Nicky must have been reading the Ray Bradbury fan page on FB. It inspired him to post this to his public napacione FB page:
Does Nicky realize that a) Mr. Bradbury is deceased, and b) he just insulted a legend? First, he uses the present tense when writing “you are one of the lesser influences.” Second, even if he means a lesser influence (than who or what?) on his own work, rather than on the genre at large, why mention it at all?
For a guy who claims to have read The Martian Chronicles as a teenager, and considers his own short story “Lake Fossil” to be his “Bradbury story,” it’s a strange thing to say. At best, it’s a left handed compliment, and at worst, an insult. To top it off, if I recall correctly, “Lake Fossil” is his story inspired by the legend of the Loch Ness Monster, which is anything but futuristic.
This whole left handed compliment vs. insult thing makes me wonder whether Nicky grew up thinking “at least you didn’t put on your pants backwards this morning” was high praise indeed.
And yet still nothing about HPL’s B-day either. Amazing.
I think Nicky has to burn his HP Lovecraft fan club membership card! 😀
I think that happened with the HPLHS booted him off their Facebook. 🙂
He lives in his own time
zonewarp. In the middle of winter, it’ll occur to him.There is an unhealthy obsession with 80 and 90s daytime talk show hosts.
It’s really only a matter of time before his ‘Hey Facebook, fuck you,” post… then he’ll spend months tagging them with all his shite on Twitter like he does now with Lulu.
So Pacione missed the sad news of Bradbury’s death?
And he thinks “Lake Fossil” is comparable to “The Fog Horn”?
And why can I reach Ray Nelson and HeaveyMetal Anna Ruth Brown on FB, and not napacione on FB? Not another ToS shutdown?
https://www.facebook.com/napacione#_=_ is still there, along with this gem, complaining about Ms. Priest:
Yep, signed on to FB using my wife’s account (never signed at FB up myself) and darnn it napacione is still there.
Run to the hills, folks! Nickolaus controls your children, even if they don’t exist yet. His sperm is so mighty that it, rather than the father’s, will determine the gender of your putative offspring.
He’s demonstrated time and again over the years that he thinks women have penises, so it might not be a matter of vicarious gender selection on his part.
My DAD has long hair. Always has, as long as I can remember. Still does, white though it now is. I don’t see why this is a problem.
Yes, but I’m sure your dad washes and grooms it. Nicky looks in desperate need of treatment with a pediculicide.
At the rate his hairline is receding, the displaced vermin will either declare war on the remaining homesteaders, or send a survey team down to Goateeland.
I supposed there’s always the Lost Merkin Swampland.
I think I know where Donald Trump gets his hair now.
or another ‘nair’ treatment
He really hates cats and yardwork. Not the first time he’s whined about that. Heaven forbid people don’t spend 24/7 pretending to be Gothicy-goth horror mavens.
That cat pic was pretty cool. The world would be a happier place if more cat photos were posted.
So I have to be logged in FB to see napacipne? argh.
LOL “You are one of the lesser influences”.
That’s like telling Nicky: “You smell less like a dead cow’s ass today than usual!”
Well as for insulting a legend he insulted Ramsey Campbell who was nothing but polite to him, so is anyone surprised he insulted a dead legend?
Who’s this Joseph Rubas guy? Nicky keeps tagging him, but the only time I ever saw him reply to something he said something like, “The great Nickolaus Pacione, everyone.” Came across preeeety sarcastic to me.