Daggy’s new free story reads like “The Fandom Writer.”
Welcome to my first installment of what will be a continuous monthly to bimonthly project. Free Fiction Stories. Approaching all genres, and sometimes even serialized (the serials will most likely be novelette or novella lengthed works). For February and March we have a brand new Extreme Horror piece — put the kiddies to bed — about a writer. A good chilling tale about a writer quickly brings to mind the work of Mr. King and Mr. Ketchum.
A couple of things: one, this will be bimonthly for about as long as The Literary Bone(r) lasted, and two, a tale about a writer merely brings The Fandom Writer to mind, as far as I’m concerned, if a Nitwit wrote it. Comparing himself and his, er, story, to anything by King or Ketchum evokes nothing but laughter at Dagswine’s self-delusional display of arrogance.
The picture below, which I got off the Web and am a die-hard fan of (I’m a die-hard fan of all pictures on my site, from Doctor Who to Action Figures to Whatever), I think compliments this piece well.
Since when can a picture voice a compliment? Surely, he means complement. Although the chances of anyone reporting him to the Doctor Who folks for using that picture are slim, the chances of him being reported to the artist for using a picture called “King of the Scarecrows” by John Oless in this blog entry are much higher. Daggy never gave credit to Mr. Oless, let alone sought permission to use it.
Before Daggy even gets into this autobigraphy of his, we meet Colbert, the waiter at a diner, who gets dissed about a former cat he owned, rather than a tip.
“Thanks, Colbert,” he said. “I promise I’ll leave you a tip next time.” He got a refill on his coffee.
“When are you writing this next bestseller?”
“As soon as one of these organizations actually recognize me,” he said.
Colbert nodded. “I guess that means never.”
“How’s your cat?”
“Dead.”
“Another one.”
“It’s okay. I’ll just go down to the Humane Society and pick me up a healthier critter. Anyway, good luck with your manuscript.”
Way to go, Captain Butthurt — take a swipe at Rain and Detta. What is it about diners in Nitwit stories? Is it a required element?
It takes quite a few paragraphs before we learn anything about our protagonist, other than he smokes, likes diners, and has a laptop.
Carnesto never really wrote anything of worth. He was beat as a child if he got less than a B, sometimes his father would hit the bottle and then creep into his room in the middle of the night and display his inebriation. Carnesto even had a lax imagination at times to show for it. A character like himself writing fiction was like a dead fourth brain inside the human skull. Internet crazies with drug addictions thought he was super-important, and he might think so too.
Given Daggy’s SL thread from yesterday, ostensibly outing Johaha, which Matt deleted, it’s obvious this story is nothing but Lorenzo’s projection of his own failure onto an author of whose success he’s jealous. Sure, Larry, show them all you mean business by writing a revenge fantasy of a story like some kid in junior high. Cackle a little, like Beavis, and spill coffee on your lap, while you’re at it. Then call in your Chicago Street Team of Butt-heads.
As a balding, middle-aged man living between Middletown USA and the UK, however, he still didn’t get it yet.
From the Bureau of Redundancy’s Repetitiveness Department . . .
In other words, Daggy still doesn’t know where Johaha lives.
A curious kind of aberrant, macroscopic reputation attainable because of the nature of the exposure, and the redundancy of the work routine combined.
Ever get that feeling of déjà vu?
Carnesto never really wrote anything of worth. He was beat as a child if he got less than a B, sometimes his father would hit the bottle and then creep into his room in the middle of the night and display his inebriation. Carnesto even had a lax imagination at times to show for it.
So, Daggy’s lack of imagination is the result of carnal relations with his drunken father? Sure, Dagswine, blame your failure on someone — anyone — other than yourself. This projection of yours is absolutely worthy of your little buddy, Peaches Porcine. I’m just waiting for the street corner Jesuses of Coney Island to make an appearance.
They talked a bit and it just so happened that this other typist was also into genre. When he’d heard that, Carnesto felt embarrassed asking the amateur for advice . . .
At this point, it’s worth mentioning that the unnamed “amateur writer” is a stand in for Daggy. We’ll just call the nameless character Gary Stu. Gary continues:
“Are you trying to say I’m pathetic?”
Nobody has to, Daggy. If you didn’t feel like such a pathetic little puss, you wouldn’t be writing juvenile masturbatory fantasies like this, looking for approbation from non-existent fans.
He then rambles on about how Carnesto Johanna Johaha has been smoking crack with a meth-head Janrae.
His wife came over and threw down some drug paraphernalia. His eyes glanced it briefly as he typed away. “And where did you get this?”
“I don’t know where you got that, but it’s definitely not mine.”
“Smoking drugs with that crack whore. I spotted you with her the other day, chatting about. She’s the big druggie and floozy of the neighborhood.”
“You know her?” Carnesto asked.
“Who doesn’t! What are you doing with that meth head?”
Which is it, Beavis? Crack or meth? Make up your mind. You’re making even less sense than Pacione, by now.
He went to messageboards, review sites, emailed friends of his—if one didn’t know any better, they’d think he was a full-time stalker—wherever this individual had been last, he would be there to spy and bait.
You’re projecting again, Dagswine.
The court awarded his ex custody of their little girl, and he must pay alimony until she remarried. But she hadn’t done that, and the cost of maintaining her lifestyle, and the costs of his daughter, had been a drain.
About three, four times a year he saw them. He was entitled visitation rights with his child, but his computer life always cut in . . .
Dragging someone’s daughter into your delusional world of piss and vinegar is low, even for you, Daggy. But you’ve done it before, to Janrae, so I guess I shouldn’t expect anything different from you now. Plus, you’ve gotten so original lately, that you just had to reference the title from another of your “stories.”
We finally get to a point that makes me want to puke. Daggy insinuates that Carnesto nearly had carnal relations with his daughter, but shot her instead.
He swiveled around in his chair and let go of the trigger. A bullet entered the center of his daughter’s chest, ricocheted off her shoulder and lung, and exited through her back.
Dagswine needs a lesson in anatomy and forensics. He’s always making up bits in his stories with absolutely no regard for how patently absurd they are. This one ranks right up there with his vampiress wannabe stabbing herself through the heart with a busted rolling pin.
This whole Gary Stu of a story can be summarized this way: pro author is insanely jealous of some wannabe amateur who finally gets a book deal, and is so bothered by what he reads on internet bulletin boards that he kills his own daughter.
We have many hallmarks of Pacione in Daggy’s piece of crap:
- projection of feelings onto perceived rivals
- self-insertion into story as underdog hero
- getting stuck in reverse gear about shit that happened years ago
- Gary Stu storytelling
- dragging perceived rivals’ family members into the fray
- expressing death wishes for those family members
- a final proclamation of victory over his rival(s) from afar using his keyboard and an internet connection
Please excuse me now, while I go kiss the porcelain god.
Great review, Rusty.
Nicky is way more fun than Dagswine… Dagswine’s just a stupid and boring whore.
meh
LOL. Too true, Autoaim.
But he’s the current bugger out to get us.
Fortunately, he’s stupid.
“(I’m a die-hard fan of all pictures on my site”
Is that him being snide about getting caught stealing the first picture (ROFL it was written before getting caught a second time I’m guessing!) or pre-emptive ass kissing in case other artists find their work on there without permission?
Either way he needs to grow the fuck up. I also love how the bad guys in the “story” are on the net too much, stir up drama, have mental conditions, are stalkers, think they are good and famous authors when they aren’t…one of em is bald… Here’s a tip: When you fling fifteen insults at someone, make sure that fourteen of them don’t apply to you as well.
Wait? Don’t 16 of the 15 insults apply to him?
Well here’s my take on Dagstine’s story and his recent manic behavior over here: http://scottcolbert.wordpress.com/ . Rusty did a superlative job in breaking his story down, I didn’t feel the need to take the whole thing on.
Excellent post, Scott. You covered things that both Rusty and I missed.
I’m afraid I missed Daggy’s reference to my brother, while reading. As usual, he got it all wrong, so it didn’t really register for what it was. I’m glad Cuss caught it. I’m off now to read Rain’s take.
“(I’m a die-hard fan of all pictures on my site”
Yeah, but that still doesn’t give you permission to use those pictures without permission. MORON.
*GASP* you know you’re right Victor! Now that I think of it, he too is a bald wannabe author with no credibility or hair whose on the net too much and stalks people
If he uses someone’s child again in a story like that, there will be severe consequences.
Has anyone noticed that the only person with the steely nerves to post a response on my good review thread at SL is TM Wright?
Thanks Cuss. Writing about the nitwits is like riding a bike-you never forget how to do it.
Between the three of us, he’s getting a thorough bashing.
I started that thread at Shocklines about the review as bait to get Dagstine to take a swipe at me. The review is several months old at this point and very old news.
Last time I did that both Philbin and Dagswine jumped me. So I’m hoping Dagswine does it again.
Or that he goes to Bitten by Books and leaves a turd in the review’s comment section.
Make him show his colors a few more times.
LOL @ Rain. You ride a mean bike. 😉
Rusty-it must be the baseball cards I put in the spokes. 😛
Despicable.
I had forgotten about putting baseball cards in the spokes. Thanks for reminding me, Raingods.
That clickity clack made it sound like we were flying along.
Wow, how small and bitter can you get?
I thought that about his ‘I’m a fan of any artwork I steal’ line. It is clearly a whine for anyone who catches him with their work not to hate him.
Pathetic really.
Before you let the personal attacks aimed at each person personally, consider this:
– It takes him a day to write each story like that.
– He’s written more than one.
– The time he uses to write those revenge fantasies is time he could be trying to write legit stories to further his career, and he isn’t.
– Potential customers and publishers visit his site and start to see a transition into multiple revenge fantasy stories always about the same people and subject, showing them an increasing and unhealthy obsession
– The personal attacks he makes come at the expense of his reputation and since they’re on his website, there is a potential for millions to see (but thankfully for him only six have)
– He pretends not to care and thanks you for the free publicity, but shows that it bothers him so damn much that he does all of the above that I’ve just listed.
tl;dr You guys won! Yay!
FWIW, I have screengrabs of his blog entries with this story and the one with the stolen scarecrow art, in case either or both go bye-bye.
I do believe that something is going to happen.
I’m watching for it.
I think he’s gearing up for something, but I just don’t know what. If he were Nicky, I’d guess another “nervous breakdown.” He’s been announcing upcoming stories, but hasn’t named any publishers for them, and let’s face it, another stab at self-pubbing won’t exactly make any headlines.
I predict another health crisis.
A friend just suggested that I speak with an attorney and inform Matt that (since Dagswine has nothing) I will sue Shocklines if Matt continues to allow Dagstine to libel me there.
I have enough screenshots as evidence to prove that he is the one who initiated this and continued it.
I need to make some phone calls and see if this can be handled through an non-profit organization of attorneys for the arts that Victoria Strauss has suggested to me in the past.
Wouldn’t Dangswine me even more accurate? Or is dang considered too genteel these day?
‘Be even more accurate’. Sometimes I do think it’s all about me, apparently.
But then people might confuse him with the contrary herds of genteel pig farmers and that would be a terrible insult to those poor innocent future bits of bacon.
The pig, if I am not mistaken
Supplies us sausage, ham and bacon.
Let others say his heart is big;
I call it foolish of the pig.
—- Ogden Nash
I PM’d Matt.
If he does not stop Dagstine from libeling me on his board, I will go forward with actions to shut down Shocklines.
I am sick and tired of what he is allowing Dagstine to do there.
http://scars.tv/cgi-bin/works_e.pl?/home/users/web/b929/us.scars/perl/text-writings/y990.txt
Aw jeez … I’d just decided to start posting free stories monthly on MY site. But I was going to post — call me crazy, I know — actual stories. D’oh.
— C.
I have received a reply from artist John Oless.
He is looking into it and actually called Dagstine “Dumb”.
Matt gave me his usual response.
“I have let him know that if he posts anything about you again, I will ban him. Similarly, if you post anything about him in any capacity, I will ban you. Ergo, neither of you should mention each other in any capacity on my board. If you see him post about you on my board, you need to contact me. That’s all I can do.”
Which means that Dagstine can continue and I”ll get in trouble.
There was no mention of Dagstine made in a negative manner on my blogs from August 8th,2009 until February 12th, 2010. And that post was provoked by the hate mail he sent me.
I even posted how nice the silence was on August 27th, 2009.
You got that right. That’s what you get for giving Matt a warning.
I have to agree with rusty.
I’m legally required to issue a warning. I can’t smack him out of the blue with a violation notice.
Meanwhile, I have renewed my investigation into Dagstine’s background.
The renewal of the crackwhore and other serious allegations by Dagstine (such as the assaulting of infants) requires a more serious approach than simply raspberries and presenting the truth.
According to a private source, there was NO booth at the Coney Island flea market leased to a Lawrence R. Dagstine. So if he really was there, then he got the booth under his real name.
Meanwhile, Daggy still hasn’t removed the stolen scarecrow artwork from his blog entry.
The wheels of justice turn slowly. My one great regret is that no one thought to screenshot the blow up at the Literary Bone’s interview of Nicky.
That would have been the clencher for demonstrating the origins of the conflict and how he used the interview to bait people in. It was clear that I was the one he was hunting with that bait.
I do have a copy of the one with Nicky and Philbin, which Nicky kindly posted as a .pdf on his WP blog, but not the one Daggy did with Nicky.
What the hell?? Click link = http://thebrokencondom.wordpress.com/
I guess now we know where Dagstine got the notion that people were allegedly accusing him of being me, when he posted that nonsense on Shocklines. In fact, he’s the only one I’ve ever seen level that accusation. Draw your own conclusions.
Given how it was written, and when, I have two guesses at who created it – and one of them is Dagswine.
The sad thing about Shocklines is people still have to use it as it is still the biggest place for writers gathering to discuss horror.
If enough broke free of it perhaps there could be a new dawn of social interaction. Sadly too many people seem to pander to Matt and his ideals of what is right and wrong. I use it merely to further my own gains. Perhaps that is wrong but it has got me attention (both good and bad)!
Vern is absolutely right about Shocklines. Though I’m not sure if it’s pandering to Matt so much as indifference. I’d say a good 80% of my posts there in the last 5 months have been under the Bandersnatch banner as opposed to my raingods account.
It certainly helped me get writers like Rick Hautala and Mike Knost for my anthology, but other than networking an pimping, it lost any other value it may have had.
I commented and called Larry out on his BS. Let’s see how it goes.
And it’s also been reported… Gee… ain’t I a stinker?
I don’t see any comments on the Busted Prophylactic. Are you talking about something else, Mike?
It’s awaiting moderation…
Be fun to see if it is ever approved. Somehow I doubt it.
And yes, Mr Gutless Bullshitter seems most likely behind it. He seems to be the main ‘culprit’ getting mentioned.
OH, that’s cool.
flood him with comments.
I doubt he’s monitoring that site closely. It was posted in April 09. He may not even remember it’s there.
Rus, has DAggy been here lately that you know of?
I believe he has, Johaha–several times over the past few days. NYC, Mac OS X, Firefox 3.0. He’s the only visitor I ever get besides Mike who uses a Mac. This afternoon, he went poring through my last eight pages worth of entries, page by page. If you see a reference on SL to Mongo, it’ll be a dead giveaway.
I’d be surprised if Dagswine had a Mac. These things is costly, even the Minis are $600 minimum. Of course he might have bilked his parents for one, since we know he’s not making anything with his writing.
He bilked his parents out of a few hundred dollars for one of the first second generation Kindles.
Whoever in NYC is using that Mac returned just now to view further back. Around 2pm, the visitor read through my most recent eight pages; just now, the vistor went and read the 9th most recent page, and skipped back to my 2007 archives.
Nobody does that, unless it’s Daggy digging for something to use against the blog owner. He did this to both me and Janrae back in the Xanga days when he first started trolling us.
Unless a friend is doing it for him, so the trace doesn’t get to him.
But that would presuppose he has friends.
According to Shanari, Dagstine has not logged in at SL for two days.
Do you think that Matt talked to him after I told him I would sue?
Probably.
However, I bet you the farm that both Matt and Dagstine think that, given enough time, this will blow over and nothing will come of your intent to sue.
They are both that dumb, in my opinin.
Update.
http://johaha.wordpress.com/
Suck on it, Daggy!
The NYC culprit kept digging until he finally found this entry about The Literary Bone. Who else would bother digging and digging and digging ad nauseum until he found it, but Dagstine?
Yes, Lorenzo, I have the server logs.
johana: You might want to make the link on the url you posted clickable. Ah nevermind why garner extra traffic there?
I notice that pic is still up so either Daggy hasn’t read the artist’s email, read it and ignored it, or read it and kissed his ass so massively that he was allowed to keep it up.
I full-on expect the latter to happen. Talking about the King Of Asskissing here. I am not kidding when I say I predict there will at least be something like “You are the greatest artist evah!” email (honestly though, Mr. Oless is an amazing artist from what I’ve seen) so I hope he sees through that.
“I have let him know that if he posts anything about you again, I will ban him. Similarly, if you post anything about him in any capacity, I will ban you. Ergo, neither of you should mention each other in any capacity on my board. If you see him post about you on my board, you need to contact me. That’s all I can do.”
WTF is this shit, and why are you accepting it, Janrae? ‘All I can do’, my Aunt Petunia’s ass. My response to Matt would be that you and numerous others have complained about Dankstain’s libels many times in the past, and the time for one more chance is long over. I would tell him that his choice is to permanently ban the scum sucking pig or you will proceed with legal action. If he’s too stupid to jump on that ultimatum with both feet, take his precious little board away from him and ban the asshole (and the former owner) yourself. And if your lawyer tells you you have to give Matt one more chance, find another one. People sue for less reason and with less warning than this daily. You don’t have to give him a shot across his bows to make him stop being an accessory to libel. You’re fully justified in firing a full broadside. Fuck him and the sway-backed horse he rode in on.
Oh, and you might tell him that threatening to ban you for attempting to protect yourself from a tort is just as actionable as aiding and abetting one.
Frankly, I wish you would take Shocklines away from Matt. It would be nice to post there, but even if he hasn’t banned me after my parting shot (I have no idea and don’t care) I won’t contribute as long as he is in charge and letting le Legion d’Imbeciles have the free run of the place.
Al Kilyu, the link does work for me. I just clicked on it.
And Cuss, I agree with Otter. Shoot with both barrels.
Okay, then I will take the next necessary steps.
Get screenshots of everything you notice, in case I miss them.
I now have a copy of the Literary Bone Nicky interview courtesy of Vern.
I am building my case there.
The scarecrow picture’s still up but there’s been an addition to the entry.
“Added: The following picture above was obtained on MySpace.
Added: If you’re interested in this artist’s work, please visit his site and consider purchasing something: http://www.eeriepa.com/home/“
Only Dagstine would would add:
after the picture. What a dolt.
That was, indeed, a dumb thing to say. It’s kind of like saying “I stole this heer picture here.”
Oh, and can the folks here keep an eye on Shocklines? I would like to know when / if Dagswine reappears there.
Aside from that, he needs a dictionary. “Above” and “following” do not mean what he thinks they mean.
SQUAWK
*** I OFFICIALLY ISSUE A CHALLENGE TO DAGSTINE ***
Provide a link to the myspace page you supposedly got that picture from, Lawrence, and know that we can tell when it was uploaded if you try to cheat.
I have undeniable proof you stole it and it’s pretty damning evidence that you not only stole his picture, but you knowingly and willingly cropped his name off of the image so you could use it royalty free.
You can either admit you lied about finding it on myspace, or I’ll post my evidence which will only make it worse for you because you didn’t choose to fess up before the truth was revealed.
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I feel the need for the Ride of the Valkyries!
Seems the charge is on!
Daggy won’t take up any challenge for fear of losing.
He’s a pussy.
He’ll go into hiding for a week or two. He’ll completely ignore this challenge. Note that he provided a link to the artist’s site, but STILL didn’t give Oless credit by name on his damn blog.
When he dares to reappear on SL, he’ll ask some dumb question, or link to an article, and ask for opinions.
Is it just me, or has he been in hiding lately?
So far as I can tell, Dagstine was last scene on the 28th of last month (Sunday) at TTA. So he’s not hiding. That was only two days ago.
I’m hoping that the rock he’s hiding under will crush him to death.
He’s not really in hiding, but he has been steering clear of Shocklines for almost a week.
He hasn’t logged in. But I bet you he’s reading the threads, looking for anything about him.
He hasn’t been taken seriously on any boards since he was banned from Silverthought. But he keeps trying. And when he finally gets irritated at the successes of others, he takes that out on me and others.
I had made no mention of him on my blogs since last August, and I had not posted about him since last June.
Yet, he goes off on me on the 11th. That’s very much like Pacione.