Reblogging Julia

From the mailbag.

Q:Are you Jakob Lodwick?
A: No. I have never met him. I used to think he was kind of a tool, as my only exposure to him was through the JA prism, and he was kind of a tool in all of that. Now, I see him differently - as someone who co-founded a couple of successful companies who made a really bad mistake in getting involved with the Pink Lady. I hope that his name eventually becomes disassociated with hers, and I suspect he feels the same way. He has nothing to do with this, and I believe that he will be relieved when this blog goes dark.
Q:Are you Nick Denton?
A: No. He has more tolerance for her than I do. I think we share a sense of experimentation, though. He promoted this creature. I parsed and deconstructed her.
Q:Are you Mary Rambin?
A:You have got to be kidding me. She can’t string a sentence together and I know how to use spellcheck. That is kind of insulting, actually. Also, Mary hasn’t exactly gotten a free pass from baugher. And no, I am not Meghan, either. I have gone a little easier on Meghan because she really doesn’t do much of anything parse-worthy. Also, I think she will be the first to jump ship.
Q: Are you a former friend of JA?
A:No. I don’t know her personally, and have no axe to grind with her. She is someone who exists solely on the internet, as far as I can tell, and she got on my particular frequency. With a few exceptions, everything I wrote was just a parsing of what she (and later, the Handmaidens) posted on the internet. I find it bizarre that she cares so much about what I write.
Q: Do you hate Julia?
A: I don’t, although I admit that I now have a negative opinion of her. Either I have some weird superpower, or she is just wickedly transparent. Everyone that has written in who knows her believes I am a former best friend of hers. That is really telling. And for the record? There are a lot of former friends with stories to tell.
Q: Are you just jealous of her beauty?
A: I confess that I can no longer see her beauty. Absolutely everything about her appears calculated, contrived, forced and affected. All I see is fake hair extensions, which is a great metaphor for the Scrunchy Pink Lady. I can’t figure out why she tries to look older than she is. That said, I occasionally see photographs of her when she is unaware of the camera and I think those are her best shots.
Q: Where do you find the time?
A: I post, at most, once a day, and it takes me about half an hour. Most of the work is done by the tipsters, who send links and insights. This shit really writes itself. Mary, in particular, makes it very easy. That said, I do have an editor, because I care about such things. I abhor spelling errors and other typos because I believe that reflects poorly on a writer. JA shares this sentiment, Mary doesn’t.
Q: What is the point of all of this? Do you think you can change her?
A:I had no real objective in starting baugher. It was a joke among friends that someone should start a blog that parsed JA for reality, and we agreed that anyone that did that would be stupid, petty and immature. And then I started baugher, and how it got the attention it did, I will never know. I never set out to change her - if her family and friends can’t permeate her self-absorption, I certainly can’t - but there was a part of me that believed she might gain some introspection on why her persona is so negatively received. I knew little about narcissistic personality disorder at that point.
Q: Do you think you are qualified to diagnose her?
A:Not at all, and sort of. Some of the more interesting emails I have received are from psychiatrists who are fascinated by her textbook case. I think she will be immortalized by new psychiatry textbooks, which probably isn’t the legacy she intended. I still find it amazing that she has ever publicly opined on anyone else’s mental heath, as hers is laid out there for the internet to witness. I suspect therapy is the scariest thing she could ever imagine, as several insidery tipsters have said that she considers baugher “a mean and vindicitve shrink.”
Q: Who are your more interesting tipsters?
A:In addition to the aforementioned psychiatrists, I have heard from former friends, loves, professors, employers, roommates and family members. Our Lady of Introspection has burned more bridges than Mary’s spelling errors.
Q: Do you really think JA is an evil person?
A: I don’t think I have ever said she was. I think she is extremely calculated, which necessarily means intelligent, but that intelligence is intensely focused on promoting herself and being noticed, and at the expense of absolutely anyone. There is no one in her world that isn’t disposable, including her current stable of Handmaidens. If they only knew. At least one of them deserves it, though.
Q: Would you ever have a drink with Julia Allison?
A: She doesn’t drink, except, you know, when she does, which is often. I actually suspect habitually. I have no desire to know her personally, as I now know enough about her to realize there is little of interest inside her. She wants to be famous, no matter the cost or collateral damage, and in my mind, that makes her as interesting as Paris Hilton.