This morning, there were three rather interesting emails in my inbox, two of which were copies of comments left on this blog in my “Holding Lake Fossil Press Hostage” entry. The other was private correspondence in reply to an email I sent Kim last night. For those readers who may not be aware, Kim is Nicky’s cousin’s wife. She’s the person I credit with intervening a little over a year ago to get Nicky back into therapy, etc., and put a halt to his online misbehavior.
I’ll get back to that a little later, but first am going to copy-and-paste the comments from Ray Garton and Karen Koehler. My reasons for this are twofold. I want to make it easier for Kim to find them, and see that I’m not simply making up what I said about Nicky harassing people who make a living off their writing in the real world. Also, it makes sense to keep related comments and discussion together in a single topic.
I was going to email this to you, Rusty, but I couldn’t find a way to do that (I really didn’t look very hard, I confess), so I’m posting it here. It’s been about a year since I had any kind of contact with or even a thought about Nicky. I don’t read his blogs, follow his outbursts, or devote any time whatsoever to thinking about him. Then this evening, while I was quietly going about my business, I got the following message from Nicky in Yuku:
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“This is personal Garton. You come anywhere near my family — you won’t have to worry about sales because I am just going to kick your ass. You don’t fuck with this authors family. I am teaching my younger sister how to a story that disses you — you don’t fuck with me asshole. I am not going to fuck with your career. I am just going to kick your ass and let it be like that — then at the venue I am going to have a heavy metal smash party with your mercedes. That means I am going to have a bunch of my metalhead friends take turns smashing up your car with a sledge hammer I am going to charge $10.00 a hit. Crazy one — fuck no, just very calculating with every step of his moves and career. I’ve been published with Withersin Magazine you washed up son of a bitch. If you e-mail any Pacione — I will find out about it and if you are doing a signing in Chicago, I am not going to punch you,. I will put you in a fucking choke lock until you beg for your life. You fucked with the
wrong writer and some people didn’t drop me — they added me because of my little crack about you masterbating to Buffy The Vampire Slayer.”====
In case you’re wondering, no, I have no clue what he’s babbling on about, and I can’t help but feel grateful for that small blessing. But I also can’t help wondering what made ME pop into the pointy part of his tiny little head all of a sudden. I don’t have any idea what “venue” he’s talking about, but to be safe, should I find myself going to any venues in the near future, I will leave the Mercedes in my garage with the Porsche, the Jaguar, the Aston Martin, and the pink Cadillac I won in a bet with a Mary Kay representative.
Does he really have a younger sister? Is she safe? I’m actually serious about that.
I thought you and your readers might enjoy this, Rusty. I hope you don’t mind that I’ve posted it here.
R
That was from Ray. This next one is from Karen. Both comments were left on this entry.
Ray, I, too, have been getting a lot of abusive emails and blog posts–which I have been deleting, since my blog is now officially Pacione-free. I can only surmise that it’s his time of the month.
I can’t say for sure whether Janrae or Poppy have received abusive emails from the Nickster during the past few weeks, but he did re-release “The Fandom Writer,” his infamous Mary Sue about their destruction.
As for my correspondence with Kim, I’ve always kept that private, and intend to keep it that way. Suffice it to say, however, that she was unaware of his recent behavior; she’ll speak with his therapist, check to be sure he’s taking his meds, and curtail his “book signings” until he proves he can behave himself on the internet. It would be all too easy for her to throw her hands in the air and say he’s not her responsibility, so I give her a lot of credit for making the effort.
*fingers crossed*
So far the only hate mail I have gotten was from Larry. NIcky is definitely off his rocker again.
I think this part of Nicky’s e-mail really should be highlighted to Kim and any other member of his family.
“I am teaching my younger sister how to a story that disses you”
According to that he’s actively trying to recruit his little sister to attack his critics. That’s something that I find rather disturbing for several reasons.
I think it’s pretty clear he’s not taking his meds. Good luck, Kim!
Oh, look… he’s back on SL: http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/14503/t/My-site-is-live-and-revamped.html
“Alfa-male”???
What a nut case. He needs to put locked away, not living in his grandmother’s basement.
He must be in a manic phase. I’ve already worked my way through an entire pot of coffee this morning, and I can’t keep up with him. Between his blogs and that Helium article, I haven’t even gotten to his shenanigans at Shocklines yet. That’s next on my agenda.
I predict I’ll be getting Google alerts for our favorite little Italian meatball all day.
Poor Cousin Kim. I’ve worked in the psych field a long time and seen many family members who would have bus-therapied him or worse well before now.
And only hours after talking about it, he goes after Karen and Ray, two people who haven’t done or said shit to him. It’s pecking order with him…he gets pecked and when he decides to peck himself, he goes after those he deems lower than him in the pecking order. So in that regard he has the mentality of a chicken. Sad part is that his pecking order is all messed up. Just because people ignore him that doesn’t make them weaker than Uncle Clucky.
I feel bad for Kim too. Granted there are sick people in that home who shouldn’t have to do that, but he has other healthy relatives that should be taking that on instead of her.
Janrae: Have you received another email from him?
I must confess I’m not up on the nomenclature here. Does bus therapy involve putting the person on a bus, or throwing the person under said omnibus?
In its normal usage, it means giving said person a one-way ticket, preferably to some far-away large city with reasonable services, the idea being that they’ll then eventually get picked up by the cops and end up in the psych system on that county’s dime.
The under-the-bus thing may, in some cases, be a helluva lot quicker and more effective however …
(Finds his popcorn bag empty.) Shit, gotta get me some more popcorn. Be right back. (sound of stomping footfalls retreating and fading within seconds.)
No mail for me, but I never get any Nikkigrams anymore. 🙁