You might not know what it’s like to face legal and personal repercussions for repeatedly being accused of saying and writing things you’ve never said nor written—but I know what it feels like acutely—so I don’t think I’m entirely W-A-C-K-Y for insisting that these ding-a-lings who pluck false accusations straight from their bungholes should be required to back it up. If it had happened to you for years and years, you might form the impression that they make up things because they’re unable to adequately counter what I’ve actually said or written.

Megalomania? Obsessive-compulsive arguing? Passive-aggressive grammar correction? Rancid narcissism? Guilty on all counts.

Last thing, and I’ll let it rest…bringing up Against Me! is a sore spot, because ANSWER Me! came first. It’s an “A” word, followed by “Me” with an exclamation point. I want my “Me!” back, or I at least want them to kick down some royalties.

I appreciate your enthusiasm and commitment, but at this stage it seems to be a commitment to writing crazy stupid shit on the internet. not something to really be applauded, lauded, whatever you want to call it. at any rate, i referred to you as ‘crazy’ not because i have an expert opinion, not in regard to ever having MET you or thought about you or really being aware of you or anything you may or may not have done, but in regard to you sounding like a crazy piece of shit on the internet. cite examples, i know, footnotes, bibliography, evidence etc etc. telling some stranger to have a look at a recent photo of your torso on the internet and how for an old guy you can still box, is in my opinion, kind of fucking crazy. maybe its just stupid and weird, and kind of sad, i dont know. Take your pick mister ‘master debater’.

As for being allowed in your forum, come on, please. Please dude, please, please let me in etc etc. No but come on, seriously. Seriously this time. Please let me in. (Little bit of sarcasm going on)

I would like to show you more respect, but im not really aware of anything you’ve done. Im sure that means im some kind of idiot, but to be honest, i think you might be irrellevant. You can be the crazy man ranting on blog posts on the internet, or you could – actually i dont care what you do.

As for Vice, I think its sad, I think it sucks. I understand wanting to grow up and buy the yacht (as ive said before) but it seems to me that they didnt NEED to sell out, they were successful as shit anyway. they could tell puma to go fuck themselves over and over and not have to compromise anything. That was kind of the buzz about them, they got so big telling everyone to fuck off, why fucking stop just when its getting interesting? And you CANT spin growing up and going corporate into giving a shit. That IS fucking backwards. It is totally ok to sell out at any point – but you have to be honest about it. You dont get to take the money and the ass-reaming and then turn around and tell everyone you dont take it up the ass. I like how Against Me did it. At least they were honest about it the whole way.

Anyway, fuck you Jim Goad, you’re a dick. I know its a buzz to flame people and get attention on the internet, but I think what you have is called “delusions of grandeur”, and it means you’re a crazy person.
Just admit it and stop being a dick (and please please let me in your forum)

And I think you meant “tiresome” instead of “tireless,” but you’re stupid, so I’ll let it slide.

I invest more care and thought into one sentence than those duplicitous, talentless hypocrites have into their entire lives. They can yammer all they want about “making a difference,” but their actions show they’re all about “making a buck.”

If you truly care to “make a difference,” open your fucking eyes and realize that slavery and war had and will continue to have more to do with GREED than anything else.

And, really, surviving prison and brain surgery…and STILL taking unpopular stances that put me in physical and legal jeopardy because I honestly feel I’m right…strikes me as a little more butch than anything they’ve done.

“Dude! War and racism are wrong!” VERY brave opinions to espouse. EXTREMELY bold and risky. It must make Viacom shit their pants every time they say such things.

But it goes way beyond the WIRED article. Lookee here:

http://www.egothemag.com/archives/2005/06/suroosh_alvi_1.htm

The incredibly fetching and seductive Suroosh says, “We will never compromise our editorial content.”

Oh, really?

It was only a few years ago that Suroosh eagerly copped to starting VICE as a direct result of being inspired by my magazine ANSWER Me!

But in my case, it sure as fuck seemed as if these noble aesthetes-on-a-mission didn’t mind banishing the writer who’d inspired them to start their mag the SECOND one of his articles cost them an advertiser. I was getting monthly assignments there until Puma UK apparently backed out of an advertising contract in the wake of my “Fun Facts About Slavery” article.

Editor Jesse Pearson, who has no evident talent with words, either, although he, too, is on record citing ANSWER Me! as one of his favorite magazines, told me about the Puma situation and then suddenly, magically, didn’t find any of my pitches interesting. Instead, he almost immediately issued a press release promising that VICE was going to “grow up.” It didn’t even matter that the article in question led to over a quarter-million words’ worth of responses (nearly all of those words devoted to—and failing to—find a logical hole in my article) on their website. Since I cost them an advertiser, I simply wasn’t going to help them in their bold, shiny quest to make “make a difference” and “give a shit.”

Listen, I’m not going to paint the Vice guys as saints and incredible journalists with magical foresight (foreskin?). A decent amount of their supposed journalism has been misinformed as well as hacky. And Gavin is a funny dude. He’s also 35. Now, I know it might serve him well to continue using lowbrow, vulgar humor, and nothing but that, and I enjoy it immensely, but come on man, people’s priorities and what they care about changes, as do businesses. They have to, if they want to stay successful. Gavin is usually hilarious (you’re not, though.) But there’s nothing wrong with caring about shit, and trying to figure out what’s going on in the world. Going to war zones takes a lot more balls than writing some tireless screed against affirmative action and I applaud them.

(but you are crazy as shit)

i think however the real issue here is why publications like wired continue to refer to young men with moustaches as being somehow “ironic”. three generations of men on both sides of my family all had moustaches, but if i want to wear one im somehow being “ironic”?
gethefuckouttahere

Go create something, then come back and show it to the class. Otherwise, go suck your mom’s dick.