blah blah blah stuff no one can possibly care about blah blah blah you’re totally going to be bored by this, Mike, go read another site. You know, I’ve had about eight ideas for decent posts, and one that is completely worthless, and guess which one I’m up at 1AM writing? Okay, all the posts are completely worthless, go read Primer and get upset at the obvious of it all. (I don’t know why I’m upset at you, you’ve done nothing to ME. Here, have Nomar back.)
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So, anyway, this is one of those times I take advantage of the fact that no one from OO (or, for gods sake, anywhere else in the universe) reads this. This is what happened:
– Rick makes some comment in a SmackDown! (it’s so vital, I can’t even remember) recap about the only three recappers doing recaps the way he likes being him, Erin, and CRZ, as an explanation of why he’s doing it that week or whatever, and posts it to the internet.
– Twenty minutes later, Rick realizes he’s quite the jerk for saying that sort of thing when he’s got people not in that group volunteering to write for his site on a regular basis, and pulls the paragraph. Too bad ME (and another OO type) saw it.
– I don’t take it too seriously (being content to be unloved is a wonderful thing), and just remember it to use as a pre-show jab because taking sarcastic shots at the guy who hosts your crap = GOLDEN.
– Rick sends me a letter of apology. I giggle. Quite a bit. This leads to the “I’m only mocking you because I LOVE” post, which was great it’s completely inability to make any sense to anyone besides me.
– I check on my Heat recap on OO, just to see how ugly my text looks around the big ad box – and notice the Rick-hating-recap paragraph has been OMITTED. [dramatic score]
If listening daily to Tony Kornheiser on the radio has taught me nothing else (and it may just be nothing), it’s that anyone who slightly misrepresented your words should be struck down, and struck down with a horrible vengeance. Here are my options, assuming I can make anything up right now
1) do nothing. I can do that.
2) write a embarrassingly stupid post you’ll stumble across a year from now, and wonder why exactly you were so lame back then. I *AM* doing that!
3) find subversive ways to of sticking it to the man Rick. What are the odds he’s actually going to read a move by move description of a Sylvan match to notice your hidden diatribe on the weakness of the A10? (Here, I’ll not that I’m afraid to say Loyola-Chicago’s record out loud, for fear that someone will realize a horrible mistake has been made, and we’ll no longer be 5 games over 500 in December.)
4) find aversive ways of gaining revenge. You think Rick would pull a “When I think of a quality RAW recap on the internet, there’s nothing better than the one at WeeklyVisitor (provided they got around to it this week)!!!” line?
5) quit. And I would’ve already done it, if it hadn’t been for those WWE.com kids and their dog too. I don’t think I’m getting much out of it, though I don’t really try to do anything more than the bare minimum so what do you expect? But is worth writing, say, the lucha stuff for them I’ve never gotten around to actually writing for the 0 OO readers who I believe are interested and not already getting that sorta stuff somewhere else? On the other hand, my Sunday deadline for Heat and Velocity are the maypole my entire life revolves around
6) do an awesome thrilling recap to prove him wrong. Eh. Sounds like work.
7) change the lyrics of a South Park song to reflect your displeasure. You know, I think that’s been done?
8) write a non-confrontational, soft letter to explain to Mr. Scaia that next time he wants to pull part of something you’ve written without consultation, you’d much prefer he pull the whole article. That sounds like the mature thing to do, and I’m sure I’ll do it at some point in the next decade.
You know, I’ve been tried all week (and the week before and the week before and ) and yet I’m writing a post at 1 AM about a stupid editing thing on a recap I’ll never bother reading again, and I know that I’d actually be thrilled at the idea of co-operative editing. I really wish I knew what it meant, but I think my TiVo has been taping way too many MASH episodes of late.
Perhaps tomorrow, I’ll explain how I hate and distrust everyone. We shall be so lucky.
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Awwww. :(
Mr Tony should have taught you something else:
EMAIL JIHAD
Oh, so praising the WV Raw coverage becomes hip like two weeks after I stop writing it, eh?
I’m glad you explained the process of him pulling that line about the three decent recappers, but I wish it’d been done sooner. I went looking for that line, and then Rick said something cryptic about JAson Longshore’s contribution to the Turning Point roundtable that made me read that after the ppv was over, and bleh. Oh well, it’s not like I generally use my time well.
Did I see a post by that DONALD idiot that got deleted? IRONY. Assuming you didn’t discuss it with him first.