Not Really Fundies. Rats.
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Unfortunately, I have to belay my earlier self-satisfaction. As MKB posted on the Yahoo! list, the Shelly the Republican site is actually a satire blog.
I’d started to develop my own suspicions anyway, when I clicked on Tristan’s link to his own blog is fan fiction based on the writings of Frank Key and the fictional pamphleteer Dobson.
Frank Key’s Hooting Yard podcast is one of my absolute favorites, and I was honored to have Mr. Key narrate a piece for Escape Pod. So I know what that’s about. And if “Tristan Shuddery” is capable of appreciating the fine aesthetic derangement of Frank Key’s work, it seems tremendously unlikely to me that he himself would actually be deranged enough to say what he said about the iPod.
(Saying what he said about Escape Pod? Well, you know. Different tastes and all that.)
In any case, it made for an entertaining few hours. I don’t regret being fooled by it. This was the trolling of a Troll Grandmaster, and I feel privileged that he took the time to troll Escape Pod.
I suspected at first that it was satire, but then decided it was genuine based on the use of the CAP rating which I’ve seen used unsatiracly. I’ve seen things that were just as deranged as that entry that weren’t satire. Is it really satire if you can’t tell it’s satire?
Had I read part 1, I’d have known it was fake. Nobody talks like that.
Comment by Scott Janssens — May 12, 2006 @ 2:14 pm
A better way of asking: Is it satire if it’s indistinguishable from reality?
Comment by Scott Janssens — May 12, 2006 @ 2:24 pm
A better way of asking: Is it satire if it’s indistinguishable from reality?
Mu.
Comment by SFEley — May 12, 2006 @ 2:33 pm
I’m gonna need a lot more malt in me before that makes sense.
Comment by Scott Janssens — May 12, 2006 @ 3:21 pm