For a Table of Contents to The Island Chronicles, please click here.
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
~Mahatma Gandhi~
I have been spending a lot of evenings at the Fourteenth Street Take Out these days. Since returning to RVA I had begun teaching a few beginners the proper way to enter the sport of whitewater kayaking. Once I did, more students began to contact me wishing for instruction. Now I have a full client list and teach almost every evening of the week and some weekends on The James. I am grateful for this, and am grateful to be doing it along side other teachers and programs in the sport. Since doing so, I have enjoyed catching up with the community and discovering that the tainted and skewed picture painted of me over this past year by our most trusted asshole, The Fat Bastard, has all but been erased, and the few people still holding on to that false image are doing so out of sheer and pathetic desperation.
But I have also had the unfortunate experience of crossing paths with The Fat Bastard on more than one occasion. On Saturday I arrived at the takeout surprised to find a virtually empty parking lot. There was only one person in the entire lot at the time, and ironically it was The Fat Bastards son standing next to the Fat Bastards giant dick mobile.............I found this strange considering The Fat Bastard was no where to be seen. After a few minutes of observing the scene, The Fat Fuck emerged from the port-a-potty he so conveniently uses to hide his actions from his own son. Within a few seconds of exiting, I began to smell the sweet aroma of our famous safety meetings..........YUP! As shocking as it may seem, nothing has changed. The Fat Bastard had gone into the toilet to smoke pot and hide it from his son. It was obvious that he was doing this because the parking lot was empty. Even I know he is not stupid enough to continue that irresponsible behavior in front of others considering he is currently on probation for the next year. When he saw me he put a very stupid looking grin on his face as if he had just gotten away with something...............I guess he assumed that I wouldn't simply tell the story for all of you to hear and form your own opinions. But before I move on with this post, let me point out three important things............
1. You are all tired of reading about The Fat Bastard..........well guess what? I'm tired of writing about him, but I will continue to do exactly that until this community makes a stand as opposed to playing pretend. It is obvious he has no intent to change his behaviors or show any remorse for what he did.
2. YOU WILL NOT PLAY PRETEND WITH THIS ISSUE!!!! If I have to write about it on a weekly basis simply to throw it back in all of your faces and remind you every week of what he did, I will do EXACTLY that! You will NOT ignore this.........I am more than confident that no matter what, you will continue to read what I have written. Just like you will look at the car accident when you drive by, even though you know you probably don't want to see what it is you are looking for. Human behavior is predictable, no matter how hard you try and prove it wrong.
3. This is not about The Fat Bastard and it is not about me.........this is about Cooper. A kid that has done nothing but help the RVA boating community grow in a positive way, teaching countless children, assisting in community volunteer activities, and stomping out some of the biggest drops around.......and doing it all with style and grace.
Last week I posted a long piece of work about writing styles. It was read by far less people than most posts I write. I understand why. It was outside of the box for what I write. I was a bit disappointed by this, because I felt it was rather educational as compared to most of my work, but then again, The IC has developed an identity over the past year and I am the one that gave it that identity........so when a post goes unnoticed, I have no one to blame but myself. At the end of that post the following paragraph was written..................................................
"I am not trying to change this community, and I don't want to see it suffer. I simply want it to be real, and if there is one pet peeve that will light a fire under my ass, it is watching people play pretend about the aspects of life that I care about. Well, I care about The James, and I truly feel that what our paddling community has become is an embarrassment to the whitewater world. A horrible act was committed within this community, one that is not forgivable or forgettable, and as much as I hate to point it out, it was an act that I warned all of you about long before it happened. I think that people listened when I did make that premonition. But I also believe that the mistake that was made was that most simply wanted to ignore it because it was not a comfortable subject for them...................and now I am seeing those same behaviors again. You are all starting to play pretend again. I heard it at the takeout a few nights back...............a group of well known paddlers admitted to me that they felt The Fat Bastard had paid his debt to society and should be left alone. They admitted that if they were The Fat Bastard they would fight to NOT pay for Coops medical bills as well. And they admitted that six days in jail was a valid sentence for ending another paddlers C-1 career. Those people are dead wrong about what they said, and the only reason I am not calling them out by name here is because I feel it would hurt the community as opposed to helping it. I didn't feel that they were saying these things because they failed to care about Coop or the well being of the community. They were saying them because it was easier for them to play pretend, and hope that the problem would simply go away..............well guess what guys? It won't. Not until you, as well as everyone else takes a stand, makes a choice, and grows a sack. You can't ignore the things that happen in this world, and you can't live in a bubble of false hope and blind ignorance. Eventually it will catch up with you...............trust me on that."
I stand behind what was said in this paragraph 100%. When you see my face at the takeout I want you to think about your actions, whether they be to ignore the situation or to argue on The Fat Bastards behalf. Either way, I will disagree with you and I WILL call you out for it. Myself, as well as others in RVA will NEVER let any of you forget or forgive what The Fat Bastard did.
I am moving on from this subject, because I do not want to waste space in The IC on The Fat Bastard or his negative image. I want to write whitewater stories, and I want to finish my story. But I WILL defend Coop and stand by what I believe in, just like I have done for the past two years. The Fat Bastard is finished here in RVA and throughout the whitewater world, whether he realizes it or not. Keep living vicariously through your son you Fat Fuck, because it is the only thing you have to hold onto. From now on I will not stand by and watch it happen. I will take The Professors approach to this atrocity and I will call The Fat Bastard out in person, in front of all of you. If you are someone who doesn't like controversy, and feels the need to pretend and cower away from difficult subjects, then my advice is to leave when you see him there..........because every time he is present, there will be controversy and it will get ugly. That I can promise you. Many of you know me well, and hopefully by now you have learned that I mean what I say, and I will take this further than you think it should go.........need I remind you of the fact that I moved to an island simply to prove a point. You doubted me in the past, and I simply stood by my statements and my actions, and fought for what I knew in my heart was the right thing to do. I don't care about my image, or my reputation................None of that is real. I care about TRUTH, and I am tired of the lies, the manipulation, and the pretend nature of what The Fat Bastard brings to Fourteenth Street............do NOT test me on this. I promise you that you will regret it.
In conclusion, I want to speak directly to The Fat Bastard, because I know you are reading this..................keep smiling you stupid fuck. Keep coming down to the takeout pretending that you are wanted and that your presence is not a problem to the community you once claimed to lead. When my time to be the hated one came in RVA, I thought about the impact it would have on the people who love this rivah, and I removed myself for the betterment of the community. I did that because I cared. Your actions in assaulting Cooper were terrible, and your behaviors since then have only demonstrated that you don't care at all, about the people who boat here, the community around you, and most importantly, about Cooper himself. You have made no attempt to apologize, no attempt to demonstrate remorse, and no attempt to help Cooper pay for what YOU did to him Worse yet, you lie to people and tell them it was a simple wrestling match and an accident. It wasn't. It was a felony assault. PERIOD! So every time you smile it simply proves how evil of a human being you are. And your smile is transparent. It is a desperate attempt to cover up your discomfort in who you are...............I don't care what you witnessed as a child concerning your own brother, and I don't care what kind of struggles you have had in your life. We have all had struggles, but it doesn't give you the right to be a complete asshole. Trust me. I learned that the hard way. You need to simply do one thing...............disappear. But we all know that you won't, because as sad as it is, you have no where else to go. You are a 53 year old joke. You aren't even a has been. You're a never was. Remember that the next time you look at me and grin, because I can assure you, all I am doing is shaking my head at how pathetic the fat man in front of me truly is. You are a sad human being, and one day your son will hate you for what you did and who you are...........because the only alternative for him is to become exactly like you, and I have faith that he will see the TRUTH in you when he is old enough. You will burn in hell one day for what you have done. Until that day comes, get ready...................because I am just getting started with you.
“The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.”
~C. JoyBell C.~
3. This is not about The Fat Bastard and it is not about me.........this is about Cooper. A kid that has done nothing but help the RVA boating community grow in a positive way, teaching countless children, assisting in community volunteer activities, and stomping out some of the biggest drops around.......and doing it all with style and grace.
Last week I posted a long piece of work about writing styles. It was read by far less people than most posts I write. I understand why. It was outside of the box for what I write. I was a bit disappointed by this, because I felt it was rather educational as compared to most of my work, but then again, The IC has developed an identity over the past year and I am the one that gave it that identity........so when a post goes unnoticed, I have no one to blame but myself. At the end of that post the following paragraph was written..................................................
"I am not trying to change this community, and I don't want to see it suffer. I simply want it to be real, and if there is one pet peeve that will light a fire under my ass, it is watching people play pretend about the aspects of life that I care about. Well, I care about The James, and I truly feel that what our paddling community has become is an embarrassment to the whitewater world. A horrible act was committed within this community, one that is not forgivable or forgettable, and as much as I hate to point it out, it was an act that I warned all of you about long before it happened. I think that people listened when I did make that premonition. But I also believe that the mistake that was made was that most simply wanted to ignore it because it was not a comfortable subject for them...................and now I am seeing those same behaviors again. You are all starting to play pretend again. I heard it at the takeout a few nights back...............a group of well known paddlers admitted to me that they felt The Fat Bastard had paid his debt to society and should be left alone. They admitted that if they were The Fat Bastard they would fight to NOT pay for Coops medical bills as well. And they admitted that six days in jail was a valid sentence for ending another paddlers C-1 career. Those people are dead wrong about what they said, and the only reason I am not calling them out by name here is because I feel it would hurt the community as opposed to helping it. I didn't feel that they were saying these things because they failed to care about Coop or the well being of the community. They were saying them because it was easier for them to play pretend, and hope that the problem would simply go away..............well guess what guys? It won't. Not until you, as well as everyone else takes a stand, makes a choice, and grows a sack. You can't ignore the things that happen in this world, and you can't live in a bubble of false hope and blind ignorance. Eventually it will catch up with you...............trust me on that."
I stand behind what was said in this paragraph 100%. When you see my face at the takeout I want you to think about your actions, whether they be to ignore the situation or to argue on The Fat Bastards behalf. Either way, I will disagree with you and I WILL call you out for it. Myself, as well as others in RVA will NEVER let any of you forget or forgive what The Fat Bastard did.
I am moving on from this subject, because I do not want to waste space in The IC on The Fat Bastard or his negative image. I want to write whitewater stories, and I want to finish my story. But I WILL defend Coop and stand by what I believe in, just like I have done for the past two years. The Fat Bastard is finished here in RVA and throughout the whitewater world, whether he realizes it or not. Keep living vicariously through your son you Fat Fuck, because it is the only thing you have to hold onto. From now on I will not stand by and watch it happen. I will take The Professors approach to this atrocity and I will call The Fat Bastard out in person, in front of all of you. If you are someone who doesn't like controversy, and feels the need to pretend and cower away from difficult subjects, then my advice is to leave when you see him there..........because every time he is present, there will be controversy and it will get ugly. That I can promise you. Many of you know me well, and hopefully by now you have learned that I mean what I say, and I will take this further than you think it should go.........need I remind you of the fact that I moved to an island simply to prove a point. You doubted me in the past, and I simply stood by my statements and my actions, and fought for what I knew in my heart was the right thing to do. I don't care about my image, or my reputation................None of that is real. I care about TRUTH, and I am tired of the lies, the manipulation, and the pretend nature of what The Fat Bastard brings to Fourteenth Street............do NOT test me on this. I promise you that you will regret it.
In conclusion, I want to speak directly to The Fat Bastard, because I know you are reading this..................keep smiling you stupid fuck. Keep coming down to the takeout pretending that you are wanted and that your presence is not a problem to the community you once claimed to lead. When my time to be the hated one came in RVA, I thought about the impact it would have on the people who love this rivah, and I removed myself for the betterment of the community. I did that because I cared. Your actions in assaulting Cooper were terrible, and your behaviors since then have only demonstrated that you don't care at all, about the people who boat here, the community around you, and most importantly, about Cooper himself. You have made no attempt to apologize, no attempt to demonstrate remorse, and no attempt to help Cooper pay for what YOU did to him Worse yet, you lie to people and tell them it was a simple wrestling match and an accident. It wasn't. It was a felony assault. PERIOD! So every time you smile it simply proves how evil of a human being you are. And your smile is transparent. It is a desperate attempt to cover up your discomfort in who you are...............I don't care what you witnessed as a child concerning your own brother, and I don't care what kind of struggles you have had in your life. We have all had struggles, but it doesn't give you the right to be a complete asshole. Trust me. I learned that the hard way. You need to simply do one thing...............disappear. But we all know that you won't, because as sad as it is, you have no where else to go. You are a 53 year old joke. You aren't even a has been. You're a never was. Remember that the next time you look at me and grin, because I can assure you, all I am doing is shaking my head at how pathetic the fat man in front of me truly is. You are a sad human being, and one day your son will hate you for what you did and who you are...........because the only alternative for him is to become exactly like you, and I have faith that he will see the TRUTH in you when he is old enough. You will burn in hell one day for what you have done. Until that day comes, get ready...................because I am just getting started with you.
“The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.”
~C. JoyBell C.~
See ya on the rivah.........................because I am ready for war! TRUTH
