Rick Olney--Fibber or Mega-Giganta-Fibber? Part 2

[JamesRitcheyIII]

It's always about misdirection. Disgust about the way he uses his sadly deceased parents as deadbeat props becomes insulting his parents in his mind, not him.

Mentioning that we feel bad for his family becomes insulting his family, not him.

Mentioning that he has some new goofy debt dodge every month becomes mocking his faith, not him.

Would you expect any better from a deadbeat like Olney at this point?

:)

Some would imagine someone who is such a prolific and pathological liar would be a better storyteller. But I think you have to be grounded in some form of reality to be able to play with it--like, y'know, being able to read and write.

[Sarah Beach]

Waaa... my beautiful post got eaten. Trying again.

Something I did want to comment on.

Posted by the WannabeBigShot--
Yes, imagine that someone with a small comic book event reaching out to you from New York State to your home in Oregon to simply invite you to come east and guest for a first time for comic book readers to meet and greet you. Amazing how you were so cordial then and so bitter now. And why not, your life must certainly be a sad one if you need to fixate on someone or something. One thing that people who know me know it that I do not lie. So to those words above, again, you simply prove how desperate you are to build more anti-Rick Olney rhetoric into your each and every post. You'll never win though, Tammy. Never. You have given away just as much about yourself ... as you claim to know about me. And that is all you carry in your fading career.

The thing that gets me about this passage is that he seems to be laboring under the sense that somehow, if HE had never invited Gail to a con she would never have gotten invited to ANY. Which is silly.

He also makes it sound as if she was gracious then (must have cost him to admit that), but she is not so to fans now! Which is utterly ridiculous! Especially considering the way she has treated YABSters to breakfast during ComicCon. She is invariably friendly and gracious to the fans in the DC booth, no matter how tiring the weekend at San Diego has been or how humid it gets down on the Exhibit Hall floor.

I've chaired two conferences over the years, and each time I managed to snag writers who were rising in the fantasy genre. And although I hope they had a good time at Mythcon, and that the experience gave them pleasing memories, I don't expect them to be making a fuss about it years later. Nor do I expect them to be singing my praises years later, for having the vision to invite them.

But Rick... he can't let that go. He didn't deliver a pleasant experience to his guests, and yet is indignant that they should comment on it.

Oh, and those writers I snagged on the upswing? Charles de Lint (if you're into fantasy, you should know that name by now) and ... oh, what's his name? That dragon guy -- James A. Owen.

[Gail Simone]

It's more of Rick being an idiot. I had already been invited to several cons before the Mighty Shitty Mini Crap. I was a guest at SDCC, the biggest con in the US, for one. He begged me to show up, raved about my work, now he says I'm just a token and no one likes my work.

There's not a person who knows the name Rick Olney who doesn't know he'd lie to his cat if he thought he could get something for it.

And yeah, Rick, wow, thanks for introducing me to the seven unhappy attendees who showed up and had a miserable time at your disastrous hootenanny. It changed my life forever to spend two hours listening to you go on and on about yourself when all we wanted was to get the hell away from you.

[Linkara]

I still want to see Rick's infamous magic goldfish story. I'm sure it's the stuff of legends!

[Gail Simone]

Urgh, I don't know if I still have it...I'll look later today.

[Gail Simone]

It's really, REALLY bad.

[Linkara]

It's really, REALLY bad.

So you keep saying, but I want to see just HOW bad!

[bert]

"two tugs of a dead dog's cock" bad?

because I think that was actually rather clever phrasing from Gcom.

certainly better writing than I would expect from the diseased.


oh lookie. . I made fun of him having cancer? Whoops.

at least we know it wasn't testicular. . .he has no balls to speak of.

[Charles RB]

No worries, bert. That information is long outdated.

Wait, he actually got your name RIGHT for once? Good god.

So you keep saying, but I want to see just HOW bad!

Then I think you should prepare for trouble (and I'll make it double!).

[G-Spot]

"two tugs of a dead dog's cock" bad?

because I think that was actually rather clever phrasing from G-spot.

certainly better writing than I would expect from the diseased.

I don't remember ever posting that. Not something I would say.

But I know Rick's writing, and that quote could sum it it pretty well!

[bert]

I don't remember ever posting that. Not something I would say.

But I know Rick's writing, and that quote could sum it it pretty well!

Whoops. . Gcom, not G-spot.

I'll go fix that!

[Linkara]

Wait, he actually got your name RIGHT for once? Good god.



Then I think you should prepare for trouble (and I'll make it double!).

Shall I infect the world with devastation or protect it from devastation?

[Charles RB]

Shall I infect the world with devastation or protect it from devastation?

You protect, I'll unite all people's within our nation.

[MacQuarrie]

I swear... Do you suppose that he butchers his native language INTENTIONALLY because he knows the pain that it causes anyone who actually knows how to use it effectively?!!?

No, he really is that stupid.

[bert]

Wait, he actually got your name RIGHT for once? Good god.

actually, more the fucker posted Gail's address on a recipt.

but per Gail,it's old information.