Raymi The Minx is/was a blogger that was always hovering around Matthew Good‘s life, specially his women. Starting all the way back in the first wife days. Raymi’s family are related to Jack Kerouac (if you kids are in the know, that will mean something.) I am ‘Facebook friends’ with her mom.
Hal Niedzviecki, Toronto author of The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors . “[Raymi]’s very much the epitome of the committed, addicted blogger – no real gift to speak of, besides this intense need for attention. And she thrives on it.”
Love in the time of bloggeria 2009
Desperate Hags United
In my first statement on my Facebook you can see me and Raymi’s mom discuss her daughter.
Raymi vaguely knows who I am, although we have never really interacted. I think I sent her a Christmas card one year? I have some emails. I sent cards to a lot of people that year.
I remember her posting some pictures making fun of me at various points. All in good fun I am sure, given she was buddies with Matthew Good and his 1st wife back in those days. I am sure Matt said some horrible shit about me back then, which is his MO. Raymi probably believed him.
A lot of the bloggers in that time span fucking sided with him and thought I was “crazy” because he said I was.
At one point – someone even pretended to post a comment on Raymi‘s blog as me, in November 2010 and she emailed me slamming me. I showed her my IP and suggested she should check the reality of where it came from – because it wasn’t me – I was busy raising a baby by myself! My daughter was literally 11 months old and I was on maternity leave. I was a single mother.
That’s the kind of crap that went on for years. Of course, Raymi never removed the comment. I had quit blogging in 2009 when I was pregnant, after someone suggested in a comment on my blog that they hoped I had a miscarriage. The anonymous trolls are horrible online.
I never hide who I am online. This is the email exchange I had with Raymi that November.
Blogger Dramarama
Being a blogger that showed off her tits, you can see clearly why Matthew Good was connected to her.
He often mentioned her blog or linked to it back in the day. She was in the cool blogger club that they all had back then. Bloggers are shameless and it was all a circle jerk for popularity. But she got in his inner circle.
In fact, in 2006 Raymi went on tour with Matthew Good after he broke up with Jenny, before and I think even after he had his melt down and diagnosis in October 2006. Several other bloggers, at the time, spread rumours about Raymi, claiming she was Matthew’s new sex piece – which she and he denied. Truth was Raymi was friends with both Matthew and Jenny at that time. But still, I got some emails about that shit too – apparently because I knew one of the bloggers Patrick, who was writing about Raymi, so that made me a target too. The Bloggers were fucking drama queens!
FEBRUARY 4th, 2022:
Matthew Good wants to make it clear that he’s “never had sex with Raymi – EVER.” – which is exactly what it said above anyway – but he made sure to point that out again to me.
See post: Used, by Consent
Ooops There She Is
Raymi and Jenny-Beth (Matthew’s first ex-wife) were/are buddies though, too. Which makes you wonder – why would people rumour Raymi like that. The women hung out multiple times, but here is a sample of 50 pictures of them in a post from December 2009.
So I am sure Raymi has some stories.
Whatever they are, first hand, or second or third, I just know she must have some stories.
I hope she tells them, or she can keep it to herself. Her choice.
Good Girls Don’t Cry
You can see Keira-Anne in the comments…
Because also in that time frame, Raymi and Keira-Anne hung out.
Keira was the public not-just-a-friend-friend of Matthew’s that was always around in 2006-2007 time frame.
She gave Matthew a star constellation name for his birthday, and he even did a little song called Keira-Anne. Keira was at the Gastown loft Matthew rented.
Karen (one of the girls from 2006-2007 time frame) believes Keira is the blonde that showed up one time while she was there in 2007, and believes it was Keira that threw dog toys on top of Matthew and Karen while they tried to take a nap in front of her. The stories are bizarre.
All these women in Matthew Good’s life, and none were accusing him of sexual abuse back then. In fact they went to great lengths to defend him against anyone questioning Matt’s antics.
Worth Two in the Bush
Bloggers are/were social whores, and tended to mingle – the nature of social media being what it is, you all gotta smile for the camera and fake like you all love one another to get more people to drive traffic to your blog. It was a big reason I hated “blogging” as I wasn’t that type person.
I only met up with some local bloggers a few times in my days as a Blogger.
Here Raymi is with Tony Pierce the blogger at The Bush Blog – from LA – that was buddies with Matthew Good – Matt and him did podcasts, Tony came to Vancouver, Matt and Jen went to LA. They were all over that shit together back then in 2000-2006. You can find multiple posts on Tony’s blog about his friend Matt.
2021 MeToo Times
Raymi had been hovering around Hayley during 2021 too.
I had seen her comments on IG. At one point Raymi was following a woman’s IG account while encouraging Hayley to call the cops on that woman – “both of them” meaning – as if she was being controlled by Matthew Good.
I will state, that woman was acting alone in her behaviour and no one appeared to be her puppet master. Certainly not me – which I was accused of. Certainly not Matt. That woman clearly acts on her own.
But you can see here Raymi is encouraging Hayley to report “them” as in Matthew and ‘that woman’ as if they were in cahoots. Incidentally Hayley did call the Peel Police to report both Matthew and that woman. Matthew told me about the phone call from the police.
Expired Minx
In 2011 Raymi was added to The Dirty website. Interesting place to end up, given she got her start showing off her breasts online as a teenager, it is any surprise she was added to that site? (As discussed prior regarding Erin, this website comes up a lot. Erin and Raymi were not the only women involved with Matthew Good that had been blasted on that site. I don’t think my name ever made it on there though. I must not be famous.)
It all started back in the year 2000. Fifteen years ago, at age 17, a sexually precocious teen girl in Streetsville began posting messages on a VICE magazine’s Wassup Forum as Raymi The Minx and immediately gained a following. In light of this success a mentor of Raymi’s that she met on that forum advised her to start a ‘blog’ on Blogger.com.
Fifteen Years of Raymi the Minx 2015
I don’t care if Raymi and Matthew ever did have sex, I don’t believe those rumours – point is – she was there. She was there in the thick of it, seeing the dramas unfold – and she is back, right here whispering in Hayley’s ear in 2021.
Will Raymi ever tell her story? Maybe her next book?
But for now – she is here in the footnotes of my life.Oddly enough, her web domain has expired just within the last days. I am surprised after decades she would let RaymiTheMinx.com die? Whatever is next for the Minx? Update Feb 4th, 2022 her site is renewed now.
Updated February 4th, 2022, Uploaded January 24, 2022