Remember that cyclops-bat thing Nicky drew in crayon, or whatever it was he used? It’s baaaaack.
This is Nicky’s fourth or fifth iteration of his story about how he snagged Nelson’s story. The bottom line is that he found it on GeoCities, and swiped it, typos and all. The copyright was renewed in 1988. A “hat tip” is in order to Mr. Brown for his research on that one. Nicky has claimed at various times to have payed anywhere between $10 and $40 to Ray Nelson for the reprint rights. That has been proven wrong, several times.
I will agree with Nicky on one point. Bear with me for a moment. I do believe that god spoke to him — or at least he believes he heard god speaking to him. It’s a shame that god didn’t whisper in his ear “don’t steal stuff from Ray, or anyone else!”
He didn’t even get the quote right from his favorite movie it’s “AND I’m all out of bubblegum!” *coughs* not that I’ve seen the movie at all. I also can’t see his imaginary roster going around saying that line over and over.
There’s only one quote I’d ever want associated with my name: She ate bacon, and thought it was tasty.
Yeah, I know that could go in any of four or five directions, but that’s why it makes me laugh. If you can’t die laughing, die in your sleep!
Dad’s from Iowa, so he gets the joke.
Am I the only one who wonders if ANY of his ‘roster’ even speaks to him anymore?
No.
NAP’s way to make a contributor feel honored: In that snip of Confessional in the opening of this thread, he calls it “Blessed Be The Bloody”. In Amazon’s Look Inside! for EG12 Pacione typed the ToC entry as “Blessed Be The Bloody*” but in the *footnote referred to it as “Blessed Are The Bloody”. The title of the story is “Blessed Are The Bloody” I think.
Does nearly everyone who talks to Pacione start their sentences “Wow!…” or “Holy shit!…”? Or everybody’s talking at him, he doesn’t hear a word they’re saying, only the echoes of his mind? Since he frequently writes “I was going “holy shit!…”” about himself, it looks to me like he’s putting his words in other people’s mouths. I hate to think where those words have been.
Actually, no one ever talks to him anymore, not even his family. Like, ever.
Oh, others have had versions of “Eight O’Clock…” A long time ago (it seems) I found:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/43784308/8-O-Clock-in-the-Morning-Ray-Nelson
The scribd version had the typo “care” for car like the GeoCities version but did not have “teh” for the or “ntohing” for nothing typos. I was going to go back look for “lizrd” and “wont” but Scribd now returns “The document 8 O’Clock in the Morning – Ray Nelson has been deleted.”
Copyright info on the title:
http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Eight+O%27Clock+in+the+Morning&Search_Code=TALL&PID=2WLZx0VS1OgPT0GStXcVtEf8&SEQ=20140411230445&CNT=10&HIST=1
[b]and living proof that the same title can appear on two different copyrighted works by different authors[/b]
The typo-riddled version is still available in all its teh-lizrd-wont-care-ntohing wonder and mystery.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071211153131/http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/9412/8oclock.html
I wonder why so many of your comments get stuck in my moderation queue. You’re not on my permanent moderation list the way NAP is. I have my comment settings configured so that unless some combo of IP/name/email changes, your comment should post automatically once I’ve approved an initial comment from you. That happened how many months ago? Nobody else seems to get stuck in moderation as often as you do. It’s puzzling.
Links can do that.
Evidently.
My IP number changes. I believe my internet service provider dynamically allocates IP numbers from a pool (for what reason I do not know).
4 Mar 2015 I had IP 67.235.70.180
15 Mar 2015 I have IP 67.235.71.165
I have associated the reassignments with storms or modem resets, but that’s a guess.
I’m usually assigned a new IP after a power outage, if the power’s been out for more than a few minutes. I was also assigned a different one when my ISP sent me a new router with WPA2 security.
That involved swapping out the old one and typing in a password that seemingly went on forever. Not rocket science, but it made my setup a new network. New network, new password, so yes, a different IP was dynamically assigned when I made the swap. It’s probably changed a few times since then.
Ray Faraday Nelson Facebook 9 Mar 2015 a fan asked where to find “Eight O’clock in the Morning” for her cousin.
Nelson suggested that she look for the original Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Nov 1963 or the anthologies Reel Future 1994 and The Young Oxford Book of Aliens 1998.
https://www.facebook.com/RayFaradayNelson/posts/10153988640059572
Notable in its absence: Ethereal Gazette: Issue 12 (c) 2010, Lulu.com LakeFossilPress 2011.
I think NAP calls that particular art work of his “Praying Angel”.
He could mean “Preying Angle,” though.
He also used it as the cover of “Legend Keeper” with a “crumpled paper” filter applied, but cropped to where the shadow on the whatsit’s right side looked like the end of a tail (or something lewder). Now the negative image serves as the page background for “Confessional” and its reformatted version “Suburbanite’s Confessional”. He seems very proud of it.