Well, it turns out Languatron DIDN\u2019T know my real name and DIDN\u2019T know where I lived. As usual, he was full of crap. But the very thought that perhaps he could have known severely unsettled me. These stupid rants were something I snuck into the corners of my busy days, and I had no intention of letting any of it spill over into real life. I had no idea just how far Lang was willing to go with his nutty vendetta. I must say, I saw him as a scary, scary, dude by this point \u2013 especially post 9\/11.<\/p>\n
Why especially post 9\/11? Well, 9\/11 changed everything \u2013 except for Lang. Or maybe especially<\/em> Lang.<\/p>\n No one wants to see the new Galactica production. No one is Galactica needs to be seperated from the “political womb” –\tLanguatron, “Time For Bryan Singer To Close Up Shop,” 10\/10\/2001<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yes, keep in mind that less than a month after the deadliest terrorist attacks in the history of the world, Languatron was comparing the proposed new production of Battlestar Galactica to a terrorist act. (That\u2019s disturbing enough without the \u201cbloody abortion\u201d metaphor.) In fact, the day after 9\/11, Langy was on the boards complaining that Bryan Singer\u2019s secretive pre-production on his Galactica revival had \u201cmore stealth than terrorists.\u201d The day after!<\/em> My goodness, when Glenn Beck started his paranoid 9\/12 project, maybe Langy is what he had in mind.<\/p>\n Langy was chastised by all for daring to invoke the 9\/11 attacks in his prose, but he was undeterred. On October 16, 2001, Langy even likened himself to a terrorist on Galactica\u2019s behalf, boasting that \u201ca guy can browse through a few books and magazines, get on a B-Board, turn the information he reads into a weapon, and bring down a corporation like the Twin Towers in New York!!”<\/p>\n How would you like it if a guy like that knew where you lived?<\/p>\n Surprisingly, mockery of Lang during this period got much sillier, and my fellow Lang mocker RGrant got in on the whole \u201cattack Lang under an assumed name\u201d thing. Pretty soon, Languatron was using clone handles to fight back, and some of them were pretty amusing. For instance, he created a handle called \u201cNeuromancer2\u201d where \u201cNeuro\u201d would berate himself for being such an imbecile. Another clever Lang handle was \u201cNeuro_Cornell,\u201d who liked to pepper his language with goofy Western clich\u00e9s. Lang insisted that he was not behind these sock puppets, but every post from these doppelgangers had the same ridiculously tight margins, the same fear of the apostrophe S, the same contempt for grammar conventions, and the joyless rage that was the hallmark of everything Lang wrote. Lang couldn\u2019t hide his tracks even if he wanted to.<\/p>\n Witness, for instance, this post from \u201cNeuromanzrs_Obgyn:\u201d<\/p>\n The Cast<\/p>\n Neuromanzr…….Kevin Arnold Nurse: “Dr. Twain, we have an emergency!”<\/p>\n (Neuromanzr is wheeled in on a gurney, nine months pregnant.)<\/p>\n Dr. Twain: “He’s fully dialated!”<\/p>\n Nurse: “He’s also fully delusional! Thinks we aren’t on to his “Anti-Galactica Activities!”<\/p>\n (Suddenly there’s the screaming of a newborn infant.)<\/p>\n Neuromanzr: “What is it, Doctor, a boy or a girl?”<\/p>\n Dr. Twain: “Neither! It’s a tiny Universal executive, and look!, he’s already crapping all over this Battlestar Galactica fan. And soon he’ll be doing it on all the others too!!”<\/p>\n Neuromanzrs_Obgyn, \u201cThe Birth,\u201d 7\/25\/2002<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Neuro commented to tell Lang that we didn\u2019t want to hear about his feces fantasies, only to have Lang respond under the guise of \u201cNeuromanzrs_Proctologist\u201d to counter with this gem: \u201cmama says that Neuromanzr is a turd.\u201d<\/p>\n Lang is nothing if not witty. And he\u2019s not witty. So you do the math.<\/p>\n [Editor\u2019s note. I just realized I\u2019ve been referring to Neuromanzr as \u201cNeuromancer.\u201d The Z version is correct, and I apologize for the earlier errors. Carry on.]<\/p>\n By this time, too, something exciting\/terrifying had happened in Galactica fandom. Singer\u2019s revival had died, and like a phoenix from the ashes, former Star Trek scribe Ron Moore had taken over the helming duties of a revived Galactica, promising, rather than a continuation of the original series, a completely reimagined version with a new cast.<\/p>\n How did Langy take the news?<\/p>\n How do you think?<\/p>\n Take a hike, Ronny Baby!!! Is that plain enough Le me be the first to say that I am fed up to Keep your SLIMY, STINKY, WART-FILLED Go away, Ronald D. Moore. If you need a career –\tLanguatron, \u201cMoore Control,\u201d 9\/05\/2002<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The AIDS reference was just a hint of the homophobia, religious hatred, and ethnic slurs that would become increasingly important to Lang in the years to come.<\/p>\n There\u2019s Moore on Monday\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well,it turns out Languatron DIDN\u2019T know my real name and DIDN\u2019T know where I lived. As usual, he was full of crap. 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\nlooking forward to the new Galactica production. \u2026
\nThis new production might as well be considered
\na “terrorist act” on Battlestar Galactica.<\/p>\n
\nof Hollywood once and for all via a “bloody abortion”
\nonce and for all.<\/p>\n
\nOb-Gyn\/Dr. Mark Twain……….Hal Holbrook
\nDr. Twains personal nurse……Yasmine Bleeth<\/p>\n
\nEnglish for you? I for one am not going to grant
\nyou a civilized reply, because quite frankly, you
\nDON’T DESERVE ONE.<\/p>\n
\nthe “Orbit Of Jupiter” with the
\nENDLESS POLITICAL AGENDAS of YOU,
\nVIVENDI-UNIVERSAL, and every other
\n“WALKING AIDS VIRUS” that comes into
\ncontact with Battlestar Galactica?<\/p>\n
\nPAWS off of my Battlestar Galactica show!!!
\nThis is my show, because I’m a CONSUMER!!!
\nThis show also belongs to all of the other
\nCONSUMERS on this board, and consumers
\nALL OVER THE WORLD who care about this
\nshow WITH THE ORIGINAL FORMAT, THEMES,
\nCHARACTERS, & CAST MEMBERS INTACT.<\/p>\n
\nboost, ask your daddy-(Rick Berman) to cast you
\nas a “Borg Drone” in the next Trek movie. The
\ncharacters LACK OF PERSONALITY should
\nmatch you PERFECTLY!!!<\/p>\n