Remember Pacione’s Quakes & Storms fiasco? Here we go again:
Just curious, has any of the horror authors here thought about doing an anthology for the folks in Haiti?
How hard would it be to team up with some place like The Red Cross and produce something like this?
Does Flea Market Larry actually think Pacione “teamed up with” the American Red Cross to do Q&S? I wonder why he thinks it’s even necessary to team up with a charity to produce a book, rather than simply donating any profits to it. Besides, the need is pretty immediate, and books take time to produce, let alone generate profits.
I think Larry’s hoping to be able to brag that he donated a story to a good cause, rather than, well, money. I hardly think the world is full of people who think “There’s been another natural disaster. Gee, I think I’ll go hunt for a book to buy so I can help the relief effort.” Further, such a marketing pitch isn’t likely to rack up a windfall of sales, unless the authors involved already had high name recognition and a reputation for writing quality stories. Of course, if that were the case, Larry’s story would be rejected, anyway.
So far, there have been no replies.
Since Dagstine can’t get paid real money for his stories, he might as well give them away.
Name recognition? He has that in a very small amount, but for all the wrong reasons.
Daggy never did understand that infamy =/= fame.
He probably doesn’t understand what =/= means, either. He’s that dumb.
When you see an author declare that they are donating the proceeds of a book to a charity of some kind, like a fund to help victims of the Haiti earthquake, it is usually a book that is already in production at the time of the event.
Otherwise the money fails to come in in time to do any actual good.
Exactly. The time lag for any new venture is too long to raise money when it’s needed. Yet, that’s what Daggy seems to be proposing with his question about teaming up with the Red Cross. Anything already in production wouldn’t be soliciting story contributions.
Thank you Cuss I was thinking the exact same thing.
Smells of desperation to me. I read it as “Help! I can’t pay anyone to take my shit! If someone wants my shit for free please someone just include me in your antho!” So along the lines of what she said…I think he’s hoping there’s one in the works that is pressed to get out in time so that they wouldn’t have enough time to think about not accepting him.
The day a Nitwit cares about charity or has the talent to raise money for one…
In programming, “!=” is the appropriate symbol for “not equal to,” but I digress…
But I propose that Larry is doing this for his own personal promotion, not to raise money for Haiti. I think he knows damn well how long it takes to put an anthology together, and that by the time it’s done the effort is wasted. He’s doing this to make himself look like a “nice guy” in the genre again. Even if he’s honest about it, too many people disbelieve whatever comes out of his mouth/keyboard.
Of course, as I say this, it’s already off page one. Countdown to Dagstine bumping his own thread in 3… 2… 1…
Yeah, because sales for his work is a sure fire way to save Haiti.
They’ll end up owing money!
Even if that was a serious offer, it’s dumb considering how much the US, UN and various charities have already pumped in.
But as everyone has said, charity isn’t on his mind.
He bumps his own threads at TTA forums, but still no one responds to him.
Smells like FAIL to me.
I can’t find that thread, Johaha. Can you link it?
And Mikkake’s recorded an interview for one of those conspiracy nut radio shows.
http://mikephilbin.blogspot.com/2010/02/mike-philbin-on-truth-frequency-radio.html
I saw that, Lewis. Mikkake also had an entry about Israel, with a supporting video of the former Grand Wizard of the KKK. Phailbin cites Duke merely as a “former Louisiana Representative,” as if his KKK days were non-existent, or somehow irrelevant.
There are many threads he puts up at TTA. Only one persom ever responded directly to what he said (some promo). However, monst people ignore him.
HE hasn’t bumped his own thread there for a few days.
He’s sample, Cuss.
http://ttapress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1371
http://ttapress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1293
http://ttapress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1359
No one there pays any attention to him. He’s getting ignored over at SL also. They just talk around him.
Well, one look at his fiction and everyone there would know that he’s not up their standards.
Yeah, his Cthulhu thread has as many replies as his Haiti thread — zero.
Long time no see, but OMG YOU GUYS … I was playing with Akinator the Web Genius (http://us.akinator.com/), seeing if it could identify Nikki, and …
… wait for it …
… IT GUESSED DAN SAVAGE.
Someone far more skilled in satire than I needs to take this and RUN WITH IT.
Holy shit. This sounds like a job for Sir Otter. Oh, Otter . . .
I’d bet Phil could do a good job with this, too.
Who Dan Savage?
Dan Savage is a gay writer most famous for his sex advice column “Savage Love.” He’s also written a few books, and used to have a call-in radio show in Seattle, although he’s from . . . get this . . . Chicago!
Oh I love that!
Daggy finally got a few replies at SL to his charity antho for Haiti thread, and they’re all the right kind of response. People kindly waited until Daggy was likely thrilled the thread had died before resurrecting it onto the front page.
SirOtter’s muse has been leaning towards what, to his fever’d brain, passes for poetry of late. Or, as it is known among the cognoscenti, ‘If the Addams Family wrote greeting cards…’.
I’ve been taken with food as a topic, to wit…
Gator tail, gator tail, I do love some gator tail.
Battered, breaded, deep fat fried,
Serve it quickly, without fail.
Make some shoes from its tough hide,
And let me eat what’s found inside.
or
I cajoles, I wheedles, I pleads, I begs
For someone to bring me a plate of frog legs.
Depriving batrachians of their nether extremities
Fills my tummy and soul with the greatest of ecstasies.
or maybe this…
Mary had a little lamb,
But not long, I’m here to say.
Last night I ate its chops with mint jelly,
And I’ll consume its leg today.
I feel a bit deprived, now. Not too far from my old house, there was a place that had frog legs, but all we’ve got around here, besides Italian or Asian, are pubs and cheese steak joints.
Sadly, I’m making mushroom and sausage quiche for dinner. The mushrooms were at that “use them or lose them” stage.
That is tragic, Rusty. I’m not much better off. The only place around I can find them is Toot’s, which has scrawny little legs smaller than their hot wings. Or as we say here in Tennessee, hot wangs. I can’t get gator here, either, ever since Uncle Bud’s closed down.
As for whatever ya’ll were trying to volunteer me to write, my muse has been conspicuous by his absence for some months now. I’ve got two deadlines approaching, both for Main Enterprises, and can’t seem to get rolling on either the second chapter of the serial I’ve committed to do for Dark Corridor or the article on the Vietnam War in the Comics I’m supposed to do for Comic Pages.
WARNING: The following rant has nothing to do with Le Legion d’Imbeciles
Otherwise, the well has, for the moment, run dry. I have tweaked Smarter Than the Average Werewolf as much as I can, and have sent it to the last batch of agents I intend to. So far, all I’ve gotten is ‘not to my liking’ or ‘don’t have clue one who to market this to’ or ‘too quirky’. Excuse me? Do I hire a realtor based on whether or not they like the shutters, or if they already have a client in mind? No, I want somebody who could sell ice cream to Eskimaux. I’m not in the market for a critic; I want a salesperson. If you can’t sell something slightly outside your comfort zone, maybe sales is not the profession God intended you to pursue. If it sucks, tell me, dammit. If not, spare me your excuses for why you’re not competent to do the job I’d like to hire you to do.
The only up side is that waiting for something to happen on this book excuses me from having to deal with the sequel. I’m perfectly happy to let Dead Women in Love hang fire until I know whether or not something is ever going to happen with STTAW.
I’ve given the whole process another year and a half. If things work out the way She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed and I have planned, I will be able to retire about then. We’re going to kick the kids out once and for all, sell everything and split our time between cruising the Carribean, RVing out west and bouncing from one time share to another with no permanent abode. Once that process starts, if I haven’t gotten anywhere with the writing, I’m gonna chuck it all and spend the last half of my adult life enjoying myself. It’s not worth spending my declining decades banging my head against a stone wall that it will have become apparent has no intention of cracking.
So, set me whatever task you like now, because in eighteen months, barring publication and a couple of movie deals, I’m selling my keyboard and setting sail into the sunset of my life.
Here endeth the rant. Back to your regularly scheduled Nitwit Abuse.
In case no one else has noticed yet, our li’l buddy and this site just got another SF_Drama mention on LJ:
> http://community.livejournal.com/sf_drama/2751947.html
I gotta admit: I never would have responded if I hadn’t seen the thread mentioned here.
It’s all your fault!
Hmm. There were some pretty good links posted in that thread — especially the Wayback one to all his old Diaryland entries. I’d forgotten about that account.
Head go ‘splodey. Some of the crap Nikita posted on Diaryland is worthy of parody for nickolausapacione.com. I really should rework that whole site, anyway.