I sent bartcop.com the altered image on the 11th of January. To make sure the site got it, I sent it the image again, on 14 January, acknowledging the "great" Bruce Yurgil, since any image spoofing a periodical from the 50s, 60s, or 70s is by default Yurgil-esque. I looked forward to the issue that would sport my image at its very top.
But nothing was happening. Surely bartcop.com got the image - I'd used the same email addresses I had used when I used to pay to get my images published there, and surely the photoshopped picture was worthy of being bartcop.com's opening image.
So I waited. And waited. Nothing.
Then, on January 27th, bartcop.com published this as its opening image:
Fuck Bartcop
Turns out that Coopage retard, or whatever the hell his name is, at Bartcop.com is just another money-grubbing Republi-Whore.
Until a few months ago I lived and worked in the D.C. area - my job had sent me there for a three-year special duty. As such, I was able to afford a small advertising account for this measly website; I threw nearly all of it bartcop.com's way. However, all special duties are coded (meaning they end at a specific time), and I am now somewhere else, sans special duty pay. So I can't afford to run ads anywhere.
I explained this to the jackass who calls himself "Bart" (someone who refuses to use his real name, yet says on a daily basis the Democrats on Capitol Hill are cowards), who told me to drop him a line occasionally; he'd take care of me.
However, he's had me on ignore for four months now. This really hit home when an image I sent him on January 11th was overlooked, and he published a nearly identical image on January 27. Fuck, that pissed me off.
Here's the original image:
Not only did I beat IW by two and a half weeks, but in terms of satire my image clearly eclipses theirs. Anyone who understands the difference between subtlety and an over-the-top, Police-Academy-esque disaster should see this. Internetweekly.org's image depicts a magazine priced at 25 cents; given the recent revelations of the predicted ultimate price of our Iraq catastrophe, mine is $2 trillion. I left a reference to Charles Einstein; they actually credit the subject of their ridicule with authorship of the periodical itself (no doubt the dumbest aspect of their effort). Harkening back to the days of Nixon, mine is a "Second Edition"; theirs points out wiretaps are illegal (gee, ya think?).
Yurgil is a master at satire; I'd hoped to emulate his style. Not saying mine was necessarily clever, but compared to the cartoonish catastrophe pieced together by internetweekly.org, mine's a fucking Renoir.
Naturally, I was steamed. So I wrote bartcop.com about it --
Subject: Bart, you're a money-loving conservative. And fuck you.
From: "Faux News Channel" <webmaster@fauxnewschannel.com>
Date: Mon, January 30, 2006 1:52 am
To: bartcop-images@bartcop.com
Cc: bartcop@bartcop.com
Thanks, fucker. Right before deploying two weeks ago I sent you virtually
the same exact Wiretap! image (check below) - but I guess it wasn't good
enough to publish until someone paid for it.
...
And I actually believed you were my friend. Fuck you.
Of course, bartcop hasn't bothered to write me back. He won't. The asshole apparently won't flinch unless you throw him some money first.
