1. A self-styled victim, Joan is mentally "not all there;" a living personification of bankrupt moral outrage.

2. Joan died several years ago and her identity has been assumed by someone interpreting her story using humor and other literary elements (irony, hyperbole, etc.). This helps explain the unfunny news articles and documentation, which could be attributed to the "real" Joan.

3. Part human, part artificial intelligence program. Possibly also Rod Van Mechelan.

4. Joan is a financially secure artist with plenty of free time; a genius who lives her life as art and is fully aware of the ambiguities and potential readings of her work.

5. Joan has simply confused Microsoft with the menswear dept. at Montgomery Ward. Earnest, well-intended but, clearly, wrong.

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