the timboucher experience

7 Comments

1. Brooke
   Posted January 18, 2008 at 3:24 am | Permalink

   Maybe I’m slow, but what the F. is that?

2. carlos
   Posted January 18, 2008 at 7:13 am | Permalink

   Untraceable is another shithouse slasher flick with a *gasp* cyber twist. Viral marketing:

   WARNING
   Visiting this site could cause harm to innocent people. Do you still want to enter?
   Yes No

   91% of you ignored the warning. Where are your morals?

   I don’t know, Sony, if that is your real name. I’m not the one making slasher flicks and marketing them as if it’s not only real but ever so cool.

   I wonder though, how many serial killers are crusing myspace right now?

   Ooh, now they’ve made me feel complicit in the crimes of this nutjob, apparently I can now join the Federal Cyber Crime Task Force and help catch the killer… …Oh this is so lame, LMAO!!

   Yeah, unacceptable, unimaginative, unlikely I’ll be buying a ticket. These assholes are so low I bet if someone were to murder the asshole that greenlit this shit, some other asshole would use it as viral marketing to promote the sequel.

3. Tim Boucher
   Posted January 18, 2008 at 2:59 pm | Permalink

   Where does the marketing campaign stop?

   http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/01/myspace

   A backdoor in MySpace’s architecture allows anyone who’s interested to see the photographs of some users with private profiles — including those under 16 — despite assurances from MySpace that those pictures can only be seen by people on a user’s friends list. Info about the backdoor has been circulating on message boards for months.

   As they say in the programming world when something goes wrong, “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.”

   Since the glitch emerged last fall, it has spawned a cottage industry of ad-supported websites that make it easy to access the photographs, spurring self-described pedophiles and run-of-the-mill voyeurs to post photos pilfered from private MySpace accounts.

   What the fuck ever happened to being ashamed of being a pedophile?

4. Tim Boucher
   Posted January 18, 2008 at 3:02 pm | Permalink

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mappo

5. carlos
   Posted January 18, 2008 at 4:46 pm | Permalink

   What the fuck ever happened to being ashamed of being a pedophile?

   First, I blame consumerism and marketing. We are supposed to be kept in constant state of tension and inadequacy unless we buy something, which relieves us for like 5 minutes. The world’s number one obsession, and the number one product sold, is Not Feeling Badâ„¢. You not feeling bad is more important than the feelings of others, who only feel bad because they’re ‘losers’, not because you’re abusing them, see?

   And fucktards like Oprah shriek at these losers “You don’t have to feel guilty. Be true to yourself.” Whatever the fuck that is. But the abusers (who are also losers doncha know) apply it to their own lives and say with fucking pride(!?!?!?!) “I don’t care what anyone else thinks.”

   Then they find a handful of similarly damaged creeps on teh netz and their behaviour becomes, in their (what passes for a) mind, validated.

   Where once they would’ve felt isolated and ashamed (unless by a chance a member of the nobility should discover them and recruit them into the fold) they now have a fucking ‘community’ right at the time that we’ve been stripped of our torches and pitchforks. How convenient.

   Hmm. I’ve got a great idea for a slasher flick…

6. Tim Boucher
   Posted January 18, 2008 at 9:17 pm | Permalink

   Damn yo!

7. dan
   Posted January 20, 2008 at 4:49 am | Permalink

   right at the time that we’ve been stripped of our torches and pitchforks

   Have we been? Let’s get some new ones. When justice is not done and is seen by the public to not be done, should it be time the public takes action into it’s own hands?