Re: A.A.P.C. FOLKLORE, Part Thirty-Seven

> HarryLime wrote:
> 
>> Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:
>> [email protected] (HarryLime) wrote
>> in news:[email protected]:
>> 
>> 
>>> HarryLime wrote:
>>> 
>>> HarryLime wrote:
>>> 
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>> 
>>> MMP aka HarryLime aka Michael Pendragon aka Coco DeSockmonkey aka
>>> One Small Voice, etc. wrote: [snip]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> DISCLAIMER - "This isn't history, Donkey, but folklore. It's the
>>> stories that have grown up regarding the members of AAPC over the
>>> years. They may or may not be entirely true -- THEY MAY NOT EVEN BE
>>> TRUE AT ALL." (Emphasis added) - MMP aka HarryLime aka Michael
>>> Pendragon aka Coco DeSockmonkey aka One Small Voice, etc., on his
>>> "A.A.P.C. Folklore" series.
>>> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=632244559&start=120
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The Ahmos Zu-Bolton incident has been reconstructed as accurately
>>> from all the available sources: Will's posts, his high school
>>> yearbook, the school magazine, and from Internet bios on Zu-bolton.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The Zu-Bolton folklore is complicated by the fact that Will Dockery's
>>> memories don't match up with what evidence is known to exist.
>>> Zu-Bolton was not, as Will claims, the poet-in-residence at Carver
>>> High.  He was the Visiting Writer-in-residence at the University of
>>> Missouri.  As a part of the Visiting Writer program, Zu-Bolton would
>>> travel to various schools in the region, and sit in on one or two of
>>> their English classes.
>>> 
>>> Apparently, Will's teacher, Dan Barfield, introduced Zu-Bolton to the
>>> class using his University of Missouri title, and Will mistook him to
>>> mean that he was the "Poet-in-Residence" at Carver high.  As
>>> previously, no mention of Zu-Bolton appears in the Carver yearbook of
>>> the year he was supposedly there.
>>> 
>>> Will later expanded his story to include such tidbits as Zu-Bolton
>>> and Barfield having served together in Vietnam, and how he (Will)
>>> would often join the two of them on their nightly carousals of the
>>> local bars.
>>> 
>>> Apart from Will Dockery's stories, there is no evidence to back any
>>> of this up.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Will Donkey once claimed that he'd paid his literary dues by having
>>> worked on his high school poetry magazine.  Need one say more?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> View the attachments for this post at:
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>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It's so stupid, it just has to be completely true.
>> 
>> --
>> "I've known for over a year that this guy is the assassin of the Usenet
>> poetry community. When I first arrived, I thought he was keeping the
>> lights on in a dead group by reposting from archives. I soon realized
>> that he was just endlessly reposting his own stuff, that he had killed
>> the group by flooding it, and that most of the people he called
>> "trolls" were actually the members of the group.
>> I've joined the crowd. I'm done trying to work with him and speak reason
>> to him. It's exhausting and pointless." - Little Willie Douchebag gets
>> another asskicking from The One True Melissa
> 
> 
> 
> According to Donkey's poems, his life at that time was pretty much one long drug trip, so who knows how much was real.
> 
> I will say that the story's so stupid, I've no doubt that the Donkey believes it.
> 
> But what the Donkey believes and what actually happened are often two very different things.



Alas, Will Donkey's life peaked in the 25 years he spent in elementary and high school.  He learned not a thing during those years, but he has fantasies and tizzies about them.  He is frequently in a "comma." 


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