So it is time again to try to make sure we are all acountable for our words… at least a little.
We are going to try again to require free, easy Typepad registration in order to post.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but once you register, you never have to fill things in again… plus you don’t have to let me or anyone else know who you are… you just have to be registered.
To register, just go through the process of making a comment and the computer will take you through it.
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
Everyone should get this anyway. It is easy.
Dave, the following comment is on point for this specific page, so I ask for everyone’s sake that you please don’t delete or move it elsewhere.
My question is: Why are you suddenly demanding registration now? Month after month goes by without you taking the slightest whiff of action about the constant complaints on this site. Now, out of the blue, Der Kommissar’s in town.
What gives? Are you considering extending the censorious approach you’ve already used today on another thread? Are you planning on hanging a sign out that reads, explicitly or otherwise, “No criticisms of Dave Poland are welcome nor will they be tolerated”?
To those of us who’ve been following what’s been going on, it sure looks that way.
This guy really can’t get over it, can he?
It looks that way to you, Chet.
I tried to do this before and we had technical problems and I was traveling and I didn’t have any way to deal with it.
You may notice we are on Greenwich Mean Time. Same reason.
But yes, when I tried to write you privately and got the bounceback from your fake address, it was a push.
You have all these truly absurd theories about me and I have to live with it if I want to maintain this forum. But I am really sick of the whining, the back-biting and the personal accusations. And I am not comfortable not even having the ability to contact people off the site if I want to try to calm things down without it being a public pissing match.
I haven’t censored you. I moved the posts so they could be read by people who want to read them. I am sick of reading perfectly interesting discussions only to have them taken over by this childish bickering.
And Chet, whether you want to hear it or not, your attacks on me are personal and almost always about something other than the post. That includes the one I am responding to… I mean, really… could I open myself to criticism any more aggressively than setting up this blog? But if I don’t want to ban people, you call me irresponsible . If I do anything, you call me a tyrant.
But I trust people to figure all this out on their own. However, they can’t overcome wasted time. And you have wasted hours of my time today, Chester… or whatever your real name is.
Enough.
Attack my ideas freely. Attack me or others as sport and you are not welcome. And that goes for everyone who feels the need to pull their schlongs out and piss all over others. Enough.
Not to take sides or anything, but… Chester, what’s going on here isn’t really censorship. DP has given you a brighter spotlight today than a year’s worth of your comments could have.
Censorship? You obviously do not know what the term even means, Chet. You really have to be joking us.
Dave, your last post will surely impress anyone who doesn’t know what’s been going on here or who tends to either automatically take your side or automatically position themselves against me. (And that’s a substantial percentage of the people here.)
But it’s all spun horseshit and you know it. The truth is that you have a clear-cut double standard for yourself and for everyone else here. For example, you allow people to attack Stella’s Boy night and day like a horde of mindless zombies, and, when he finally seeks your counsel, you tell him it’s just as much his fault as theirs SIMPLY BECAUSE HE LETS EVERYONE KNOW THAT IT BOTHER HIM. But if I dare to challenge any of your assertions or actions, that’s narcissistically considered too off-topic and personal, and – POOF! – my comments are banished away to where you can spin the issue into being about me rather than you.
As for clamping down on the registration requirement only when you at last are the one who feels victimized or has had his precious time wasted: Gee, Dave, maybe you are the one who needs to follow the dismissive advice you gave Stella’s Boy today to “mella out.”
Yes, my e-mail address was fabricated until this evening. You know why? I began to use a fake e-mail address when I found out, probably just when you did, that two regulars on this site were sending harassing e-mails to someone here – two scumbags you’ve allowed to remain on these boards and who still seem to be engaged in the same kinds of hijinks. I don’t need that shit in my life. But what does any of that have to do with your decision to enforce registration today? If you couldn’t get in touch with me before, you shouldn’t be able to get in touch with me now. (You stated on top, “you don’t have to let me or anyone else know who you are.”) At the same time, however, you probably could ban me from the site, at least under my current pseudonym – which seems like a real possibility given your extremely irrational conduct today.
My attacks on you are personal? Gimme a break. To the limited extent that they are, they’re all based on personal facts that you’ve boldly laid out for everyone here to see. Besides, didn’t you say earlier today that you didn’t even recall when you and I have had any kind of past disagreement? Really, Dave, you have to stop trying to spin this kind of shit. It’s just winding up splattered all over you.
I know you’re having a tough day. You made an ass of yourself on eBay, you’ve got egg all over your face, and the Variety article you posted will very likely just add to your sense of personal humiliation. We all understand. But in light of your immature actions and responses today, I think it’s only fair for some of us to consider the following possibility: Maybe you had it coming.
chester…quit being a douche bag.
Chester just likes hearing himself talk. Too bad the rest of us don’t. If you hate David so much why are you hear everyday posting and stalking? Funny. Ha Ha funny.
The bad part about this is that all these threads (Dave’s screw up, Chester vs. Dave, new rules, Variety) have pushed the interesting ones to the bottom of the page.
Sorry Chet… I really don’t remember what we disagreed about last… I do remember you disagreeing with me a lot…
I could have banned your other name if I wanted to ban someone. But I believe that with registration I can send you an e-mail that TypeKey will channel to you without giving me your personal identity… which I might point out, you still haven’t offered up, Mr. Honesty.
It’s all as boring as blackcloud says.
Maybe I did have it coming. But those of us who can still be past our own rage would probably not be so happy to try to rub discomfort in someone else’s face. It says a lot more about you than about me, Chet.
Fighting is always the most vicious when the stakes are the smallest.
just signing in.