So avantpop goes trolling in rfrancis's livejournal, picking a fight with elthar and another with mamamoira. Update! And with evilhat, too!

And I throw in my two bits, and I get email from avantpop which can't even be content with just attacking me; no, he goes and insults khyri/lisselivingston, my wife, who wasn't involved with this at all:

This from a fat ugly fuck with a triple-ugly wife (and I do mean she is a three bagger, because two bags won't ever do) who has neither the talent nor the skill to ever become a real writer (or even comic book artist) (I, BTW, who just sold a graphic novel script to SGL)?  You know, the kind with books to their name who make a living off it? It ain't ever gonna happen for ya, Kynn, because you're too dumb and ugly.  And don't even think you have any smarts because you pose (yes, POSE) as a liberal -- you're just an idiot, and the world will forever be full of people like you.  With any divine intervention to filter the earth of its trash, a tsunami will wash you, your RV, and that dog you're wedded to and fuck far, far away.

Please everyone, keep this in mind: Michael Hemmingson is an insane person. He believes he was kidnapped by a U.F.O. which apparently scooped out his brain. He's not a nice guy; he's not even a funny guy. At best, he's mean, and while mean can be entertaining for a little while, this guy just doesn't know how to stop. He doesn't know about limits.

Avoid people with poor socialization and/or alien-inflicted brain damage.

Some people asked what this guy writes. (This is the same feller who wanted to write a book bashing Rachel Corrie, BTW, and called me a white supremacist because I lived in Lake Elsinore.)

So I went to Amazon and looked up his books you can currently buy. Man, what a hack -- he churns these out, and yes, I mean churning as in a notorious desc.

I got this great idea that we could all go give him low review ratings, but it seems that the reading public has beat me to the punch.

I'm sparing you all the summaries and titles of Hemmingson's books. Nearly all of them seem to involve sexualized violence against women, though!

Hey, if you want disgusting, substance-lacking, unsensual, poorly written porn featuring child rape that makes you not want to have sex, apparently Michael Hemmingson is your kind of author!

But, wait, what about positive reviews? I'm just quoting the negative ones, I admit it.

Here's an example of a positive review:

What the Fuck: The Avant-Porn Anthology

(Edited by Hemmingson)

5 stars out of 5: A Weird and Wild Book

I love the cover. I love the preface, wherein Larry McCaffery says he found Hemmingson, the editor, after an alien abduction, and this whole book is written by kinky alien life forms. There's a lot of weird and quirky stories in here. This is probably one of the best "erotica" anthologies I've come across in along time, as all the stories take a fresh look at the form.

Highly recommended.

Wow, this person loved the book! Who could possibly have written this review?

Why, an Amazon reviewer named ... avantpop.

*giggle*

(At least half of the other positive reviews for Hemmingson's books are anonymous, and most of the rest are from a single reviewer.)