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In 2007 I witnessed several TV shows stealing my scripts and it forced me to create an index to help my readers see that I was being ripped off. When a production worker paid me a visit and made sure the TV was tuned into MAD TV for their illegal broadcast of my Tuesday Night Long sketch, she watched me closely and chuckled at the humor. I said nothing and resolved to see a lawyer at the first opportunity. That sent me to Ottawa, where I shared my ordeal with lawyers. I had the evidence and it should have been a very simple matter to sue them. But the lawyers told me that these shows were only parodying my work. And my brother Roger got me sent back to Vancouver by telling my parents that I was stealing TV scripts. Frustrated, I carried on with my solitary struggle, my daily posts growing more and more aggressive. I recall going to each page of my account that had been plagiarized by TV shows and staring in wonder at how no one else could see the crimes being committed against me. I felt totally hopeless. And I thought that if I could have so much evidence online and it still wasn't good enough for a lawyer, I had nothing to lose by erasing the damn thing and forgetting I ever wrote it. Funny how my lawyers could tell me that the TV was only parodying my work at the same time as my neighbors were accusing me of stealing it from the TV. Shouldn't a parody differ significantly from its source? And would my neighbors have been satisfied with me telling them that their favorite TV shows were parodying me? I think that legal firm might need to be investigated. There's something corrupt about their handling of this case. Now, you see the kind of attitude I have about the business and how skillful I am at presenting my case. What do you think the business would do if I erased all my work today? Disconnected from my supporters, I would be a wide open target for their lies and fraud. They would try to wipe me out. They would try to make everyone forget how I daily humiliated them by merely stating the truth. |
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Thursday, December 11, 2014
How Long Does It Take?
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
The 2008 Shammy Awards
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It's time for the 2008 SHAMMY AWARDS, hosted by Jay Leno! (Wild cheering.) And here to present the award for best new artist is the lead singer of the Crystalids. His name is Dean but you all know him better as JESUS! (Wild cheering.) Take it away, Dean. The award for best new artist goes to (opening envelope and reading note) BEYONCE! (Wild cheering.) |
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As It Was
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My current indexes are almost identical to my indexes from 2007. I recall them well now. I had all the scripts indexed first, in order to help strengthen my position against TV shows who were already stealing my content when it was still online. And I was in the midst of filling in my statements index when that crazy panic seized me from being featured on a Dateline show that declared me guilty of fraud. It was such a nightmare because I didn't know what was going on at the time. If only I knew then what I know now. My reasons for wanting YouTube to show my views were to help smooth out my relations with the locals, who thought I was robbing their favorite TV shows, thanks to the TV stealing my scripts when they were still online. I needed YouTube to show my views so people here could see that I was popular online and that I wasn't lying about my claims of ownership. But I guess Google doesn't want artists to know when they are popular. They don't mind letting stardom chasers know when they are popular, but they simply refuse to let artists know this vital information. So my account is now pretty close to how it looked in late 2007. I had indexes and I had thousands of pages of ORIGINAL content. I also had a blog with a few full-length scripts called Making a Play for You and I had a DHTML tutorial for beginners. |
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Monday, December 8, 2014
Technical Note
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I'm going to move those links to my songs and poems a little closer to your fingertips now, with a new dropdown. You might have already noticed it in my scripts index. I guess this ability I have to organize my information helped a lot of crooks to plunder my work last time. I used to have a blog where I explained some of my DHTML scripts. I wonder who has it now. Why don't we trace some of my harshest DHTML critics? I really think that it is the content of the web page that determines its success more than its appearance. But HTML provides a good structure to let browsers quickly get to the page of their choice. My present content is roughly the same now as it was in my erased account. I'm not going to open a new blog called The High Brow Oligarchy, like I did before at this stage. Nor do I plan to open a blog called Making a Play for You. And I doubt I'll be starting a HTML discussion this time. I don't think I have room for it. |
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Sunday, December 7, 2014
The Bottom Feeder
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Announcer: Catch the thrill and suspense of high stakes investing on The Bottom Feeder. Bottom Feeder: I'm looking for the highest possible return. Investment Banker: Burlap is in. Bottom Feeder: Higher. Investment Banker: Giant Auto cut production costs by switching to a new alloy comprised of crushed eggshells. Bottom Feeder: Higher. Investment Banker: Blast Records just got their hands on a new hit song abandoned by its author. Bottom Feeder: Beautiful. |
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Saturday, December 6, 2014
The Missing Links
| It looks like I lost a couple of new links to my scripts and statements with my last paste-over. I have these files backed up on my home computer and will restore any missing content over the next while. The only one I wanted back today was my first 'Remembrance of War' sketch, where former wartime adversaries ended up at each others throats after cheerfully sharing details of their wartime exploits in front of each other. That's a good one, but it's too hard to track down here. Anyway, if you can't find it in the index, you might still know its location. Or perhaps you downloaded it and don't even need my index. | ||||||||||
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Saturday Night Lifeboat Ethics
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I know why everyone thought, in spite of my bitter daily complaints about how lousy my life had become since I started sharing my work on the internet, that I was 'forced' offline in late 2007, rather than freely choosing to put a stop to the nightmare, myself. First of all, it was because they all tuned in to an illegal broadcast of Dateline in which I was found 'guilty of fraud' by a kangaroo court. On top of that, it is hard to convince the world that you are suffering when people like George Carlin take your complaints and use them to party on a stage. It gives others the impression that you're having fun. I guess that's why it's illegal to steal people's complaints and turn them into comedy material. Now, it's Saturday again, my NBC detractors' favorite day, and I hope I can spoil it for them by sharing the following fact. If we had to share a lifeboat with Saturday Night Live cast members and you were the only one who knew how to save us, they would kill you and let us all die just to stop you from surpassing their celebrity status with your hero status. How many of my scripts did they own up to taking again? A few? Do they mean a few hundred? Take a look through my posts from the week before last to see how many hundreds of counts of NBC fraud that I caught merely by browsing the web, looking for other programs. And when you're done that, look through my songs and try to find just one formerly shared song that wasn't scooped up by greasy frauds and sold to big labels behind my back, after the fashion of Tina Fey's favorite band, the Crystalids, who wanted to get their Saturday Night Live gig by throwing me in prison to be tortured for merely rewriting my own song in 2010. Good luck. |
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