Slumming for dollars

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ENTIRE LITERARY ESTABLISHMENT TAKEN IN BY SOCK PUPPET

I've seen people beg for money, lie, and make outrageous claims of things like HIV infection before and get away with it. On internet forums. And not for very long.

Apparently you can take this act big-time if you're a couple of aging hipsters who want to get into the "music world" and meet famous people.

These people should be given scrofula and then sent to live in Pahrump, NV in a trailer for life.

Comments

[gutbloom.livejournal.com]

I went to the Radcliffe Publishing Course with the editor, Sean McDonald. From the picture in the article I can tell that he is richer than me and I'm fatter than him. I lose on all counts.

[dorothy-parka.livejournal.com]

buit cmon, could you live with yourself knowing that you were responsible for turning that book from fiction to non-fiction, duping millions of people? you don't have to answer that. hey, did he learn that Radcliffe, that fiction/non-fiction trick, or did he pick that up at random house? i used to work at RH, and i'm betting he learned it there.

Fick shun

[torgo-x.livejournal.com]

if the People want Real Life to be Pulp, who Are we To deprive them of Stories?

Re: Fick shun

[dorothy-parka.livejournal.com]

I, too, can be a Criminal. Oh, wait, I think I already am. I'm pretty sure I killed a Priest in France once, for recommending some cheese. "I'm a friggin VEGAN, you goddamn cossac-wearin' FREAK." Also, I beat a capybera in a staring contest.