Re: Only the Lonely / George J. Dance
[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
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> George J. Dance wrote: > >> michaelmaleficapendragon@ wrote: >> [email protected] (George J. Dance) posted: >> >> >>> Creepy Mike aka HarryLime aka michaelmaleficapendragon@ wrote: >>> [email protected] (George J. Dance) posted: >>> >>> >>> michaelmaleficapendragon@ wrote: >>> >>> >>> Creepy Mike aka HarryLime aka michaelmaleficapendragon@ wrote: >>> [email protected] (George J. Dance) posted: >>> >>> >>> >>> Only the Lonely >>> >>> The man in shades >>> strides to the mic >>> and declares, >>> "Only the lonely >>> know the way I feel tonight ..." >>> " and ten thousand screaming, >>> chanting fans wedged up against >>> each other in the hall all together >>> suddenly feel so >>> lonely. >>> >>> -- >>> George J. Dance, 2010 >>> from Doggerel, and other doggerel, 2015. >>> >>> [All rights reserved by the author - Used with permission] >>> >>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2010/03/orbison-man-in-shades-strides-to-mic.html >>> >>> Commentary: This poem was posted on aapc in the Sunday Sampler >>> 10 years ago. It appears on the original, 'rough' thread, but was left >>> out of the Official Sampler thread for the week. The editor of that week's >>> Michael Pendragon, said that the omission was an mistake, but if so >>> it was never corrected. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Mistakes happen, Dunce. >>> >>> If you'll recall, the Sampler submission thread was a mix of poems, comments, and (most likely) hissyfit posts by the Donkey and his Stink. >>> >>> I would be up late, sifting through all that sludge and copy/pasting the poems into a single thread, and editing them for typos. It was very easy to overlook a short poem. >>> >>> There was no means of editing the Sample once it posted. And, IIRC, you'd already posted your poem to the bottom of it (the first post after the edited publication), so there was nothing more for me to do. >>> >>> That you would still be upset about this 10 years later only drives home the fact that you're a petty, bitter person. >>> >>> >>> >>> I wouldn't say I was upset about it at the time, since this was the second time you'd cut one of my poems, and I was having to get used to it. Besides, as you note, you didn't keep my poem off the "Official" thread. >>> >>> I was a bit upset the day before I opened this thread, when you falsely accused my of lying (about having poems cut from the "Official" Sampler); but, again, being falsely accused by you of lying is something I've had to get used to. >>> >>> I'll deal with your "critique" in a separate post. >>> >>> snip >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> "Cut" implies that it was intentional, Dunce. >>> >>> I had previously explained to you that it was not. >>> >>> I just went back to check the original thread and found the following post: >>> >>> MMP: Thank you for not assuming it was intentional, Will. Technically, it was *inadvertently* omitted, as I killfiled George last week. I didn't check the post/s by him because he'd said that he was boycotting the Sampler, due to my having been selected as host. >>> >>> It seems that you'd said you were boycotting The Sampler that week, Dunce -- and that I had "killfiled" (stopped reading) your posts. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> No, HarryLiar, it "seems" that *you* said I was boycotting the Sampler. And or course, HarryLiar, you did not "killfile" me either, meaning you saw my post and just decided to not read it bevcause you weren't reading my posts -- which sounds pretty "intentional" to me. >>> >> >> >> Why would I say that you were boycotting it if you hadn't already stated it? >> >> I haven't found your original statement, but I have found a post wherein you make an allusion to it: >> >> >> >>> [quoting from my post] that he was boycotting the Sampler, due to my having been selected as host. >>> >> >> >> DUNCE: And indeed it was a lie; though to be more precise, it's just "Mostly False." It is true that, when Corey declared he was boycotting the Sampler because of a blog link I'd posted, I offered to stay out instead. >> Sad; if he hadn't tacked this lie onto his explanation, his explanation might have had a chance of being believed. >> >> You had obviously said something to the effect that you would not be submitting anything to the Sampler that week. >> >> And since I was not opening your messages, I would have had no way of knowing that you'd changed your mind. >> >> >> >>> >>> So... you announced that you were "boycotting" The Sampler, then cried like a baby when I didn't bother opening any of your posts. >>> >>> >>> I don't think that either of those happened, but of course I can't prove a negative. Since you have access to the "official" thread (from which you're quoting), ti shouldn't be hard for you to back up your statements with quotes: from me, not from yourself. >>> >> >> >> You whine all through the thread, calling all of the Regulars "The P***dragon Pack."" >> >> >>> Sounds like you're the one who cut yourself out, Dunce. >>> >>> >>> >>> It sounds like that's your story, anyway; but so far you haven't backed up a word of it. >>> >>> >> >> >> Here's the thread. Read it and weep... again. >> >> This response appears in the discussion at: >> http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=703674682#703674682 >> > > > That's a link to *this* thread, Peabrain. Want to try again? Pendragon seemed really confused that night. 😏 This response appears in the discussion at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=703674682#703674682 -- Via JLA Forums web gateway for alt.arts.poetry.comments: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655