If anyone had listened: the Exile on Frey from last year

The Exile had James Frey pegged on Day One and even more so on Day Two, even before he was unmasked as a proven fake.

just another dry drunk asshole. They’re popular these days. Representative quotes:

Rehab stories provide a way for pampered trust-fund brats like Frey to claim victim status. These swine already have money, security and position and now want to corner the market in suffering and scars, the consolation prizes of the truly lost.

Frey got those anecdotes the no-risk way: he stole them from a real druggie/criminal author. A much better and more honest one, a guy named Eddie Little-specifically, Frey looted Little’s great debut novel, Another Day in Paradise.

The accusation of theft from Eddie Little is interesting; I’ll have to find that book.

Thanks to salome_st_john for pointing this one out.

I AM A RIVER OF PHLEGM

I shouldn’t complain because I’m already mostly over the damned thing after 24 hours and it’s not the Flu-Bola™ that everyone else got, but rhinoviruses are overrrated. No sir, I don’t like it. Snurfle.

COMFORT ME DAMNIT

Actually a pot of green jasmine tea and a largish glass of Barenjager have done a lot to make life bearable.

$150, 9 phone calls, and 39 grey hairs later

It was the DSL modem. As soon as I replaced it with a $60 el cheapo from Microcenter (and configured said cheapo properly), I got my full bandwidth back.

I. Hate. Hardware.

But it is fixed now. A winner is me!.

tiresome

Dear LJ: I already changed my password once to make it much more obscure. Now I’m getting the warning that it’s too easy to guess, again. Obviously you’re monkeying around with the definition of “too easy”. You’re a big, grown-up company now, and it’s time to stop testing everything out in production. This is FUCKING ANNOYING.