"This one was taken before I learned to put lipstick on like a real man."
He's talking about the photo above. I say: This one was taken before you grew out of the kindergarten and became something more or less similar to a real man. Hey, Marilyn Manson does not love you! It won't help you to copy his outfit and to tell people on your music page that he is your favourite artist!

And this photo is not better:

"I never really intended to make a web page."
Why did you create a web page then? I never really intended to see such a horrible fake goth!

"[...] since I'm trying to do something productive (for a switch), I figured, 'hey, why not?'"
Okay, that's a reason. I'm waiting, please inform me when you have done it because till now I haven't found something productive on your page, yet.

It's incredible, Mephistopheles Moon has more nicknames than I have underwear in my wardrobe. Maybe he needs them because he gets kicked everywhere? Hahaha! In my opinion he should concentrate on becoming a lesser Goth Goose instead of creating new nicknames.

"I'm an artist of several trades (poetry, songs, you name it, I'll try it). But I don't (at least currently) make money off my art."
I guess nobody would pay for it anyhow.

"I'm a raging ego, a Zen Baby, a lover, a hater, a humble meekling, a chat addict, a nice guy, an asshole, a romantic, a cynic, a Prozac taker, a free speech extremist, a self-professed hypocrite"
Not to mention that you are ridiculous, quite entertaining, a Goth Goose, a clown, a jumping jack and the worst Manson whore I have seen so far.

"I've been trying to 'find myself' for years now (still no luck)."
I really believe you.

"And what sense is more powerful than the eyes?"
Well, it's no sense but a full working and functional brain is probably more powerful than eyes.

"My eyes take me everywhere; they see through you and they peer into you."
You cannot see through me. I am well protected against Goth Geese like you. :-)

"I'm talking about depression. I'm talking about Obssessive-Compulsive Disorder. I'm talking about panic attacks and self-injury and all the things wrong with me."
I'm talking about Goth Geese. I'm talking about people who are a shame for the gothic society. I'm talking about nausea and diarrhoea and all the things which come into my mind when I have to see YOUR page. ;-)

"I've been posting to alt.gothic this weekend, in an attempt to bond with more like-minded, eccentric, tortured souls, even though I don't really consider myself a goth."
I can calm you down: There's nothing which makes you be a goth. You are a Goth Goose only.

"I've been scouring the newsgroups looking for a collection of people I can feel rather at ease with. I should know better by now, for, while it's only been one day and the responses haven't been too bad (well, I was thought to possibly be a troll because of a goths-on-Prozac thread I started), but if my luck on Usenet and the more tangible, physical, day-to-day world are any indication, I simply have a vibe of insincerity or *something* about me. Can I truly be a freak even among freaks?"
You can't because real goths are no freaks but adults with a real life.

Last but not least the thing you are always waiting for, the last words, my notorious Duke Nukem Rating: "Hahahahahaha... Wasted!"

real goths laughed at MEPHISTOPHELES MOON since 17 August 1998