Re: Classy stuff, Barrett

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

I didn't post "under the influence," I didn't claim to be a drug user, no one gives a shit about rooming with someone who wrote porn and like I said - and could say a thousand times without you listening - WE HAD TONS OF PEOPLE RESPOND TO THAT CRAIGSLIST AD AND WE GOT A ROOMMATE. I still don't even know how you managed to find that ad - it was put up anonymously on craigslist with a blind e-mail address. Again, no one cares about that except for you.

Are you going to acknowledge that you threatened to have me committed this morning? That's a pretty serious thing that we're going to need to discuss.

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Karen Lancaster <lancaster.karen@gmail.com> wrote:

What I think is that are posting under the influence and are going to ruin your career by doing so.

I can't imagine that you wouldn't be grown up enough to realize that important sites are not going to want to pay someone as an "expert" who talks online about being a college drop-out, a drug-user and rooming with a pornographer. You're going to ruin your reputation and your career with your reckless and ill-advised comments for all the world to see.

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Nothing, because you're wrong and won't consider the possibility that you don't know what's best for everyone else. Your own mother and brother contacted me when it was announced that Kim was dying and asked me to try to stop you from interfering and "taking charge." You don't realize this about yourself - how can you pretend to know what everyone else thinks when you clearly have no idea? I'm not telling you this to be mean; I'm just hoping that there is a chance that you can be made to consider that you're wrong so that you and I can continue to have contact. But I think you're just going to react viscously as you've already done this morning. I did get those messages about you having me committed; they don't disappear from my phone when you unsend them. I'm not so much worried about you actually doing that as I am devastated that you would threaten me with it over this, although actually I don't know what to think.

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Karen Lancaster <lancaster.karen@gmail.com> wrote:

It's linked to your being a contributor to Vanity Fair Huffington Post, Bushwick neighborhood, etc! Any one of your detractors can find it. Wake up, Barrett. You're putting yourself in a terrible position by putting this out there for everyone to see. This stuff never goes away. What are you thinking? I want you to be a responsible grownup who realizes what consequences are. I would have thought you'd have figured that out by now. You are going to ruin your reputation. What else can I do to make you understand this?

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Please stop. This was an ad for an apartment. My name's not on it. We got a dozen responses from girls alone. No one else hates me. I don't even know how you found this. I don't know what you're trying to accomplish.

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Karen Lancaster <lancaster.karen@gmail.com> wrote:

If you want to get cut off even sooner, let your dad know that he's paying rent for you to room with a wife-beater-wearing pornographer. This is not how I raised you. You are really going to ruin your reputation if your online "enemies" find this out. Not something to go around bragging about and putting into print.

The other roommate mainly works as a chef in high-end French restaurants, but is also a rather accomplished B-movie screenwriter, actor, and production assistant - he co-wrote and appeared in some terrible comedy/porno called XXXorcist, for instance, along with a bunch of other stuff for Burning Angel plus such other random things as late-night Italian horror television marathon lead-ins - "Bikini Bandits" and that sort of degenerate thing. He's also the author of a book called The Hobo's Guide, which he wrote at the age of 19 (he's 30 now) drawing on his experiences as a homeless teenager and all-around scoundrel, and is currently working on a couple of comedy projects. He's also in the middle of a divorce from this crazy woman he married, which is not to say that she was necessarily at fault just because she was crazy as I think he may have actually drove her crazy himself. The guy's a pornographer, after all. But he's not a douchebag pornographer who wears a bunch of rings and shit; he does ironic porn. He's an ironic pornographer. Very well.