Rob "Mushmouth Poet" Evans wrote:
>Will Dockery wrote:
> >> >> > No, I didn't, Mushmouth, and I can easily repost the original here, if
> >> >> > you're that confused about the facts in the situation where Michael
> >> >> > Cook stole my poem and used it without my knowledge, permission or any credit to me as the writer of the poem.
> >> >> I'm sure you could
> > Of course I can, even a senile old fool like you should be able to
> > understand the facts of the "Karma Bombs" story by now. Here's a
> > repost of what I wrote to Michael Cook himself, yesterday, which sums the story up pretty well for you:
> and yet you managed to leave out the posts where, even though you hadn't
> given permission, you were so enthusiastic when you found out.
No, Mushmouth, you're a liar, since just yesterday I gave the account
of how it went down, and you just have snipped all of that with this
post you made this morning.
I saw as soon as Cook posted the link to his website with the stolen
material on it that his plan was to rile me up just as he had Bishop,
a move that Bishop later used so well against Rik Roots, who hasn't
stopped whining about it to this day, and not so well when Bishop
tried it again with Karla Rogers, likewise, exactly the same sort of
theft that Cook had done so well the year before with his theft of my
"Karma Bombs", and, after making it clear that he had stolen the poem
from me, took a different approach, having a different reaction... I
thanked him for his "help" with promoting /my/ work, and proceeded to
make posts leading to his link, with proper credit to me as the writer
of the poem restored. Since his thievery backfired on him Cook quickly
gave up and actually "gave" me my own poem back. Here's how I put it
in a post responding directly to him, yesterday:
What can you say? Well at the time, when I wrote "Hey! You stole my
'Karma Bombs' poem!"
You wrote: "Not stolen, borrowed."
Then, when I began using the theft for my advantage, for publicity and
as a presentation of my work, and also to solidly establish that the
work was mine, since when you "borrowed" the poem without my knowledge
or permission, you also forgot to credit me as the writer of the poem
on your website (something Rik Roots is still screaming about Tom
Bishop over, when TB did that to RR), so by promoting your site with
proper credit I was establishing that.
Then, you gave me the track to do with as I wanted -which included
adding music to it, as you quoted me above- and I set it up on another
site, for that purpose. So everything worked out in the end.
Anyway, so where have you been so long, Michael?
Similarly, Tom Bishop has been missing for quite a while now, even
speculation that he's died... he vanished right after the hubbub over
when he seemed to be emulating you and stole Karla Rogers' poem
"April", put it on a video without her knowledge, permission or credit
to her. I suppose he thought that nobody on the newsgroups, including
Karla, would have a problem with the theft, since you'd been doing it
for years here with no problems.
Hey, check out some of my new work, tell me what you think (don't
steal it, though, okay?):
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"Ladonia Looks So Cold" (acoustic version) by Dockery & Conley:
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery