Candlelight Vigil for John Castle

He was an incompetent drunk, yes! Then he started writing, got better and better with the years, found an audience for his pulp fiction and sold millions of books in Germany alone.

I hope Castle can do the same. Just to piss you guys off!

"Slurp slurp slurp"

Why am I reminded of that scene in the Muppet Movie where Ms. Piggy tries to woo back Kermit after she dumped him to go to the audition?

"Oh Kermie, you're so wonderful...."

Maybe she can convince them how indispensible she is...like she has the last few owners.

You guys . . .

I never viewed Tamar as "indispensible." I viewed her as trustworthy and reliable, a quality which few enough people can claim.

Haha. Funny.

That was brutal, man. I never read anything Castle wrote. Thank you very much for destroying my illusions...

Americans in particular seem infatuated with the Bad Boy Writer. Norman Mailer punched Gore Vidal on Cavett's show and his fans adored him. Some people gave up on him after his pet convict Jack Henry Abbott committed murder less than six weeks after Stormin' Norman got him out of prison, but the groupies hung on. He even managed to spin his stabbing of his second-of-six wives into being her fault for provoking him.

None of that made him a great writer, just a shitty personality.

Ditto Harlan Ellison. Good writer, rotten personality. His greatest non-professional achievement seems to have been to out-Bieber Bieber before Bieber was a zygote.

Then there's the whole Hunter Thompson/Charles Bukowski thing, as mentioned above.

Castle's got his role models wrong. Being a shit doesn't make you a good writer. Being a writer of any stripe doesn't mean you have to be a shit.

Castle may really want to be a Bad Boy Writer, but he just isn't any sort of a Bad Boy at all. He trips over his own feet every time he tries to be intimidating or angry. Bad Boy is a role at which he's terrible. He comes across as Abe Simpson falling off a bar-stool, not as any of the writers he might want to emulate.

Only people with no class can take manners and gratitude as kissing ass.

Dayton has been suspiciously absent since Castle went down the poop shoot.

I dunno. Castle is one of the most boring posters here......save for when he has a meltdown. Then the car crash is really rather entertaining. I mean look at the change in interest in him when he melts down. He's perpetually ignored for months on end when he just posts rambling garbage. But then when it all starts to break down and people sniff blood, the meltdown gets fed and the resulting mess that ensues can be strangely addictive, as evidenced by the sheer volume of threads about either him or his writing since the latest meltdown episode began.

If he can find a way to get that car crash awfulness on paper then I think there might be interest in that, in a sort of voyeuristic "so bad, it's good" kind of way.

193 posts in this thread alone for Johnny-boy.. are you fucking serious? Word Forge IS dead!

Long live Wordforge!

I contributed to a Green Room thread today, what have you done?

worked with a young horse for an hour, rode my bike to a evening dinner by the lake, then home for a gin an tonic and a cigar... OK?

...and then I fucked your mother.

So it sounds like John Castle went full retard?

Everybody knows you never go full retard...

But everybody knows Castle is at his most entertaining when he does. Past a certain point, and he actually manages to troll himself. He's like Sybil. With five o'clock shadow.

It's going to become the newest WF sport/drinking game: How long a thread does it take until visionrazor loses it.

Castle doesn't hold a candle to Reno Floyd/ Dr. E. F. Loony, the latter being the most on the nose username in the history of the Interwebz. Suffice to say he curses worse than any sailor I've met and flipped out indiscrminately, including the few peopke that had use for him (me included).

He was here during the last writers strike and mentooned some personal stuff was going on during his most epic meltdowns...but good God. I hope someone has old thread pre-2007 saved somewhere.

Wow... Are you 12? What a joke you are. I'll ask Ma how you were... does that give you a stuffy? Christ this place is kindergarten

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I miss that guy

I love this place.. I visit when I need to remind myself how sad some peoples lives are.. Note Volpones original and cutting "I fucked your mother! I guess that is the grandest statement of internet balls you can demonstrate.
This place is like the window in a "puppy-mill" and on occasion when I chose to walk by: I all slap the glass with my hand to watch all you fierce little puppies snarl and snap and throw yourselves against the window to attack... Your spittle flecking the window... you piss and shit on each other then proudly walk through it with posturing puppy legs. I stop for a minute.. and realize how sad and small your world is... and I get a sadness and a sense of pity for you all. Then I walk on in my life.
I'll be back soon... to give the you all chance to snap and rage you little demons you...

You're just so awesome, Grout.

Cool story, bro!

This.

TLDR

Reminds me of Flobots.