Valleywag had commissioned a spoof diary of Michael Arrington's long dark night of the soul. The series is hereby discontinued, because no fiction could match the Techcrunch boss' own melodrama, playing out on his personal blog. The tech news publisher, at his most tortured, after the jump.

I can't even remember exactly who I'm fighting at this point and what each fight is about, but there are at least three separate wars going on and people clearly smell blood. I'm not naive enough to think that my personality didn't have something to do with this mess, of course. But the fact that two of the people who are fighting me are former mentors makes it a lot harder to bear.

I can't believe blogging hasn't driven me to drink yet. The days of just meeting entrepreneurs and writing about their companies seem to be long gone, and politics has taken over nearly every aspect of what we do.

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