Nikita’s most recent Tumblr entry is once again full of fail. He talks about some band he found online:
I don’t know if they have the patience for watching an original video that’s almost 30 minutes in length but if they see this and give some traffic, more power to them there. It is not the first time I did something this in depth too but the first time I had managed to get the lighting I used from the 2007 era with a black and white filter to make it look like an old 1940s movie.
I think I prefer the 1920s-style silents he used to make.
I am a little warry to those who go around stealing my work — I am trying to see if this one wasn’t stolen from my catalog because someone did a title very close to what I wrote Wraiths in the Wind sounds too much like Ghosts in the Tornado this cunt stole Ghosts in the Tornado from me what gives — its the ones like her I have my rule that I did with the video query. She’s too scared to go on video and I am going to show the magazine this appeared in so I am not playing around when it comes to plagiarists.
Oh, the horror of someone submitting a story that has a similar title to one that Nicky wrote. He’s the one who keeps demanding that people buy his drivel, and read it to get a feel for what he wants in a submission. He used to accuse people of plagiarism and copyright violation if they used the same title he did. Now, he’s expanded that to include people who have similar titles.
Turns out she plagiarized my signature work — it’s a signature story too but I am asking where did she get this from as whoever is publishing it I am doing a cease an desist from doing so.
I thought his “signature work” was “Lake Fossil.” My real question is who is he going to have his nonexistent lawyer send this cease and desist letter to, if he has no idea where his story was allegedly published? D’oh.
Stealing the very story that my genre was coined — that’s disrespectful in the worst degree as this is my sub-genre I invented and coined; so those who want to steal this story you’re going down.
What genre and sub-genre would those be? I’m pretty sure that bedtime stories for toddlers already existed long before Pacione was born.
I am beyond pissed — I hate people right now.
Did he ever not hate people?
I will not tolerate having my work plagiarized as a way to make fun of me as I am guessing failed editor, Mike Brendan might had slipped the plagiarists a ten spot to plagiarize my work. This is her email address — maryjoenichols@gmail.com as I am going to find out if she’s on Google+ as she’s using a gmail account to plagiarize my shit.
Ooh. Whoever you are, “Mary Joe,” look out, because he’s going to harass you until his mental Rolodex spins around to somebody else. But, don’t worry, since it’ll spin back to you at some point.
Eery plagiarist apposes to my rule; it’s people like this that rule is in effect.
(H/T: Ablert) Hahaha. I’m more astonished at his accidentally correct use of a semicolon than I am at everything that’s wrong with that sentence. At least he didn’t substitute a semicolon for a comma this time. I think he meant to write “Every plagiarist opposes my rule; it’s people like her who cause me to put that rule into effect.”
So those who are saying I didn’t write this they lied and I have the anthology where I published this story so if they want to try to publish the plagiarized version I will not rest until death comes upon them.
So, he does know where “Ghosts in the Tornado” was published. Of course he does; he published it himself. He should send himself that cease and desist letter. Aside from that, this is an obvious death threat.
When assholes in the industry dismiss my getting plagiarized as a “prank” then that is like pretending the Holocaust didn’t happen because Hitler killed the disabled too.
Godwin. At least he didn’t misspell the man’s name as “Hilter” this time. The way I understand this Nicky-logic is: “Hitler killed disabled people, so it’s perfectly acceptable for me to want to kill people, too. Plagiarizing me is as bad as killing six million Jews.”
Seek professional help, Nicky.
Plagiarism makes you a flowering cadaver and the question is you must be bad in bed to your man because if you can’t be honest, writing your own shit — it’s a good chance you had cheated on your wife or husband at some point.
Plagiarism turns a person into an Amorphophallus titanum (aka Titan Arum) plant? That’s a pretty cool trick. Stapelia gigantea blooms more often, and smells like rotting meat, too, but Nicky wouldn’t know it because no metal band ever wrote a song about Stapelias. Let’s not even delve into the sexual aspect of that quote.
… I am guessing Brian Keene and Shock Totem are publishing plagiarisms of my work when turning me into an unpublished writer.
Guesses, guesses. Wrong. Considering that Nicky publishes his own stuff, which is simultaneously incomprehensible and boring, how can he possibly be “unpublished”?
After that, there’s only another paragraph and a half in his entry, but I can’t be bothered trying to make sense of it. I skimmed it, and it’s mostly a couple of stabs at Michael Rowe and Chizine, with another plug for his half hour rant-fest video, which I have no desire to watch.
I wonder if Nicky realizes HE would be on the list of people Hitler would have killed?
Hilarious! Nicky’s rants are so much funnier when deconstructed like this 🙂
I was reading back through some of Nicky’s rants and found a total gem buried in the “Being Served Shit Cookies” entry on his UncleFossil wordpress blog 2014/12/26.
“Any damn way you look at it – there will always be one person who will pick on your madness. But I will say that much – there is always some crazy someone seeks in anything.”
Hahaha.
It’s just after his “Am I Making This Up?” link in blue text, which is about 3/4 of the way down the page. There’s also another reference to the “Sermon on the Mound” near the end of his rant in the penultimate block of text.
“You see a pastor railing about not being allowed to read about the Sermon on the Mound.”
I doubt Nicky knows about this… but Maggie Thatcher gave an infamous sermon on the Mound in Edinburgh where she managed to completely distort Christ’s message to her own ends… which -is- something Nicky is very familiar with…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mound
If a heavy metal band didn’t sing about it, Nicky wouldn’t know about it.
And if they did, he’d still not understand it.
Looks like I have to report a Nitwit for libel.
“Wraiths in the Wind” is “too much like” “Ghosts in the Tornado”? Is Nickypoo asserting intellectual property rights over the words “in” and “the”, or just over the concept of disembodied spirits in conjunction with meteorological phenomena?
“Poltergeists in the Tsunami” sounds good. Or “Specters in the Cyclone,” maybe?
I guess it must be the former, since he didn’t have a problem with these guys and their song “Wraiths on the Wind”.
it’s not like his idea of ‘ghosts in a tornado’ is all that original. Clive Barker had a similar idea with a character in his ‘great and secret show’ and ‘everville’ books.
I wrote a story called “Ghosts in the Wind” in ’91 and had it published in a UK small press mag in ’92. – I pinched the title from a Richard Thompson song. So Nicky stole “Ghosts in the Tornado” from me, the bastard. I want my restitution!
You will have to line up behind the folks who used “Game Over”, “The Ward”, “Legend Keeper”, “Halloween Girl” (and probably more titles) before NAP used them. Of course, once he used those titles, anyone else using them (or anything similar) is plagiarizing in his mind. (Anyone else knows short phrases like titles cannot be copyrighted since (a) they can be accidentally reproduced and (b) deliberate use for parody, criticism or homage is protected “fair use”.) Pacione used Danzig’s “Dirty Black Summer” 1992 as the model for his book title “Dirty Black Winter” 2011: by his own (bogus) standards he is guilty of “plagiarism”.
A lot of the titles of Nicky’s stories were swiped from songs. “Insect” is just one example off the top of my head; that was a Voivod song.
Nicky thinks of swiping something from someone else as “fair use” by virtue of the fact he’s the one doing it. He swipes people’s photos and artwork on a routine basis, including a cartoon of Stinky’s, which he altered by cropping out her copyright. On some level, he must know it was wrong, but he did it anyway. The only reason National Geographic put the fear of god in him for stealing one of their famous cover photos for Quakes and Storms is that they sicced their legal team on him, and had deep enough pockets to pursue it.
Well, you know the saying about blood and turnips.
Now I’m writing a story called “Blood Turnips” and none of you better plagiarize mah title!