http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2013/02/12/all-star-jt-leroy-pear-fundraiser Comments On: All-Star JT LeRoy p:ear Fundraiser by Alison Hallett en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss She speaks beautifully about the childhood pain she suffered.
Her viewpoint is unassailable, precisely because she DID live it.
It opens worlds of compassion to those of us who lived different lives.
Your comments are shallow and ignorant.
Posted by lulu47]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:17:18 -0800 Portland Mercury
Involving Albert gives fuel to the popular suspicion that for some number of "artists," art is just the means to the true end: becoming famous, hip and well-connected without necessarily having to produce anything of value.

Who the fuck, especially artists with talent actually toiling, would want to voluntarily associate themselves with that idea in any way?

* This whole thing must be terrible from an art standpoint because I'm grappling with thoughts and feelings today that otherwise would have remained blissfully unexamined.
Posted by Commenty Colin]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:36:28 -0800 Portland Mercury
This is fucking weird. I wouldn't really care if the hoax were being used as a hook to raise more money for a good cause (and even then, only if $0 went to Albert), but who's more likely to attend or contribute because of a decade-old-hoax theme?

Is p:ear too skittish to present people who can truthfully talk about these issues from experience, or would authentic, unfashionable awfulness scare off p:ear's hip donors and artist pals?

The whole idea that someone else almost certainly flew Albert out here and paid for her hotel makes me think less of p:ear and all of the authors involved.
Posted by Commenty Colin]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:04:37 -0800 Portland Mercury Posted by Todd Mecklem]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:26:02 -0800 Portland Mercury