I only get $745 a month …
… from the government, which means from taxpayers.
… but Republicans had been working on ways to improve it.
So, the party that believes a “personal responsibility” attitude is the key to long term success is working to fork over more cash to him? Welfare reform doesn’t mean handing out raises across the board. But Nicky can always dream.
I do get Medicare and that’s helped me when I was at the apartment — being on disability allowed me to sharpen my abilities and learn new tricks as an author. It did allow me to travel some …
Oh, so it’s not just for booze, fast food, pizza, and bondage dresses for underaged models.
Sometimes you have to do quite a few things on your own and one thing I am seeking out for my imprint is a grant. I am actively looking for the grants to do this (holy shit — speak of the devil, I found one.)
First of all, he can barely go to the loo by himself. Second, Gofundme isn’t a “grant program.” Grant programs generally involve applications, and some sort of follow up on the results.
The rest of it’s mostly the usual diarrhea about music and drugs (but NO SEX, people!). He did swipe one of Mike’s pictures, as if he thinks wearing a kilt is dressing in drag. Yes, the boy who screams bloody murder about DMCA violations just committed one.
Also I am Italian-American so you’re not going to see me wearing a dress. I am not making fun of Kilts here but with my heritage; we wear black jeans and Levi’s. You’re dealing with an old school thrasher here.
*gigglesnort*
If he really was “old school” Italian, he’d be wearing polyester Sansabelt pants and white loafers, waiting for the early bird special somewhere in Florida. The only thing he’d be thrashing is the the young whippersnapper who cut in line in front of him.
A few other people got shout-outs, along with a plea to make a video addressing him directly — presumably because he has trouble with the written word. The rest made my eyes glaze over.
I guess Nicky’s never seen the movie Braveheart if he thinks scots in kilts are sissies in dresses 😛
Still one of the sexiest scots alive!
Absolutely!
I’d marry Sean Connery instantly – if he’d have me!
He is one of those men that gets better with age!
Comrade Nicky seems to be confused. You can’t rail against socialism and then bitch that the socialist program that you depend on to live doesn’t pay you enough.
Somebody needs a new bondage sleepsack, I’d wager.
Nicky evidently didn’t pass all those important classes in High school…You know: Government, Economics, and History. If he did he’d know better than to complain about anything related to his government benefits and support the Republican party. Wake up doofus: The Republicans don’t give a shit about you. As long as they have their tax entitlements and no one messes with their millions, they are content to do the least to help even a stinky little troll like you.
Giggling about nicky going on and on about how he’s all for traditional values. Yep…that $745 will get him TONS of women along with how he loves to say how he’d rape so and so’s significant other to get them pregnant and calling any successful woman cunts, whores, and drug addicts. How are women NOT breaking down his door to date him?
Nicky are personal responsibility are far removed. He fails to mention the reason he racked up those high medical bills (paid by taxpayers, not himself) was b/c he smoked excessively and didn’t give it up even when he had a history of bronchitis. He blamed everyone but himself.
It’s more than that. He abuses the system. People used to joke that he called for an ambulance whenever he got the sniffles, or mixed booze with his meds. Unless he’s admitted to the mental ward, the doctors consider him a GOMER. I imagine the staff pinning a note to his hoodie that reads:
Yeh, like he claimed he got a dr to go to his apt and do a portable xray because he was too sick to go to dr or take an ambulance like everyone else does. If it is even true.
I hate ER abuse. People like Nicky just feel entitled like they do not have to go to a primary care or urgent care for non-emerhencies
I read somewhere that he called himself an ambulance to take him to the ER because his infected toenail fell off!
I hate stuff like that – imagine somebody else dies because an entire ambulance crew is busy with Nicky and his bullshit!!!! Not funny at all!
In the interest of fairness and accuracy: Nick Pacione, “A Gothic Nomad Visiting Poe’s Home”, Dirty Black Winter. According to the review by Jenny Torgerson, while returning from his trip to Baltimore, Nick had “a fingernail that was falling off …. that was infected pus everything. … In fact in D.C. it fell off and I was feeling very ill from it. So when I came to Joliet Union I called an ambulance to get me over to the hospital.”
I never say OMG, but wow, that’s all I can say.
WTF? Really? Maybe he should call in MediFlight next time. Slap some neosporin and a bandaid on it a stfu. My 12yo daughter had her toe crushed when she was around three. That nail has been screwed up ever since, and it falls off pretty regularly. She doesn’t cry about it or have to go to the ER in an ambulance.
Exactly. And, Neosporin doesn’t even sting like rubbing alcohol or hydrogen peroxide can. Nicky is a wuss.
Actually, Pacione’s linked grant program is not GoFundMe but Arts.Gov Grants-Individuals Creative-Writing-Fellowships in other words, NEA. Nick backed by the full faith and credit of the Federal Government—scarieeeeee!
BTW did he ever raise any funds with that GoFundMe attempt?
And is this his latest project, the “Social Experiment Anthology For Short Story Writers: A Call for My Generation Only” with the 44 page guidelines for submissions at Scribd (the 10 pages free that I read are not inviting) and the same project Pacione pitched to Melissa Joan Hart (TV actress, director and producer) at the RayFaradayNelson facebook page 17 Jan 2014 with the opening line: “hey Melissa — Tabetha Jones is doing this anthology of authors within the generation of 1973-1979, I am a Gothic Horror author who held his own with H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe.”
His GoFundMe still has no donations after 16 days. That’s pretty much what everybody (except Nicky) expected.
Meanwhile, the IndieGoGo for the Lovecraftian anthology WORLD WAR CTHULHU, in which William Meikle, myself, and Fossil Lake “alum” Peter Rawlik all have stories, just broke $20,000.
Oh wow, that is great!
Just curious I checked today and found:
“Recent Donations (0)
$0 raised by 0 people in 28 days.
Be the First to Donate!”
He also sent it to Dustin Diamond (Screech) and Candace Cameron Bure. Multiple times. Not creepy at all.
At the time I posted this entry, I don’t think he’d linked to anything. NEA grant? Hahaha. I suppose they’re not all awarded to teachers on their sabbaticals, but I doubt one would ever be awarded to a functionally illiterate former Special Ed student who flunked out of junior college after one semester.
RE: Nick’s Experience With Dem Bad Devil Drugs.
I’m about the same age as Nick. I also happen to share one of his diagnosis, and I have about four others to go along with it.
I’m not a drinker, unless it’s a lovely cocktail in which I do not taste the alcohol. In my life, I have smoked weed, blissed out on (legal) sedatives, snorted cocaine exactly thrice (the first time didn’t do anything; the second time was “Meh”; the third time I hated it) eaten those magical mushrooms of delight, and done more LSD than I can recall. I’ve never done heroin or crack or meth, nor do I want to do them. I’ve written three novels AFTER ingesting all of those drugs (No, Nick, I didn’t take them all at the same time) and I guarantee that I already have more sales of those three books than Nick has of his entire “catalog.”
And I’ve been in the psych ward AND the medical hospital far less than Nick ever has. So, once again, I applaud you on your researching abilities, Nick! You’ve proven for the hundredth time that you know nyet of what you spout. But keep watching those Nancy Regan PSAs from the 1980’s… maybe you’ll learn some fashion skills at least.
I really wish he were forced to get a job in customer service. He’d eventually learn how to deal with people “face to face” as he always wants to. He’d also have to learn personal hygiene and how to suck in that anger while a customer chews his ass out for some act of ineptitude.
Seriously. I dont think there’s much that could fix Nicky more than having a real job and being forced to stick with it. But he’s the kind of responsibility dodging fuckwit who’d prefer to be a homeless bum, rather than work for a living.
He left a couple of gems on a Facebook group before they kicked him out:
If his uncle is relying on Nicky to pay the household electric bill, they’re going to get cut off at some point.
Anyway, the FB group was for authors and publishers of paying markets, and Nicky made it clear his project isn’t a paying market, since he can’t pay his own bills without some extra income. Needless to say, he wasn’t happy they wouldn’t break their own rules for him and his “editor’s choice” project.
Makes for a good Wicked Witch of the East visual, if nothing else. But, it does make it clear he’s terrified of being homeless again.
I still think his 3000 dollar give me money call is because he needs cash to move. He has started up with his fantasies again about having a place in Joliet. Estate has to be settled eventually. Boohoo Nick has to pay an electric bill.
I make the same amount as Nicky (some months a bit more depending on the hours I get at my part time job), and I’m able to make $145 car payments (yay for my nice used 2007 ford taurus I bought this week!!!!), rent, groceries, and go out to eat and the movies a few times a month.
Is anyone else thinking his recent obsession with meth addicts is he was too stupid to set up and run a meth lab in his basement hovel to make money with?
Some simple math…
The minimum wage in the State of Illinois is $8.25 per hour.
IF — and this is a big if — Nicky were to get a full time job at minimum wage (assuming a 40 hour work week), he could pull down (assuming a quarter of his pay is withheld for taxes et al) $990 per month.
Granted that’s a very rough guesstimate, but it’d be more than what he’s leeching off the government right now…
Having a job is beneath Nicky.
Nicky will never get a real job. He’d have to get off his fat, lazy ass and BATHE to get one. We all know he only bathes once every decade or so.
Somehow, I can’t see Nicky taking a shower every morning before heading out to work. Even if he realized the extra $145 or so per month would pay the grocery bill, he wouldn’t do it. Filet mignon wouldn’t be on the menu, but he could get a brisket to smoke or a flank steak to grill, with that sort of food budget, and have leftovers for a week. Even half a pork loin would make 20 pork chops for about $0.75 (or less) each.
I don’t know what his electric bill is, but I’m sure my house is bigger than his. Even with everything but the furnace running off of electricity, my monthly electric bill, in the summer with central AC set to 78F, has never gone over $400. So, no, we’re not stealing food off his table by not buying his books. Besides, he gets food stamps, too, doesn’t he?
Ah yes, but you cant pay for beer or trips to the local greasy spoon with food stamps! I seriously doubt Nicky cooks, unless its something like Ramen noodles. He wouldn’t know what to do with a brisket if Bobby Flay were supervising him.
I’d rather have Myron Mixon supervising my BBQ. I’ve eaten at a couple of Bobby Flay’s restaurants; he tends to overdo things to add his personal “thumbprint” to his food. it’s why he loses so many of his Food Throwdowns.
Unless it’s the summer, my electric bill never sees three digits. Even then it’s never over $120, and that’s with three computers in sleep mode and full house AC.
My old house had that sort of electric bill even in August, but it didn’t need electricity to run a water pump, and the stove, oven, and furnace used natural gas. Electricity was needed to spark the gas (although that could be done with a match in an emergency), and pump the air, but the big bill was for gas in the winter. There are no gas lines out here, nor a municipal water supply, so we can’t even get running water without electricity. let alone hot water baseboard heat.
It has been very cold this winter…in IL, with an older non-efficient electric heat pump (no gas bill to pay), an ill-maintained house that leaks and is poorly insulated- yeah I could see him having a $300-$400 bill this past year.
Now…in Spring…no. Boo-hoo. It shocks me a man-child that has lived off his relatives for years whines he has to pay a utility bill.
Most months, my electric bill is around $75-$100, but it does spike way up in summer, if I have to turn on the A/C. In Spring or Fall, with open windows, no effin’ way is that bill going over $60.
Gas and electric seems really expensive in America, here in the UK we get quarterly bills, I just got mine for the three coldest months and it was £114,- for electric and £231,- for gas (heating). I get a yearly water flat rate of £160,- I only have a three bedroom house and in the summer quarters I pay less than half for gas and electric.
You all must have huge houses or the cost for utilities is a lot higher!
I am also getting double glazing and I want to insulate my roof and cellar this summer so I can save some more money (I am saving up for a horse)
I have a feeling we may have bigger houses and more of a temperature range…I’m at close to 2,000 s.f. finished and mine is modest here. Not sure of your weather there, but last year I got summer high temperatures over 100F and nighttime winter lows down to 5F. Last year sucked. Big time.
That must be it – nobody here has ACs either, they eat up a lot of electric.
It just doesn’t get that cold or that hot here.
I saw a special on it last year which is why I mentioned the AC 🙂 Yes, I did just assume most of the UK had air conditioning until that.
Heh heh I thought they only had two types of weather in the UK: Cold and Wet with variations and overlapping of both! 😉
This house is probably close to 4000 sq. ft., and it’s sort of average for the neighborhood. We got more than the usual amount of sub-zero overnights and mornings this winter. I try to hold off using the A/C until it gets to 95F with matching relative humidity. Obviously, some summers are worse than others. The worst are the pop-up t-storms that seem to happen every day during evening rush hour from June through September. Torrential for 10 minutes, then it’s clear. But, if you’re on the road at the time, visibility sucks beans.
I converted it and my house only has 1700sq feet – so my little dwarf dwelling could almost fit three times into yours…
I’m quite glad that we don’t have all that extreme weather here – I start crying if I get stuck in a bit of fog while driving!
You’re getting very good utility costs.
AC goes on for me when it’s above 75. Freaken humidity at 80% and 75 not fun. I don’t mind high dry-bulb temps but I cannot stand humidity being high.
The humidity is what makes me finally cave, and turn on the A/C during the dog days of summer. There’s something icky about stepping out of the shower, toweling off, and still feeling wet.