as an insomniac, i have to say that many times i have perused your many posts and have been entertained, provoked, angered, and enlightened. But I have done so without taking the time to say thanks. So, now, i am just stopping by to say...thanks.
I wish i were one of the more 'clever' commenters out there...that I could 'give back' as it were. However, i feel that my insomnia coupled with my taste for beverages of the alcoholic nature can tend to dampen any 'wit' that God deemed fit to bestow upon me. And so this note will have to suffice...along with my occasional inane 'lol wut' posts.
keep up the fine work.

12 months ago i provided a sworn affidavit to the Australian Federal Magistrates Court to confirm what was going on between Rattner and my wife.

i was also compelled to provide that sworn statement as well as Rattners emails, letters and replies to the Australian Taxation Office, since i was in receipt of $70,000.00 of the money Rattner gave my wife which had to be explained not as income but as repayment of loans and debt to me from my wife.

if Rattner thinks his problems are bad, wait until the Australian Taxation Office catch up with him and my wife.

to make matters worse, the criminal my ex wife was conducting the affair with, was none other then the business associate of Michael Brereton, the high profile Australian lawyer under investigation by the Australian Crime Comission for tax fraud and money laundering and also the business partner of my Client whom i am conducting a county court matter for recovery of design fees which they didnt pay.

i have been threatened by the cousin of the underworld associate my wife was fucking, he himself a serious criminal of note, 15 years in jail, to not proceed in the county court case, and he is the same guy who threatened me in relation to my wifes affair with his cousin whom Rattner had followed and videotaped

my wife and Rattner convinced the criminal that i was the one who had followed, photographed and videotaped him fucking my wife, when in fact it was Rattner who hired the private investigators.

Stave Rattner, for a very smart man he did a very dumb thing

Hey!

Why will you not get yourself a nifty avatar? Something for the ladies...

Just posted this on that French site:

Fellow Francophones and -philes,

I do not know Ryan Tate personally, nor do I make much a point of following his writing - however, I do feel the need to take a moment to come to his defense.

Your extreme sensitivity might be getting the best of you here. I assure you, being a frequent reader of Gawker, that Mr. Tate's tone was absolutely, entirely sardonic.

Gawker writers and readers share a common enemy, as evidenced by your "French Bashing Level" ascriptions… to peruse the past week's activities on Gawker.com, you would find countless, equally ironic lampoons of the current administration, News Corp., and talk radio, e.g.

Before you assure yourselves that Ryan Tate is so virulently anti-French, I suggest you get acquainted with his and his fellow writers' m.o.

It occurs to me that a nasty bout of insomnia may have resulted in me sounding kind of facetious in a recent comment, when in actuality I really enjoy your stuff, especially as it pertains to "video clips of magic racks." I thought that phrase of yours was genuinely funny, even without my tired double entendre. I'll be giggling about it later as I watch the video when I'm actually awake.

I told you not to open the door for Mr. Ketch.

Did you get promoted to daytime Gawker?

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thought I'd throw this out there...I think I remember "Kristen" had 1800+ myspace friends yesterday (maybe 1805, maybe 1823)and currently it's 1799. For whatever that's worth.