by Justine Someone brought this MySpace blog post to my attention today from Miss Heather Letzkus at newyorkshitty.com and it really just weirds me out but I guess before people start wondering what the fuck it’s all about (I suspect jealousy), I guess I should address it.
Here is Miss Heather’s post in the event she should remove it. It was posted at 4:06am (Update 8.28.08: she changed the time to show 9:06pm but trust me, it…
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Ahh good ole myspace. The ghetto of the internet.
Is it possible her husband has a thing for you? Only a woman scorned can write like that.
Otherwise it’s the whole interview jealousy thing.
Just when I thought it might be safe to resurrect the blog I started last year! Not that anything happened, I just didn’t want to get involved in the blog wars that go on sometimes. I enjoy both Greenpointers and New York Shitty, and the different perspectives you both have, immensely.
Wow. I read her blog a couple of times and realized she is a self righteous busybody. I also realizied you didnt have a link to her blog on your page that there was some issue here. However, I really don’t know why one would slander someone like she did, I suppose she is nuttier than I thought. Don’t feel too bad, I mean she is a dope.
It’s all very wrong and to bring your family into it is downright low. As low as you can get really. She dissed you publicly on every level, all because she’s upset that you got interviewed by someone and talked about Greenpoint, which it seems she thinks she has a claim on because you were in Staten Island when she move there. ridiculous.
Regardless of her motives, Miss Heather is way out of line airing out her dirty laundry with you like that. It’s completely inappropriate for her to bring up all these personal details from your life after only one night of drinking together. I am a fan of both blogs being a G-pointer myself, but I shall definitely regard Miss H with some trepidation after this childish flair-up.
I am appalled that people liek her can even exist!! She is so jelous she did not get the interview and teh accolades. I really cannot believe that you can take someone’s sayings out of context and TELL IT ON THE FUCKEN internet. SO classless and disgusting…PLease Justine, you keep being you girl..I will never read her Blog again!!
Obviously, You are on her mind. And to me, she seems sort of jealous. Why does she even CARE about you or what you do, and why even take the time to write a senseless high school Bullshit public post about someone??? ANYONE. She seems like the pathetic one to me. You really dont need to justify any of her assumptions.
I also don’t understand how meeting someone a year ago could lead to such vitriol. The Heather woman obviously has lots of issues and it seems clear from her blog that she is the one who wants to be important. She attemps to take up causes with her “outrage” but really just comes across as a bit of a loon. She also has issues that us native NYers dont think she is really NY, like that really matters at all. Just from looking at her site it is clear that she is incapable of viewing things from more than one angle.
Your blog however isn’t a personal sounding board, you really just try to let people know what is going on in the area. To me this seems pretty helpful and really not self aggrandizing. To post details on the internet about someone’s life that you garnered from a night of drinking is really classless.
I really don’t read too many blogs, because generally they just give a voice to the stupid and untrained. This Heather really reinforced that with me with her latest immature diatribe. However I wil continue to read yours as you do a good service for the hood.
I agree that although this is a terrible thing, you shouldn’t feel the need to post this here. We shouldn’t all know this personal information. Sorry that people (especially ms heather) suck and can’t handle their jealousy in a more mature manner. However, posting this is showing how much it really gets to you. Screw her. Your blog is better anyway. 🙂
Thanks to everyone for the comments and others out there for the emails. I appreciate the fact that a lot of you came to my defense. It’s such Brooklyn thing to do, to back up your fellow peeps!
I’m not at all upset or wishing to participate in any ‘blog war’ with anyone. Just the thought of those words makes me giggle in their absurdity.
The reason I posted this is because I’m just the type of person who’s going to take control of what’s said about me. I just feel that if anyone out there has something to say to me then say it to my face.
You know where I live, you see me around the neighborhood. If you have a problem, be an adult and say it to me not on some random MySpace post at 4am. Jeesh.
But thank you again everyone!
I am so very sorry you had to endure this. Granted my growing up in Greenpoint was in the 50’s and 60’s and working there after High School in the late 60’s and 70’s.
We had people who would talk “trash” back then too, only one huge difference……. It wasn’t as visible as it is today thanks to technology.
I do NOT know you. However, as much as it hurts do NOT let this pipsqueak nimcampoop get you down. We all had our “baggage” that we grew up with but I think for the most part it made us better adults.
There are some people who their lives are so shattered that they simply have to dog down on others. I’ll wager that her so called outwardly wonderful life is probably a living hell behind closed doors.
Keep your chin up and just let Greenpoint know I miss it terribly.
I read both of your blogs.
Seriously, Miss Heather, since I’m sure you’re reading this – what the fuck? She gets interviewed, and for some reason you deem it appropriate to post your editorialized version of her private life online, which she told you in confidence, once, during a night of drinking? Insane.
It’s always been clear that you were eccentric, which is fine and good, but this is verging on sociopathy and mental illness. At the least, you owe her a big apology, and should take the post down. And get some help for whatever emotional problem(s) would cause you to do this. Seriously. In the meantime, you’ve lost a blog reader, and a ton of credibility as a member of the Greenpoint community. I’ll be sure to mention this post the next time your name comes up.
You hit the nail on the head anonymous @ 3:01pm. Unfortunately I don’t think she has any intention of ever apologizing to me, but I agree she’s lost a ton of credibility within the neighborhood.
Her posts have been getting increasingly “crazier” this past year. I think she starting assuming she could say whatever she wanted and readers would just keep reading, but I’ve been finding a lot of people in the ‘hood telling me they are just sick of her ramblings.