Quitting While I'm Ahead

I've decided to stop sharing new creative works on Google and YouTube. All it does is add to the workload of the lawyers as my new work is stolen by others and turned into fraud along with all the work I've already posted. I recall the the HTML frame set I used for my index in 2007. I won't bother with that this time. I won't post my short stories or poems. You already know them from the jerks who took them after I erased them. And my funny resume has made its rounds, too, I understand, from people who took my real experience and turned it all into meaningless gags. One more note to my lawyers: I recall now that my original Blogger account was established in 1999 or 2000. It was while studying web design in 2000 that I first showed my aptitude for script writing - in both English and HTML/JavaScript. So you can watch those clean cut cutthroats pretending to be decent at my expense until this legal matter is all ironed out. I'm through sharing my hard work just to see it end up in the hands of people like Taylor and the Crystalids.
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Good Excuses

To date I've not authorized my work or my image to be used anywhere outside my one YouTube account or my one Google account. I have not authorized my work or image to be peddled by relatives. To date I've received no compensation for works of mine which were used commercially. I've never been arrested or incarcerated. I think all these accusations of crack smoking are silly and irrelevant. Why do I live among drug addicts? Because I'm poor. Neighbourhood addicts keep the rent low for me. I am a single man with no dependents, so I don't have to feel guilty about imposing this world on my children. But even if I were a crackhead, I wouldn't want to live in this area. Probably none of the addicts want to live here either. Smoking their crack is the most rewarding for them when they can do it somewhere clean and respectable - like the fine hotels where the Crystalids and other bands who stole my songs were accommodated while they committed fraud for big music labels. And even if I were a crackhead, don't a lot of popular musicians and artists have drug problems? Why doesn't anyone around here talk about their habits anymore? I never wanted to be so high profile because it makes life very uncomfortable. It puts you at the mercy of the business who are the only ones capable of getting you off the street and housing you somewhere private. I don't want to be at the mercy of a business which steals my work and turns it into fraud. And being poor is hard enough without being famous on top of it. Think about it. I can't apply for a normal job now. I stand out too much. I can't look for another home. Landlords will anticipate disturbances from strangers on my account - like the ones my fellow tenants experienced from strangers who passed my apartment between 2008 and 2010 and yelled insults at my window. So you see, as a high profile person with no money, I just cause problems for quiet, ordinary people. That leaves only one housing option for me: the one I am currently exercising.
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Uncommon Malice

I do not actually hate the ones with whom I am forced to reside as I wait for justice. I have spent the better part of my life among the poor and the downtrodden and I feel enormous sympathy for them. As much as they might offend me at times, I still think more highly of street people than I do of any star who took my work and used it against me for their personal gain. One SNL sketch I caught on a YouTube clip after I erased it from the web was Silent Night on the Western Front. This has a piece of the book, All Quiet on the Western Front, in it, but it also has a piece of something far more personal: my father's combat experience. When I was a lad, I found a jar of army medals in the basement: iron crosses and so forth. It was stuffed to the top. My father was just a lad himself when he joined the army in 1943, and I gathered how he came into possession of all these medals. And when I tried to dedicate a poem to my father's combat service in '09, apparently the SNL gang who used this sketch were the first to malign this heartfelt work. Are you beginning to see why I didn't miss anything by not being able to 'party' with these monsters? You may find this sketch and many others to which the SNL cast helped themselves at my great personal expense in my continually growing script index.
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More of the Same

To date I've not authorized my work or my image to be used anywhere outside my one YouTube account or my one Google account. I have not authorized my work or image to be peddled by relatives. To date I've received no compensation for works of mine which were used commercially. I've never been arrested or incarcerated. I'm still here and I will continue to be here until I have been paid for the mountains of work stolen from me by the industry since 2007. Until I have been paid I will be living a marginal life among the 'have nots'. I offered to pay my legal team out of my expected income tax return but they declined it. As far as I know, they have been working 'pro bono', which will, of course, secure a very generous payout for us in the end if there is any justice in the world at all. Copyright disputes take a very long time to resolve because the offenders erect legal barriers around the property they steal. Undoing these barriers is like pulling down a wall one brick at a time, or so I have been told. I have decided to just take a deep breath and accept that I may be in this position for a long time to come. I hope it isn't too much to ask my followers to do the same.
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Facing My Reality

I am a man approaching middle age now and I really wish I had never shared anything online to cause so much turbulence to my life. My love and my truth has been answered by over six years of lies and false accusations broadcast against me by the most trusted faces on TV. Though I have never been incarcerated or arrested, it has been utterly miserable for me. It should be clear to anyone who can clear the televised fog from their head for a minute that the entertainment business is phony-baloney. That's how people like it. They use television to escape reality, not to face it. It turns out that the ultimate escape from your reality is my reality. That's why they needed all my songs and my scripts so badly in 2007 and they needed to deal with me so brutally. But I have no choice but to face reality and I think it's quite unfair that this has put so much money into other pockets and left me arguing with strangers over my ownership of merely one of my two hundred songs. I think that if a man can spend six or seven years online sharing his every thought and he still can't convince the world of his identity, the world is in more trouble than he is. And for starters, my reality is about being almost forty-eight. I know you're being nice by giving me hints on how to stay youthful looking, but I'm not interested in tricking anyone into thinking I'm younger than my age. I'm far from my youth. I'm letting it all hang out here. If I go grey and my teeth start falling out, well, it happens to the best of us sooner or later.
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Change Tactics

I would again like to thank readers who use my indexes to bump frauds off of the internet. I hear that this has made the entries I left out vulnerable. So maybe for today, or for once or twice a week, you should use the work I left out of the index in your Google searches to flag videos down. Aren't these people worse than lice?
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I Don't Want to Be Oasis

I get a sense of how irresponsibly the corporate media has covered the massive theft of my songs and blogs by conversations such as the one I had with a friend outside the drop-in this morning. We got to talking about my work and he asked me which popular bands stole my erased songs six years ago. Off the top of my head I mentioned Oasis, who stole Fortune. In response he said, Oasis stole from you? He sounded unconvinced so I didn't bother to tell him about the Rolling Stones stealing Nothing but Ashes from me. So how about it, media? Why hasn't every last person in Vancouver been informed of this crime against me yet after three years of it coming to public light? Why do you leave me to walk the street and look like the crazy one? Don't you think I went through enough at the hands of those bands when they stole my songs? Why do you still want me to suffer now? And why do you hold it against me if I lose my temper about this kind of treatment? Were you insulted by some of the things I said? How insulted do you think I might be after six years of this brutality with my work? Six years of hideous lies to clear the way for ugly fraud committed with my most personal works! And on top of that I was accused for the second time of not knowing how to use a bathroom last night by someone who isn't even supposed to be living in my building. How would you handle the kind of insults you let them dish out to me? How many years does it take for you to spread the truth about me? Why don't you help me when I'm right? Did you have a hand in the crime? If so, why are you still in front of a camera, influencing the population against me?
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