I was friends with capsuper for 30 years and all I got was this

[badatapologies]

A couple of decades worth of unflattering-bordering-on-humiliating childhood photos and a whole lot more about me than I ever wanted you to know can be found in this extremely affectionate and sweet tribute by my apparently very longtime friend Eric Paul "capsuper" Johnson, who is not usually prone to all this sentimental hubbub so he must really mean it. 30 years can really wear on a person. I don't know what I'm more grateful for--the things he said, or the things he generously did not say. I'm gonna say "B".

I share it with you, dear reader, because I am simply too tired to know better. Later I'm sure I'll have a more appropriate response. On the 40th anniversary I want a cake. And a pony. And a pony made of cake.

Comments

Re: Seriously.

[revme.livejournal.com]

Heh, that is awesome all around. I just thought it was odd, since the article WAS very good & praising, so it did seem odd that he'd be all "TOO BAD ONE OF 'EM'S A GODLESS HEATHEN!" or something. And I can see that line of reasoning too, just because, well, yeah. You could be all parenthetically "used to be Mike, a dude" but that'd probably raise more questions than it'd answer. So... yeah.

Anyway, you should show that one armed man whatfor. And that rules about the old ladies!

Re: Seriously.

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

Also, and this is a theme that comes up a lot in the history of the Loon News, I often made an effort to separate my "satire" work from my so-called "serious writing". I wanted to be able to be free to write filthy, outrageous, terrible things and not then have that confused with my pretentious literary aspirations and Jewel-esque poetry and respectable playwriting and whatnot. So in essence I tried to use that persona (which I had lying around anyway) as a nom-de-plume, the way Shatner might still pretend to be Captain Kirk just long enough to bang some drunken green trekkie chick. That was the thinking.

Re: Seriously.

[revme.livejournal.com]

...man, it's good I haven't yet been able to figure out a good "serious" project, because alla my stuff ends up bein' goofy. Otherwise I'd have to use a pseudonym!

...wait...