intrepid Baugher though I work to improve those skills each day.

I can whip up a pretty good user interface though.

Swifter

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Hez: Reading that made me feel like I was still watching Ugly Betty.

BeRightBack

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Waste of time!
(Ah! Blasphemy, I know.)

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @haggardprincess: So, how long before rebloggingrebloggingrebloggingjulia.tumblr?

My browser spell-check just popped a message that says, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Phyllis Nefler: What are you, an immigrant?

(I know, I know. Far too late.)

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @rosaluxembourgeoise:
must sleep now all


Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun: i can always spare a squirt.

@VirusWithShoes: ok, guilty. it's john 3:17 actually. it's a commonly overlooked passage because the one right before it is, you know, sorta popular.

the cajun boy

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> And now we have a bad speller reblogging the reblogger [rebloggingrebloggingjulia.tumblr.com] geeee, I wonder who that could be. Damn I wish I was a divorced lawyer in Seattle.

haggardprincess

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Un Chien Andalou: Why the English version, perrito?

rosaluxembourgeoise

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun: @the cajun boy: Any possible combination of those two that I can imagine is something I don't want to imagine.

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @ZiggyStardust: Hey Ziggy!@UnstableMabel: Nothing better than what is revealed down under.@Unfun:
I did not ask you to undress for the butt shot, ask @Hez:
@rosaluxembourgeoise: Say it Sister, just don't get all incestuous on me. I never slept my way to get secrets. And regarding Peggy, there is no surprize on my part, reparte, I know the ground I walk here in the dark well, and whatever truth to the sad voice she found in Sherman Oaks destroyed the pain of many in East LA, and I've seen more than my share of real blood, but that digression would ruin the JA thread so many find solace in. I'm avaailable for discourse on the offline as well, Denton would resent the lack of pageviews, though Speigalman might desire to watch through the keyhole.
When one hit's friend's activity I head to the village square.




Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun: That was a BITE! I want to bite and kiss all of you. I'm feeling so much love, it's like justice has prevailed, the planets have realigned, and I just got laid!

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @the cajun boy: You stole that sentence from The New Testament!

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @the cajun boy: Can I have a bit, and a squirt?

Burritos and lube for all! It's raining manna from heaven!

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> What I mean is, can I be an uploader, too? I've been to Seattle and I play a lawyer on TV.

vulturesquadron

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> so i go out for a fucking burrito and some lube and baugher has risen again.

LONG LIVE BAUGHER!!!

the cajun boy

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> I sorta want to make sweet, sweet love to baugher. My God, what a writer.

ZiggyStardust

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> I think the obvious next step is for the entire Gawker commenter crew to start BaugherBlog clones.

vulturesquadron

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> Reveal, reveal! GU wants to provide the blogger with an endowed chair. But wait, NO ONE POSSESSING TALENT, SUBSTANCE AND A SHRED OF DECENCY WANTS HIS NAME LINKED WITH JA/JB, well, except for Denton, her publicist.

"Scared" my ass!

GeorgetownAvenger

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> The Gawker Surge Is Working.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun: April is so not the cruelest month!

TallulahSkankhead

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> That's fucking AWESOME.

@Unfun: As is that!

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Hez: Yay! Thanks for the update, Hez!

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Hez: @Phyllis Nefler: It's like fucking Christmas in April! "You just bought yourself another round of baugher." Yay!

This calls for a celebration! @TheHonJudgeSmails: @Un Chien Andalou: Tits and ass for everyone!!!

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> Perhaps Denton needs to reread the question and think about his answer.

TallulahSkankhead

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Are you sure you want to see them?

Because - sir - they are life-changing, not to mention underwear-changing.

They are glory, incarnate.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Un Chien Andalou: My dear brother,
The interesting part is the part that doesn't give a shit. That writes "June". That is still outraged about Peggy Seltzer's theft of a thousand memories. That scouts locations along the Milky Way. Don't make me say it, Chien.

rosaluxembourgeoise

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> ...and Baugher drops a response.

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> AWESOME! Baugher blogs again, and apparently from NY this time! Power to the people!

Hez

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Un Chien Andalou: If she says no, I will think about it.

UnstableMabel

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun: Let's see your boobs.

@DorothyMantooth: Had to watch LOST!

@flipper baby: Were I the author, it would be of a much different tone.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> Manu Bongo Bongo for @Trixie from Toronto: @Unfun: @DorothyMantooth: @rosaluxembourgeoise:


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Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto: Merely contemplating that puts so much pressure on my brain that my eyes just knocked my glasses off of my face.

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto: She's a veritable idiot.

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Un Chien Andalou: Wok this way.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Go Like Hell Machine: She has so Manu talents. And so Manu, Manu nice outfits.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun:
I sooo wok you.


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where's your promised butt photo?




Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @flipper baby: I love a metaphor backed by video proof.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> Manu guilty pleasures? NBA playoffs?

flipper baby

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto: What to what??

"If it wasn't for that horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college."

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto: Once again, don't type with your mouth full - you'll choke, and not in a good, sexy way.

@Go Like Hell Machine: I've had dreams where I've defeated Jennifer Connolly. Mostly at strip-checkers.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @rosaluxembourgeoise:
What is the iteresting part Rosa, the soapmaking?
The satin sheets I stole from the Romanov's? Should I pour their spirits on the floor next to my bed as I throw these Faberge eggs, one an hour, to count your silence till reason runs out?



Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> This expertly written prose on Mary's fascinating blog just prompted me to spit out the tennis ball:

"I got home and dropped to the couch. I can't remember the last time I watched tv. So Manu guilty pleasures to catch up on: Gossip Girl, Grey's, The Ritches, Lost. What to what?!"

What to what??

Indeed, what TO what??

I hope the reality show forces Mary to undergo some kind of IQ testing or, at the very least, to participate in a live taping of "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" Now THAT would be worth watching.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @VirusWithShoes: I wouldn't rule out Keith David. Anyone who can defeat the Estevez brothers and Jennifer Connolly is a force to be reckoned with.

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun:
Our love is mutual and timeless. If I arrived at you door tonight and placed before you a plain cardboard box, and it began shaking, and a sound like someone trying to crack a coconut began to emanate from it, would you close the door behind you and run away with me to Virusland?


Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Go Like Hell Machine: Mskkahowmmmmmfffffbbbbbsllmm.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @VirusWithShoes: I think rather she's a helpless little thing who can't speak the language, and fame is like a giant cow barging into her apartment. Like so:

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flipper baby

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Go Like Hell Machine: No-one is resistant to Kurt Russell.

Keith David, on the other hand...

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto: This also means you read through her various blogs, musings and general self-obsessed vomit.

For this, I commend you, brave Canadian.

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> What I want to know as I ponder this further is how does Mr. Denton know she's "too scared" to reveal her "stalker." Where in all her vomitous online blatherings does she mention being "too scared" to out Baugher? I can't find it anywhere.

Which means there was a call or an e-mail or some kind of exchange between the two and JA once again got her self-promotional, self-serving message out to the masses via Gawker.

Make me puke.

Back to the tennis ball now!

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun: You told me you loved him because he told you he had no legs and couldn't reach the ceiling to change a lightbulb even if he had a trampoline.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @VirusWithShoes: But here's the rub; is she resistant to Kurt Russell?

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun: I find that women find my drinking and general disregard for life in general charming.

Or, rather, my drinking makes me think that they find me charming.

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Un Chien Andalou: I don't like all this anti-virus talk here.

JA is more an infection - a superbug, for example. She is resistant to the antibiotics of self-awareness and restraint, and travels via the sole of your shoe of your soul until she finds a new host.

Think of the John Carpenter version of "The Thing", only with hair-extensions instead of german shepherds.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> some food for thought-
700,000 physicians
120,000 accidental deaths per year.(US Health/Human Services)
.171 deaths/physician
80,000,000 gun owners
1,500 accidental deaths all age groups(FBI)
.000188 deaths/gun owners.
Doctor's 9,000 times more dangerous than 1 discussion afJulia Allen, or June Allison or guns.
I am not a math major, obviously, and will never get a star, in part due to repeatedly failing the JA part of the test.
Go Virus Go.










Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Go Like Hell Machine: Very cute.
@Un Chien Andalou: I love you sooooo much! I don't exactly know why...

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @DorothyMantooth: I dunno, it just seems so ethnic.

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> A virus will always arrive before it appears

Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Phyllis Nefler: Okay, seriously? I've only just now heard that line.
Why don't you have TiVo, woman?!

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Un Chien Andalou: The interesting part.

rosaluxembourgeoise

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> I will not learn who JA is.
I will not read Harry Potter...


Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @VirusWithShoes: I usually tell time by the number of drinks I've had.

Two drinks = one half hour.
Four drinks = forty-five minutes.
Eight drinks = fifty-twelve minutes.

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Go Like Hell Machine:
She appears to be a virus...
(checking little black address book under A and V and J...)



Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun: Frankly, I'm not sure a talent for self-promotion and a nice rack qualifies her for even that.

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Un Chien Andalou: @Unfun: @Go Like Hell Machine: Yay! It's like Friday night, only a day early!

Mind you - Virusland is GMT+24, so that's probably why. We tell time by watching bananas rot under the corpses of the native Virusians we killed for fuel.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @VirusWithShoes: Fhsmllhhbbbmmmmmffffffff

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Go Like Hell Machine: Oh I don't know, maybe we can keep her around to clean up after the goats.

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Conbon: Meh. My OCD extends only to Gawker Media.
So there!

@TheHonJudgeSmails: Well lookie who's here after hours?!
You really didn't think that J-Al would show her tits to unmask the culprit, did ya?

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Un Chien Andalou: All I know is that she is banned from VirusLand.

Go Like Hell Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun:
I pride myself in not knowing who Julia Allen, or June Allison is.
If I do, I know I will lose a part of me.



Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Un Chien Andalou: Chien! Hop on the wheelbarrow!

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> why are my gawker friends in here? I miss you.

Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun: I hear he's always pointing straight at the ladies, so to speak.

In between writing fake blogs about fake people acting fake.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Very clever. We all know it's you.

flipper baby

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Always straight to the point ain't ya? Is that how you are with the ladies? Inquiring minds want to know.

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Phyllis Nefler: Did someone send you a console yet?

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: [redacted]

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun: Ah - the ol' wheelbarrow-fallen-hairdryer position? I like!

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Conbon: Liar.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> OK, so really - who is it?

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @VirusWithShoes: I'll warm your ankles by breathing heavily upon them.

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @DorothyMantooth: Hee. You know, if I felt like being mean, I would remind you that there are other blogs on the internet NOT owned by Gawker, and sometimes I comment on them. And so do other people. But never mind.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Unfun: Join us, sweetheart! Watch out for the ponies, though. They kick!

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @DorothyMantooth: Pay attention to me! I'm inconsolable!

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto: My cock is always prepared. It's my ankles I worry about. They can't take the pressure. I have to wear leg-warmers, even in the Summer.

Why does the phrase "jaw exercises" conjure up the image of you biting into a tennis ball and growling?

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> I am in Seattle right now. Do you want me to go look?

belltolls

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @ShrugsAndKisses: you have!!!!!

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto: Sweet fancy Moses, it's getting steamy in here. Virus is my gawker boyfriend, but I'll allow this if I get to watch.

And then I think about JA and lose my lady boner.

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto: ka ching!

if_i_only_had_a_heart

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @VirusWithShoes:For you, beef tenderloin and peonies. Carnations are a sad excuse for a flower. And I am already doing my jaw exercises -- prepare your cock.

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Conbon: Ah, you see. This is precisely the situation that the GawkerGods had in mind when they created the Friends' Activity list!
(Also, yes. I do have to read all the comments in the thread before responding. Shut up!)

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Phyllis Nefler: Weevils! What a crazy word, man!

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto: Amen sister.

Unfun

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @In Other News...: It just took me 10 minutes to realize you were responding to something from like 2 hours ago. I know Saffron Burrows, (in the sense that I am aware that she exists and I find pictures of her to be attractive) I might have to start watching again.

@DorothyMantooth: What about all the comments on all the other blogs? I just left one somewhere else, and now you might miss it.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Phyllis Nefler: Gasp!!!! That's from The Office!
I love you so much right now!!

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @In Other News...: Thanks for that!

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie from Toronto: I'm in for the price of the drinks I owe her.

ShrugsAndKisses

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Phyllis Nefler: Ha!! How are you not drinking NOW?!

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Conbon: Not on the show anymore but Saffron Burrows is. Of course, she's no Tina Fey.
[l.yimg.com]

In Other News...

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> I blame the Belgians.

Ha Ha Sound

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @ShrugsAndKisses: A PayPal button is an excellent idea. PayPal button, flowers, caviar, Crown Royale, lobster claws, loving and expert munching. Who's with me????

Trixie from Toronto

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Conbon: @DorothyMantooth: If I'm not in the bath with a glass of red wine in an hour you're both dead.

Phyllis Nefler

]]> <![CDATA[Finding Julia Allison's Shadow]]> @Trixie fro