Grace Lavery / Joseph Lavery & Daniel M. Lavery / Mallory Ortberg - "Straight with extra steps" couple trooning out to avoid "dwindling into mere heterosexuality"

[Dick Johnson]

That's clearly his attempted angle, but if left to his own devices, he would never be able to like....expand the scope of that in a way that would draw a readership (a ghost writer could do this!). No matter how hard he tries to intellectualize and generalize his points, it's going to boil down to him being paranoid and just going over personal grudges. I guess he will try to work in his "Academic Freedom and Abortions Now!" thing that he's been trying to make happen for years, turn it into a manifesto about why academia must burn. I hope he makes a million dollars.

Even more fundamental than that, his prose is uniquely bad, in a way that's going make it like armor against casual readership. He could take those various petty grudges and give them to someone who doesn't try to win writing by cramming as many clauses as humanly possible into sentences, and that would probably be some reasonably entertaining stories.

I'm hoping he puts the book out and burns his bridges, but it remains as obscure as his previous books. And then someone else puts out a Berkeley Tell-All that includes a number of the same incidents from a slightly different perspective (perhaps even has Joe as a frequently recurring character), that gets some good sales numbers because they're able to write with a reader in mind.

And then Joe stews.

 

[squirreltail]

Even more fundamental than that, his prose is uniquely bad, in a way that's going make it like armor against casual readership. He could take those various petty grudges and give them to someone who doesn't try to win writing by cramming as many clauses as humanly possible into sentences, and that would probably be some reasonably entertaining stories.

I'm hoping he puts the book out and burns his bridges, but it remains as obscure as his previous books. And then someone else puts out a Berkeley Tell-All that includes a number of the same incidents from a slightly different perspective (perhaps even has Joe as a frequently recurring character), that gets some good sales numbers because they're able to write with a reader in mind.

And then Joe stews.

I don't think a publisher is going to want to take it. It'll be him sperging out on substack or something.

 

[Bookwork]

Ignore. I am canceled for conspicuous stupidity.
TIL:

When a nonimmigrant worker’s employment ends, either voluntarily or involuntarily, they typically may take one of the following actions, if eligible, to remain in a period of authorized stay in the United States:​

• File an application for a change of nonimmigrant status;
• File an application for adjustment of status;
• File an application for a “compelling circumstances” employment authorization document; or
• Be the beneficiary of a nonfrivolous petition to change employer.

If one of these actions occurs within the up to 60-day grace period, the nonimmigrant’s period of authorized stay in the United States can exceed 60 days, even if they lose their previous nonimmigrant status. If the worker takes no action within the grace period, they and their dependents may then need to depart the United States within 60 days, or when their authorized validity period ends, whichever is shorter.​

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[...] A period of authorized stay typically includes the period when a timely filed nonfrivolous petition or application requesting an extension of stay or change of status is pending with USCIS, as described in detail below.​

"Below" is here: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Options for Nonimmigrant Workers Following Termination of Employment

If Lily hires Joe as a cook, can he stay? ETA: Is Rocco an anchor baby?

 

[behindyourightnow]

TIL:

When a nonimmigrant worker’s employment ends, either voluntarily or involuntarily, they typically may take one of the following actions, if eligible, to remain in a period of authorized stay in the United States:​

• File an application for a change of nonimmigrant status;
• File an application for adjustment of status;
• File an application for a “compelling circumstances” employment authorization document; or
• Be the beneficiary of a nonfrivolous petition to change employer.

If one of these actions occurs within the up to 60-day grace period, the nonimmigrant’s period of authorized stay in the United States can exceed 60 days, even if they lose their previous nonimmigrant status. If the worker takes no action within the grace period, they and their dependents may then need to depart the United States within 60 days, or when their authorized validity period ends, whichever is shorter.​

​

[...] A period of authorized stay typically includes the period when a timely filed nonfrivolous petition or application requesting an extension of stay or change of status is pending with USCIS, as described in detail below.​

"Below" is here: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Options for Nonimmigrant Workers Following Termination of Employment

If Lily hires Joe as a cook, can he stay? ETA: Is Rocco an anchor baby?

Joe has a green card, which in practice is the same as being a citizen in all but a few limited areas, like legally voting. Employment status is irrelevant. Whether he wants to stay is a different question.

 

[Dromedary]

But going tranny is his trump card for not being a male head of household that supports his family, that’s his husband’s job, or maybe his baby mama’s job. Joe is now the SAHM that needs to play in the kitchen and told he’s so pretty.

He's a failed male. Who flaunted his harem online for a few years but now he's stressed with an actual child to feed. His job seems in great peril.
Remember when you were young and you learned sheikhs could have multiple wives? Well they could only do that if they had the money. Polygamy was banned very long ago in Western societies because what would happen is the rich old men would grab up young virgins for themselves. Leaving countless young peasant men without women to marry. Recipe for total angry social disruption in the village.

Joe is a loser who is parasiting off of dumb cluck concubine Lily's earnings at the moment. There's a child to be raised and he's about to lose his job. Makes you think about the preening about his polycule, thought he was a sheikh. He ahas another twenty years of bills to pay with the kid. Not so fun with the preening now, is it?

Whether he wants to stay is a different question.

He's never going back to the UK I think. He's been such a successful scammer here, the UK has changed so much. Involuntary deportation would be cool to watch though. And I don't mean just for Joe. Mass involuntary deportations of undesirables would be great to see throughout the West.

 

[monstrous bubo]

Here’s something Joe and I have in common: neither of us are too excited by the Oasis reunion. I think the band is dull. He however has a more quixotic rationale.

First, he correctly mocks the band’s lyrics.


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He then narrows his distaste to Liam Gallagher’s homophobia…


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before telling us the real reason


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And he is right on all three points. I need to lie down and recover from the shock of agreeing with someone who managed to bugger up a tomato salad.

 

[Potatis Salad]

An anodyne Instagram post from Tard Baby about tummy time (if you're not a boring cishet breeder, "tummy time" refers to the practice of putting babies on their stomachs for a short period of time each day. This is important to help them strengthen their neck muscles and prepare for crawling):

Her caption:

two boys just crushing tummy time. i did all of mine when i was a baby so i’m allowed to chill out sitting up now. due to my excellent head and neck control

Side note: who are these dumbass reply gals? Do we really need to restate and explain Mallory's mildly humorous caption in extreme detail?


Anyway, note the ceiling in the tummy time Insta post. I now invite you to return to @Bookwork's detailed dox of the house in Lansing. There's a normal bedroom:


...and an attic garret where it appears Tard Baby is now nesting alone:

Another Instagram pic of her upstairs with the baby and dog:


Good for her. Sleeping three to a king bed with Joe in the middle sounds like a version of hell.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

An anodyne Instagram post from Tard Baby about tummy time (if you're not a boring cishet breeder, "tummy time" refers to the practice of putting babies on their stomachs for a short period of time each day. This is important to help them strengthen their neck muscles and prepare for crawling):
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Her caption:


Side note: who are these dumbass reply gals? Do we really need to restate and explain Mallory's mildly joking caption in extreme detail?
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Anyway, note the ceiling in the tummy time Insta post. I now invite you to return to @Bookwork's detailed dox of the house in Lansing. There's a normal bedroom:
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...and an attic garret where it appears Tard Baby is now nesting alone:
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Another Instagram pic of her upstairs with the baby and dog:
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Good for her. Sleeping three to a king bed with Joe in the middle sounds like a version of hell.

Lilly deserves to have to share a bed with that saggy troon under a hideous 90’s dome flush mount light.

The house really looks like a typical cheap flipper shitshow in the old photos. No need to refinish the wood framing in a home when you can just douse with with cheap white paint! Finish the look with Joanna Gaines Grey on the walls.

At least Mallory can get some peaceful rest away from Joe, and the nursing infant, upstairs in her tiny attic room of her own. How very Bertha of her. Maybe Joe and Lilly should put a lock on the attics door so she can live the full effect.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Another Instagram pic of her upstairs with the baby and dog:

Bedspread is exactly what I'd expect a girl who liked Jane Austen in 1999 to choose. Such a relief she transitioned to be the true and honest boy that she obviously is.

Bet she has a Monet themed diary.

 

[Autistic Nonetheless]

It’s interesting that Mal is the only one who still posts about literature.
You get book hauls and pretty covers, while Joe is seething on Twitter and probably thinks all this girly shit beneath him.

Joe has been pushing for more outside media attention with things like the Daily Mail and The Cut interviews, as well as clearly picking fights and antagonizing people like Katie Herzog and J. K. Rowling. Who has time to read.

BTW remember when he was going to debate Helen Joyce? Another stunt like that could prove interesting.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Bet she has a Monet themed diary.

Only as her decoy diary. The real one has a Lisa Frank cover.

Joe has been pushing for more outside media attention with things like the Daily Mail and The Cut interviews, as well as clearly picking fights and antagonizing people like Katie Herzog and J. K. Rowling. Who has time to read.

One of the things, and there are admittedly many, I find strange is that Mallory wasn’t put off by Joe’s absolute soul level desperation for attention and to ride her coattails.

I get people like groupies but Joe wasn’t a Mallory groupie, he seemed to despise her writing and fame. He pretended to turn up his nose at her chic lit literary fame, but was starving for even crumbs of notoriety for himself. He coveted the level of fame and attention she had so obviously and viscerally that I can’t believe it didn’t put her off entirely.

Maybe she really bought into to all his negging and was blind to the fact he just saw her as a human springboard to increase his own level of fame and attention. I’m so glad the exact opposite happened and both their careers went down the shitter at such a fast clip. What Mallory took a decade to build, the rebrand with Joe tanked it in two years.

Joe made a grave miscalculation. Being “Yoko” doesn’t work if your target isn’t a world famous, multi-millionaire with a hit song catalog raining fat checks annually for the rest of your life. In fact I don’t think you can call yourself Yoko at all if your “Lennon” only has niche fame, no wealth and no fat annual residuals. John and Yoko had legit “fuck you” money, whereas Mallory couldn’t even qualify as “middle class” in the Bay Area. Yoko had a two Dakota apartments and millions of dollars which allows one to be a weird, rude, entitled, artistic asshole without suffering even the slightest financial discomfort.

 

[Autistic Nonetheless]

I get people like groupies but Joe wasn’t a Mallory groupie, he seemed to despise her writing and fame. He pretended to turn up his nose at her chic lit literary fame, but was starving for even crumbs of notoriety for himself. He coveted the level of fame and attention she had so obviously and viscerally that I can’t believe it didn’t put her off entirely.

One of the few ways in which these two remind me of a male homosexual couple is in that undertone occasional of sadism, where you wonder for how long this horror show can go on . Quite a while apparently.
Mal is more then a little responsible for her own downfall but Joe did take a peculiar joy in humiliating her all the way to the bottom. Still he clearly has enough charisma to rope another girl into his clutches. Lily even seems surprisingly well put together, at least comparatively , and yet here she is making what must seem to people around her like an obviously terrible decision. (Do we know about previous relationships? Was she ever married? Anything? )

 

[Aunt Carol]

And then Joe stews.

Ferments.
Macerates.
Infuses.

 

[monstrous bubo]

(Do we know about previous relationships? Was she ever married? Anything? )

She was married to a fellow academic and art historian called Yelena Kalinsky and that house was the former marital home. They got together around ten years ago, and split three years ago when Lily was online flirting with Joe. So she went straight from marriage to a woman to form a polycule with a man and woman, but her main attachment is to the man.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

She was married to a fellow academic and art historian called Yelena Kalinsky and that house was the former marital home. They got together around ten years ago, and split three years ago when Lily was online flirting with Joe. So she went straight from marriage to a woman to form a polycule with a man and woman, but her main attachment is to the man.

I think Lilly did the cool college lesbian thing. She might have been a lesbian till graduation but she stayed in academia so graduation didn’t really count since she stayed out on campus. It fit in nicely with her art school social niche. For much the same reasons she sought out an academic troon like Joe.

I do not believe any real lesbian would hook up with a troon. However a fake one might see it as a good way to get out of an adopted lesbian persona she had grown out of, while still keeping that queer cred that was so central to their identity. Maybe she really wanted a baby too and she was running out of time for that.

(I have surveyed all my lesbian friends the past few years. Even the few tranny supportive ones admit they would never date a trans woman, even if the dick was cut off. “Transmen” otoh are ok for most. Just like gay men hate vaginas, gay women are disgusted by dicks.)

Lilly was probably attracted to, but uncomfortable with, men. Women like that tend to find romantic relationships with women easier, but it’s almost a given if they are in extremely liberal or creative communities where being gay is viewed as cool. Lilly will probably go back to lesbianism after Joe only because she will more easily find a better quality lesbian partner than a straight man. A forty year old artsy single mom using “they” pronouns isn’t going to attract any sane straight men. But if Lilly is willing to be the sole breadwinner she could probably get another Joe type leech.

 

[Bookwork]

She was married to a fellow academic and art historian called Yelena Kalinsky and that house was the former marital home. They got together around ten years ago, and split three years ago when Lily was online flirting with Joe. So she went straight from marriage to a woman to form a polycule with a man and woman, but her main attachment is to the man.

Yelena's now a shrink in Chicago and Evanston, IL, having added a master's in clinical counseling and psychotherapy to her PhD in art history. LinkedIn

Good for you, Yelena. Your thruple thoughts would be enthralling.

 

[TheMeanOne]

Good for Yelena, Evanston's nice.

According to SFGate today, Stanford is getting rid of some lit profs. Fingers crossed that Berkeley is next.

Mallory makes me soooooo sad. She's just their little unpaid servant doing all the childcare. Joe picked her specifically for her low self-esteem. He gets a charge from seeing how far he can push her until she breaks. Separated her from her family; spent all her money; talked her into a throuple; talked her into his other partner having his baby; forced her to leave NYC.

She needs mental help. WTF Mallory.

 

[monstrous bubo]

Mallory makes me soooooo sad. She's just their little unpaid servant doing all the childcare. Joe picked her specifically for her low self-esteem.

Eh, she gets something out of it too: she doesn’t have to take responsibility. She gets to be lovable manchild Danny who schlubs around in adult-sized children’s clothing, not an adult woman aging out of her quirky girl shtick who has to make important decisions and pay off a mortgage. She wants to be pushed around, Joe likes pushing her around. A match made in heaven.

 

[TheMeanOne]

Eh, she gets something out of it too: she doesn’t have to take responsibility. She gets to be lovable manchild Danny who schlubs around in adult-sized children’s clothing, not an adult woman aging out of her quirky girl shtick who has to make important decisions and pay off a mortgage. She wants to be pushed around, Joe likes pushing her around. A match made in heaven.

Fair enough. I remember when she came out as trans she said something really sad, like she went for a walk with a friend and they told her she seemed trans. She just went along with it, apparently.

If you're that suggestible you do deserve what you get in a lot of ways.

Off topic but the worst transition story is Todd VanDerWerff who used to write for the Onion's AV Club. He decided he was a woman while watching A Handmaid's Tale which is deeply strange that you'd want to be a part of the oppressed class on a TV show. What is it with writers?

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

He decided he was a woman while watching A Handmaid's Tale which is deeply strange that you'd want to be a part of the oppressed class on a TV show.

Hint: it's all a fetish.