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{Gad Zooks, What 2 Do?}:

           The Following Refutation of Slander
              was
                 My Reaction 2 my Inclusion
                         in the Boston Phoenix 'Goths' Article.

              It was Posted 2 the Boston NetGoth List,
                as
                  Well as the Alt.Gothic Newsgroup.

           Said Slander was Especially Hurtful
              because
                   I had Bent Over Backwards
                      2 Cooperate Fully with the Author,
                          & had Stressed my Misgivings from the Outset.

      I Spent Several Weeks Following the Article's Release Explaining Myself,
          Exhaustively,
              as it's Rather Important 2 Me that Those I Interact with Realize
                that
                  I am In No Way the Womanizing Cult-Leader
                         that One would Understandably Believe Me 2 B
                            if One's Only Information were from That Article.

                                 On 2 The Post:

                                   <-oOo->

      7/31/97,
         the Morning After Hell's 'Fourth Anniversary Revel' at ManRay,
            Also
               the Morning that the 'Goths' Article in the Boston Phoenix
                                          was Released on the World Wide Web.

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   Dearest Pretties,

          I'm Up Really Early.

             I'm _Exhausted_ after Last Night,
                   I Figure I'll Look at the Phoenix Article
                        on
                          the Web.

          I am Greeted by an Twisted Amalgam of things
             that
               I Didn't Say,
                   Things I Did say Out of Context,
                      & It Comes Off like Someone I would Hate.

             Four Years of _Work_,
                 &
                  I _Hate_ me in the Press.

                      I'm Really Hurt.

          Here is the Quote:

>"Sometimes, at [a goth club], I can take someone who's teetering, and I can sit
>him down . . . I say, `Do you really think you're better off than I am? Are you
>going to get kisses tonight? Because I am,' " says Cusráque, who is 29. He sits
> back. His rings glitter. "I ask, 'What has being normal ever gotten you?' ".

          I'm gonna Deconstruct It,
             &
              Fix It,
                 cuz I Have 2:

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>"Sometimes, at [a goth club], I can take someone who's teetering, and I can sit him down . . .

     I Never Said This.
                      ^
              {Note the Period.}

     Apart from the Fact that it was Utterly Fabricated
         from
            Shitty Notes,
                  it Places the Quote that Follows 2 the Wrong Person.

     The Next Line:

>I say, `Do you really think you're better off than I am?

       ...was Hypothetically Spoken 2 a Fratboy/Construction Worker/Prick,
             &
              in the Context of a Conversation
                about the Rudeness with which Goths R Approached.

> Are you going to get kisses tonight? Because I am,'

      This was Taken from a Story I Related 2 her
          about
             getting called a "Faggot" by Lumberjack Boys in New Hampshire
                        while Walking down the Street with my Then-Girlfriend.

      It Should Read "I Appear 2 B the Only One getting Kisses Tonight."

>"I ask, 'What has being normal ever gotten you?' ".

        Again,
           This is Reply 2 someone who gives me Shit on the Street,
             _Not_
                a Verbal Ploy 2 the "Teetering"
                           2 Draw them 2 'The Dark Side'.

        Combined,
           This Collection of Quotes Just Isn't Me,
               & Anyone who has Spoken with me Before will Know That.

           What _Bothers_ me is that Most People who Read It Haven't.

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