Phil Shreffler v Baker Street Babes; Lather, Rinse, Repeat

[neadods]

I've barely started reading through today's LJ & FB and I see that the Phil Shreffler v Baker Street Babes thing has flamed back into life... flame being the operative word. Apparently, he and his supporters thought the BSB were doing something shady by releasing only one badly OCR-scanned page of his two page rant. So today they released page 2. Retyped.

Second verse, same as the first.

With the minor change that it becomes even clearer that PS's P.S. is that he's just as mad at the current people running the BSI for letting in the riffraff as he is for the riffraff being taken seriously without paying the dues HE was man enough to pay! Plus, the BSI is doing too many things and has too many scions when everyone knows that the true heart of the fandom was in exclusive dinners for a handful of carefully picked people -- back in the day when the BSI was so important that the NY Times covered the dinner.

Out in the real world, the Babes have gained 500 new followers on Facebook alone; Lyndsay Faye has taken great delight in engaging in the battle of wits Mr. Shiffler is nowhere near equipped to fight; the Babes' event was a recognized part of the BSI Weekend; the BSJ hasn't retracted the editorial welcoming Ritchie and BBC fans *and* has been printing articles and art from said fand; I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere has just advertised both 221BCon; and a founding member of ASH was showing off her BBC Sherlock locket at the Mycroft.

His whole attitude hasn't been refuted so much as run over.

Still, just because this nonsense keeps continuing, here. Have a gratuitous picture of Sherlock the cat.

Comments

[renn.livejournal.com]

Sherlock the Cat is bored by all the PS vs. BSB flaming. You can tell by his expression. Either that, or he's contemplating his next nom.

[lrodell.livejournal.com]

I love how it seems he's showing off that front foot to the camera^^ (lovely little snow-tips, he has!)

[lagilman]

She really is such a beauty. And has the classic "monkey, you no longer amuse me. fetch noms" expression that suits her name...

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

Needs a cat hat.

Hope your hand is getting better!

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Sherlock-The-Cat is ADORABLE!!!!!!!!

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Phil has a stick up his kazoo. Too many scions? He lives (or did when I knew him slightly) in St. Louis, so without scions he'd have only one dinner a year and have to fly to NYC for it. Or maybe he'd prefer it that way.

Why is anybody still bothering to pay attention? When someone says that women shouldn't be allowed to vote, the proper response is a brief derisive laugh and turning away to speak with someone rational.

Give Sherlock a skritch for me, and the rest of the crew. With that name, you asked for constant misunderstandings....

[themis1.livejournal.com]

Beautiful cat.

Why do all fandoms dissolve into this bitchy stuff? I'm so glad I'm not in a fandom right now!!

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

It's... "ironic" isn't the right word, but I'm not sure what would be? At any rate, I imagine that every one of your examples would be interpreted by this charming individual as supporting his point, given that he's deliberately positioned himself against popular opinion.

I can't help picturing him working himself into such a lather about all these terrible proletarian besmirchments that he stomps himself through a floor like Rumpelstiltskin.