[MISTED] Sweet Valley High: Oracle On-Air [1/3]
Joe Blevins
Aargh! I put a lot of work into that script, and it looks like nobody
read it.
...or they read it and thought it sucked.
(Those are some hours I'll never get back. That's how life slips away
from you -- time-wasting little projects that accomplish nada.)
Well, I thought it was better than the first one I did ("Boycott This
Blasphemous Movie"), and that one got a handful of responses, which
encouraged me to do another one. But this one generated zero responses.
I've already started a third one (the script for "Basic Instinct") and
planned a few more for the coming months. The question is: should I
bother? What's the point of writing something no one's interested in
reading?
I know the FAQ says to not expect feedback, but you've got to understand
that I'm a very fragile, unstable person in need of constant
reassurance.
I also realize that most MSTings are of science-fiction fanfics, but I
couldn't bring myself to READ sci-fi stories -- especially amateur
ones. Other than MST3K, I'm really not interested in sci-fi. I
probably couldn't tell good sci-fi from bad sci-fi. I thought "Sweet
Valley High" was a ripe target for MSTing, so that's why I chose the
"Oracle On-Air" script.
--Joe--
Laurelyn Smith
Joe Blevins wrote in message <3517FF...@concentric.net>...
>Aargh! I put a lot of work into that script, and it looks like nobody
>read it.
Mellow out, child. I've hardly had a chance to read them! But from what I
have read, you couldn't have picked riper subject material. I speak as one
who was helplessly addicted to the nasty little pieces of pulp during my
high school years. And from what I've seen, they got worse after I stopped
reading them. One thing I did pick up that I liked is M & TB's exhortations
to the author to carry through on his death threats.
Laurelyn
Enoch Forrester
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Joe Blevins wrote:
> Aargh! I put a lot of work into that script, and it looks like nobody
> read it.
Well... I mean, I've got studying to do, and dammit, MSTings are *long*!
It was either your MSTing or the assigned fourteen cantos of Orlando
Furioso. And I *like* Orlando Furioso.
But anyway, now that you bring it up, I went and check it out on Dejanews
and laughed my ass off, if it makes ya feel any better.
> ...or they read it and thought it sucked.
Oh, no-no-no-n-n-n-n-no, you would've heard back from somebody if they
thought it sucked... (or maybe not, I dunno).
> (Those are some hours I'll never get back. That's how life slips away
> from you -- time-wasting little projects that accomplish nada.)
Hey, now, don'tcha worry. Why, I come up with a new Voyager MSTing once
or twice a month, and I hardly ever get a comment on Usenet. (Which is
why I started up my own web page, with the help of my trusty university,
and it generates a sufficient amount of fan mail...)
> I know the FAQ says to not expect feedback, but you've got to understand
> that I'm a very fragile, unstable person in need of constant
> reassurance.
Then you've come to the right newsgroup, me boyo. Nowhere on Usenet is
safer for fragile egos than RATMM. Just keep in mind that, despite the
fact that hundreds of people post and lurk here, only a small percentage
take the trouble to read through all the MSTings; they come here to flirt
and jump on cascades and stuff.
> I also realize that most MSTings are of science-fiction fanfics, but I
> couldn't bring myself to READ sci-fi stories -- especially amateur
> ones. Other than MST3K, I'm really not interested in sci-fi. I
> probably couldn't tell good sci-fi from bad sci-fi. I thought "Sweet
> Valley High" was a ripe target for MSTing, so that's why I chose the
> "Oracle On-Air" script.
Seems like a good choice. (I do have to wonder exactly what sort of
places you hang out in order to come up with a Sweet Valley High script,
though...)
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Bryan Lambert
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:47:02 +0000, Joe Blevins <joe...@concentric.net> wrote:
>Aargh! I put a lot of work into that script, and it looks like nobody
>read it.
>
>...or they read it and thought it sucked.
>
>(Those are some hours I'll never get back. That's how life slips away
>from you -- time-wasting little projects that accomplish nada.)
>
>Well, I thought it was better than the first one I did ("Boycott This
>Blasphemous Movie"), and that one got a handful of responses, which
>encouraged me to do another one. But this one generated zero responses.
Well, Joe, due to indiscriminate newsfeeds, I -never- read MSTings off of RATMM.
However, since you asked, and since you may not have seen it on the Dibs List,
I'm about halfway through it right now, and I think it's top-notch. Excellent
work. Honest.
It makes me laugh out loud, which is something of a rarity of MSTings of late
(not necessarily due to the authors, but because there's so damn much anime and
toon fanfic being MSTed these days).
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Matthew R Blackwell
>Aargh! I put a lot of work into that script, and it looks like nobody
>read it.
>
>...or they read it and thought it sucked.
>
>(Those are some hours I'll never get back. That's how life slips away
>from you -- time-wasting little projects that accomplish nada.)
Joe, I've received 5 new MiSTings to read over the past couple of
days, as well as trying to complete 3 of my own. Responses to my
MiSTings take a few weeks to filter in. We'll respond. Just be
patient, 'kay?
Hilary Doda
Heck no!! I *loved* seeing SVH demolished!! My sister used to read those
*constantly*......I was in hysterics reading it - I just haven't been
online much in the past little while. Please do more!!
Hilary, Queen of Sin
awag...@linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us
In article <3517FF...@concentric.net>,
joe...@concentric.net wrote:
>
> Aargh! I put a lot of work into that script, and it looks like nobody
> read it.
I read it and liked it, but when I tried to reply and commend (not condemn,
mind you) you on it, Deja News decided that I'd have to delete all 150 pages
of the MSTing before I'd be able to- which really isn't too much fun when I'm
using Lynx. Anyway, the script was painfully bad, and the MSTing was good-
I'm subjected to Channel 1, and appreciated that riff.
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BERTMARCH
><3517FF...@concentric.net>,
> joe...@concentric.net wrote:
>>
>> Aargh! I put a lot of work into that script, and it looks like nobody
>> read it.
Hell yes they did, boy! I laughed. My cousins used to read those crappy books a
lot. And I once caught a minute of the show. It made Saved by the Bell look
like CBS's 'EZ Streets'
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Here I sit with a can in my hand
No tits to pull, no hay to pitch
You just punch a hole in the son of a bitch."
-Anon., circa 1900.
Average Joe Barlow
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:47:02 +0000, Joe Blevins
>Aargh! I put a lot of work into that script, and it looks like nobody
>read it.
Hi Joe. The FAQ is right, actually.... I've done more than one
MiSTing, and it's sortof rare to get feedback on them; I reposted my
Star Wars Special Edition MiSTing recently, and it generated hardly a
peep.... but nonetheless, someone apparently read it and liked it, as
it's been nominated for four Golden Hamdingers. (I wish I knew who
nominated me. Thanks, whoever you are.)
I'm guilty of the same thing myself... as I mentioned
previously, I read "Ratliff a Go-Go" a couple of weeks ago, which is
the first MiSTing I've read in.... months, probably. I laughed a lot,
out loud, which is something that fan MiSTings don't often make me do,
but have I bothered to write Matt or Bill and tell them so? No. Why?
Well, mostly it's because I'm evil, but it's partly because I just
haven't had time to go into a detailed critique of the piece, citing
examples of what I do and don't like about it, which I try to do
whenever I can. (Comes from previous experience as an editor, I
guess.)
I've got your MiSTing saved on my hard drive, and look forward
to reading it as soon as I can. No promises as to when that will be,
though. ;)
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Matthew R Blackwell
>On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:47:02 +0000, Joe Blevins
><joe...@concentric.net> wrote:
>
>>Aargh! I put a lot of work into that script, and it looks like nobody
>>read it.
>
> Hi Joe. The FAQ is right, actually.... I've done more than one
>MiSTing, and it's sortof rare to get feedback on them; I reposted my
>Star Wars Special Edition MiSTing recently, and it generated hardly a
>peep.... but nonetheless, someone apparently read it and liked it, as
>it's been nominated for four Golden Hamdingers. (I wish I knew who
>nominated me. Thanks, whoever you are.)
> I'm guilty of the same thing myself... as I mentioned
>previously, I read "Ratliff a Go-Go" a couple of weeks ago, which is
>the first MiSTing I've read in.... months, probably. I laughed a lot,
>out loud, which is something that fan MiSTings don't often make me do,
>but have I bothered to write Matt or Bill and tell them so? No. Why?
>Well, mostly it's because I'm evil, but it's partly because I just
>haven't had time to go into a detailed critique of the piece, citing
>examples of what I do and don't like about it, which I try to do
>whenever I can. (Comes from previous experience as an editor, I
>guess.)
Yo, Bill ! This here guy's read our story, but he aints gots the
common courtesy to be writing us some nicey type responses. Do you
want to murdelize him, or should eyes do it?
Matt- Yo, Mr. Barlows. What size concrete goloshes do you wear?
Michael Grasso
Laurelyn Smith wrote in message <6f9rbu$g...@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>...
>Joe Blevins wrote in message <3517FF...@concentric.net>...
>>Aargh! I put a lot of work into that script, and it looks like nobody
>>read it.
>
>
>Mellow out, child. I've hardly had a chance to read them! But from what I
>have read, you couldn't have picked riper subject material. I speak as one
>who was helplessly addicted to the nasty little pieces of pulp during my
>high school years.
yipe! :) laurelyn, i.... i never knew this...
And from what I've seen, they got worse after I stopped
>reading them. One thing I did pick up that I liked is M & TB's
exhortations
>to the author to carry through on his death threats.
>
>Laurelyn
>
the truth *is* out there, i guess. i'll go back to throwing pencils into the
acoustic tile ceiling in my office, methinks.
mike, who wonders what the male equivalent of "sweet valley high" is...
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Bill Livingston
I tink youse should take carea him, Matthew. I did da last couple, so it's
only, whaddayacallit, fair. 'Sides, I broke me nail on da last one.
>Matt- Yo, Mr. Barlows. What size concrete goloshes do you wear?
An' ya better not fib, Barlows - Matthew knows his shoes sizes, dere!
Bill L.
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Average Joe Barlow
>Yo, Bill ! This here guy's read our story, but he aints gots the
>common courtesy to be writing us some nicey type responses. Do you
>want to murdelize him, or should eyes do it?
Yo, yo, homey! No need to be dissin' the man. You be wantin' a
critique? Okay:
I loved it.
It was much better than Cats.
I'm going to read it again and again.
>Matt- Yo, Mr. Barlows. What size concrete goloshes do you wear?
93 and a half
-AverageJoe, who never resorts to serious critiques when SNL jokes
will do just as well
Joe Blevins
Okay, you can scoff at me for making such a desperate plea for
responses, but y'know what...
IT WORKED!!
In less than a day, I went from zero responses to... well, MORE THAN
ZERO responses. In other words, from NONE to SOME. The post
accomplished EXACTLY what I wanted it to. I used good old-fashioned
GUILT and PITY to get people to write.
Seriously, though, thanks to the nice folks who responded. That's all I
wanted in the first place. When somebody posts a MSTing you like --
especially one by a new MSTer -- it wouldn't hurt to take thirty seconds
and respond to it. "Read it. Liked it" will work perfectly well.
Click on "Send," and you're done. Then you can go right back to
searching for porn or debating STAR TREK minutiae or whatever it was you
were doing online.
--Joe--
rog...@ix.netcom.com
In article <351981...@PO-Box.nospam.mcgill.ca>,
Hmmm ... our Hilary has't been online much in the past little while ...
and neither has Jello.... Hmmm...
Roger M. "Maybe Jello got caught trying to smuggle a moose back in
from Canada" Wilcox
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awag...@linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us
In article <351a8213...@news.ipass.net>,
> Blackwell) wrote:
>
> >Yo, Bill ! This here guy's read our story, but he aints gots the
> >common courtesy to be writing us some nicey type responses. Do you
> >want to murdelize him, or should eyes do it?
>
> Yo, yo, homey! No need to be dissin' the man. You be wantin' a
> critique? Okay:
>
> I loved it.
> It was much better than Cats.
> I'm going to read it again and again.
You know, I must have been about ten or eleven when I saw that... that's all
I had to say. I just wanted to make everyone feel old. Actually, I remember
it freaked me out a little, although I'm not sure *why*, exactly...
The Midnight Rambler
rog...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> In article <351981...@PO-Box.nospam.mcgill.ca>,
> hd...@po-box.mcgill.ca (Hilary, the Queen of Sin) wrote:
> >
> > Heck no!! I *loved* seeing SVH demolished!! My sister used to read those
> > *constantly*......I was in hysterics reading it - I just haven't been
> > online much in the past little while. Please do more!!
>
> Hmmm ... our Hilary has't been online much in the past little while ...
> and neither has Jello.... Hmmm...
>
> Roger M. "Maybe Jello got caught trying to smuggle a moose back in
> from Canada" Wilcox
<STANDARD ROB RESPONSE>
Never heard it called THAT before.
</SRR>
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Average Joe Barlow
On Thu, 26 Mar 98 17:41:24 GMT, bi...@Traveller.COM (Bill Livingston)
wrote:
>I tink youse should take carea him, Matthew. I did da last couple, so it's
>only, whaddayacallit, fair. 'Sides, I broke me nail on da last one.
<sighs> It's a fair cop.
>An' ya better not fib, Barlows - Matthew knows his shoes sizes, dere!
Oh, did I say "Ratliff-a-Go-Go"? My mistake, guys... what I
meant to say was "Catnip's for dodos!" Certainly any intelligent
person would keep this harmful narcotic away from their beloved
feline; otherwise, you'll be forced to watch more "Baxter the singing
cat" commercials, and then think of all the pain you'd be in.
-AverageJoe: I'm just trying to help, is all.
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Matthew R Blackwell
>On Thu, 26 Mar 98 17:41:24 GMT, bi...@Traveller.COM (Bill Livingston)
>wrote:
>
>>I tink youse should take carea him, Matthew. I did da last couple, so it's
>>only, whaddayacallit, fair. 'Sides, I broke me nail on da last one.
>
> <sighs> It's a fair cop.
>
>>An' ya better not fib, Barlows - Matthew knows his shoes sizes, dere!
>
> Oh, did I say "Ratliff-a-Go-Go"? My mistake, guys... what I
>meant to say was "Catnip's for dodos!" Certainly any intelligent
>person would keep this harmful narcotic away from their beloved
>feline; otherwise, you'll be forced to watch more "Baxter the singing
>cat" commercials, and then think of all the pain you'd be in.
>
Well , neverminds den. Eye misunderstood yous.
Average Joe Barlow
rog...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> Roger M. "Maybe Jello got caught trying to smuggle a moose back in
> from Canada" Wilcox
<Crow>
Aww, people have such cute names for sex.
</Crow>
-AverageJoe, who invites you to "Bite me!"
Sascha83
>>
> Heck no!! I *loved* seeing SVH demolished!! My sister used to read
>those
> *constantly*......I was in hysterics reading it - I just haven't
>been
> online much in the past little while. Please do more!!
I watch that show everyday at 4:30. Its fun!! I love airheady, shallow shows.
It makes me feel normal. Yes it is a show.
Sascha