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Re: Disregard males, acquire currency

Lyss — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:14:56 -0000

I swear to god...I deal with this kind of stuff ALL the time. Thank you so much for showing me that you are also a female who doesn't put up with garbage. It doesn't mean that you're a bitch. It means you are strong and not going to give in to being submissive and coddling any man's ego. You called him out on his shit instead of praising him and he didn't like it. He doesn't sound very smart anyway--- you will end up with someone better in the long run. I'm doing DMAC too ;) rather be alone than unhappy. Don't settle ladies til you get what you want!!

Re: Home Alone: Lost in NY

frankie leone — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:31:54 -0000

incredible piece of writing.

Re: Just me, via internet

jason — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:46:26 -0000

Now I think I have an idea of why you pooofed and went away.
I had a whole bunch of shit i wrote that turned into rambling like it usually does, I'm not as verbally masterful as your other followers. Just know that no matter the forum/website or media outlet (pics or words) that I've followed (stalked (in a nice way)...chased) you on, one thing has always been constant. You are you. Never a "HEY HEY look at me..I'M RIGHT HERE and give me attention" type of person. More of the "Hey, I'm Julene...this is me" You're being your harshest critic is even refreshing in that it never turned into a low-self esteem and I need someone to tell my pretty things (again, see first quoted line) for of conversation. You use to to drive you, never settling for what's now and easy, but what's next and better. Hence the current location full of seasons and subways. Wish I could live up to that myself.
Like the folks said, if you shall go, you shall be missed even by those of us that have only enjoyed little snippets of the amazing girl, intelligent...driven...and beautiful (i stroke egos whether they need them or not) Julene.

I'm sure I forgot things I meant to say, but either way glad to see you are surviving and enjoying NYC, your corner of the world there is much better with you there. Continue being you online or in real life and write about anything and everything you want. It's yours and we're just the guests along for the ride.

Okay I ramble and use () in appropriately. Bye now.

Re: Just me, via internet

Phydeau — Fri, 06 May 2011 05:07:55 -0000

I need to amend that. You've never "just been text". I didn't continue to follow you because I like to read. You've always been a real person. That's what I like about you. We've never met, and we're not remotely pals. Nor have either of us ever made an attempt to really get to know each other. But I have enjoyed the glimpses that you've chosen to share (my favorite story you've ever told was the time your phone was stolen and a girl named Shananay claimed it was hers). Indeed, you are more than mere 0's and 1's in the pixel forest. I hope I didn't give that impression.

Re: Just me, via internet

Phydeau — Fri, 06 May 2011 01:52:20 -0000

I met you in a place that I never expected to be at all, let alone have the position that I had. I wasn't there for the normal reasons. I didn't even know you had a flickr account. (I actually would have loved to have seen that. I know you once worked with a photographer that I used to like.) You've pretty much just been text to me for years.

I'm going to agree with Louis. If you should move on, I'll miss you, but I'll wish you the best.

Re: Just me, via internet

Louis — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:42:29 -0000

I remember when you used to self refer as an "internet nudist" or something. I've noticed the downswing in your exhibitionism, but I just assumed you were getting...wiser. I never did follow your blog because you're a hot piece of ass, although I suppose that didn't hurt.

Your blog is interesting because you think actual thoughts. That may well be a curse, but there's no going back now.

I used to follow the blogs of a fair number of insightful people, but most have vanished. If you do drop out, all the best. Louis.

Re: Orwell’s onto something

Clarence — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:59:41 -0000

I read that essay at 14 or 15 and never forgot it.

You are on the right track to being a successful, yet succinct, writer.

Re: Disregard males, acquire currency

Yakri — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:58:06 -0000

That guy really can't spell for crap can he?

I cannot understand half the shit he is apparently trying to say in those texts.

PS. I like to think that guys don't actually say things like that, just idiots and douche-bags.

Re: Orwell’s onto something

Phydeau — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:24:36 -0000

While I'm a big proponent of learning proper English (and I'm talking about grammar and spelling, not attacking internet shorthand), I'm also big on knowing HOW to break the rules.
It's a matter of knowing your audience. There is an often quoted phrase, questionably attributed to Winston Churchill, that reads, in variations, "Not ending a sentence with a preposition is a bit of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."
One could add to that, "Eschew obfuscation". ;)

Just make your point. But don't butcher the language in the process. In fact, be as succinct as possible, but also know the definition of "succinct".

In the above paragraph, I used the second person to make my point. That's because it would seem artificial to say, "One should always strive to simply make one's point." But I also didn't say, "Just say y'all's shit, yo!"

Re: Redundancies

no. — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:48:58 -0000

Yea its like how this huge crop of highscool freshman girls who just finished their first hip novel and like to throw in needless words like "hence" at the start of a paragraph and go tell their english teachers how the world is so illiterate. well, it is. but the best way to change that is practice writing sentences like, "The bird flew south early this winter, cause like, fuck it, its starting to get warmer already." though you might sound less than intellectual, you are not sounding like a pretentious prick, which i am starting to sound now just by using the word "pretentious". but i agree with you. i realize now that this is starting to look stalky coming from an anonymous user, hence the end of my comment.

Re: He’s just not that into you

jason — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:00:49 -0000

i agree

Re: He’s just not that into you

Mindheartandsoul — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:52:43 -0000

I like to refer to that as the "ol' foot in ye mouth." My apologies, your charisma extends far beyond the bottom wrung of guys.

Re: He’s just not that into you

Julene — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:26:53 -0000

NO MORE DINNERS.

Re: He’s just not that into you

Julene — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:26:41 -0000

This comment makes me uncomfortable - mostly because you're categorizing yourself as a desperate dude that follows my internet "stuff".

The problem with text-based communication is it makes it very hard for you guys to catch the subtle intonations of amusement I feel about this whole situation. Lack of skill on this end, then. I'll work on that for next time.

Re: He’s just not that into you

Mindheartandsoul — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:47:33 -0000

Julene, I don't quite understand your reason for confiding your romp-bump-hump. I'm not sure if you're soliciting words of comfort from your personal following of "desperate" guys. I personally attribute at least 3 pts., on a scale of 1-10 (10 being best, of course), to your wit, humor, personality, and convo potential. Combined with your becoming looks, you well exceed our ideal women. I'd be even crass enough to say I'd bone you and your fun, fat friend, "Character." Anyhow, I hope you're doing okay in your current situation in the BIG CITY.

Re: He’s just not that into you

Emsquat — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:35:22 -0000

seriously? SERIOUSLY? he best be paying for some lobster dinners!

Re: He’s just not that into you

jason — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:37:32 -0000

you are in no way or means fat or fatish. you work your ass off and are hard enough on yourself that someone else or anyone else need not make snide/attempted humours/or even under the breath comments about such a thing.

Re: He’s just not that into you

Julene — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:58:30 -0000

Lower than mine, I'd wager.

Re: He’s just not that into you

Dreggers — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:59:19 -0000

you are not fat! Jeebs, you should never talk to that douche again. what's his BMI????

Re: I’m not for you

letters journal — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:25:45 -0000

Gershom Scholem writing to Walter Benjamin about Kafka:

"I advise you to begin any inquiry into Kafka with the Book of Job, or at least with a discussion of the possibility of divine judgment, which I regard as the sole subject of Kafka's worthy of being treated in a work of literature... Here [in Kafka], for once, a world is expressed in which redemption cannot be anticipated - go and explain this to the goyim! I believe that at this point your critique will become just as esoteric as its subject; the light of revelation never burned as unmercifully as it does here. This is the theological secret of perfect prose. The overwhelming statement that the Last Judgment is, rather, a martial law was made, unless I am mistaken, by Kafka himself."

Re: I’m not for you

Fahrington — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:26:03 -0000

Kerouac had terrible punctuation too. Do you have a hard time reading him? Don't feel so bad; I have a hard time reading Naked Lunch and there's so much hype about it it drives me insane.

Re: Redundancies

letters journal — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:21:18 -0000

Cool, no rush.

Re: Redundancies

Julene — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:59:29 -0000

i'm working on it, 16+ hour days have me totally sucking at writing follow-through right now. it's almost "done", i think?

Re: Redundancies

letters journal — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:23:05 -0000

Well, just as long as you send the article you promised me!

Re: On cravings and comfort

Kristy K — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:07:49 -0000

No worries, I keep a pack of cloves in our freezer, "just in case."

It is half gone.