Re: Michael Pendragon - somehow every photo has that Why Is Chris Hansen Walking In? energy
[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
| Newsgroups | alt.arts.poetry.comments |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> BiteMeSharpEnt wrote: > Is it just me, or is there a reason a particular basement-dwelling-looking character who frequents this poetry group keeps posting creepy photos that radiate deeply unsettling “why does this feel like the cold open of a *To Catch a Predator* episode?” energy? > > Maybe it’s the whole cocktail: the smugness, the evasiveness, the weird overfamiliarity, the hostility Harry Lime (also known as the poet Michael Pendragon) seems to direct toward people who don’t sufficiently admire him, and an ego inflated to the point where he appears genuinely baffled that anyone might question his behavior. > > There’s that same fascinating combination you see in so many of those Chris Hansen confrontations... not the criminal conduct, obviously, but the entitlement, grandiosity, deflection, indignation at being challenged, and absolute conviction that somehow everyone else is the problem. > > It’s especially striking when somebody carries himself like the misunderstood intellectual heavyweight of the room while simultaneously giving more than a few people the unmistakable feeling that they should probably start comparing notes. > > Some posters here bring poetry, perspective, and depth to this group. Others bring attitude, self-mythology, a rapidly expanding collection of uncomfortable anecdotes, and yet another unforgettable chapter in the group’s ever-growing “fokelore.” > > At a certain point, if one person gets a bad vibe, that’s an opinion. > > But when multiple people (there is a long ongoing thread about this strange bird in another group) keep independently arriving at some variation of “what the hell is going on with this guy?” and the subject somehow keeps generating discussion... > > all I can really think is... > > well, maybe the problem isn’t the audience. Hilarious. 😏 This response appears in the discussion at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=710248944#710248944 -- Via JLA Forums web gateway for alt.arts.poetry.comments: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655