Merry Krampus

Hello all. I wanted to pop in from my busy-ness to wish you all a Merry Krampus and I hope you are all out and about terrorizing the locals with your fearsome visages.

I also have overcome the technical difficulty which was plaguing the website and it is up and running again.

For now that is all, though news for those on the mid-east coast coming very soon.

Enjoy the night.

-The Potentate

VILLAINS HAVE THEIR OWN OPERATING SYSTEM...

Evil.

-The Potentate

INSPIRATION

Keep your eyes on the prize people.

-The Potentate

-from the LA Times (photo gallery here, well worth a look) via io9 -

FUCK YOU WHEDONVERSE!!!

Several months ago I put forth a mission to you all to have the show Dollhouse, so bad it was criminal, cancelled. Some detractors said it couldn't be done, others on our side said it shouldn't be done. Well the time has come that I can say GREAT SUCCESS!!! It was just announced that Fox has cancelled it!

Now I know what some of our critics will say that this show was mediocre at best and was felled by a poor expensive production with an aimless direction in addition to a declining viewership and that we here at ROACH didn't do anything.

All I can say is... didn't we? (rubs hands menacingly)

-The Potentate

HALLOWEEN DONE RIGHT

Agent Beryllium and Phatal Phyllo answering the question... Trick or Treat?

Please visit Agent Beryllium's blog for more photos of their mischief and mayhem this past holiday.

Keep up the good work and keep me posted on any new visitors obtained by your card.

-The Potentate

Three posts in one day? Ye gods!

The Potentate's going to kill me for sucking up all of ROACH's alloted daily Internets.

Anyway, after a few posts and several enlightening discussions in various comment threads and IM windows, I've come to a more refined list of the enemies of ROACH, nay, the enemies of civilized society.

ROACH's foes do NOT include the RLSH at large. Most of them are harmless charity-figures that serve in philanthropic positions. While an annoyance with their mere existence, these people are not enough of an interference to warrant action on our part, merely ridicule.

ROACH, instead of putting everyone in a costume in its crosshairs, needs to narrow its focus down to that oft-maligned group within the RLSH community, the vigilantes.

While we're at it, we need to police ourselves to prevent any vigilantism within our own community. Hard to see through a black eye, no?

Thanks to Krampus for his insightful comments; as we continue our villainous activities, it's always good to have a lens through which to look at ourselves refine our own methods and ideologies. As he has taken on the persona of a mythological dowsing rod for evil itself, Krampus has served to be that lens for myself, and I hope, for the larger RLSV community.

Also, the RLSV community. I know we dislike being labeled. It cheapens us as a whole. However, there are enough of us out there now that we do form a community, no matter how dysfunctional we may be. It's time we labeled ourselves properly, and if Real Life Supervillains is what the world wants to call us, then I say we fit closely enough within that aesthetic to warrant branding ourselves as that.

The Potentate, busy as he is, has stressed before the importance of community, even going so far as to open negotiations with other villainous organizations such as The Hive, Nema Enterprises, and other groups. As a cog within a larger machine (admittedly a LARGE cog,) ROACH owes a debt to those emerging RLSV out there that need guidance through their larval stage and into full-stage adult villains. We must instill our strict moral codes (I.E. the disbanding of the vigilante community, burying New York in volcanic ash, and firing all the dolphins into the Sun,) into these young minions and train them to be Machiavellian schemers and dreamers who build death rays beneath active fault lines and keep Hayden Christensen in a cage beneath their throne to feed errant guests to.

-The White Skull, Agent of ROACH

Once again, it seems I've stepped on toes in the Superhero community (or in this case, cloven hooves).

Now, Krampus actually had a point in his response. PST and I did agree to leave each other alone. However, in one of the final emails between she and myself, she did say "you want to tear me down on the blogspot, fine, but leave me alone, don't follow me to other sites on the Internet (which I didn't; I went to SyFy's forum to harass the RLSH community in general, originally,) and don't email me any more."

To be fair, I have left her alone. I haven't checked up to see what she's been doing, I haven't written blogs about her, save for the one I posted earlier today, and even in that one we see that I blundered a bit, since the comment in question had been posted months ago.

Krampus' point was that I had violated the public agreement we had made (after a fashion; the comment had been pulled form her Myspace page, which I had only visited when it popped up in my "people you may know" tab, so making a blog posting about it was technically over the line, since, well, Myspace is Myspace and Blogger is Blogger and the two don't actually intersect.

To which I shall offer one, and only one, public apology and redaction of the previous post.

*ahem* Pint-Sized Tyrant, I am sorry that I am a desperately evil villain who was curious enough to click on your publicly listed Myspace page that you haven't visited in months and likely forgot that it existed.

Wow. That tasted like shit even more than I thought it would.

Secondly, if The Krampus wants to put me on his naughty list, since December 5th is rapidly approaching and all, let him. We didn't sign up to be villains to get adoring throngs of fans.

Krampus, you have been woefully quiet of late. I never thought I'd hear myself typing this, but I've personally missed your borderline racist comments in the blog. Krampus come home already.

Although you hold no allegiance to either the RLSH or RLSV communities, you are interesting enough that I check up on your blog every now and again, and though I find your pop culture references annoying, I still tune in to Creature Feature and enjoy your dulcet tones every Saturday night.

If there was ever a person, or in your case, a cryptomorph, worthy of The White Skull's admiration, then The Loch Ness Monster is that cryptomorph, with Krampus in second place.

So come on already; comment, attempt to tear us down with your high-and-mighty "my dear boy" attitude and your penchant for witty nicknames! Be the anti-White Skull we all want! Give in to your adoring public, Krampus; remember that it's them you're ultimately on life's stage for.

Signed,

An adoring, misguided fan,

-The White Skull, esq.