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The New Republic

The Narrative Journalism Magazine that was the start of the fabulist spree of Stephen Glass as he fabricated his sources in the mid-to-late 1990's. I studied the debacle to go double homicide with the taunting in the Shadow Dolls Plagiarism affair. My then room mate who was known for writing for Outburn and Chain D.L.K. rented the film based on the Buzz penned article from Vanity Fair. I had managed to pinterest the article and my facebook page exclusive as I caught a low-fi act from Boston trying to liken me to Stephen Glass as I called one of them a chomo as he was trying to say I was pretending to be a toughie as I pulled out a track of his album and a track from a compilation that I picked up on Bandcamp. I freight-trained the little fuck over his speaking ill of the Derleth family in front of me. He was the one who invoked a twitter war with me when I was active on the Cradle of Filth social network at the time. I have the blog tag "Plagiarism Scandals" as I was preparing to nail the SomethingAwful goon plagiarist for stealing my output along with Kealan's fanbase getting caught. In a PDF I wrote tweeting to VampireFreaks I pulled a demolition man move saying I am willing to reinstate Jayson Blair for one sole purpose -- go after the SomethingAwful plagiarist.
Reading about the Stephen Glass fabulist scandal on The New Republic as I saw the film in 2006 then ended up finding these fabrications floating around first hand. It helped me lay into the serial plagiarist David Boyer in what's now known as Shadow Dolls Plagiarism Affair. Boyer's plagiarism spree was longer than both Glass or Blair. Some in journalism circles saw The Cabbie Homicide as a frightening display of investigative journalism when it was written entirely from memory. In the era of the original events from 1993-1994, Chicago Tribune reported on the same subject for a good part of a year, from the murder to the turn of the subjects on each other then to the throwing the book at them.
by illinoishorrorman January 19, 2018
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FanFiction.net

Website that had a unique database from those who produce pieces from copyrighted properties illicit lit known in creative nonfiction circles though some from this circuit made the rounds in the small press. It's got some strange ones you have to admit as I sneaked Holden's Counterpart a creative nonfiction piece in the vein of Catcher in the Rye with The Twilight Zone influences. Then a shorter science fiction yarn a classmate from Glenbard East which was from the notes he sent me on the character via Deviantart. FanHistory noted this one as did Fanworks.org as it came from the classmate's character as I uploaded it to the site as my then computer was going to crash.

In the 2003-2004 era of this website you saw a rivalry between the writers who appeared on FictionPress.com as some of them have accounts on both places. A few on there are usually in grade school or high school, but sometimes you see a published author, publisher, or journalist emerge on the site as the fannish regulars would try to pull the argument, "Fan fiction is better than the original." As a comment on LJDrama invoked a heated argument that had some wolf ticket taunting on one end. 2005 you seen the first ushering of writers from the website become published in the independent circles though Fandom_Wank and their cohorts single them out on LiveJournal.
Those who emerged from the horror fandoms on this website, as the founder of the website was noted in genre fandom with The X-Files. The writer introduced on Quakes And Storms: A Natural Disaster Anthology also was seen in these circles in the mid-2000s. The publisher behind the namesakes and The Ethereal Gazette busted The Queen of Gargoyle Fanfiction when he uncovered both her fanfiction.net account (she was getting noticed for what E. L. James later did in the 2010s. As she often sniped at creative nonfiction writers who invaded the independent press as small press named for the debut science fiction story brought creative nonfiction into the fold.)

She was torqued when she found out the writer who became known for sniping on slash fanfiction was the very same writer who wrote The Cabbie Homicide in 2002. Just as she was noticed for a Gargoyles fanfic called "Baby Makes Three."

Summer of 2004 was the slash fanfiction writer's nightmare, The Fandom Writer as it was introduced on The House of Pain E-Zine, a cult horror magazine that had frightening horror stories. Quiet a few of the stories on the e-zine some teeth as each writer became publishers. Some of the Nightmare On Elm Street horror fandom was looking up some of The House of Pain authors from the 2003 era as she found "The Mechanics of Perversion" and "Baby Hunter" then almost left a puddle behind the keyboard. Then found some of the future Chimeraworld roster on the House of Pain E-Zine website.
by illinoishorrorman February 1, 2018
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Prison Language

Terminology that The Cabbie Homicide writer used when he addressed Gaahl when he was using the n-bomb and learned that the American Black Metal con man might had conned one of his relatives who was featured in Wall Street Journal. It's implied the language is stronger than double homicide taunting as this stems from the selling of wolf tickets. Some terms in prison language are slurs at particular gang members as it does employ Spanish terms, as each prison gang has their own terminology. Watch Lockup and you will pick up on it. Some of the terms are hard insults on Blood and the other their rival (as these two are gangs in Los Angles.) There are some prison slang born out of Iowa Department of Corrections as in they dragged one out of the sandbox. Then you have the term sliming which according to Lockup is when an inmate uses a combination of their own water and fecal matter mimicking behavior of other primates (see the behaviour of chimpanzees in captivity when being handed a banana.) I had heard classmates use the term gump on some other kids as we were not talking Forrest Gump as it's a prison term for donut-puncher.
Fandom Wank -- the psycho who laid into us in his book was using tons of intense hard language.

Another -- I never heard these terms before.

Fandom Wank -- some of who watched Oz might heard the term prison language. It's coded language where it combines profanity, ethnic language that's an insult, or implying one is a chomo.
by illinoishorrorman January 20, 2018
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slimer

1.) fictional ghost created by Chicago native Harold Ramos.

2.) prison slang for an inmate that uses various forms of human waste as a weapon ala chimpazeeing it at an unsuspecting corrections officer. Common weapons of a slimer is often feces or piss sometimes they combine the two. High profile example is Danielle Strong. Also one who engages in gassing
When I address a slimer, I am not talking about the Harold Ramos character, but the second definition. They like to do an impression of a chimpanzee in captivity. Look up the term gassing and you will be grossed out.
by illinoishorrorman January 21, 2018
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Gothic Horror

A genre of horror that's hands down one of the oldest as it developed in England by an overly dramatic homo named Horace Walpole as the style in America was developed by writers who were historians, school teachers and literary critics in the 19th Century. The American approach was developed by Washington Irving with The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow as the form took on different personalities. In the mid-1990s the writer who eventually wrote The Cabbie Homicide combined double homicide language, philosophical insight and real life horrors such as gang violence, church burning and addressing legalism in the church in a very dark way.

The Cabbie Homicide introduced Gothic Horror into narrative journalism which came out in a way where it was according to "Mohs Scale of Lyrical Hardness" would be a ten. The 20th century approach -- stems from William Hope Hodgson, Bram Stoker with his last novel and short story output, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and others. The House of Pain E-zine shown other examples as Temple of Dagon saw the Cthulhu Now timeline as the new Cthulhu Mythos playground named for the Cabbie Homicide's authors last name. Where it plays up in real cities and real neighborhoods, as it interweaves with the real histories of the area as well.
Edgar Allan Poe's The Telltale Heart gave Gothic Horror a new personality and threw an entirely new approach to the style as he introduced this as a short form. A Cemetery Dream introduced in 2000 had an ultra-violent, extremely gore soaked approach ala Se7en meets Dreams in the Witch House. The Cabbie Homicide when introduced in the LiveJournal Goth Community they thought it was a work of fiction but when he mentioned how the convicted murderer was in his 7th grade homeroom, some friends were going, "That's really fucked up, and especially fucked up that you knew him."
by illinoishorrorman January 18, 2018
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Anderson Cooper

See Globalist Shill and pseudojournalistic donut-puncher. Reality TV host with no journalistic training who like the writer of The Cabbie Homicide had got in the field and developed a form of journalism but the writer of Cabbie is the Conservative example. He had some college but learned from his roster where three wrote for newspapers and another later The Huffington Post before running for office in Maine as he established his current incarnation of wordpress and got on tumblr he gives in depth insight about publications he's done and takes the readers further into the published work by finding the articles from the era.
Anderson Cooper had been a hatedom to those in underground subcultures since picking on Dave Mustaine and William Patrick Corgan. When Corgan let Cooper have it with globalist shill the media had a field day with Anderson Cooper.
by illinoishorrorman January 16, 2018
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24

Short for open 24 hours. Commonly used in Chicago. Usually used to describe diners that are open all hours.
There's a diner open 24 here, just don't know where it is.
by illinoishorrorman December 12, 2010
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