The Besser fetishist runs a Farcebook page and dreams of one day writing a book on his beloved Joe...despite Besser having already written and published one, back in the 1980's when people actually CARED about anything related to the Three Stooges. Now? You have to be over 60 to care about Joe Besser...and something of a moron.
As if things couldn't get more idiotic...now there's somebody declaring his love for SHEMP.
Yep, this asshole with the pompously spelled first name (he wears a beret, are you surprised?) is ALL over Farcebook and social media. His message, in essence:
"Give me your pictures, give me your research, tell me all you know...so I can make money." In the old days, you wrote a 20-page proposal. You got a publisher. Then you went about your research, giving people a publishing date so they'd know they weren't wasting their fucking time.
Wich brings us to Shtick-starter and Indie-a-Doo-Doo, and other places where "the new paradigm" is "I'll publish it myself...YOU give me the money to do it."
The arrogance of people is astonishing, isn't it? "Look, I'm not your fucking parents," John Lennon used to say. He'd sure say it now. We should all be your fucking parents and indulge your whim? Whether it's a pointless movie, a stupid CD or a ridiculous book?
The Internet has spawned a bunch of clueless amateurs who think their vanity project should be funded. "Pay me to do this. Nevermind that I won't have distribution, publicity, or any way of actually selling the fucking CD or book. Er...the movie I could hoist to YouTube and everybody could tell me how wonderful I am and maybe pay me a fortune for my next opus! Yes, all 12 people who find it on YouTube are bound to be big-time producers!
Read this moron's spiel below. What a clueless, selfish jerk he is. If you actually trust a moron who never wrote a non-fiction book before, or any book any real reviewer has praised...if you actually toss him $50 or $100 or $500...your reward is that he'll sell you a copy of his masterpiece at HALF PRICE, and throw in a DVD-R of public domain garbage. Whee!
Who's the generous boy, then? Isn't that wonderful? "I will offer my book at a reduced cost." How's that for pomposity? Listen, peons, in return for the possibility that some book reviewer will call my tome "well researched," I'll give all you little people who gave money or mailed me or scanned Shemp material...MY book at a REDUCED COST.
Lah DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Dah.
Let's remember, we're talking about a book on SHEMP. Fucking SHEMP HOWARD. What century is this? 21st Century. Who is the most popular comedian on the planet? JIM FUCKING PARSONS, on the "Big Bang" sitcom. Who else? RICKY GERVAIS. RUSSELL BRAND. CHELSEA HANDLER. WANDA SYKES. You name 'em...blacks, gays, women, CARTOON CHARACTERS...
Nobody under 60 gives a flying fuck about SHEMP. They don't even care about Chaplin. Keaton. W.C. Fields. Abbott and Costello. The Marx Brothers.
As for The Three Stooges...all the major books on them came out in the 1980's! The licensing on Stooges memorabilia is VERY, VERY, DEAD.
Yet here's the rest of this moron's "give me money" spiel...and he wants SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS for his oh-so-precious time.
Zzzzzz. Was that an exciting read? Did that make you jump up and down? Some guy in CANADA that you've never heard of, is going to give a factual history of the career of SHEMP? And you think it'll be a page-turner? What if he can't find very much new information? He'll critique all of Shemp's movies? Give his valuable opinion? And that's worth SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS????
Let me put this into perspective. There are a lot of writers out there with better credentials than this asshole, many of them "professors" of film, and they'll do a book like this in their spare time for NO money at all. All they want is the prestige of publishing. The old "publish or perish" (pay to play variation) game. They're the ones who do those tweedy books on the "art" of Harry Langdon or Mack Sennett or some others who barey matter to even film students anymore.
Then there are the fanboy types who have spent all their lives in a room somewhere, watching this shit, and buying memorabilia on eBay. THEY also are willing to publish for NO MONEY, and if they don't have the skills or credits to interest a "scholarly" book company, they find some indie outfit like Bear Manor who'll indulge them. Ooooh, a biography of Don Ameche! Ooooh, a biography of Albert Dekker! Ooooh, the complete history of Walter Tetley!
I know...WHO the fuck is Walter Tetley. He was a character actor who played wiseguy kids...ALL his life. He did some radio and cartoon voices. Who wouldn't want to know MORE. PS, nobody does no MORE because he croaked years ago, wasn't important enough to give interviews, and the book, according to Amazon reviews, is just a lot of crap and gossip and re-hash of his credits.
And speaking of Amazon, guess where GEOFF, the great GEOFF of Canada, published his ONLY book? Yep. He used Amazon's smelly "upload your own crap to our site and sell it for $4.99" service. It was a book on Larry Fine, only not really. It was a fictionalized account of WHAT IF...Larry had become a professional boxer instead of quitting after one fight.
A few sorry souls who didn't realize it was a fantasy book gave it negative reviews, calling it badly written and stupid, and wondering why the fuck he bothered. Never underestimate the stupidity of "fans" out there. Several bought it THINKING they were getting a real bio of Larry. (Of which there are already two). Duhhh, it had some information on him that was factual, but, duhhhhhh a lot of it was made up. Couldn't tell the truth from the fiction, duhhhh. But it was only $4.99
Good ol' Amazon, the company that fights with real publishers, cheats them, refuses to carry their books unless they "play ball" and agree to Amazon's policies...they created Kindle, dominate the eBook field, and are now flooding it with amateur egotists who write utter garbage.
Not being too happy that he couldn't fleece enough people to make his $4.99 shitty upload worth his valuable time, GEOFF now won't do his SHEMP book unless he gets SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS...which would've been a deal-breaker back in the 1980's! I doubt Joe Besser was even give more than TWO THOUSAND for his book, if that!
Christ, the 21st Century IS shite, isn't it? It's full of DIY morons. It's full of con artists rushing to Farcebook and Schtick-starter to try and get money from people who want everything FREEEEEEEE.
How fucking insane and delusional do you have to be, to think you can raise SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS by networking and pestering retards on Farcebook? Retards who have nothing better to do than moan about not knowing more about SHEMP? They also don't know much about soap and water. Or making the best use of the time they have left.
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