An old man with a pile of index cards totally pwned me
An old man with a pile of index cards totally pwned me
And other "angry feminist" rantings
I’ve always dreamed my writing would one day piss off some conservative cishet white man, and this week, my dream finally came true!
Last night I received this puzzling email from communications@hologlobepress.com. It is reproduced here exactly as I received it, complete with grammar and spelling errors and the “Date,” “To,” and “From” at the top. The sender added that.
Date: January 23, 2024
To: Ms. Jen Heller
From: Victor Edward Swanson, historian
Dear Ms. Heller:
I stumbled across your page called "Going the Distance: The Life and Death of DuMont Television" (dated June 24, 2023). It is a historical mess, which looks like it has ties to history available on the unreliable Wikipedia about the DuMont Television Network and the Paramount Television Network, the latter of which was never a "network" (it was a syndication entity sort of like the NTA Network (of the late 1950s and the early 1960s) and Operation Prime Time (of the 1970s and 1980s)), and, really, the Paramount Television Network was just another syndication company like so many of television history. One of the big problems with your poorly researched page is that the DuMont Television Network was killed off in 1957. The DuMont Televison Network ended officially on September 15, 1955. But a DuMont Broadcasting Co. (the second such named entity, which was created in the fall of 1955) did
operate two television stations for a short while after September 25, 1955, and the stations were set up to share shows, if wished. In addition, you say that "The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong" was a series on the DuMont Television Network in 1951 and 1952. That is a big mistake. The series only existed as a 13-episode thing in 1951. To learn about Ms. Anna May Wong and her television series, you can use this "www.hologlobepress.com/that.htm" name to get to a catalog page of documents of mine that deal with television history, and, then, look at "#217" and "#218" and "#235".
I thank you much for your time.
Sincerely,
Victor Edward Swanson, historian
The Hologlobe Press
www.hologlobepress.com
email: communications@hologlobepress.com
Now I don’t feel the need to prove myself to randos on the internet, but I couldn’t resist giving his—frankly frightening—website a cursory glance and shooting back a quick reply.
Thanks for your bizarre, unsolicited message full of inconsequential claims with no sources, but I'm not interested in in your comments or your disturbing and lengthy diatribes on your website, which incidentally looks like it was last updated circa 2003. I cited all my sources at the end of my article, so if you would like to know where I found the information, take a look there.
Always a pleasure to meet a reader.
Jen Heller
Technical Writer, Resume Writer, Sitcom Historian
jenheller.com | polishedresumes.net | rerunrewind.com
I forgot all about my new boomer friend until I checked my spam folder today and found this reply. Again, he added the information at the top.
Date: January 24, 2024
To: Ms. Jenn Heller
From: Victor Edward Swanson, historian
Dear Ms. Heller:
I was so, so happy to see your response by email some minutes ago, and it showed off the nature of what I had guessed you to be--an angry feminist/socialist. I was able to goad you into sending the type of email that I could publish in one of my television history documents, and it will show another example of rotten writers tied to so-called television history on the Internet, especially that related to the DuMont Television Network. The anger shows in the email, which has several writing errors, such as two "in"s. By the way, if your sources are crap, you end up with writing that is crap. I have 52 years of television research, and I have some 170,000 index cards with information about television, a collection that I started in June 1972, and there is where references can be found. I can back up what I have in my television documents, and you cannot. Also, I have been tied to the radio business for about 52 years, too. Incidentally, your photograph shows off your image, and it looks like a cliche young socialist. Your history information crap and you teach crap!
Have fun being an angry feminist!
Sincerely,
Victor Edward Swanson, historian.
The Hologlobe Press
P.S.: I win!
Well, he sure showed me, didn’t he?
Honestly, I’m thrilled. I can’t wait to see his rant about me on his website. All the other cliche young angry feminist/socialists and I will have a good laugh over it. Maybe I’ll even make it onto index card number 170,001! #goals
If/when he posts something about me, I’ll be back here with an update. In the meantime, I’ll continue to have fun being an angry feminist.