tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990922102626688253.post9053000660179476753..comments2023-04-15T11:42:35.385-04:00Comments on Go To Hellman: Public Identity and Bowerbird PrivacyErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14172740163003223132noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990922102626688253.post-3421577088736195232011-03-01T18:19:17.040-05:002011-03-01T18:19:17.040-05:00He's not as anonymous as either you or he beli...He's not as anonymous as either you or he believe. He's been publicly tied to his real name a couple of different place online, but the sheer volume of his presence tends to mask these.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07728723086171641971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990922102626688253.post-81583661280617470882009-10-15T03:28:01.389-04:002009-10-15T03:28:01.389-04:00Wow, the b-man is still doing what I'd known h...Wow, the b-man is still doing what I'd known him to do about 10 years back. Virtually nothing. bowerbird's whole schema is to assert what an incredible visionary he is, and what deep credentials he has, and how necessary his voice is etc. This is asserted mostly by telling people who are actually doing things in some area (ebooks, poetry, programming, etc.) that he has expertise and that to not follow his great guidance is proof that the actually productive people are in fact narrow-minded losers who can’t handle the truth and are doomed to mediocrity. To easily illustrate the delusional nature of his claims you needn't go further than his claim of "starting the art form" of performance poetry in 1987. I guess the Bedouins, Yanomamis, Dadaists, Black Arts Movement, Creacionismo, Beats, and everyone else doing performance poetry prior to and without bowerbird don’t count. In the end, without doing anything noteworthy, but yet still obsessively craving attention without accomplishment, bowerbird has settled for a life of web trolling. Because through his trolling then at least people who are acknowledged in various circles and in various ways are forced to acknowledge him in some fashion. Even if that acknowledgement is simply banning him because of his insistent incivility. If this is the life he wants, that’s fine, but either through lack of ability, or choice, he produces nothing. He is the Paris Hilton of web trolls. Forget a Banksy comparison please - Banks actually produces work. Apparently it’s enough if someone, anyone, writes anything about b-bird. This is the proof that he matters. bowerbird, you matter as a human being. You do. Where's the love bro? Hell, I just gave him another paragraph to prove his (fruitless) point. As opposed to being somehow helpful to any movement, bowerbird is the height of narcissism. He goes on the web to tell you what’s wrong with your movement, and continues to produce nothing in the real world except list-serv opinions. It’s a free world and he’s entitled to do whatever he likes, but his self-exalted insistence on being seen as credentialed and accomplished in a range of areas (seemingly without any accomplishments or credentials beyond opinion) speaks volumes about his secret desires. Many of us want to seen or perceived by the world in a particular way. Many of us have a bowerbird in us to some degree or another, but that doesn’t require us to be sour and disagreeable, as the b-man choses to be on seemingly every list he chooses to haunt. Someone needs a hug. LHIO bro! You're better than your choices. The new and nicer b-man can start today. Like Pete Rock and CL said, “It’s on you!”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990922102626688253.post-57289457382965003492009-09-27T18:22:55.384-04:002009-09-27T18:22:55.384-04:00bowerbird,
To answer your question, "Gluejar...bowerbird,<br /><br />To answer your question, "Gluejar" is actually a part of a legal identity- that of Gluejar, Inc., a New Jersey Corporation. There's more of a story, of course; when I figure out an interesting way to tell it, I'll do so.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14172740163003223132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990922102626688253.post-48229626800696704762009-09-27T16:58:18.656-04:002009-09-27T16:58:18.656-04:00(part 2 of 2, split for reasons of length.)
anyw...(part 2 of 2, split for reasons of length.)<br /><br /><br />anyway, the only thing i have left to say is that i am _not_<br />"rude" or "insulting". a lot of people like to read my posts<br />that way, i'm not sure why, i guess they enjoy being insulted.<br /><br />or perhaps rather they enjoy the rush of adrenaline they get<br />when they feel that someone has insulted them, and they can <br />then get all moral about how "improperly" they were treated...<br /><br />i write in a very placid manner, which is not surprising, since<br />i am a very placid person, as you would know if you were to <br />meet me in person, maybe even on the phone (310.980.9202).<br /><br />it's true that i refuse to sugar-coat things, and i have a very<br />"colorful" knack for choosing stimulating words (i'm a poet!),<br />words which might get that adrenaline running in someone,<br />but i assure you that i smile when i write every single post.<br />(and if i cannot smile when i write, i get up and take a walk.)<br /><br />i believe in honesty, integrity, and truth. i'm a "hit" man...<br /><br />i've also studied electronic-books for about 30 years now,<br />so i've done a lot of thinking about them, which means that<br />when a lot of bloggers start spouting off with ideas that are<br />half-baked and easy to destroy, i know how to destroy them.<br />(the ideas, not the bloggers. but some do take it personally.<br />which is not my responsibility. don't play in the street, kids.)<br /><br />i also write posts that are rorschach blots, in the sense that<br />if you _want_ to take offense at them, you certainly _can_,<br />but if you _choose_ to interpret them in a benign manner,<br />you can do that as well. my reason for doing that is to see<br />just exactly how i am being interpreted by each individual;<br />i want to see how they _choose_ to mold the interaction...<br /><br />which means the best way to "thwart" me is to be funny!<br />if you respond humorously to me, i will respond in kind!<br /><br />-bowerbird<br /><br />p.s. to the agnieszka's shoes person, whatever _your_ name is,<br />i discovered you because you're doing independent publishing,<br />not because you "do some stuff with slam poets"... but hey,<br />just exactly who are the slam poets who you do stuff with?<br />i have been to slam nationals the last 14 years consecutively,<br />so lots of slam poets out there know bowerbird intelligentleman.<br /><br />p.p.s. anyone can e-mail me, at bowerbird at aol dot com...<br />plus, i perform at "da poetry lounge" on fairfax every tuesday,<br />if anyone ever wants to meet me and see my performance poetry.<br />or, if you're in santa monica, give me a call and i'll buy us lunch.<br />this should convince you that i'm not hiding out from the world...<br /><br />p.p.p.s. i am amused that you talked about my "short" lines,<br />but evidently they are too long for your stubby little column,<br />at least when viewed at the size that i find to be pleasant...bowerbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962115094107919533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990922102626688253.post-85931888463066061372009-09-27T16:55:50.942-04:002009-09-27T16:55:50.942-04:00the "real" name of mark twain was samuel...the "real" name of mark twain was samuel clemens.<br /><br />bob dylan has "robert zimmerman" on his birth certificate.<br /><br />eric arthur blair is much better known as george orwell.<br /><br />ll cool j presumably carries i.d. that says "james todd smith".<br /><br />john wayne got picked on during school as marion morrison.<br /><br />do any of those pieces of information tell you<br />anything important about the people involved?<br /><br />i doubt it.<br /><br />and you would be equally unimpressed if you were<br />to discover _my_ legal name, i can assure you...<br /><br />which is why i don't really care if you learn what it is...<br /><br />or even if you were to announce it to the world...<br /><br />it's just not that big a deal. i don't know why you care.<br /><br />do i care why you called yourself "gluejar" on twitter?<br />um, no, i don't. i mean, if there's a good story there,<br />then sure, tell me. but will i do work to learn the story?<br />um, no, i won't. indeed, i think that'd be rather ridiculous.<br /><br />i mean, it's nice to be linked with people like banksy (no "e")<br />and _why the lucky stiff, but my pseudonym -- as cool as it is,<br />if you know bowerbirds -- is nothing to get all curious about...<br /><br />there are a lot more important things to be wondering about,<br />like when president obama is gonna start keeping his promises <br />and introducing some _change_ into the world.<br /><br />and, mr. hellman, if i can call you "mister", your treatise here<br />is interesting, but it's kind of off-base. i'm not trying to keep<br />my "privacy" by using this pseudonym. if i wanted to keep my<br />"privacy", i'd start by not posting comments to people's blogs!<br />and i'd change my pseudonym on a regular basis, like my shirt.<br /><br />but i'm not about to stop using my voice. and i _want_ people<br />to know that the person posting has a long and glorious past.<br /><br />i adopted my name way back in the mid-1980s, because<br />all of the rappers had pseudonyms then, and i decided that<br />performance poets should invent cool names for ourselves too.<br />gradually, i started using the name for all my creative purposes.<br /><br />i could be nonchalant about telling people my "real" name,<br />like my poet friend "lob", who will tell you if you ask him...<br /><br />it's just kind of a perverse inclination for me to deprive you<br />of that information. creates a little bit of mystery, you see.<br /><br />(part 1 of 2, split for reasons of length.)bowerbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05962115094107919533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990922102626688253.post-22084723349299050012009-09-27T14:39:12.360-04:002009-09-27T14:39:12.360-04:00This post is a really rather clever piece of SEO. ...This post is a really rather clever piece of SEO. I was the lucky recipient of a bowerbird comment (a gnomic, rather beautiful comment) on a post about e-publishing. I wanted to find out more, and right at the top of bowerbird poetry came this blog<br /><br />I'd just like to say I do some stuff with slam poets so I guess it makes sense of how s/he found me, and I'm rather touched to have had him/her visit.<br /><br />Sounds a similar character to teh UK's BanksyAgnieszkas Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831763071877082489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990922102626688253.post-28740119830842854242009-09-12T05:35:16.326-04:002009-09-12T05:35:16.326-04:00If I wanted to disappear in real life, I could Jus...If I wanted to disappear in real life, I could Just walk off into the wilderness without any of my electronic or digital devices and effectively 'drop off the planet'. More old-fashioned methods such as tracker dogs would have to be employed to find me. On the other hand, having probably created several virtual existences myself, as well as those that others have created for me by way of official records etc, it must be well nigh impossible to eradicate all traces of those existences.<br />All I can hope for maybe if I truly want to leave no traces of my digital life, is that such records as remain will be unreadable in the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990922102626688253.post-13638949027248250952009-09-11T21:20:38.639-04:002009-09-11T21:20:38.639-04:00Interesting. There's speculation that similar...Interesting. There's speculation that similar sort of investigative work led to the disappearance of _why the lucky stiff.Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03766301510511289351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4990922102626688253.post-265916134244559132009-09-11T18:18:55.749-04:002009-09-11T18:18:55.749-04:00ironicironicMChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08121709548793388116noreply@blogger.com