Nicky’s latest Blogspot entry is rather boring. In it, he reprints an email from the person he was seeking as the author of a story he reprinted without permission. After at least two appeals for the author to make himself known, someone steps forward to do so. The results are predictable, with Nicky claiming the story’s public domain, etc.
After abruptly tacking to a different topic, it gets funny:
I noticed the fake Ethereal Gazette brought up they were going to steal the characters from Spectral Exile so I can take a very good guess whose behind the website. Some of the SomethingAwful set are behind it because they were doing all those “stories” off my character.
That’s right, Peaches — the Goons are coming for you. You managed to tick off an entire board of which you’re not a member. Do you wish now that you had accepted that offer someone made to pay for your membership?
Let’s be real. SomethingAwful moved on a good year and a half ago. Since then, Peaches, you’ve only been briefly mentioned in passing once. Perhaps if you had accepted that free membership offer, they’d still have some interest in you, but I’m just not seeing it.
They had the gall to create a domain of my other publishing outfit — I will have a domain for them next month and will be hosting Ethereal Gazette’s detailed website from there. I have a website for the magazine now, so this would be the link.
First off, you made a typo in that link. It’s dead. What a fantastic way to promote the site. I never would have thought of that angle. It’s brilliant, in its own Pacione sort of way.
Well, if it’s this story, then NIcky is right about public domain. As far as I understand it, the last alterations on the copyright laws did not make them retroactive.
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/weirdvln.htm
As far as I know, it IS public domain, although that doesn’t explain why Nicky repeatedly asked the author to come forward to claim ownership.
Because he thinks that if the person wrote it 100 years ago, they should be willing to come forward. After all, they’d only be about what… 120?
And yeah, Peaches Pacione, you got boring and SA kinda forgot about you.
Except when we talk about delusional losers, then we use your name as just how bad someone can get.
I like how his sidebar links to articles he wrote that have since been deleted from Associated Content.
I’m curious to know why it takes him weeks to register a domain. Forget the small registration fee, for a moment. It only takes a day or two to get a domain registered, and propagated throughout the DNS system.
Because he’s a cheap dumbass?
He probably thinks he’ll be able to get the etherealgazette.com domain after he gets it taken down. Of course that’s assuming he can do that in the first place.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b185/T-Willy/lfsllc.jpg
Oops…
Lake Fossil Press LLC appears to be based out of Oregon.
How did that happen?
Muahahaha
Sir, may I be as bold as to say the following:
YOU ARE MADE OF PURE AWESOME & WIN
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Awesome, Tim!
You are a glorious man and I am proud to see you go to work, though I think Nicky may not be so happy.
That hurt. I blew hot chocolate out my nose. And I might have to buy my friends a new keyboard.
Someone might wanna grab screenshots, I’m willing to bet it’s going to get torn down soon.
My god, he’s delusional.
I have screengrabs of both pages. That thread is chock full o’ win and awesome!
LOL. Cynical beat me to accusing Larry of being “Attentionwhore.”
The term sockpuppet just isn’t one that I think Nicky would throw out like that, not to mention the style of that first post just screamed Dagswine. Though Ant’s got a good point too and I wouldn’t be surprised if Nicky asked Daggy for help.
It’s both Larry’s m.o., and his style. He has a really annoying habit of going caps-lock slap-happy.
I bet Dagswine’s just itching for this to die down so he can swoop as his truly in an attempt to “save teh genre.” Too bad we’ve seen that act before.
Whelpp, the new EG is out now.
I just pressed the publish button.
Enjoy…
Also posted thread about it on SL, lol
That thread is epic. Matty must be unavailable to take complaints for the time being. I predict pruning and locking, if not outright bahleetion.
KABOOM!
Kaboom?
Hell, I’m just gonna quote myself from irc:
oh god, the Shocklines thread… you gotta read it before it’s gone
50 Foot Ant is really going to town on Nicky now. Instructing him how to register his “company” in Illinois and detailing all his responsabilites etc regarding taxes and payrolls and fees etc… shit that is WAY above nickys abilities
It sounds so informational but essentially it’s **insert long list of reasons why he will never be able to run a company here** en masse
lololololololol
Today I saw a man destroyed with a single post, his dreams and hopes laid to waste with but a few strokes from a keyboard, what wonders will you show me tomorrow internet?
Prediction: He’s now going to write a gibbering wall-of-text about elder abuse and whatnot, and he’s going to use that old 1st of May picture of me that he’s got with the traditional white student cap. Remember when he put that up as “King Douchebag” and I made a t-shirt out of it, took pictures of myself wearing it and posted them? That’s the pic he’s going to put up again and of course rant his incoherent ass off about stealing his precious companies and other figments of his imagination in the process. You just wait and see, lol.
I wonder if he’s going to mention diners though…
I just read the Shocklines thread. EPIC.
Glad I got to see it before its inevitable disappearance, all because Matt is afraid of getting on Nicky’s bad side.
It was also hilarious that Nicky made sure to mention his Eye-talian heritage, and how you don’t mess with one if they’re from Chicago. Last I checked, Morris is not exactly across the street from Chicago, and it’s probably too far away to even be considered a suburb!
Isn’t Joliet the end of the Rock Island line? Morris is even farther out than that . . .
you are correct, Rusty.
Morris is technically in the Chicago DMA (Designated Market Area), but that’s really just a Nielsen definition for a television viewing area.
“Lake Fossil Press LLC appears to be based out of Oregon”
I always forget you live in the same state as I do Ant. Someday we must hang out and exchange numerous Brofists and beverages.
Depends on which Rock Island line you’re talking about, Rusty. The old Rock Island had quite a few routes before it finally fell apart in 1980. 😉
So Nicky lives in the middle of nowhere…and tries to insult ME by saying I live in the middle of nowhere? That’s very funny.
that’s typical nicky.
He’s always accused me of picking on the disabled, ignoring the fact that I’m disabled myself.
NIcky was once a regular on a messageboard of disabled horror fans. And he harrassed one of their disabled members for picking on a disabled person (him)
Ladies and Gentlemen… may I present, Nickolaus Ablert Pacione!!!
> NIcky was once a regular on a messageboard of disabled
> horror fans. And he harrassed one of their disabled members
> for picking on a disabled person (him)
Well, remembering that Pacione misspelled his own name on one of his covers (“Ablert” rather than “Albert”), misspelling his shitty website isn’t much of a feat for him.
Speaking of Nicky and the disabled…
In those emails where he thought he was talking to that chick, there was a discussion about the movie they met at the premiere of. It was called something like “The Blind Damned” or something and featured (surprise!) a blind chick in it. Nicky knew the makers of it and I think he was invited because they placed one of his books on a shelf in the background of the movie or something. I’m not sure but I think it had lesbians in it too lol.
Anyway when asked what he thought of it, Nicky said he wished the producers would have approached him as a consultant because it featured a disabled person. I don’t remember his exact words (autoaim do you still have that email?) but he basically said he didn’t agree with how the disabled were portrayed then said he would have been able to advise them on the correct way to do it.
I remember him using the “they’re picking on a disabled person!” excuse whenever people would insult him. Didn’t matter that he always started it, if someone said something back and it stung, he’d always resort to that. Dunno if he has lately though.
@Al: Last night, he accused me (via e-mail) of committing a hate crime against the mentally ill because I registered tabloidpurposes.com. So he’s definitely singing that tune again.
Thread went poof. 🙁
He accused me of harassing a “disabled vet” early on.
Anyone get any screenshots of the thread after my last reply?
I have it through your reply on page 4, which, I think, brought the replies to 65 or so. I’ll post them in a new topic.
Also . . . in Nicky’s email to the editor of etherealgazette.com, Nicky tried to make the point that he shouldn’t be toyed with because his granny “is just clinging to life.” See “Conversations with a Native Oou Speaker” here.
I thought Shirley went in for dialysis, but was not in some ICU with family standing around her bedside. Not that it would matter to Nicky anyway. Remember how he bitched about what a pain in the ass it was, disrupting his book signing, when his grandpa had a heart attack while he was at some convention?
“I registered tabloidpurposes.com” 😀 awesome!
After seeing Ant say he accused him of harassing a disabled vet I was reminded of the book burners, and how they were accused of racism because a black author was in one, disrespecting the dead (HA) because an author who passed on was in one, etc.
He brags about being un-PC but he’s constantly trying to invoke political correctness…when his butt is hurting.
Exactly! He claims the right to say anything he wants, spout any bigoted hate speech that pops into his brain, and yet he doesn’t believe others should have the same right. He also believes that his right to say anything he wants should be without consequences.
The whole mentally ill thing just roasts me because I have known a couple of people over the years who were bipolar – and with the right medications and a good support group, both of them were productive, held jobs, had relationships, etc. Neither of them ran around shrieking Mental Illness! Mental Illness! Clearly there are some mental illnesses that *are* so severe that they prevent someone from functioning in society. Bipolar-ness to the level that Nicky has it isn’t one of them.
A couple of former neighbors of mine are good examples of people that couldn’t function in society in any normal way. They were nice enough folks, but they were definitely batshit insane. Nicky isn’t even near their level of mentally ill.
I have had several friends over the past ten years who were schizophrenic and still have one, Trawlingfrogdog. So long as he’s on his meds, he’s fine but not really at the function in society way.
Yes! There are people who are legitimately challenged by mental illness.
With Nicky, however: although his out-of-proportion anger is a typical consequence of being bipolar, his way of expressing his anger — his foul-mouthed, bigoted, misogynistic language — is not. That’s just Nicky’s underlying personality coming out.