Oh dear.
I forgot about her google alerts, didn’t i.
*done*

However, check your email in a couple mins, bradrocket.

Why’s she blaming you guys?

Facebook? That site’s dominated by people in their teens and twenties. Isn’t Althouse much too immature for that place?

They don’t allow drinking on Facebook, except for wine coolers.

Oh boy. She has a post about this. Time to taunt the vortex.
Also, I will make clear no one here has anything to do with it, and if she wants to hunt me down I’d love having the chance to fuck with her further.

So you’re responsible for the doings of your readers? I guess I should have mentioned that library book I checked out in 12th grade and still have… I’m very sorry for the trouble it’s caused you all these years.

Oh, and I assume you got blamed cause she was a member of the Friends of Sadly, No!
And I assume she got mad cause she doesn’t want people to know she’s actually 70.

Wait a minute. Are you trying to tell me there really is an Ann Althouse somewhere? I thought it was a character you guys made up.

That can’t be her real hair color. Plus, why does she have the shoulders of a weightlifter?

Malkin will soon figure out that you’ve been photoshopping her image. You’re in serious trouble now, bubba.

I’m just glad someone is responsible for it.

Seems that Althouse has contacted the mysterious blogger responsible and gotten him to take down the profile. Guess the fun’s over! (Though I was surprised to discover that Garance Franke-Ruta is one of La Althouse’s “friends.”)

On the other hand, on the intertubes, there’s no shortage of possible sources of trouble. And some of them don’t have pesky terms of use to worry about….

(And for the record, no, Ann, I have better things to spend my money on…)

“My nipples explode with delight!”

Althouse asks:

What prominent blogger is impersonating me on Facebook….

… in violation of Facebook’s Terms of Use?

Congratulations, a different brad, you’ve just been confirmed as prominent. At least until Althouse figures out that Brad and a different brad are two different Brads.

What is hilarious is that..oh wait, it was you. I was gonna say for some reason I’m hearing the Benny Hill music, but the volume was way down on my computer.

She thinks it’s you guys because teh l4m3 posts here.

The profile got several friend requests before I shut it down, too. Ann was unwittingly publicizing her own mockery.
Should I turn it back on, now that she knows bradrocket didn’t do it, and wait for facebook to delete it?

Well, I do have a blog, which I’ve never used, called Ann Althouse makes me horny. Maybe she was just returning the compliment, and I’m gonna get some.

I am Outraged that some people are using Facebook to communicate ideas and information! This is Outrageous!

And watch out for Schlussel. She likes to threaten to sue too.

I am outraged by the outrageous photograph that you have outrageously posted on your outrageous website.

I do not under any circumstances stick the pointed ends of pencils up my nose. To do so is loathsome and irresponsible and against everything I stand for. Little boogies could adhere to the pencil point and could end up in written documents, potentially exposing me to public ridicule. Moreover, if I were to suddenly bang my chin on the table – which I enjoy doing occasionally – I could give myself a double lobotomy and become too placid to rant effectively.

I demand that I be portrayed with the eraser end up, like any right-thinking citizen.

Ahhhhhh, this is such silly fun. Ann hasn’t replied to my taunt, but has removed the trackback to her post from instaputz.

I am writing up the law suit as soon as I finish my 14th glass of wine.

Brad – just why have you included a picture of a walrus in this post?

After reading her little piece on trex, I turned the profile back on, and made it more offensive. This is the classic bully who can’t take it, n hell if I’m gonna stop just when it’s getting fun.

Oh, man.
I am a dork, but I have good timing. Just as she updated her post crowing about victory, I turned it back on.
I iz such a dork to be giggling like this.
And I’ve told her three times now I’m not you, bradrocket. She better leave you alone or I’ll make her interested in real disgusting stuff.

Uh, I’m late to the party but, is this for real (at the top of her blog template)?

“She is the go-to blogger for breasts.” — Mickey Kaus

Somehow I would think that having such a reputation wouldn’t be something I would be proud of. But then, I don’t have a PhD in narcissism.

It’s still less nauseating than the Teachout quote.

THAT’S the picture that should be the “Where’s mah Bukkit (of wine)” LOLCon.

She’s busted out the [thinly veiled] lawsuit threat, a different brad:

“I do not like to be pushed to do more than simply ask for decent behavior from you.”

[note: tortured use of the passive voice.]

awesome.

Honestly, I’d find a lawsuit nothing short of funny. It’s too bad it’s not Pam Atlas, and that someone beat me to a fake Malkin, otherwise the discovery process could’ve been worth the trouble.

oh god, here she comes again! that lipstick smearing the my side, and the constant influx of shitty pinot grigio from trader joe’s…

please someone just drop me so i shatter!

Does Ann use a New York law firm?

OH THE HUMANITY!!!

Headline: Ann Althouse impersonates herself to double the attention.
Byline: Ann Althouse

Virtual impersonation can be funny but the real thing would be even funnier so whenever the first annual Yearly Sadly takes place can it be a costume party? Everyone come as your favorite wingnut with a giant sangwich (and yes, it’s a sangwich, not a sammich you want to fight about it?) as the first place prize. What a party It’ll be with some great beer, music, weed and some of the funniest fuckers to ever walk the earth in attendance talking politics, baseball, sci fi, Vonnegut, etc. Probably lots of hooking up going on too. It will be in NYC naturally.

Waitaminnit, I thought this all supposed to be Performance Art?

If things get messy, a different brad, I recommend the “psychic projection” defense:
“It was not me. It was one of my thoughts what did it — materialised into physical form by force of will-power. Mea tulpa.”

His Grace said,

August 16, 2007 at 19:48

Uh, I’m late to the party but, is this for real (at the top of her blog template)?

“She is the go-to blogger for breasts.” — Mickey Kaus

Somehow I would think that having such a reputation wouldn’t be something I would be proud of. But then, I don’t have a PhD in narcissism.

Thanks a lot. You made me actually go to her site to see if she really uses this quote.

How any alleged woman can have posted her weirdo musings and spats over public breasts and then quote a statement calling her the “go-to blogger for breasts”…

I don’t even know what to say about such a person.

Off the charts.

Why do you fellas bother Ann so much? Unless one of you is undergoing therapy for a sex change operation, you don’t have breasts (to speak of). Women who don’t hide their boobies drive her to frothing fits of garment rending (always, of course, as a true feminist keeping her own mammary glands still covered). I guess she has issues with the Penis People to, eh? Who knew?

I think it’s funny that Ann finds it absolutely beyond the pale that anyone would create a mock facebook entry about her, but it doesn’t seem to bother her that she’s more or less falsely, and apparently with no evidence, accused Bradrocket of doing so. It’s been pointed out to her several times that he’s not to blame, and A Different Brad has copped to it in her comments, but even after she’s updated it’s still the “prominent blogger” who she refused to name or link to. Given that she’s used this construction in previous spats with S,N!, it’s not like nobody knows who she’s accusing. Seriously, what the hell goes on in her head?

Oh Christ, now she’s added a comment (not an update) acknowledging the possibility of a mistaken identity, but manages to blame it on…Bradrocket!

If the Brad bragging about making the Facebook page on that blog where people are encouraged to impersonate me and where they won’t do anything about it is not the Brad that writes the blog, then it’s a coincidence that fooled me, and maybe it will make the Brad that writes the blog more sympathetic to the problem of mistaken identity. He should clean up his mess of a blog over there.

Seriously, what the hell goes on in her head?

There’s a little alt-mouse, madly peddling a tiny, squeaky bicycle, connected by a pulley to a dimly-flickering battery of some sort.

My only real point in doing this, Mona, was to have Ann, and others, listed in the Friends of Sadly, No! group. I hadn’t been doing anything with the profile, nor did I make it, at first, especially insulting.
Then she found out about it.

You know, it’s funny. I was thinking about the last major spat we had with Althouse (that was the whole comment-impersonation thing, before my time, but still a hilarious thread) on the seven-hour drive I had to do today. I get in and turn on the laptop, open up Sadly, No!, and what do I find?

Oh, and it’s awesome to know where TBogg gets his tagline. I always suspected that had something to do with Althouse, given her tendency to think that if she does not speak it’s name it somehow doesn’t exist, but I never knew for sure. That’s gotta really burn her up that he uses that as his tagline.

Perhaps we need start calling ourselves The Prominent Sadly, No!…

Oh, God, diffbrad. She’s going to go through the roof over that one.

And you have my gratitude for that. This should be hilarious.

You kids really need to clean up your mess of a blog over here!

By demanding that everyone use unique first names.

WHy can’t I see the profile?

Simba B.: I don’t know if you saw this one, but back in March Althouse called Sadly, No! “popular”—straight up without the adverb.

Tbogg’s tag wasn’t from Althouse, Simba, but I won’t pretend to have been there to know who it was.
That Ann isn’t flirting with me is the clearest sign she’s genuinely annoyed.
Which is, of course, why I keep commenting over there. She’s really not good at this kind of thing for a 70 year old…..

I took the plunge, I stopped into ann’s little house of never ending fun and made two observations.

First, the only more pathetic than althouse herself are her commenters. No sense of humor. No real writing skills. Just close ranks and defend mommy althouse. althouse’s commenters flaccid flailings in the name of their deity just make me shake my head.

You naughty, naughty boys.

And then there’s this from la althouse herself…

Ann Althouse said…
Brad, I have a sense of humor but I don’t accept impersonation. Even if it is done with excellent humor — and I certainly doubt yours is — but i have no idea what you’ve written and I don’t intend to read it.
1:23 PM

Is she really this fucking stupid or is she just drunk all the time now?

You can’t? Uhoh. Might be a sign deletion is coming. Still working fine on my end, saw your poke.
I think I have the privacy settings as public as possible.

I don’t think you do, diffbrad, because while it’s listed, you can’t open the profile—you can friend it, view friends, send message, or poke it. Those are actually the default settings if I remember right, only your friends can see your profile.

I don’t think that has anything to do with deletion, FWIW. You just don’t have the privacy settings all the way open.

How do I make it more public, then? I’m looking around the privacy menu and don’t see what there is for me to do.

Oh God. Deja vu. Anyone remember Doctress Neutopia?

I can’t enter the friendship vortex? I like whine!

AH, I see. I joined the Madison, WI network.

so whenever the first annual Yearly Sadly takes place

I move to call it Yearly, No!

f the Brad bragging about making the Facebook page on that blog where people are encouraged to impersonate me and where they won’t do anything about it is not the Brad that writes the blog, then it’s a coincidence that fooled me, and maybe it will make the Brad that writes the blog more sympathetic to the problem of mistaken identity. He should clean up his mess of a blog over there.

Seriously, I had to read that 4 times before I could decipher it. This woman is a lawyer?
She spent 4 years in college and 4 years in law school, so we can assume that she is at least 8.
And yet, completely incoherent.

I think facebook just keeps the profile private in general. Anyone who feels a need to see can poke the ann althouse with a lolcon picture, tho who knows when it’ll be deleted, plus I’m putting on inland empire soon and closing the laptop.

Is she really this fucking stupid or is she just drunk all the time now?

Yesh!

He should clean up his mess of a blog over there.

So there’s only one of us here?!?

but i have no idea what you’ve written and I don’t intend to read it.

I don’t have to see it to know I won’t like it! BLARADFAGEAGHHH!

all ur posts are belong 2 me

Ok, time to pretend I have a life.
….
This woman was a featured guest columnist for the NYTimes editorial page.
Chreebus.

…on that blog where people are encouraged to impersonate me…

I must add that I, Ann Althouse, have never been encouraged to impersonate me, Ann Althouse, by anyone on this blog. This is doubly defamatory, because I know you want to encourage people to impersonate me, Ann Althouse, yet you have singled out me, Ann Althouse, for non-encouragement.

How dare you not pay more attention to me, Ann Althouse‽‽‽

P.S. Oh noz! Iv lost ma bukkit!

Herr Doktor, that was beautiful. I’m stealing it the next time I have to blame broken plates on the hallucinated zombies.

This thread would be better with onion rings and breasts…

Don’t forget the Play-doh and Bacon

This thread would be better with onion rings and on breasts…

Fixed!

mikey

No-one seems to be manufacturing a Friedrich Nietzsche Action Figure (with hammer and fully twirlable mustache). This is a pity, since ADB deserves some sort of prize.

After reading her little piece on trex, I turned the profile back on, and made it more offensive.

Awwwwww, Brad. You’re the Sweetest Boy in School.

I’m a big boy, though. I can take care of myself.

I don’t suppose you saw my Althouse vlog?

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/08/14/late-late-nite-fdl-lol-thouse/

TRex,

Thanks for that; I had missed it the first time around. Well played, sir.

Thanks for that; I had missed it the first time around. Well played, sir.

Thanks!!

I don’t know why I waited so long to dive into this vlogging thing. It’s fun!

Well, it wasn’t so much in your defense as it made me realize the chance to tweak her had been handed to me on a silver platter. I didn’t even have to do much, her own reserves of crazy and chardonnay deserve the real credit here.
Instead of a prize, give HTML a little something (more).

Oh, wow.
You know you got em pissed when they delete your comments.
Awesome.

You know you got em pissed when they delete your comments.

No kidding. I like her lead post now that says she’ll delete any comment she thinks is “crap”. Which actually seems to mean anything she thinks “doesn’t adequately kiss her ass”.

I left her a comment politely explaining the existence of two Brads (and also the S,N! Brad’s use of “Bradrocket”), and she axed that. How dare I point out that she was incorrect! Not agreeing with her is crap!

Too funny. We should have a contest to leave the best sycophantic comment. If she, as she claims, refuses to read this site, she’ll never catch on.

Too funny. We should have a contest to leave the best sycophantic comment. If she, as she claims, refuses to read this site, she’ll never catch on.

I guarantee you she’s reading every comment here. She is, after all, a preening narcissist.

Put that on her site and watch her delete it. 😛

Mhm. It’s naturally confusing that two people both named Brad would ever be in the same place at once, or speak to each other.
Tho if she doesn’t read what we say here, how does she know what anyone named Brad was doing here?
And why is she in Brooklyn? I’m in Brooklyn. No.

“Take less crap” should be pretty far down on her list of priorities, methinks. How about “start less crap” or “write less crap”. Jeebus, lady, talk about mis-identification.

I guarantee you she’s reading every comment here. She is, after all, a preening narcissist.

Oh, absolutely. But then, if she deletes the comments on her site that are posted for the contest here, she’s busted on her claim that she won’t read this site. Either way, we win!

Take less crap??!!??

Thats crazy talk.

I mean, the woman’s like seventy!

Well, I never….

It’s naturally confusing that two people both named Brad would ever be in the same place at once, or speak to each other.

When I was at university, in the heady days of mah yoof, our little group of friends included no less than three Martins. Alas for simple nicknames, all three were tall, thin, and blondish.

Thus we ended up with Elder Martin, Younger Martin, and Martin Who Is Humorous. Problem solved.

This thread would be better with onion rings and on breasts…

Sorry, Mikey, but they just slide off, and leave a greasy trail behind.

Unless you’re treating it kind of like quoits, where the breasts are reclining, nipples iced, and probably containing some large metal jewelry to create an adequate spindle.

But then, if you’ve got all that, why bother with onion rings?

I must say, she’s really going for the burn with the delete button. The air over there is fair smoking with the speed at which comments are being deleted.

I’m told that the person who made the Facebook page is not the same person who writes the blog that has encouraged impersonation, even though the person who made the page has the same first name as the person who writes the blog and encourages impersonation, and even though the person who made the page chose to brag about it on the blog that encourages impersonation. Whether this is one guy or two guys, he’s an idiot.

WTF???!!!interrobang??!!

Can she even follow this?

Oh, and I think the “idiot” thing is actionable, right? I’ll contribute to the legal fund.

Hey! Look at me. Hey, you!

Yes, YOU!

Here! I’m over heeeeere!

Ann scrambooched from Madison to New York City. Upon arrival, she made the mistake so many new arrivals make: she equated “Being A New Yorker” with “Drunk Yankees Fan From Connecticut Picking A Fight.”

She deleted my comment and all it said was “Brad et al at SadlyNo are not the culprits.” I regret not posting something worthy of being deleted like “the best AA impersonator ever”.

bjacques, I met Doctress Neutopia.

In fact, I know where she lives.

That is one weird weird woman, but she is awesome in her own way.

bjacques, more importantly: Do you remember the Monster Truck Neutopians? The Sadly, No! of usenet.

Good times.

Ann,

Satire is protected first ammendment speech. Call off the idle legal threats.

Your tender narcissism cannot handle the mirror pointed at you.

Pick on someone more damaged than yourself.

TRex you rock.

Ferris

Zippy the Pinhead™ (& I) take on Anns vortex. Alas, no reaction from Her Divine Majesty.

l@lthouse.

so.

Oh plee-yuz, let this dingbat impersonating a law perfesser file some kind of a suit. It’ll be up there in the news with the $58 million pants judge.

This whole issue got resolved way, way back when in the People v. Larry Flynt. Go on Ann, I know you’re incapable to checking Westlaw, so just put the Woody Harrelson movie on your Netflix queue and sit back with a methuselah of two-buck chuck and wait for the little floppy red envelope to cascade through your mail slot.

http://www.brooklaw.edu/faculty/visitors/
Geez, Brooklyn Law School. What happened? Did all your professors get offed in a freakish paper-cut incident?

Maybe she should see a mental health professional. I mean, seriously.

Brad, I wish the thin-skinned and deranged bitch WOULD sue you. It isn’t like you don’t have plenty of lawyer friends who would not be DEEEELIGHTED to have at Ann. I’ve seen Glenn Greenwald take depositions, and he is unmerciful as well as brilliant. Scott Lemieux and a few others could be part of the legal team as well.

The thought of Greenwald reducing Ann to a drooling puddle of trears — which is exactly what would happen — is too much fun to think about.

And as noted above, satire is constitutionally protected speech, per SCOTUS.

I woke up this morning, and I found that Ann Althouse had poked me! I think I’ll sue her.

Boy, it’s gotta burn her up that that profile hasn’t been deleted. I mean, seriously, that’s the best she coulda hoped for and…nothing.

Fail!

Ya, she poked me too. But I like it.

With pie.

And wine.

And whine.

Ann is more popular on facebook than I am. Every time I refresh the page there’s new pokes and friend requests.
I wonder if the fakereal Ann gave up, or was too incoherent in her emails demanding it be taken down to have effect.
Now if only Pam Atlas would notice…..

Dude, i joined facebook just so I could see what u did thar.

but I won’t join Myspace. Everytime you log on to Myspace, Rupert Murdoch puts a little piece of your soul in a box on his desk.

Why is AnnAlthouse into bukkake?

Oh, I see…ewww.

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Plus, why does she have the shoulders of a weightlifter?

Those are shoulder pads left over from her vintage 1980s suits.