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Date Posted: 19:53:37 08/22/04 Sun
Author: pistol pete
Author Host/IP: 24.18.140.3
Subject: True story?
In reply to: dane 's message, "Re: More reasons why LitKicks, Inc. and Asher suck" on 18:40:50 08/22/04 Sun

For real?

Well, therapy might be an option...

or a hooker. Or both.



>And then imagine this (and this "profile"--which IS
>me--fits quite a few litkickers or former litkickers,
>considering the fact that I've had so many usernames
>and been bounced by Asher and his henchslut
>krimefighters so many times):
>
>you are continually called a loser and you don't know
>why, even though you are in your thirties and still
>live in your mother's basement, downloading porn when
>you're not busy working at the local coffee shop.
>
>you got kicked out of your community college when you
>failed one english class too many, after writing an
>essay about how pound's cantos were cleverly-disguised
>treatises about this hooker's ass. but that hooker
>had a really nice ass and you don't understand pound
>anyway, because his writing is really, really hard to
>understand.
>
>you've never been laid but you heard that the internet
>is a great place to pick up chicks because they can't
>see you. you're really hoping to lose your virginity
>before you turn 40, and you find this place called
>litkicks where people post poetry and talk about books.
>
>you don't really know much about literature, but you
>know how to use google so you can drop names and tell
>people they don't get anything without ever really
>quoting anything from any of the writers and thinkers
>you say you understand so deeply. you do this because
>you think chicks like smart guys.
>
>but you can't turn off how pathetic and lame you are.
>it seeps into your every post, like a whimpering cry
>of "please pay attention to me!" when you continue to
>be ignored at the same level that you are everywhere
>else you go, you get angry and post a lot of juvenile
>bullshit about other people's sexual orientation and
>shit. you like to talk about shit a whole lot.
>
>when you're removed from the site for acting like an
>8-year-old brat with Tourette's, you blame the people
>who run the place. because they just don't get you.
>but you have a sneaking suspicion that they do get
>t.s. eliot, and that makes you insanely jealous.
>
>this is litkicks for many of me.
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>Imagine this (and this "profile"--which is not me--
>>fits quite a few litkickers or former litkickers, male
>>and female):
>>
>>you are a writer--not the greatest, not the worst,
>>above the average cafe hack, perhaps. Your writing is
>>direct, honest, unsentimental--occasionally graphic
>>and erotic, and violent. YOu write about death.
>>absurdity. prisons. war. capitalism. sex. whores.
>>even wax a bit philosophical now and then.... You try
>>to avoid cliches. Maybe you have even been published
>>or praised by academics or in newspapers or online.
>>
>>you post to some e-zines and websites, and one day
>>discover litkicks. checking it out, you like a few
>>posted pieces but see much juvenile angst and fluff.
>>you post some. a few people read u, hardly anyone
>>responds. u see some clown or bimbo posting and her
>>writing is about that of a high school junior's diary.
>> and yet she is a "regular". and people actually
>>praise her, though her (or his) writing is really just
>>useless fluff
>>
>>one day you write some flames about the garbage u
>>read. arguments ensue, anger grows, insults and
>>profanity increases. after some time u are suddenly
>>"bounced"--without reason or warning-- and your
>>writing vanishes. even some pieces you had not saved.
>>gone. yet the regulars that had said things as
>>horrible or worse than you, and were really quite
>>awful writers, remain
>>
>>that is litkicks for many people.

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  • Re: More reasons why LitKicks, Inc. and Asher suck -- fuck u, 20:18:58 08/22/04 Sun (4.27.250.92)
  • Re: More reasons why u suck -- ex-valleygirl, 21:34:19 08/22/04 Sun (172.197.2.37)
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