The Ever-Loving Virgin Prince
Monday, January 10, 2005
Ripped Off By Rabid Journey Fans!
To those of you in the real world,
I hate to interrupt myself in the middle of a story, but there’s something I really have to bring up. I’ve discovered something rather peculiar. I’ve had one of my stories printed up on a fanpage for the rock band Journey. Specifically, the page is for their former lead singer, Steve Perry.
I must say, I’m fairly flattered, as people seem to like my tale, and there’s quite a few nice things printed about me on the page. I do have fans! Take that, ex-girlfriend!
But I’m fairly hurt too. See, they reprinted my story without permission. They made sure to put a link back to my page with it so that I am given credit for it, and I certainly would have allowed them to reprint my story, but I’m just a bit annoyed that no one asked me, or even notified me. An email would have been nice; a link to my email address is rather prominently displayed on the sidebar of my page.
They did a little editing too, something which always ticks me off, particularly when it’s done without my permission. Listen, it’s called Spaceslut and Robot Day, NOT “Spacevery *friendly* person and Robot Day” as they called it. Listen, you have to respect other people, their property, and their beliefs. You do not go trampling over my beliefs by renaming one of the holy days of Festivus. I don’t refer to Christmas as “Dead-Average-Crazy-Guy-That-Started-Bogus-Religion Day”.
What if I started referring to “Mullet-and-mole guy” and his former band “Not-quite-a-Supertramp”? See, it’s just not the same.
Who are these people to say that my story and I are full of B.S.? The sheer audacity of them, doubting the heroics of the Virgin Prince! I’m supposed to blindly believe that they’re a “Hotel Owner”, “Steve Perry's Personal Assistant”, and “Steve Perry Assistant Tour Manager”? Methinks someone else needs to wake up and find reality.
How dare the buggers accuse me of not being up on my Journey! Here’s the link, I’m going to go play the Journey videogame some more.
Be seeing you,
The Virgin Prince
I hate to interrupt myself in the middle of a story, but there’s something I really have to bring up. I’ve discovered something rather peculiar. I’ve had one of my stories printed up on a fanpage for the rock band Journey. Specifically, the page is for their former lead singer, Steve Perry.
I must say, I’m fairly flattered, as people seem to like my tale, and there’s quite a few nice things printed about me on the page. I do have fans! Take that, ex-girlfriend!
But I’m fairly hurt too. See, they reprinted my story without permission. They made sure to put a link back to my page with it so that I am given credit for it, and I certainly would have allowed them to reprint my story, but I’m just a bit annoyed that no one asked me, or even notified me. An email would have been nice; a link to my email address is rather prominently displayed on the sidebar of my page.
They did a little editing too, something which always ticks me off, particularly when it’s done without my permission. Listen, it’s called Spaceslut and Robot Day, NOT “Spacevery *friendly* person and Robot Day” as they called it. Listen, you have to respect other people, their property, and their beliefs. You do not go trampling over my beliefs by renaming one of the holy days of Festivus. I don’t refer to Christmas as “Dead-Average-Crazy-Guy-That-Started-Bogus-Religion Day”.
What if I started referring to “Mullet-and-mole guy” and his former band “Not-quite-a-Supertramp”? See, it’s just not the same.
Who are these people to say that my story and I are full of B.S.? The sheer audacity of them, doubting the heroics of the Virgin Prince! I’m supposed to blindly believe that they’re a “Hotel Owner”, “Steve Perry's Personal Assistant”, and “Steve Perry Assistant Tour Manager”? Methinks someone else needs to wake up and find reality.
How dare the buggers accuse me of not being up on my Journey! Here’s the link, I’m going to go play the Journey videogame some more.
The Virgin Prince
The Virgin Prince, 11:48 PM
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