What I'm curious to know is, if she should survive (and I hope she does, obviously), will this business have a civil case against her? Can they sue her for the significant damage this is doing to their shop and their livelihoods?

Yeah, that would be a dealbreaker for me now, but I was a mess in my early 20s.

Not until the end of our relationship. I wrote a follow up comment explaining that.

Right? In response, my friend said "Sounds like you need to go to a doctor, man."

Oh. Ha! Oh well. I guess it's good I wrote out the background info anyway, because it adds some depth to it.

No. This is a thing he totally believed. And here is the backstory, for anyone who's wondering—not specifically for you, rando who is bizarrely telling me something that happened isn't real, for no apparent reason whatsoever:

Huh?

When I left my abusive boyfriend, he tried to get to me via my friends. He'd tell them things, hoping they'd pass it on to me, and I'd feel bad. My friends did tell me all of the things he said, because they were fucking HILARIOUS. Our favorite was: "I howl all the time and I'm turning yellow."

Please write all of the Jezebel things.

Burt Dirtbag! Burt Dirtbag! Okay, now I kind of HAVE to name a character Burt Dirtbag at some point in my writing career.

Why is Kinja set up so that people can have duplicate display names? The only possible use of that feature is for abuse—as demonstrated by the gore spammer currently impersonating me all over Gawker Media. Can you explain why you're allowing this feature to exist?

Maybe because his job allows him to write whatever he wants and to target the causes he feels most passionately about?

Are you a lawyer? I didn't realize it was possible for an employer to include a "you agree to be harassed" clause in any employment agreement.

If you don't realize Nick Denton has a cruel streak, frankly, you haven't been paying attention.

I know. It's honestly disturbing. It's unsettling to be victimized by his commenting system just as a commenter, but to be victimized by it as an employee? I feel like there's a degree of deliberate cruelty involved.

I cannot star this hard enough.

On the bright side, take comfort in the fact that Bon Morte is my bitch. He spends so much time stalking me and Clashtalk, I own his brain. Every second he spends thinking about me is a second of his life I stole away from him and pissed on.

Just so you know, I'm deleting your post about Bon Morte. He doesn't need any extra attention drawn to him, since it's all that he desperately craves. I think this might be the second day in a row you've created a post about something like this, and I'd ask that you not keep doing that in Clashtalk. We're not Troll…

How long will it take for your brain to feel clean again? Good god.

Marc Jacobs regifted the vase I gave him for Christmas.