Jodi says: You're Like a Drag Queen. So Much Drama

Brady & Carrie - Shot Gun Engagement Photo on a Bed of Sin with Supplemental Poisoning Handbook

I posted this shot to flickr as I always do. The following is an excerpt from the comments section:

Naughty James says: move on, dude.

merkley???says:
naughty james,
i'm not quite sure what you mean but if you don't like what I do maybe it's you that needs to move on, because i'm certainly not looking for your approval.

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I write him a personal note:

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merkley???: You trying to insult me?

Naughty James: did you feel insulted?

merkley???: nah. actually i felt like a cliché art school student style photographer was a smidge jealous that another artist had a more original and recognizable style (for which he was receiving credit) than his own more common style and rather than working to improve and push his own art into newer planets that cliché art school photographer instead behaved quite predictably and involved himself in an equally cliché communication method associated with mediocrity, that method being PROJECTION.

passive aggression is also not very unique.

so uh, yeah i felt like you were TRYING to insult me, hence the question.

but good luck, i certainly enjoyed some of your art when i found it last month or whenever. you have potential. i'd like to see you channel some of your insecurity into new shoots rather than my comment stream although you are more than welcome to work it out there too.

merkley???

He hasn't written back yet. I'll post it if he does. BECAUSE I KNOW YOU ALL GIVE A FUCK.

Update:
Naughty James: oh... and i thought you were just ripping Jill Greenberg!

Naughty James: actually... don't you have a job i left three years ago, at nerve?

merkley???:yet still your art looks like every hack art school student.

Naughty James:haha, i'm sorry.

what's your client list again?

I'll raise you i-D, dazed and confused, vice, American apparel, coca cola and the face before you even reply.

dude.

you appeal to dicks on the internet because you show tits,and you have a job i left three years ago

well done :-)

merkley???: yeah i posted my first photo a year ago - FOR FUN - and i have insecure douchebags with AMAZING client lists like you keeping track.

YOU GO GIRL WITH YOUR COCA COLA!

Naughty James: yayhooray.com

merkley???: wow, you really are insecure. they have drugs for that.

merkley???: on the bright side, your style could get away with murder cause it'd be impossible to pick out of a line up.

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what a douche.

That's all for now.
Don't get caught arguing for the sake of easy blog content.
Your Master of I Don't Care-emonies,
Stinky Fingers McGee