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burning with rage, defensiveness ahoy, internet lawyers, making light, my reputation takes visa, squid brains

LITERARY AGENT SUES THE INTERNET FOR BEING MEAN TO HER. NEWS AT 11.
It all started with a list - a list of questionable literary agencies and agents. Unfortunately, someone named Barbara Bauer was on this list. This made her very, very, very, very unhappy. (So unhappy, in fact, she demanded A BILLION DOLLARS from several bloggers for her pain and suffering.) Why, oh why won't they fork over the dough? And why are they laughing? What's a poor, maligned literary agent to do? SUE WIKIPEDIA AND THE BLOGOSPHERE!, that's what. Hmmph. That'll show 'em!

Oops...DISMISSED! Wikipedia, you bastard!

(SRS BZNS ETA: I've received some additional info about the court cases that are still pending, which can be found here)

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	acari 2008-07-02 12:08 am UTC (link)
	Oh hell. Someone in the comments to the second link mentioned 9/11 poems on her site... Why must I be curious, why? How many more lives must die? leaving parentless children to cry Oh my father in heaven I ask Oh Why? Do we live in a world of the fiery eye And here I thought the One Ring was destroyed and Sauron dead... (Reply to this)(Thread)

	skeleton_key 2008-07-02 12:13 am UTC (link)
	...even I was better than that when I was 13. Honestly. The last two lines you posted are the worst. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	deliciouschaos 2008-07-02 12:22 am UTC (link)
	...Is this how it feels when doves cry? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	puipui 2008-07-02 12:39 am UTC (link)
	Win! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gunshou 2008-07-03 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	ILU so hard. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	llama_treats 2008-07-02 12:46 am UTC (link)
	The answer is blowing in the wind, but we never get an answer when it's knocking at the door. Where do you go, my lovely? where do you go? Does anybody really know what time it is? What is love anyway? And why do fools fall in it? ;_; (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tree 2008-07-02 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	What is love? Baby don't hurt me Don't hurt me No more. Whoooooh-ooh-oooh-ooh! I'm going to listen to crap 90s dance music all evening now - I love it! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bigbigtruck 2008-07-02 01:10 am UTC (link)
	Wait, I think that was a song by Ween. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	judyhazeleyes 2008-07-02 01:46 am UTC (link)
	Ween reference = ULTIMATE WIN. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ultimi_scopuli 2008-07-02 04:11 am UTC (link)
	They should sue her. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	breathe 2008-07-02 06:44 am UTC (link)
	Icon love. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	seiberwing 2008-07-02 01:27 am UTC (link)
	Dear lord, that's worse than my high school lit class. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	vzg 2008-07-02 03:14 am UTC (link)
	Wow, I wrote something similarly lame! I was thirteen and had a general disdain for poetry anyway. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jupiterpluvius 2008-07-02 04:01 am UTC (link)
	How many more lives must die? I'll take "All of Them" for $400, Alex! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	khym_chanur 2008-07-02 11:10 am UTC (link)
	Despite all efforts to the contrary, life maintains a 100% fatality rate. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	also_not_a_pipe 2008-07-02 04:51 am UTC (link)
	Long time passing Where have all the scammers gone? A long time ago? Sued the Internet, every one. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bubosquared 2008-07-02 11:44 am UTC (link)
	On the upside, I now feel much better about my Embarrassing Teenaged Wangst Poetry. (At least I wrote proper sonnets! And, on one occasion, epic verse. Um.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ladyindigo 2008-07-02 03:54 pm UTC (link)
	My favorite part is when the suffering victims jumping out of windows had "no time for laughter." Uhm....yes? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	seiberwing 2008-07-03 12:55 am UTC (link)
	Something tells me they had slightly bigger priorities. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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