BREAKING: JOHN SCALZI EMBROILED IN SCANDAL!
BREAKING NEWS!!
Today on Twitter, noted Science Fiction Author and Cat-Bacon-Taper John Scalzi declared:
AAAAH EVERY YOUTUBE VIDEO HAS A POLITICAL AD IN FRONT OF IT THAT’S IT NO MORE YOUTUBE UNTIL NOVEMBER 7
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) September 23, 2012
A group of concerned cats immediately replied with this political action message:
Then, in a desperate attempt to deflect attention from his cat bacon taping, Scalzi accused beloved science fiction, television, film, stage, theater, internet, radio, and teenage-fever-dream star Wil Wheaton of being behind the whole thing. Wheaton, who everyone loves for reasons, denied the scandalous allegation. Scalzi then produced an obviously fake “receipt”:
@wilw Nothing to do with it? Then perhaps you can EXPLAIN THIS RECEIPT, Wil #OhSnapYall twitter.com/scalzi/status/…
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) September 24, 2012
But Mister Scalzi can not produce the LONG FORM RECEIPT! He continues to dodge the tough questions, and instead of responding to a simple and reasonable request, he produced this:
And now, as the real questions begin to swirl around Mister Scalzi, his allies in the Bacon Taping Media have produced this vicious attack ad:
Some say that John Scalzi is wrong on bacon, wrong on tape, and wrong on cats.
Some people say that John Scalzi is WRONG FOR THE INTERNET.
DIS MESSUG WAZ PAY FER BY DA KATZ.
we like tuna
I am on vacation
I’m looking at this:
And doing a little bit of this:
But don’t worry. Until I get home, I’ve left this guy in charge:
I am sitting in a chair in the sky going 522 miles per hour at 39000 feet
And I’m updating my blog from that chair, because why wouldn’t you do that?
in which I do not attempt to speak French
When I was in Montreal for Comicon, I had this idea to open my talk with a little bit of French. I’d apologize for not really knowing much French, but through the magic of Google Translate, I could say “good morning Montreal…” and a few other things. It would quickly fall apart into “my hovercraft is full of eels” territory, and we’d all have a good laugh at the stupid American.
The problem was, even though I had the computer talking to me and the words right in front of me, I couldn’t learn it, because French is hard. Then, I got worried that the audience would think maybe I was making fun of their language and culture, instead of my own. So I shelved the bit, and instead explained what I was going to do and why I didn’t do it. Very meta, Wheaton.
Oh? How nice of you to notice. Thanks.
So my talk (which I’ve learned is called a “conference” in Montreal) opened with that bit of pseudo humour, and then moved into what I thought was a really nice discussion about gaming and how much I love being a nerd.
At one point — and I can’t remember how exactly it came up — I mentioned something about the Stanley Cup, which turned into something about how 1993 was soooooo long ago*, which turned into something about the Maple Leafs**.
I engaged in some good-natured gloating about my beloved Los Angeles Kings being the Stanley Cup champions, and when 1500 people rightfully booed and hollered at me, here was my response:
“Yes! Yes! Your tears taste so good!” I declared. Then, we all had a good laugh together.
As the moment passed, I realized that I had made a careful and deliberate choice to not insult the audience’s language and culture … so I insulted their religion instead.
Post updated to include link to an audience recording of my talk.
Oops.***
*That’s when the Habs beat the Kings in the Finals
** If you don’t know why that’s funny, just forget it. You’re probably not a hockey fan and explaining it to you would only bore you and annoy the pig.
*** GO KINGS!