1. Xeni is a bullshit name.  Are her parents assholes or something? attentiondoozers: the campaign continues to put xeni jardin into a convertible and drive her into a pile of shit, a la BTTF seanbury: “oh fck off then, i thought you were the Onion” Wow. chriscantwell: lizlet: This morning on Twitter even my crappy internet connection couldn’t stop me from noticing the above exchange, kicked off initially by this Twitter from @avclubvids: Anyone else sick and tired of BoingBoing? “Steampunk”, “buy my book”,”Disneyland”, “security in GB”… they used to have such great posts. Whether or not you agree with Andy (who’s been making videos for years at The AV Club and can hardly be considered an impersonator), it’s hard to characterize that as a troll-ish comment (especially since it was made on his personal Twitter account, which is followed by 200 people, of which Xeni is not one). I’m a daily Boing Boing visitor, I’ve met Xeni and found her to be really nice, but hopefully this isn’t how they handle most reader complaints. This is just gross.  As soon as she realized Andy wasn’t “big time” enough for her, she dropped any facade of courtesy. Boing Boing was cool in 2006.
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    Xeni is a bullshit name.  Are her parents assholes or something?

    attentiondoozers:

    the campaign continues to put xeni jardin into a convertible and drive her into a pile of shit, a la BTTF

    seanbury:

    “oh fck off then, i thought you were the Onion”

    Wow.

    chriscantwell:

    lizlet:

    This morning on Twitter even my crappy internet connection couldn’t stop me from noticing the above exchange, kicked off initially by this Twitter from @avclubvids:
    Anyone else sick and tired of BoingBoing? “Steampunk”, “buy my book”,”Disneyland”, “security in GB”… they used to have such great posts.

    Whether or not you agree with Andy (who’s been making videos for years at The AV Club and can hardly be considered an impersonator), it’s hard to characterize that as a troll-ish comment (especially since it was made on his personal Twitter account, which is followed by 200 people, of which Xeni is not one). I’m a daily Boing Boing visitor, I’ve met Xeni and found her to be really nice, but hopefully this isn’t how they handle most reader complaints.

    This is just gross.  As soon as she realized Andy wasn’t “big time” enough for her, she dropped any facade of courtesy.

    Boing Boing was cool in 2006.

    February 26, 2009