[Ti] [OT} Joel (XXL), you really are a complete waste of life.
Chris Owens
cwosigns at mac.com
Fri May 9 08:10:28 PDT 2003
Are you gay? Only queers do drama this well.
P.S. I am gay, so I can use the Q word. Thanks.
On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 11:03 AM, Ric Perrott wrote:
> I thought I'd share with everyone what Mr. XXL (is that his waist
> size?) decided to share with me via personal email:
>
> First there was this gem, written after Mr. XXL visited my web page...
>
> "The best writers often write from their life experience. I saw that
> you had
> written some works for the screen. So try to integrate your
> life-experience
> with your art.. I suggest you develop and submit a screenplay for the
> next
> installment of "Jackass". Good luck.. I do appreciate the good laugh
> I had over it."
>
> Smacks a little of jealousy to me. Perhaps the fact that I get to do
> what I love everyday, creating art and giving back to the World
> frustrates Mr. XXL, who is most obviously stuck in a life that he
> hates, and which hates him in return.
>
> Then I was able to chuckle over this nugget of wisdom:
>
> "It is obvious to me that you know zero about IP law, because I DO
> know quite a bit
> about it. I graduated from the top IP law school in the US and we had
> professors who were counsel for ASCAP who talked extensively on the
> fact
> that consumers who owned a work on LP and then bought that same work
> on CD
> were in face paying again for rights that were vested in the first
> purchase.
> And the record companies know this and love it."
>
> All of which is completely irrelevant to his original statement which
> told me that I was FORCED to purchase the CD after I bought the LP.
> I'm still waiting for Mr. Brainiac to tell me exactly how I was FORCED
> to buy something. But I suppose when you're as bitter as he is, you
> need to lash out at something, anything, that will make your life seem
> even a little less horrific and meaningless. I suggested both
> counseling and asking this unnamed "top IP law school" for a refund of
> tuition, because they had obviously failed in their mission to educate
> him.
>
> But alas, we still weren't done... Mr. Brainless felt the need to toss
> in one last grade school level insult. Get ready... it's a dandy....
>
> "I hope you grow up some day.. What are you.. about 14?"
>
> Wow! Are you as blown away as I am folks? We are obviously dealing
> with a master of the written invective here. I thought I was dealing
> with an amateur until he pulled the "What are you 14?" from out of
> nowhere. He completely blind-sided me and I have to admit that I was
> unprepared for the barb that he hurtled my way. Not since that day in
> 8th grade on the playground, when a 9th grader, John Malone, made fun
> of my shoes had I felt so naked, my emotions laid bare. I had
> attempted to retaliate by making a crack about John's shirt, but it
> fell miserably flat, and that was when John let me have it. He said,
> "What are you? 14?" It hit me like a ton of bricks because I was, in
> fact, 14. I'll never forget the emotional torment that I was subjected
> to, and I still carry around the scars today.
>
> So thank you Mr. XXL for opening those wounds long closed. You have
> brought me back to a place I'd never thought I'd have to revisit. The
> very nature of your immaturity, coupled with your deep seated feelings
> of insecurity have taken me back to a dark time in my life. I hope
> you're proud of yourself.
>
>
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Chris Owens
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