Ahaha, this is fun.

it's not fun. it's deadly fucking serious.

deadly.

Gregor I can't believe you're still claiming that the points you've repeated in your livejournal, Serious Debate, and in your second article weren't supposed to be taken seriously in your first article. Or that several people didn't call you on your bullshit instantly.

And yes I think your writing's awful. You've harped on it more than I have.

what's that? A song?

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/SchmittVanDean/JasonPics/LittlestViolin.jpg">
Why it's the world's smallest violin!

(With apologies to Tyler.)

Unless you've been living inside my head, you've no way of knowing my motivations for writing anything until I explain it to you.

so - since you're so sure that you've got my motivations pegged correctly, and I'm clearly trying to back out of making a particular stance heard, despite several fairly solid attempts on my part to get you to understand where I was coming from, I shall have to acquiesce. hopefully it'll shut you up.





awwww... and I was going to write you into the Harry Potter fanfic, Jason...

now you miss out. for being a bad little boy.



no... it's a poor, old joke that doesn't deserve to be dragged out of retirement...

...and here I was expecting something original from you...

oh. my mistake. it must be some form of comedic fanfic, where the jokes are , rehashed and recycled, only to emerge with your name on them.

what a great idea!



all that could have been yours, Jason... but sadly, t'is never to be.

Jesus - you're turning me into a mean old bastard...

I'm pretty sure I'm already in a couple.

meh

he didn't even get the violin joke right.

you're supposed to simply rub your pointer fingr across your thunb.

it funnier that way.

and if it were comedic fanfic, jason woulda written a kinky sexscene with himself and tracy ullman.

I don't find that the least bit surprising.

so - have you written anything original, or am I going to get to beat you over the head with your 'fanfic is a legitimate art form' stance?

...since we're here being critics of each other's work...

I like this, guys. Let's never move on.

Fanboy started it.

this is the BEST critique ever!!!!

it so takes me back to my fine art days.

fucking hell... you wouldn't know fine art if it stood up in your oatmeal.

*edit*

wait... you're not Jason.

sorry wes - I've got my browser set to 'auto-reply' again.

Yes.

I'll leave you with a piece of satire.

nice!

I'll reciprocate by leaving you with a joke:



'nuff said...

I love this I hope this never ends


and I am being completely fucking serious. :3

NEVER EVER STOP OH GOD!!

Gregor, can you not see that when you post things such as:

"it was a kind of half-hearted attempt to serious"

"how can these people be doing this shit to each other after what they've all just been through?"

that its a little difficult to believe that your sole point was to parody the editorializing going on in the media. Now, perhaps your comments in your lj were pulled out of context from Jenny, I don't know, but it seems that although the editorializing may have been the central point behind the article, the vitriol came from your own disgust at the situation. If these comments were taking way out of context I'd like to know, because otherwise I'm going to assume that this isn't a mere parody (not that it probably matters much ) Also, I would be curious to know how many of the positive replies you received before the 2nd letter talked about how good of a parody of the news you wrote. Did anybody really get that out of the first article?

Also, I think that Schmitt was probably being sarcastic when he posted that little snippet of fanfic, because I'm sorry, fanfic being an artform or not (no clue, just know i won't read it) it seemed kinda atrocious. Sorry.

nobody responded to the fact that the first letter was a parody, because pretty much only two or three people knew that it was.

my LJ replies (the reasons for which I haven't touched on yet - sorry Jenny, I didn't mean to ignore you) were done to further gauge reaction to the points made, to see if I was on the right track with the tone of the first letter... but, I should point out, that what's written in my LJ and what gets published here should always be looked upon as two completely seperate mediums - I use the public posts in my LJ as a testing platform for ideas.

R&M and my LJ shouldn't ever be confused as trying to push the same MASSAGE?... or even achieve the same goals...



yeah - I wasn't sure if Schmitt was being facetious or not - it's hard to tell sometimes, and surprisingly, I'm not a very good judge of that sort of thing, even though I do it myself a lot.

but at least we all know my feelings about writing fan fiction now...