arthurblake

[iheartoothecae]

arthurblake was the first and, as far as I know, only fake internet person I have believed to be real. "He" added me to his friends list in 2002 after finding me through the invertebrates community I created, and we occasionally talked roaches. Roaches turned out to be a big part of the spooky stuff surrounding his "disappearance". Two other online journals were also a

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[phenomenologic]

Dude, seriously.

[bluecollarmoxie]

oh my goodness you have a lileks icon

[lateda]

Arthur sounds like a character from "Creepshow" the movie. Based on 5 Stephen King stories.

[lateda]

"I'm convinced the computer at home has become infested with roaches. They're getting bigger, braver, like small mice. And I don't have the heart to squish them any more. I've given up on the landlord. Every day I see at least one, then it scurries away out of sight. I can picture them inside the tower, running electrons to and fro, carrying the words I type into the machine and from there, across the telephone cables to you, here. This message sponsored by roaches. They're not so bad, once you get to know them. Like crickets with bigger wings."

One of the stories in "Creepshow" was about a rich man who was deathly afraid of roaches and felt like they were infesting his apartment. In the end the roaches killed him. Hahaha

[lateda]

One more thing. The roaches were in the man's computer also. I believe if I remember right the first roach you actually see in the story is one crawling across a computer screen. Hahaha

[damabupuk]

I did feel guilty at the time. Y'know, I've yet to see Creepshow, but that's an interesting synchronicity, in that we were attempting a pseudo-Lovecraftian feel for the story, and one of the stories in Creepshow is loosely based on Lovecraft's "THe Colour Out Of Space". Excellent. I have to admit that until eyeawry e-mailed me this morning (May 9, 2005), I hadn't thought about Arthur for a long time. I kind of lost track of him when the store I owned closed and I had to get a real job without a high-speed connection. It's a shame Stephen's blog is no longer up, as I never actually read the "end" of the story. It's nice to see that people enjoyed it, and i do apologize if anyone was annoyed by our deception. It was all in good, if a little weird, fun.

[lesser_gods]

Good job, though, and thank you for the entertainment!

[subbes]

One of these days I'd like to reread the ljs while wearing my Shub-niggurath perfume.

[chasingangie05]

It was a good read. No fake baby deaths= good time!