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From my email bin…
I delete it. I used to reply to it, and sometimes if it’s not hate mail, but just someone being phenomenally stupid, I might still reply. But lately I’ve taken to turfing the email as soon as I catch on that it’s hate, and tossing the sender onto my blacklist.
Basically I’ve never found any use in answering hate mail. Once someone’s at that level of stupid, there’s no way to talk them out without fighting and no one wins those fights.
Hater’s gonna hate.
At one point someone told me I looked like kd lang. Wishful thinking (I think she was hitting on me). I don’t look like any celebrity I’ve ever seen, though!
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Vegetables. Fruit. Tofu. Juice. Soymilk. Gosh, I sound weirdly healthy. There’s Fluff in my cabinets!
My mom bought it for me in October of 2010, at Barneys New York. She was visiting me and we were talking about how I’ve started to outgrow the baseball cap shtick, and I needed something new. Mom got a derby style hat while we were there, and I’ve worn it ever since.
I’m presuming you mean online (in the physical world, you have to be asleep at the switch to think I’m a man… Unless it’s mid-winter.)
I never take offense at people mistaking me for a man online. My avatar is ambiguous, my handle is gender neutral, and I have a girlfriend. Thus the heteronormative nature of the world means you’re GONNA think I’m a man. I also ‘write male’ (though I’m still not really sure what that means).
What I object to is people being told ‘No, Ipstenu’s a woman.’ and insisting that’s wrong. Trust me. I am a real woman on the internet. See also how I feel about people mangling my name. First couple times gets a free pass. After that, I may start teasing the shit out of you.
Someone asked me who my first inappropriate crush was.
Jessica Rabbit.
That’s a TOTALLY appropriate crush
When you math out what my age is, it becomes a little weird 
Where do you find/get all the images for your blog posts?
Flickr and WikiCommons. I search Flickr for Creative Commons pics a lot of the time, and I’ve been trying really hard to only use ones labeled for re-use! Some of the older posts, I was bad and stole ‘em from Google.
Cool. Funny story: Google+ has trained me to hover over posts and comments looking for a “+1″ button.
+1
Everyone and everything. It’s a crap answer, but it’s what I’ve got. I’ve been inspired by children, my cats, my partner, my parents. Life in general. Just anything. Heck, I inspire myself!
I don’t think I had ‘a’ best subject. I did well in all my classes, but it was disparate. Like I’d do really well in one part of English but not the other, ditto science etc.
Both of my cats are adopted. All my dogs have been. All my cats have been (if you count ‘born in my backyard, Dad, can I keep them?’ as adopted). We’ve never ‘bought’ an animal. Except Rudy the Border Collie. We did pay for him, but he was a failed farm dog that needed a good home. In the end, he went to a family with a huge farm and no animals and lived very happily.
Nathan "Spanky" Briggs are discussing. 
John P. Bloch, and 
christine 6:55 pm on December 6, 2011 Permalink |
I think that’s most likely the best approach. I’ve been taught that everything you do should be positive and bring you joy. These emails simply suck the life out of you and contribute to nothing but negativity. There’s enough of that…
Mika "Ipstenu" Epstein 7:03 pm on December 6, 2011 Permalink |
There’s enough Russian in me that I’m a bit incapable of being positive all the time. Of course, sometimes I regret not saving all my hate mail to post on asshats.ipstenu.org
Celebrate the stupid. Mostly, it’s just a waste of my time.