I just sent an email to a friend who knows Mr. Rubinstein warning him about Olney. It's funny, but after I clicked the "send" button, the automatic spell-check popped up and read "Olney" as "baloney". How appropriate.
Thanks Doc, I didn't wish to overstep my bounds here. Just didn't want to see anyone waste their time and effort when it's easy to research the subject.
I just sent an email to a friend who knows Mr. Rubinstein warning him about Olney. It's funny, but after I clicked the "send" button, the automatic spell-check popped up and read "Olney" as "baloney". How appropriate.
Whenever Olney logs on, a gap-toothed paperclip with a paunch pops up and says, "Hello! You seem to be composing a nonsensical, bigoted rant. Would you like help making it as grammatically incorrect as possible?"
Reminds me of a mad AI that a friend used in one of this post-apocalypse RPG campaigns: Clippy, the Demon of the Red Mound.
"Hello! You seem to be composing a suicide note! Would you like some help?"
"No, I'm not. I don't want to commit suicide at all!"
"Give it time."
I am breaking a personal rule I set for myself about what I discuss about my life online. It's a difficult choice, one that will cause me pain and sadness no doubt but I have to say this once, even if it ultimately does no good.
Rick has a new Sequential Blog post about addressing first Wil Radcliffe but then others here.
http://sequentialsoul.blogspot.com/2011/08/wil-radcliffe-said.html
I was very fortunate to meet, fall in love with and marry a beautiful, wonderful woman. We were very happy and then blessed to have a daughter. A few years later, my wife died and I have had to raise my daughter by myself ever since. It is not easy. I have had to give up many things and change how I lived my life. But my daughter is worth any and all that I must go through.
In less than the last 2 years I have lost my mother, grandmother and aunt. Each to very long and painful sicknesses. I visited my mother in the hospital twice a day, every day for over a year and watched her slowly fade away. My father is in very ill health and may not be around more than a year or two more. I myself have had health issues which kept me offline for nearly a year.
I know loss and I know heartache. I have never once not paid a bill. I have never once tried to get out of a responsibility. I most importantly have never used the losses I have experienced as some kind of get out of jail free card to excuse my actions. They mean too much to me. I love them and miss them with all my heart and to use them as an excuse for any action I take would be untoward and disrespectful.
You had three losses in 2006. Your mom in July, your niece in August and your mother-in-law in October. Each of those a tragic and devastating loss. I feel very sorry for each of them and would pay my respects to all their family members and friends who felt such loss. It has been 5 years now. There is no timetable on grieving. My daughter has my wife's eyes and believe me I still lay in bed at night some times crying because I see so much of her inside my daughter every day. So I get still feeling sad but please, for them, please stop using their deaths in some attempt at sympathy or to excuse your actions.
They were I am sure very wonderful people. They deserve the utmost respect as do any loved ones who pass on before us. The actions you are accused of doing and in some cases have been shown in court to be guilty of happened before their deaths. Any and all problems at your Mighty Mini-Con in 2003 happened before deaths. Please, as someone who has lost just as much as you, as someone who has also lost their mother. Please stop bringing them up in relation to your legal troubles.
You have a life away from this. You have a family that knew and misses them just as much as you do. Talk with them, share with them your sadness and grieve with them in private. Fill your blog with anything and everything else. Tell the world your big plans and how creative you are. Call us dung beetles and miscreants all you want. That only hurts you in the end and it leaves your family to rest in peace.
As I said when I started this, I don't think what I have had to say will help. I don't think anything I have to say will matter in the slightest. But I had to say it. I had to know that I tried. And with that I have used my energy for the day, perhaps few days and take a break for a bit.
Be well
Mike
I have contacted Joe. He's responded, but I don't think he's done the Google on Olney yet. He didn't seem to recognize the name, so it's possible Rick is now leaving out that little detail when trying to sign guests.
I'll be posting an Olney warning next week. If you have industry friends, try to make them aware of who Olney is before he contacts them. Make sure you give them the name of Olney's latest imaginary convention as well. Just in case he's trying to hide his involvement.
More later as I am exhausted from the second and final day of my garage sale. It was very successful and the customers went away very happy.
Olney has replied to my earlier post about how I originally thought about defending him on the YABS thread.
Three points.... First, I never made fun of Benny Leal or any of the other people who've associated with Olney (except maybe a remark or two about Dennis, which I regret). Second, if Olney has a contract he claims I signed, I'd like to see it, because it could be proof of forgery. And third, I've already stated publicly that Zue and Ben are completely in agreement with me on the work we did for TOTS. Zue even has a link to the "Lord Percy" pages posted on his Facebook page. So I hope your lawyer has a license to practice law in Portugal, Olney.
And yes, Olney, you are certainly entitled to delete your posts any time you please. I just find it cowardly that you do so. As repugnant, foul, and littered with stupidity as your posts are, you should at least have the spine to let them stand.
Please do re-post and respond to this on your blog. It will only provide more evidence to those researching your con what a liar and coward you are. You will note that I haven't used any cursing or slurs in my posts. Yet you, the organizer of a family friendly event that is supposed to benefit veterans, have used every kind of vile word, image, and innuendo available to one of your limited intellect. Please, continue to display your true colors so that your guests/victims can make informed judgments.
Last edited by WilRadcliffe; 08-27-2011 at 03:14 PM. Reason: fixed typo
Mike: Thank you for that heartfelt post. I feel for your losses and admire you for your strength and honor.
As for Olney's claims about the timing of the YABS forums, Gail didn't even start the thread until 12-15-2006. I made my first post there 12-31-2006, and it wasn't even about Olney. This was plenty of time for me to see his interactions with Chuck Dixon, Gail, Tony, and others. I think it was when Ronee posted her resignation letter that I started to see things for what they truly were.
And blaming Dave Lanphear for all of your troubles is disingenuous and cowardly. Dave was the only one you could have counted on to fix your mess, if you'd simply been honest with everyone instead of spewing your tired "Check is in the mail" line over and over again. No one blames Dave for this. Everyone blames you, because you're the cheat, coward, and thief who made this mess. Be a man, accept your mistakes, and stop smearing a decent man's good name.
$450. It's been settled dozens of times with your own acceptance. $450. And if it's such a small amount, then pay me the damned money.Funny... people like Doc Absured are owed small amounts of like $400 dollars, but he only raises the matter to get attention and fit into that dungpile of a thread. Each time I try to pay the man, he never gives the time for the ink to dry or the mailman to deliver it before coming back out publicly to jeer me.You all enjoy the shit rather than the satisfaction of doing anything good.
Waiting for the mailman? You contacted me. You blocked me. I left messages on the blog with MY name on it; you deleted then blocked. It's been six years since you were supposed to pay me, then four months since you re-contacted me on FB, and now two weeks since I sent you the precise information you demanded. It takes two weeks for ink to dry? Two weeks for the mailman? I know you're a bit of a slow-mover, but the rest of the world actually does meet timely standards.
And as for 'publicly jeering', here's a novel idea: why not open your brain-damaged blogs for comments. You claim First Amendment rights yet they only seem to apply to your twisted moral values: 'I'll say what I want against anyone I want cuz it's free speech, but y'all are being meanies to me!' I wouldn't have to come here if you'd just grow a pair and quit running away when someone stands against your myopic views.
Saying you're 'try[ing] to pay the man' is not quite the same as actually paying me. And strangely that seems like that action would contain a modicum of satisfaction of doing anything good rather than you enjoying the shit you can sling on your defended-against-the-public blogs.
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