It's like reality TV, only real!

[pearwaldorf]

Dude. This whole BoE thing? It's like reading a fucking train wreck, but I can't stop. I even remember reading a press thing in the Willy Week for Tentmoot and being all sad that I hadn't known about it in time to register. I also remember going past the Oregon Convention Center the day it was supposed to happen, and wondering why there weren't hobbitses and elves walking around like I expected. Now I know why. My heart goes out to poor turimel and all the other people who have been dicked over by this horridness.

Also, a random observation. There's something really odd about Portland that attracts strange fringe elements like this--Tonya Harding and Shawn Eckhart (who went to my high school, incidentally), and now these two. It makes me cringe to see my fair city as the site of all this nonsense, and I wince every time I see places I've gone (I think half the city went to see the LotR movies at the Lloyd Cinemas) associated with this scam. I swear we're not all like this. We're weird, but not criminally larcenous. ^.^

Comments

[unlovablehands.livejournal.com]

did you ever read mpoetess's synopsis of the pre-tentmoot vb wank? it really is the most fascinating thing ever.

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

No I haven't. Linky please? I sorta-follow f_w on occasion, but sometimes it just makes my head spin with the idiocy, especially with the vb stuff.

[unlovablehands.livejournal.com]

victoria bitter and orange blossom, a story in five parts:

one (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/252558.html?thread=12141198#t12141198), two (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/252558.html?thread=12141454#t12141454), three (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/252558.html?thread=12141710#t12141710), four (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/252558.html?thread=12141966#t12141966), five (http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/252558.html?thread=12142222#t12142222).

[sonatine.livejournal.com]

Madre. WESTRON? As far as I know, Tolkien only created random words in Westron, not a coherent language structure. Channeling the spirit of Elijah Wood, who is still v. much alive thank you and possessed by the spirit of Meriadoc Brandybuck? This is even better than the "bring Tara back" wank.

Poor Sean Astin. He probably never wants to associate with LotR fanpeople again.

[unlovablehands.livejournal.com]

i wouldn't either. damn.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/versaphile/684832.html, visual documentation. from long ago.