"Hi, I'm Matt the Scab, I'm FLATTERED you want my Video FREE. Take it"

I recently wrote about how scabs are rampant in the publishing world. Tenured professors will work for NO advance and research a book for five years...while a professional journalist starves and ends up taking a day job. That kind of thing.

There are also "SHARERS" who feel it's their obligation to give away music because "we all like music." If a perfect stranger has every King Crimson album, wonderful. "Share it." If we all "SHARE" then we won't have to buy the music we like, and can spend that money on something else, like pizza and beer. THAT is worth BUYING.

Today a bunch of steam pipes exploded in Manhattan near the Flatiron Building. People whipped out their cellphone cameras and dutifully TWEETED and put the images on FACEBOOK. Free. AND...professional scroungers for the major networks and newspapers were right there to ask to use this stuff....FREE.

Who the FUCK is this MATT guy? Why, he's a FOOOOOODIE. He likes to eat FOOOOOOOD. Gosh, most of us HATE food, right? But he's a FOOOOODIE. Goody goody goody goody goody. Welcome, MATT. Oh come let us ADORE YOU.

You don't now what the fuck you're talking about...that was not a FIRE, and since you're NOT a newsman and you do not understand FACTS and how to BACK THEM UP, you just posted your shit. You didn't think you were scaring people, creating panic, or being a stupid fool. You're not a fool. You're a FOOOOOOODIE.

OK. We know TWITTER is just social (disease) media and don't necessarily believe all we see there. But let's see what the comments were like...oh...parasites from NBC and some other joint were all over Matt, asking him to sign a release so they could use the footage:

Sure, go ahead, use it. Give me a CREDIT. That's the Internet. I want to be flattered. We're all good Communists and doing it for the common good, comrade. SHARE and SHARE. This isn't my profession, this isn't how I make my living, to fuck it. GIVE IT AWAY.

NBC also pounced on this, and one person told Matt that these companies are making a profit, they are BIG, and they should be offering PAYMENT. But Matt the Foooooooooooooooodie could care less. The scab.

Somebody else would've said, "Hey NBC, hey SPECTRUM, you are making money on this. You are PAYING somebody to surf TWITTER for you. So why not give ME a taste?"

Not MATT. BUTT...what does this guy do for a living? IF he's a FOOOOOODIE and he works in some chi-chi limp-wristed NoHo joint where a few twigs of salad and a bit of hummus costs $10 a plate, you can bet he'll expect to be PAID to serve somebody. Told to lower his price, he'll say, "Hey, I have to pay to get this hummus, I have to spend time cutting up the carrots and lettuce, and I've got overhead here with the rent. Don't tell ME how to run my business..."