Bring Me the Head of Pete McCutcheon

[akirlu]

...with a side order of Joel Rosenberg tartare.

liveavatar suggests in the comments thread to this post that those who loved Rasseff That Was might be well served by storming the Bastille and taking the fucker back by sheer numbers. I think that might work, if enough people went at once, and stuck it out long enough, and generated enough group policing fu. But I have no idea how much pent up demand there really is for such an assault. And I'm pretty sure I'm not, just now, the girl to tackle the project if it's going to require a lot of pep rallies and support wrangling. I am just a wee bit overcommitted at the moment, even as things stand. So I am starting a new post to see who all else out there is interested in such a project. Organizational volunteers especially welcome, but a gauge of enthusiasm (depth and breadth) would be good, too.

So, where are y'all at?

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Or, perhaps more directly useful, here's a link to a thread (title:RASFF Etiquette) from mid-2000 that gives perhaps some sense of it, though possibly it's too dependent on familiarity with in-jokes and backstory to be accessible. But it's the thread where I got off my Chinatown/Hamster joke, which I'm still rather pleased with, and does certainly have that cascade-of-wit-and-banter quality which is part of what I'm trying to point at when I gesture wildly at Rassef-that-was.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

Wow, there's a lot of people on that thread whom I miss. Mary Kay and Jordin Kare; Loren MacGregor; Vlatko Juric-Kokic; Ray Radlein; Rob Hansen; Avedon Carol; Kip Williams (who still lurks, but....); PNH; Lydy Nickerson; Vicki Rosenzweig; D. Potter; even Gary Farber. Sigh.

(That was in no particular order, btw, except as I noticed their names scrolling down the thread list from the top.)

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

Well that was a lovely little trip down memory lane. You're really working hard to suck me into this aren't you?

MKK

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Not yet, but if you think it would help...

(Actually, I just went back and read a different segment of that thread. As a holographic representation of what I miss about rasseff, it's not at all bad.)

[daystreet.livejournal.com]

So I was just cruising through RASFF to get a feel of its recent feel and I could not resist looking at a thread named "Rasff is no fun any more", where I find this from Bilek on April 12:

"RASFF was always pretty partisan and mean spirited. Not as petty,
though. Nor as bloody mindedly dedicated to politics as often. But
if you don't remember a lot of vicious partisanship you haven't been
reading long enough.

Patrick, Avedon, Ulrika, etc could get downright NASTY."

It All Comes Back To Me Now... The "vicious partisanship" of this remark is pretty astonishing.

Right. Well. There's some of my renewed interest drained away.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Um, do, please, consider the source. Mr. Bilek is likely to be one of the folks who will hit my killfile immediately if I do this. If you do likewise, you won't be missing much, I swan. This project will absolutely require some selectivity, some editing, of whom we interact with and how. That's always been the case, but especially if we're going to re-grow the fun and playful parts of rasseff, there will need to be a certain amount of disciplined taking ourselves in hand.

Apropos of which, National Masturbation Month starts on Sunday. I saw a poster in Fremont, and thought of you. :)

[daystreet.livejournal.com]

Did the poster mention if May is the month when we can or we can't? I always get it mixed up.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

Oh, is THAT who you are?

If so, I've missed you for years, I hope you're getting lots of fiction written, and I've retained your 9/11 posts in hard copy for my grandchildren to throw away after I die.

If not, well, I am clearly no good at penetrating pseudonyms and will need to have Akirlu (whose pseudonym would undoubtedly have fooled me, as I have a hard time with Ipswitch and Notlob, had I not already known who she was) explain it all to me in words of few syllables in the privacy of a noisy bar tomorrow.

[daystreet.livejournal.com]

Yes, THAT is who I are. :)