Rocky Pamplin book about The Beach Boys?

[Emily]

Hey Rocky... you still living in your van ?

As for 75,000 reads, I'm guessing you're responsible for maybe 100 of those. You gonna buy 100 copies of your own book ?

He's posted 205 times, he most often comes back to edit his posts and I see him in the thread often without posting, so I'd guess at minimum he's got to buy 615 copies.

But I'm going to have to shell out a whole lot of dollars by this logic!

[mtaber]

We no longer need Rocky, EMILY can write the book!!!

In fact, I now have a sneaking suspicion that Rocky and Emily are ONE AND THE SAME!!!

I am terrified...

[mtaber]

Emily, when will we see the NEXT CHAPTER???

[Emily]

We no longer need Rocky, EMILY can write the book!!!

In fact, I now have a sneaking suspicion that Rocky and Emily are ONE AND THE SAME!!!

I am terrified...

That would be so creepy.  BUT maybe I could write a "MOVIE" about MY LIFE!!!

[KDS]

We no longer need Rocky, EMILY can write the book!!!

In fact, I now have a sneaking suspicion that Rocky and Emily are ONE AND THE SAME!!!

I am terrified...

That would be so creepy.  BUT maybe I could write a "MOVIE" about MY LIFE!!!

I don't think Emily and Rocky are on in the same.

But, if you rearrange the letters in Emily, you get Miley.  Now, THAT's scary!!

[Andrew G. Doe]

Hey Rocky... you still living in your van ?

As for 75,000 reads, I'm guessing you're responsible for maybe 100 of those. You gonna buy 100 copies of your own book ?

He's posted 205 times, he most often comes back to edit his posts and I see him in the thread often without posting, so I'd guess at minimum he's got to buy 615 copies.

But I'm going to have to shell out a whole lot of dollars by this logic!

Seriously, who's going to buy even one copy of a book about a guy completely failing to do his job properly ?

[MarcellaHasDirtyFeet]

Wow guys, this is all comic gold. Great work here.  

Did it every cross any of your minds' that some people would still rather hear from Rocky than endure your self-satisfied, holier-than-thou crap, no matter what he's done in the past or what tone he takes in the present?

Great job, everyone. You're picking on an old former male model on an Internet message board. Talk about speaking truth to power! What crusaders you are.

 Now, take some of the insinuations made here about Rocky -- what he's done in his past, how he's made a living, the quality of his genitals -- and imagine the tables were turned, and we were discussing a woman whose trajectory intersected with the Beach Boys. Would some of this pompous, bullying bullsh!t seem quite so appropriate?

Meanwhile, the backslapping continues. HAHAHA that was a good one! You're so enlightened! Rocky is sooooo stoopid. Hyuk!

 

[The Shift]

Hey Rocky... you still living in your van ?

As for 75,000 reads, I'm guessing you're responsible for maybe 100 of those. You gonna buy 100 copies of your own book ?

He's posted 205 times, he most often comes back to edit his posts and I see him in the thread often without posting, so I'd guess at minimum he's got to buy 615 copies.

But I'm going to have to shell out a whole lot of dollars by this logic!

Seriously, who's going to buy even one copy of a book about a guy completely failing to do his job properly ?

I thought the implication in the thread linked in an earlier post was that there was one "job" Rocky performed well. Let's not write him off yet…

[1-1-wonderful]

Wow guys, this is all comic gold. Great work here.  

Did it every cross any of your minds' that some people would still rather hear from Rocky than endure your self-satisfied, holier-than-thou crap, no matter what he's done in the past or what tone he takes in the present?

Great job, everyone. You're picking on an old former male model on an Internet message board. Talk about speaking truth to power! What crusaders you are.

 Now, take some of the insinuations made here about Rocky -- what he's done in his past, how he's made a living, the quality of his genitals -- and imagine the tables were turned, and we were discussing a woman whose trajectory intersected with the Beach Boys. Would some of this pompous, bullying bullsh!t seem quite so appropriate?

Meanwhile, the backslapping continues. HAHAHA that was a good one! You're so enlightened! Rocky is sooooo stoopid. Hyuk!

 

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[Emily]

Wow guys, this is all comic gold. Great work here.  

Did it every cross any of your minds' that some people would still rather hear from Rocky than endure your self-satisfied, holier-than-thou crap, no matter what he's done in the past or what tone he takes in the present?

Great job, everyone. You're picking on an old former male model on an Internet message board. Talk about speaking truth to power! What crusaders you are.

 Now, take some of the insinuations made here about Rocky -- what he's done in his past, how he's made a living, the quality of his genitals -- and imagine the tables were turned, and we were discussing a woman whose trajectory intersected with the Beach Boys. Would some of this pompous, bullying bullsh!t seem quite so appropriate?

Meanwhile, the backslapping continues. HAHAHA that was a good one! You're so enlightened! Rocky is sooooo stoopid. Hyuk!

 

 

I don't really think the context is that he's a former male model or that his trajectory simply intersected with the Beach Boys. He came on here chest-beating about behavior that I consider to be truly awful, and is proposing publishing a book full of humiliating anecdotes about an artist whose work I love and for whose personal story I have a lot of empathy. But, if there were a separate thread for commentary, I'd be fine with that.
Also, he seems very amenable to PMs.

[catlag]

Wow guys, this is all comic gold. Great work here.  

Did it every cross any of your minds' that some people would still rather hear from Rocky than endure your self-satisfied, holier-than-thou crap, no matter what he's done in the past or what tone he takes in the present?

Great job, everyone. You're picking on an old former male model on an Internet message board. Talk about speaking truth to power! What crusaders you are.

 Now, take some of the insinuations made here about Rocky -- what he's done in his past, how he's made a living, the quality of his genitals -- and imagine the tables were turned, and we were discussing a woman whose trajectory intersected with the Beach Boys. Would some of this pompous, bullying bullsh!t seem quite so appropriate?

Meanwhile, the backslapping continues. HAHAHA that was a good one! You're so enlightened! Rocky is sooooo stoopid. Hyuk!

 

You have a good point, but I believe what's happening here is just us speaking his language. I don't think all of it is purely gratuitious (although some of it is) and that Rocky is an innocent victim... I'd even argue that he enjoys it quite a bit. He cares for added "reads" on this thread and this grade-school bullying that has been going on makes for perfect conditions for them to soar.

We're pretty far from our best selves here, but isn't it fun to be nasty between consenting adults?

[The Shift]

Wow guys, this is all comic gold. Great work here.  

Did it every cross any of your minds' that some people would still rather hear from Rocky than endure your self-satisfied, holier-than-thou crap, no matter what he's done in the past or what tone he takes in the present?

Great job, everyone. You're picking on an old former male model on an Internet message board. Talk about speaking truth to power! What crusaders you are.

 Now, take some of the insinuations made here about Rocky -- what he's done in his past, how he's made a living, the quality of his genitals -- and imagine the tables were turned, and we were discussing a woman whose trajectory intersected with the Beach Boys. Would some of this pompous, bullying bullsh!t seem quite so appropriate?

Meanwhile, the backslapping continues. HAHAHA that was a good one! You're so enlightened! Rocky is sooooo stoopid. Hyuk!

 

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Maybe you're right… I get a tad riled when Rocky takes a cheap shot at my surname of all things. Any other poster who dished out the language and cheap shots that Rocky has over the last few weeks would have been banned ages ago. I'm assuming that if he can dish if out, he can certainly take it. To take Catlag's suggestion further, Rocky might even be aroused by it in some way (I don't mean sexually, not necessarily).

I'm certainly not going to kiss his ass in the hope that he'll tell us another bedtime story. Anyone that desperate for his kiss-and-tells will surely buy the book anyways.

[Juice Brohnston]

Wow guys, this is all comic gold. Great work here.  

Did it every cross any of your minds' that some people would still rather hear from Rocky than endure your self-satisfied, holier-than-thou crap, no matter what he's done in the past or what tone he takes in the present?

Great job, everyone. You're picking on an old former male model on an Internet message board. Talk about speaking truth to power! What crusaders you are.

 Now, take some of the insinuations made here about Rocky -- what he's done in his past, how he's made a living, the quality of his genitals -- and imagine the tables were turned, and we were discussing a woman whose trajectory intersected with the Beach Boys. Would some of this pompous, bullying bullsh!t seem quite so appropriate?

Meanwhile, the backslapping continues. HAHAHA that was a good one! You're so enlightened! Rocky is sooooo stoopid. Hyuk!

 

Interesting!

[adamghost]

Wow guys, this is all comic gold. Great work here.  

Did it every cross any of your minds' that some people would still rather hear from Rocky than endure your self-satisfied, holier-than-thou crap, no matter what he's done in the past or what tone he takes in the present?

Great job, everyone. You're picking on an old former male model on an Internet message board. Talk about speaking truth to power! What crusaders you are.

 Now, take some of the insinuations made here about Rocky -- what he's done in his past, how he's made a living, the quality of his genitals -- and imagine the tables were turned, and we were discussing a woman whose trajectory intersected with the Beach Boys. Would some of this pompous, bullying bullsh!t seem quite so appropriate?

Meanwhile, the backslapping continues. HAHAHA that was a good one! You're so enlightened! Rocky is sooooo stoopid. Hyuk!

 

Oh, PLEASE.  Give me an effing break.  To be clear, I'm actually with you on the sexual things - I haven't gone there - but the attempted bullying and condescension started with one Rushton Pamplin.  He was given a fair hearing - I was one of the ones who called for that in the beginning - but past a certain point, some goofball posting in a patronizing way attempting to make *you* his biotch, when he's got absolutely no call to, deserves exactly what he gets in return.  I actually think he's kind of enjoying it too.

I haven't noticed Mr. Pamplin being in any way deterred from his posting - nor you from reading those posts - by the hilarity that has gone on on the sidelines.  Which is totally, absolutely, completely justified.  

[Juice Brohnston]

Wow guys, this is all comic gold. Great work here.  

Did it every cross any of your minds' that some people would still rather hear from Rocky than endure your self-satisfied, holier-than-thou crap, no matter what he's done in the past or what tone he takes in the present?

Great job, everyone. You're picking on an old former male model on an Internet message board. Talk about speaking truth to power! What crusaders you are.

 Now, take some of the insinuations made here about Rocky -- what he's done in his past, how he's made a living, the quality of his genitals -- and imagine the tables were turned, and we were discussing a woman whose trajectory intersected with the Beach Boys. Would some of this pompous, bullying bullsh!t seem quite so appropriate?

Meanwhile, the backslapping continues. HAHAHA that was a good one! You're so enlightened! Rocky is sooooo stoopid. Hyuk!

 

Oh, PLEASE.  Give me an effing break.  To be clear, I'm actually with you on the sexual things - I haven't gone there - but the attempted bullying and condescension started with one Rushton Pamplin.  He was given a fair hearing - I was one of the ones who called for that in the beginning - but past a certain point, some goofball posting in a patronizing way attempting to make *you* his biotch, when he's got absolutely no call to, deserves exactly what he gets in return.  I actually think he's kind of enjoying it too.

I haven't noticed Mr. Pamplin being in any way deterred from his posting - nor you from reading those posts - by the hilarity that has gone on on the sidelines.  Which is totally, absolutely, completely justified.  

Not entirely true. The Rocky bashing started long before he even showed up. The rest of what your saying, ya it's a free for all, good fun, and a nod to the Mods for letting it unfold. Like when the ref puts his whistle away and let's the players play.

[Juice Brohnston]

Rock, how about a signed centrefold for the 75,000th viewer??

[Andrew G. Doe]

Now, take some of the insinuations made here about Rocky -- what he's done in his past, how he's made a living, the quality of his genitals --

No-one's insinuating any of that, because it's a fact that he was a male "escort", and advertised himself as such. Personally, I have no problem with that, his decision... what I do find truly offensive is his attitude, the insistence that he saved Brian's life and kept him off the drugs when, by his own account, he did nothing of the sort, the glorying in punching out Carl and giving Dennis a severe beating (for which, let us not forget, he was convicted) and his barely literate writing style when gracing us with truly tedious (and in some cases questionable) anecdotes. He's like Daro with slightly less smarts.

[Lee Marshall]

I'm sitting at a table typing out a conversation with whoever sits down.   I'll tell you right here and right now that I would say the exact same things to Little Rocklette to his face at a real table that I'm typing here.  He is who he is.  A lying asshole who wanders in here with his money making agenda clearly visible.  He's a scam artist.

You really think that IF Brian really felt like this about cousin Mike-Eddie that he'd want the guy who played with his wife while he was down and out revealing all of this the the rest of the world?  I don't.  It's BS.  The guy is a bullshit salesman with a mouthful of samples and I call him on it...as I would in person.

[Pretty Funky]

Seriously, who's going to buy even one copy of a book about a guy completely failing to do his job properly ?

http://www.amazon.com/RN-The-Memoirs-Richard-Nixon/dp/0671707418

 

[CenturyDeprived]

You really think that IF Brian really felt like this about cousin Mike-Eddie 

 

National Lampoon's Love Vacation

[chaki]

the guy recorded with brian friggan wilson and worked with robert z'dar. of course im going to want to read about this stuff!

[mtaber]

If Gene Landy was alive, and came on here promoting a new book about "how I saved Brian's life" while offering to share "inside stories" about Brian, there would be people licking his boots so they could hear some dirt on the band.  

[LandyAndy]

Rock, how about a signed centrefold for the 75,000th viewer??

And a free punch in the face from Rock?

[catlag]

I'm sitting at a table typing out a conversation with whoever sits down.   I'll tell you right here and tight now that I would say the exact same things to Little Rocklette to his face at a real table that I'm typing here. 

Yeah, but would you do it with your mouth full of cold cuts? 

[Emily]

I'm sitting at a table typing out a conversation with whoever sits down.   I'll tell you right here and tight now that I would say the exact same things to Little Rocklette to his face at a real table that I'm typing here. 

Yeah, but would you do it with your mouth full of cold cuts? 

Nah, because that would be asking for a beat down.