today including throwdown with Scott Kurtz over fanfiction

[scarfman]

• RT @GOPFIB 8 months of manufactured #Benghazi outrage, and all the #GOP found is that the #GOP doctored e-mails and lied. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdKesoUQAi0&feature=youtu.be
• RT @TrekMovie In fact sociologist @JTenuto has empirical data showing Trekkies are very social and actually more likely to be married than gen population
• RT @fozmeadows Oh wow. Nicholas Brendon is now the same age that Anthony Head was during the first season of Buffy. #buffyrewatch
• @AlphaRaposa @dantheshive Oh, so Steam comes in a cloud.
• RT @ToolPackinMama Once the rich have suceeded in killing the poor they will be stuck having to do all their own work. #p2 #tcot Then they will die.
• @pvponline I perceive a disconnect between this attitude and that of the raves you've been tweeting about the new Star Trek film.
• @pvponline Five hundred years ago all people wanted was new stories about familiar heroes. Originality is a fashion.
• @pvponline I have tried my own original stories. Fanfiction is more rewarding to me.
[Kurtz tweeted back, "@AKOTAS because its so safe. Your hiding. It hard to put yourself out there. What if people hate it. But everyone loves Batman."]
• @pvponline Not at all. It's because the work is so inspired by the characters it cannot be separated from them.
• @pvponline Salinger said, "The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it."
• @pvponline It has to do with passion. http://scarfman.livejournal.com/210090.html
• @pvponline I was having stories printed in trekzines before you were in school. I know my heart and mind on this subject.

Comments

[antiwesley.livejournal.com]

Mistake #1. Dealing with that idiot. He doesn't care about anyone's opinions but his own. I stopped reading his stuff a long time ago when it became blatantly obvious that he was writing stuff for himself and nobody else. I've had one or two semi-personal interactions with him, and he's a stuffy, holier-than-thou numbnuts.

[scarfman]

I'm pretty sure I was arguing for the crowd instead of genuinely expecting to persuade him. Debate concluded in next tweet entry.

For the record, I always thought that if I were to have this debate with a name webcartoonist it would've been with my ex-roommate.