Fascinating blog content, and almost as fascinating questions about veracity and identity online. This woman seems legit, *and* we have a very real need to doubt online identity. We have no accepted cultural formula for expressing or valuing that doubt yet.
So I was very pleased, after talking with my girlfriend about the blog, to come home and find the same questions raised by http://captainhoof.tripod.com/blog/. Some people claim it is the pseudonymous blog of a Certain Famous Movie Star, but other people claim it is the work of a Different Very Famous Movie Star. (Owen Wilson is the usual claim, via boingboing.)
Even as a hoax, it's a great example of the "true-or-not tell-all blog-or-hoax", which seems to be a new evolutionary niche to fill. "Rance's" frequent references to the likelyhood that he's a hoax is half the fun. And wondering if Rance is a hoax doesn't make me feel like a heel.
BTW, I'm having problems seeing the comments on Making Light. They seem to cut off wherever the ad block on the left ends. They all load, then some script (presumably the ad script) runs and the page height resets and I can't read the comments (I canceled page loading before the script ran to get to the "Post a comment" form this time). I've been reading comments in "view source" for a few weeks for this reason. I've seen it on IE6/WinXP and IE5/Win2000 and IE5.5/Win98.
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