In the late 90's, I worked at the Bodhi Tree, the biggest metaphysical bookstore in the country. A good number of famous people frequented the place (and still do, I imagine). We got to see and talk to them close-up, because of course we had to help all the customers with whatever they needed. Like anyone else, there were some stars who were absolutely wonderful (Robin Williams, Sigourney Weaver), some were meh (Aidan Quinn), some liked to chat (John Cleese, Kim Basinger), some just wanted to get down to business (Kathy Bates), some were loons (Brett Butler) and some were just downright horrid.

Gee, guess which category Courtney Love fell into?

Seriously, we learned to HATE that woman. She was so selfish, boorish, and eaten up with entitlement issues, no one in the store wanted to tend to her. She would pull books down from the shelves, take a glance and then toss them into a stack on the floor. She did this over and over, leaving two-foot stacks of books all over the store. It would take an hour to clean up after her. And she would only spend maybe $20. ARGH

So yeah, color me SO unsurprised to hear she trash-talks on Twitter. The broad is a complete guttersnipe, and I hope she loses big time. Maybe she'll learn a lesson - but probably not.

She's a one woman slaughter house... Take no prisoners!

she will prevail in this lawsuit.

...evil incarnate, vile horrible lying bitch."

Goodness. If ever the phrase "takes one to know one" seemed apt...

The misogynist statements against Courtney are so disappointing.

She is a trailblazer in so many ways, a Valkyrie of the Arts, a strident voice ringing out from among the downtrodden sisterhood.

I'd have thought you'd be pleased that BS is jumping right in and joining you and all the other petty, judgmental, self-righteous people out there who so enjoy criticizing and disrespecting the women y'all so clearly believe deserve nothing better. But hey, good to know you and BS are so much better than those nasty evil women who don't behave exactly as you feel they should! Why, whatever would we do without you "proper" folks to set an example for the rest of us?!

Where can you bash someone?

Why not let people fight it out on Twitter? It's not a newspaper. It doesn't even try to be evenhanded. The whole point is it's all about the first-person point of view. Which includes sometimes thinking people are hosebags.

I might join Twitter just to refer to old enemies as hosebags.

Yes, Courtney Love is a pioneer, a genius, a startlingly original thinker and an amazing musician. I just listened to Live Through This again yesterday, and it's as fresh now as it was 15 years ago. But that doesn't stop her from being a really obnoxious and annoying person. If you study the lives of great artists, you rapidly discover that there are very few of them you'd want to invite to a cocktail party.

Don't be gullible, folks. PJ is a resident troll - he's pissing on everyone here because he gets off on it. He's giggling like a fool at all of you taking his bait.

To fling open my fly

And piss on the parson...

Either too many drugs, emotional issues, who the hell knows but I feel really sorry for that poor daughter of hers.

Love is nuts, she's always been nuts, she will always be nuts.

On the one hand, no one who remembers Kristen Pfaff of Janitor Joe and Hole fame is going to like her, really, because of the games she played with Pfaff that probably led to Kristen's death. (The Godbullies song Pretty on the Inside on To Kill the King is about that). That she has personality problems is pretty much her trademark.

Musically, she's more or less the Michael Hutchence of women's rock - like INXS, her repertoire really consists of taking catchy hard rock lines from her old songs and recombining them to make "new" ones. That's disregarding the stealings from Babes in Toyland (which Love was part of for a while) and Nirvana, which are obvious.

Nonetheless on her own she was influential on a band I was in and on my own writing. I actually listened to Pretty on the Inside and Live Through This quite a lot.

Also, her op-ed/essay on the cut of the recording industry, mp3s, intellectual property, is just brilliant. As good as Janis Ian's much more long-winded polemics on the same subjects.

So she's not incompetent, and she's not an idiot. Some of what she does is learned behavior w/r/t manipulating people, some of it is that she's got a raging ego and some of it is undoubtedly mental and emotional illness.

Serai1, duh. I know damn good and well who he is, that is why my comment was written the way it was. He is a hater, but in this instance so is BS, and so are you. I guess if a woman is the kind of person we don't like that it's OK to talk huge amounts of shit about her and denigrate her - mmm, don't it make you feel good?

Yes, I've been an asshole, yes, I've been judgmental - so yes, I've been Courtney, I've been BS, I've been PJ - but at least I'm honest about it, and I don't think I am better than anyone else. And I've learned from it, and I don't disrespect other women just because I don't like them. And yes, I think the tone of the article was disrespectful, as were most of the comments.

Hater - *snicker* Sorry, but that word makes me think of 12-year-old schoolgirls. Sweetheart, that woman enthusiastically courts the hatred that's felt towards her, so please don't bring me any sob stories about darling li'l Courtney and her poor messed-up life. There's a big difference between a misogynist (meaning hating all women) and hating ONE particular person who revels in being hated.

Also, you're welcome for the warning. I mean, you're a civilized person, so you were trying to thank me, weren't you?