My wife took a phone call from someone who started ranting about his book appearing on this site, dropping f-bombs and generally behaving such as one doesn’t credit to people who consider themselves fully human. (She hung up.) Caller ID showed it to be from this number, registered to one “Michael Pacione.”
Hmm… Pacione, Pacione… Where have I heard that name before? Oh, right. Here.
He then placed some comments on an unrelated-to-anything post at my personal blog (which were stuck in moderation because he hadn’t commented there before, and there they shall stay), blathering further f-bombs about my being a Mormon. You see, I believe differently than he does, and that offends him beyond the limits of his paltry self-control.
Seriously, is Nickolaus Pacione scouring his old address book to start new fights with old combatants? Did his medical plan stop covering his meds?
Nick, old son. You’re either completely deranged and need to be institutionalized, or you’re deliberately a festering bubo on the anus of humanity. I’m not ruling out that both are true simultaneously. You’ve already won the Jackass Of All Internet Award; there’s no need to keep trying so hard.
How did he get your wife’s #?
He got the home phone number from a WHOIS record.
someone else to add to my’ never buy’ list… but every book he has has all 1 star reviews on GR so it isn’t just you…
That has all the earmarks of Nickolaus Albert Pacione.
My notes on NAP show that number has been traced to “Morris Illinois” and is the phone number of either his Uncle Don or Cousin Mike: “He has called people from his uncle’s phone (815-513-xxxx) to harass them, resulting in the uncle being called by people angry at [NAP].”
Uncle Don is in frail health and has been stuck with supporting NAP who lives in the basement of the deceased grand parents home in Morris IL.
I would not call back. Morris PD treat NAP as all bark, so complaining to the PD may not help other than putting it on the record. He has had restraining orders against him before (he harrassed a reviewer who noticed his cover of “Quakes and Storms” looked like a Nat Geo photo–it was and was used w/o permission).
My experience with NAP has been cleaning up a few of his attacks over at Wikipedia, two especially in Jan 2014: (a) he left an unsourced, ungrammatical attack on the Poppy Z. Brite page going back to a snide remark he made at Brite’s expense during the Katrina disaster, and (b) he left a remark on the 2005 Article for Deletion debate & vote on his bio that had been closed and archived and flagged “do not edit” since 2006. I was obligated to research him to justify my edits and I can only compare his career to the Tacoma Bridge Disaster 1940 (“Galloping Gertie”).
Seriously, is Nickolaus Pacione scouring his old address book to start new fights with old combatants?
He has forgotten about people for years, then suddenly goes on an attack for no reason apparent to his victims.
Did his medical plan stop covering his meds?
NAP claims he has been diagnosed as Bipolar II. His grandmother made him take his meds while she was alive. People who have seen his recent Youtube video rants say he appears to have stopped taking his meds. Being on his meds is no guarantee of help. He public stated in Disqus comments that he once followed his Seroquel with six beers that had the effect of 36. Cynics believe he uses his diagnosis as a excuse to be a derriere beret in public, then plays the disability card.
You’re a Mormon? And all this time I thought you were a merman.
Not mutually exclusive.
Especially if you live near the Great Salt Lake. 😉
I think the Great Salt Lake would kill any merman — it’s so salty, the only thing that can live in it is brine shrimp.
So now I can mentally picture you as a half-human, half-sea monkey. Awesome.
I’m a little hurt that you weren’t picturing that before.
This guy comes across as definitely unhinged. I hope you’re keeping a record of all this; you may need it to get a restraining order on him and alert law enforcement about him.
The nutcase shooting up the Dallas police yesterday is proof that these types may not be only trash-talkers.
Take care, Nathan
Harassing people on the internet is one thing (unavoidable, it seems), but calling them up on the phone is taking it to the next level.
I have been taking my meds fucker and remove that link because my uncle does not deserve the phone calls when I am trying to set the record straight. The snide remark at Poppy Z. Brite — well I am not going to back off that comment. So fuck Joseph Smith and fuck all his clones.
My anthology — well it faced a scandal; when you had to deal with David Boyer and Brian Keene going after your XXX-XX-XXXX as he lied to CreateSpace.com about me publishing his e-mail address and fiancee’s phone number. Put it like this Nathan you should think about when someone went after Lulu.com because of a lie; and pissed on a roster’s members’ memory when doing it. So think about that one when someone had flipped off Edgar Allan Poe’s foster father’s headstone.
Um, Nick… If you didn’t want me to have your phone number (excuse me — your UNCLE’S number from which you called), you shouldn’t have tracked mine down, called it, and dropped F-bombs on my wife.
Period.
The rest of what you’re saying, about Brite and Boyer and Keene and Poe and… Frankly, I don’t know what you’re talking about and I don’t care. I’d be happy pretending for the rest of my life that I’ve never heard of you. In fact, I was doing just fine at it until you tried to start something for reasons only known to you and the voices in your head.
If you can’t stand the heat, Nick ol’ son, don’t drag your uncle into the kitchen.
This is my controversy — if you want to make a number public use my 779 number as I am publishing that number in my anthology. Those “fuck” bombs are targeted at you as I never plagiarized in my life as you were used as a pawn to bully me by The Rusty Nail as Brian Keene went for my SSN. Nathan you really aren’t paying attention do not lump me in with Frank Joseph Colin or the Latin Kings don’t cause controversy if you can’t take the backlash. I take controversial stands and do controversial subject matter on a regular basis. Why don’t you ask Brian Keene yourself about my SSN as he fabricated the letter that tried for Legend Keeper.
Nick, please read carefully:
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT.
You called me. Remember? YOU CALLED ME. I don’t know what The Rusty Nail is, I don’t know anything about Legend Keeper, I don’t know what’s going on between you and Brian Keene. As hard as it may be for you to accept, you’re not endlessly fascinating to me; I have no interest in you at all save the fact that YOU called ME and, apparently unwilling to figure out if you had the right person on the phone, started swearing indiscriminately.
I think your cousin or uncle or whoever simply needs to stop letting you use his phone — the page I linked to is a record of other complaints made of abusive calls from that phone number.
Better yet, how about you and I go back to pretending that the other doesn’t exist? I was doing fine with that until YOU called ME.
Remove the link to that number and we will not have this conversation. A human rodent like you as in what Mormons believe that Christ came to world to fuck as many woman as he can. the one known as StinkyCat laid into Legend Keeper my recent 2014 release as some were still going into my cover. I have the means to get H. P. Lovecraft into schools — unless you want me ripping up the Book of Mormon on video like Marylin Manson did. Remove any mention of my family’s number.
Nick,
How are outrageous insults aimed at my religion supposed to me me more likely to do what you want?
The rest of this comment — honestly. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT.
Try for my career again Nathan I will turn you unpublished.
Nick, the degree of delusion on display here staggers me. I don’t give a rat’s ass for you one way or the other. Your career is of no interest to me, and in no conceivable fashion have I “tried” for it. You can do your own damned thing for as long as you want, as long as you keep it out of my face.
This is Russel Nayle as she went for my copyrighted articles in 2007-2008 you are not thinking when I had gone at you I was though. I was looking for you but you were too much of a coward to confront me on the phone as your wife took the “fucking” thing right at her — that was directed at you loser.
Nick, please. This is reality here.
My eleven-year-old daughter answered the phone. She couldn’t tell what you were talking about, and my wife was closer, so she gave the phone to my wife. You said something to my wife about my website, and she said, “I don’t know anything about that, you’ll have to talk to my husband.” Then you started swearing at here and she said, “Excuse me? You don’t start speaking like that to strangers on the phone,” and hung up.
Please point out the cowardice.
In fact, please point out evidence of ANY of your incomprehensible accusations. I’ve never heard of Russel Nayle or “The Rusty Nail” until you brought it up, and i don’t know what your repeated accusations involving his name are supposed to mean. What am I alleged to have done, again? And what’s the evidence?
Put up or shut up, Nick. Anyone can blather like an asshole.
I know what I said and I was asking for you so I can swear at you. The Rusty Nail — she goes as Russel Nayle on other sites to stalk me to get information. She had collected articles that were done on me and harassed them too. She bullied publishers who published me calling it punishing my publishers for publishing me. The cover that was submitted by Russel Nayle. It’s a play on The Rusty Nail.
Okay. Great. So over two years ago someone who doesn’t like you submitted your cover here. Many people submit covers here. Not all of them make it onto the site, but many do if I agree that it’s a poor cover. I agreed that yours was a poor cover (hey, I do, just like I agree that ALL of the covers on this site are poor) and it appeared on this site.
And?
And?
I mean, seriously, that’s your grievance against me? That I didn’t like your cover, and said so? That’s all it takes for you to get all BAGGINS WE HATES IT FOREVER? Nick: Grow a thicker skin. Some people didn’t like your cover. DEAL WITH IT. Or better yet, LEARN FROM IT. Plenty of small-press or indie publishers have seen their covers on this site. Some have tried to defend themselves. Others have taken criticisms to heart. Still others have realized that LBC’s sister site, CoverCritics.com, is a great way to get feedback on a cover design before they publish it.
But none of them — NONE — have decided it was a good idea to find my phone number years later so they could swear at me personally. That’s all you, man.
So I didn’t like your cover. DEAL. Some people don’t like the covers I’ve made for my books, either. Heck, some people don’t like the books, period. And you know what I say?
“Well, thanks for reading it, sorry you didn’t like it.”
What I DON’T say is, “WELL FUCK YOU ASSHOLE AND BY THE WAY YOUR RELIGION OFFENDS ME TOO.”
That, again, is all you.
I’ve got no grievance against you personally. (Well, I didn’t. These days, I’m damned sure I wouldn’t invite you over for pizza and a Netflix binge.) I didn’t think your cover was good. If you make it your life’s goal to broadcast your hate toward anyone who doesn’t like your covers, or your writing, or your wardrobe, or your favorite color, or the way you cut your lawn… Well, that’s just a recipe for making yourself miserable. and hey, if being miserable paradoxically makes you happy, go for it. But you don’t need me for that.
Yes sir, that is exactly all it takes to get on Nicky’s rolodex-o-hate forever. Five years from now, he’ll randomly come back here and spew bile or call your wife and threaten to rape her like he has so many other people. Nicky is like internet herpes, that shit never goes away.
I am telling the truth Nathan — you were used as a pawn to bully the fuck out of me by The Rusty Nail. That’s why I said retract that statement and this blog because you don’t want me coming at you how I did when I came at Lulu.com. I don’t like when people are used as pawns to bully someone as you were used as a pawn.
So posting your cover on here — one of four or so covers a day, posted without particular fanfare, once over two years ago — is “bully[ing] the fuck out of” you?
In that case, what have you been doing to me?
Beams and motes, O Most Righteous Christian.
look at the name then look at The Rusty Nail. You were used as her pawn to piss me off and that’s why human rodent applies to you.
I don’t believe my boxer briefs have magic to them them as you guys believe in Magical Undergarments. What if you farted and have a skidmark in that underwear.
Hey, I’ve got an idea, Nick. How about we DON’T refer to other people’s religious beliefs in the most degrading way possible, and instead behave like civilized beings, not total dickwads, okay? It’s called “civilization.” You may have heard of it.
All right, this has all been fun (in the same way that shoving bamboo shoots under your toenails while watching a High School Musical marathon is “fun”), but utterly pointless. I don’t think that Nick and I will ever come to an agreement about the meaning of words like “bully,” “rodent,” “pawn,” or “not being the most hypocritical non-Christian to ever play the victim while cyberstalking his ‘attacker,'” and I really have more worthwhile things to do. (Although even the whole bamboo shoot/High School Musical thing now qualifies as more worthwhile).
So these comments are closed.