HACKER ALERT: The Scooby-Doo Reveal
Yeah, that's right it was me, Slag, all along. I was the hacker, and I would have gotten away with too, if it wasn't for that meddling CJM.
I must admit, the ruse was driven by my desperation for original posting material. Let's come clean, The Hubbub is a glutton, the more you give it, the more it wants. Like the man-eating plant in "Little Shop Of Horrors" it just keeps screaming "Feed Me More!"
So yes, I created the Hacker as a counterpoint to myself, someone I could debate on the topics of religion and politics, without seeming to violate my own posting rules. But as I envisioned it, the dialog, lasting weeks or even months, was to run deep and broad. I imagined myself ranging over topics that breached the walls of simple day-to-day concerns, and dealt with the very nature of the human condition.
Playing both the protagonist and the antagonist, I was attempting to move beyond the pettiness and histrionics of current politics, and debate myself on life's most fundamental questions. A conversation with myself on the nature of existence itself, that would in the process, infer the duality of man, not unlike the peace symbol on Private Joker's combat helmet in "Full Metal Jacket."
This series of posts was to be my "David," my "Last Supper," my "Citizen Kane." Not to mention what it would have done to our posting trend line!
Now, like the Library at Alexandria or the Colossus of Rhodes, or any of the other five wonders of the ancient world that I can't recall, it is lost to history.
Oh well.
I must admit, the ruse was driven by my desperation for original posting material. Let's come clean, The Hubbub is a glutton, the more you give it, the more it wants. Like the man-eating plant in "Little Shop Of Horrors" it just keeps screaming "Feed Me More!"
So yes, I created the Hacker as a counterpoint to myself, someone I could debate on the topics of religion and politics, without seeming to violate my own posting rules. But as I envisioned it, the dialog, lasting weeks or even months, was to run deep and broad. I imagined myself ranging over topics that breached the walls of simple day-to-day concerns, and dealt with the very nature of the human condition.
Playing both the protagonist and the antagonist, I was attempting to move beyond the pettiness and histrionics of current politics, and debate myself on life's most fundamental questions. A conversation with myself on the nature of existence itself, that would in the process, infer the duality of man, not unlike the peace symbol on Private Joker's combat helmet in "Full Metal Jacket."
This series of posts was to be my "David," my "Last Supper," my "Citizen Kane." Not to mention what it would have done to our posting trend line!
Now, like the Library at Alexandria or the Colossus of Rhodes, or any of the other five wonders of the ancient world that I can't recall, it is lost to history.
Oh well.
posted by Slag at 7:30 PM
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4 Comments:
Unfortunate you confessed the ruse so quickly. I don't think any of the others - our two readers - were on to it in the least. And what a fabulous construct had you allowed this thing to actually play out. Am I just a convenient scapegoat? Did you actually shirk the challenge of your own plan out of fear of success? I would have looked forward to the debate you proposed having with yourself on the very nature of beer-drinking...I mean...existence itself (freudian slip there, sorry to have given away the answer). It most certainly would have been a far more worthwhile discussion than the verbal cage match Big E and I have been having. The Little Shop of Horrors, Feed Me More reference: superb analogy. As for the duality comment and Private Joker: he wore the peace button on his shirt and had "Born To Kill" written on the front of his helmet; the evidence is here. The movie promotional posters placed the peace button on the helmet, and that might have been what you were recalling. Your mentioning "Citizen Kane" got me thinking that I should post the entire screenplay later this week. (No need to congratulate me on this Smelly - if you're reading this - I know it's a fantastic idea that you're totally on board with.)
Actually you got me again. I was really just planning to go along pretending we were being hacked until someone figured out it was me and then I'd do the Scooby-Doo reveal like I just did.
God I am lame.
Don't have any links to the 7 ancient wonders, but here's a one hit wonders site.
"like the Library at Alexandria or the Colossus of Rhodes, or any of the other five wonders of the ancient world"
2 (ancient wonders I mentioned) + (the other) 5 = 7 ancient wonders total.
I will own up to my botched Full Metal Jacket reference, but I got the number of ancient wonders right.
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