from Silliman's blog

From Ron Silliman's Oct 5, 2008 blog posting:

"Issue 1 is what I would call an act of anarcho-flarf vandalism. The second pages lists the compilers as Stephen McLaughlin & Jim Carpenter, and a search of domain ownership for the web host arsonism.org at Whois.com turns up the following:

Registrant Name: Stephen McLaughlin
Registrant Street1: 409 Ash St.
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City: Delanco
Registrant State/Province: New Jersey
Registrant Postal Code:08075
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone:+1.8567641574
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email: fakesalt@comcast.net

If you are unamused, you might want to tell Steve this directly. If you’re amused, I suspect that he’d like to hear that as well.

I might note that the last time I felt ripped off by an on-line stunt, I sued – as a lead plaintiff in a class-action case brought by the National Writers Union. And while I can’t discuss the suit, as a condition of the subsequent settlement, I will note that we could have gotten a pretty good major league middle infielder for the final amount. Play with other people’s reps at your own risk."


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Carpet-bomb email this guy until his account blows up. Call him until his cell phone melts down. [I'll be doing neither... I don't have time for this guy outside the theatre of this blog. I'm happy to make my point here, for my 10-15 readers]. I don't want to be misrepresented by this supposed "art project." If I wanted my name on a terrible poem, I'd write one myself. If I wanted to create art by using other people's names and a simple computer text-generator, I'd create a website and write the program (both of which would take no less than a couple hours tops). Stephen better have failed this project. Shit. A monkey could do it. And now the monkey-shit who did do it should be forced to take the site down. Or keep it up. Either way, his voicemail and email inbox are gonna get mighty crowded if people follow through with their threats. Me, I'm gonna watch some football, write some poems, hang-out with my son, and cook some tacos.