Movie-Centric Blogger Announces She Will Kill Herself in 90 Days
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Most of you have probably already heard about this by now, but there's a movie-loving blogger who has decided to anonymously put up a new blog chronicling her last 90 days on Earth. Terminal disease? Nope -- she's committing suicide, she says. The lady is already down to Day 84 and every blog post she puts up elicits hundreds of comments from the fascinated, the concerned, the sarcastic, and the sadistic who are urging her on. No one knows if this lady is in the business of blogging or movies professionally, but movies appear to be a primary preoccupation of hers and she recently blogged about suicide attempts in movies such as The Royal Tenenbaums and Empire Records. She also gives a perfunctory reason for her suicide that, many have already noticed, is suspicious -- it's cribbed directly from Fight Club, and says that "our generation has no great depression, no great war." Her great depression is her life, I guess?
My sense is that the whole thing is a total put-on, even to the point that I don't feel bad about throwing attention to the site, since I don't feel like there's a real person at risk here. I could be totally wrong, but we're talking about a lady who just blogged about a guy who asked her out for Valentine's Day and quipped -- "I just hope he's not looking for anything long-term." Come on, give me a break. People on the verge of suicide are rarely so cogent or so full of humor. She also put up a nice pic of the Hollywood sign, near her anonymous location, and wrote "On my way back from Starbucks. I can say with absolute certainty that caffeine is probably the one thing that is keeping me going for the remaining 87 days." Uh-huh. That, and the book deal she's hoping to turn this into. And that's not an original thought on my part -- it's the conclusion at least one colleague has already reached.
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2-12-2008 @ 4:32PM
FutureColumnist said...
You couldn't PAY me to read that blog consistently, let alone ENJOY it.
Her justification for killing herself - "So, if I feel like saying 'game over', why can't I?" - is chuck-my-lunch worthy, stupidity-wise.
She's right, the site isn't a publicity stunt; the site is actually an uncreative person believing she can fashion creativity out of absolutely nothing, and do it well. In the end, the opposite is true - it is uncreative AND bland, and it does those things well.
I can tell by her closing lines - "If you want to truly help, please send me ideas on how to do the deed" - that she won't actually commit suicide. I can also tell I sort of want to do that very deed merely for having read such a terribly annoying self-summary.
This whole thing screams Darwin Award.
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2-12-2008 @ 4:39PM
DavidP said...
Sounds like she watched "An Uzi at the Alamo" one too many times.
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2-13-2008 @ 12:31AM
Mark Shields said...
I thought about doing this last week, alsong with a few other characters I want to start to blog about. 90 days is a long time.
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2-12-2008 @ 6:52PM
Jim Treacher said...
I was intrigued, and then I saw her use "fail" as a noun, and now I want her to flip her calendar ahead a few months.
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2-12-2008 @ 7:48PM
Philip said...
This is a story without an end, as on day 89 the police show up and remove her to the sanitarium.
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2-12-2008 @ 8:14PM
Jen said...
Totally fake, first of all. I'm a therapist and have helped several people with the real deal.
Secondly, if she's still cribbing from Fight Club seven years after Bushco blew up the WTC in order to invade Afghanistan and Iraq and build prison camps on US soil, she's pathetically self-indulgent, uninformed, and unaware.* Death may not be very different to her current state of awareness.
*what the hell am I talking about, you ask? http://911blogger.com/node/8079
Maybe after watching that, she'll either get mad and discover a new hobby or else move up the timetable and spare us all the added bullshyte.
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2-12-2008 @ 9:26PM
M*A*S*H*E*D said...
funny...i just saw "network" at the film forum last night...
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2-12-2008 @ 11:40PM
Andrew said...
Umm, so, does anyone remember that Paul Rudd flick 2 Days?
Damn copy cats.
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2-13-2008 @ 1:27AM
cbo said...
This might be just a publicity stunt, but everything she's said and done so far makes perfect sense to me. God, people, you just don't know how it feels to be so sick of this goddamn world, with its damn commercialsm, its people and their boundless stupidity and ignorance, and of your own pointless and stupid life. I've reached the conclusion that suicide is the most logical and reasonable thing a sane man can do, after really looking at this world. I was once very close to killing myself, and I remember being so HAPPY about it. So happy that I will leave everything behind. That I will get OUT. But in the end, I couldn't do it. It would have been a terrible blow for my parents and my brother, and I just couldn't hurt them like this. Also, I'm not very religious but I'm a Christian and the Christian believes make the most sense to me. Killing myself and going to hell would be redundant. Even if Christians are wrong, basically all religions condemn suicide and whatever it is after we die, it probably won't be nice for a suicide victim. So this is another reason I didn't do it. Out of cowardess.
So now I'm stuck. Stuck in a damn world I truly hate. With days when only caffeine keeps me going. With days when I feel like stopping doing anything and just lie on the floor. Wanting to tell people that I'll go to sleep for a long time and to not wake me up unless the end of the world has really good special effects. Or just lie down there, like the guy in the first Cube movie that just didn't care.
By the way, my favourite movie is also Fight Club. That movie got SO many things right. And I know people who just don't get it. They don't understand what the main character's problem is. What's wrong with him. And it's the same reaction when somebody kills himself. Some people just can't understand.
Also, no matter how depressed I am, I still manage to find something funny in everything that happens. Life is full of absurd humour. And everything would be so goddamn funny if it wasn't such a tragedy. If you think that a suicidal person can't be funny, go read "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath.
To me, that woman seems genuine. Although I wouldn't be surprised if she changes her mind. That's another thing about people like us - we change our mind extremely often. We have no clear path to walk upon, so we change the direction all the time.
Me, if it weren't for my family I care about and my cowardess towards the uncertainity of the afterlife, I'd put a bullet in my head in the next second. Meh, not really - I'd have to go find a gun. I'd probably find another way to do it.
Also, "Jen" - what makes you think she's from the US? I haven't read everything but somebody was asking in the comments is she's from Brasil. I'm not from the US and I don't think that WTC/Afghanistan is the greatest tragedy in history. Also, you seem to believe the conspirational theories as opposed to the stupidity of your government; I think you're the one uninformed, unawared etc.
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2-13-2008 @ 11:44PM
gaylord sundheim said...
Mark Shields, you, or someone using your name, reserved ninetydayjane.com on February 11. "Jane's" blog had been up about 6 days at that point. Were you saying you came up with it at the same time?
It's moot, anyway -- she either chickened out or blogger decided it didn't want to deal with any liability issues that might arise from hosting her site.
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2-13-2008 @ 3:39PM
Lola said...
The site has been taken down by Blogger already, it looks like, or else she just deleted the blog. And by the way, she's counting DOWN, so being at day 84 only means she's done this for less than a week.
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2-13-2008 @ 5:04PM
Beth said...
Apparently, Jane took it down herself, and here's what she wrote:
"I wanted this blog to be about personal discovery and truth. But the correspondences I have received have taught me more about those qualities than I could ever express. 90DayJane has become its own entity and has influenced me. In fact, it has changed my perspective as a human being.
I feel a massive sense of responsibility to my art, but more importantly the readers of this blog. My closeness to this project must have made art seem like reality to many people. That is not a reaction that I expected nor can I morally justify. This is why my project, 90DayJane, will be taken down in the next few hours."
I subscribed to '90 day Jane' last night, and the site was down by the time I got up this morning.
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2-14-2008 @ 1:09PM
Derek said...
@cbo: I think you need to talk to somebody about your depression. You need to realize that you will not always feel the way you feel right now. It's possible at any time to find a path in life that makes you think it's not a waste of time. Please talk to somebody about your problems before you do something that will hurt your family forever.
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2-14-2008 @ 11:44PM
jojo said...
cbo - first of all, you're a moron. Second, Fight Club was a comedy - a dark one, granted, but a comedy nonetheless - so you can put yourself on the list of those who "just don't get it." Third, you're not suicidal, you're just whiny and self-indulgent. It's not that other people don't know what it's like to live in the same world as you, it's that most people, myself included, can't imagine what it's like to sit around feeling like a victimized martyr rahter than picking yourself back up and maiing the most of this precious, amazing experience.
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