Comments on: Nero’s Fiddle – More Jobs evaporate in Sedona

By: J. Rick Normand

J. Rick Normand — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:08:27 +0000

Mr. Masters,

Apparently, you enjoy living dangerously. But, I must tell you, I never believed you to be whom you claimed. I’ve called out bullies like you before and they always fade. Sooner or later we will meet, though. You know that don’t you?

J. Rick Normand

By: Jerry Masters

Jerry Masters — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:32:18 +0000

Dear Editor, Mr. Nash, Mr. Normand and Mr. Maddock: You are all right. I am indeed a coward. Actually, I am four feet seven inches tall and weigh 96 pounds. Picture a wet noodle. But because I am such a good writer I like to tease other good writers into jousting through posts and blogs. The mere thought of Rick’s massive muscles makes me tremble. So please don’t beat me up.
The truth is you guys are right on the money when it comes to what is happenning in the city and economy. Too often the press covers stuff up to keep the masses sleeping. I just wanted to goad you guys into really writing stuff that would make even more people wake up. Ooops. my time at the Library is almost up. Thanks for the fun…

By: J. Rick Normand

J. Rick Normand — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:09:26 +0000

Hey Masters…I have a great idea.

Tomorrow, Jan 17, 2009, at 10:30 am, I will be doing some heavy lifting at SedonaFit which is next door to Picazzo’s on the east side, around the back of the building. There’s a Jazzercise sign out front…so you can’t miss the building. Why don’t you quit shooting off your mouth and meet me there. I’ll be waiting for you. This should be fun.

J. Rick Normand

By: J. Rick Normand

J. Rick Normand — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:24:11 +0000

Mr. Masters,

You’re not 6’9″ nor solid muscle. You’re a broken-down redneck fraud. I notice that despite your big talk, you didn’t accept my challenge to meet me and debate me publically. BTW, anyone who knows me knows that if you care to check with the professional trainers over at SedonaFit, you’ll find I’m a lifelong bodybuilder. You’re not because if you were I’d know who you are since I know just about all the bodybuilders in this town. Why don’t you ask any of them what I look like you fool?

J. Rick Normand

By: Terry Nash

Terry Nash — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:44:47 +0000

If you’re six nine and and two fifty then Germany won World War II.
Eddie Maddock could kick your ass. She’s five foot
three and 115. If you were in a ring with her she could still kick your
ass with your 300 lb Appalachian nine-times removed cousin who you
have a certain fondness for on her back.
We know that you consider your net worth to be the one hour the
Sedona Library gives you gratis for the use of their computer where
you write blogs (and very little else) and cruise teener websites.
Before you moved here you tried to get your GED using an address
under the Burnside Bridge but alias you couldn’t afford the rent.
Now you do fantasy stock trading but even that requires an internet
connection which you can’t afford.
But you beg the question. When can we get together?
I’d love to see you in person. But just as Rick Normand said
you’re probably just to cowardly for that.
Keep writing but remember the library closes in an hour and
they’ll kick you out.

By: Eddie Maddock

Eddie Maddock — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:07:58 +0000

Oh what a hoot you are, Jerry Masters. Did it ever occur to you that perhaps the reason “Mr. Maddock” writes like a woman is because “he” is a “she”?
I suggest, Sir, that you do a better job of knowing who your enemies are before making uneducated accusations and attacks. You are pathetic (my opinion).

(Ms.) Eddie S. Maddock

By: J. Rick Normand

J. Rick Normand — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:53:58 +0000

Mr. Masters,

Following up on your self-acclaimed genius, and my labeling by you as a “Defeatest” with a macabre desire to ruin our economy (talk about shooting the messenger instead of those responsible for our current situation), The University of Arizona published this survey yesterday of Arizona’s best and most prominent business leaders. It would appear that I am in the huge majority and you are in the small 11.2% minority of uninformed semi-literate rednecks who just don’t get it. Apparently, you, as a complete abject business failure, would apply the same label to all these venerable business leaders as you did to me. But, you see, these people live and function in the real world, while you obviously live in La La Land where I’m sure your investment portfolio also exists.

J. Rick Normand(see below)

Arizona’s BLCI Records Large Drop

The Arizona Business Leaders Confidence Index® (BLCI), produced by The Eller College of Management at The University of Arizona, fell 10.3 points to a reading of 32.1. That’s the largest drop, and the lowest reading, ever recorded.

Since our survey (BLCI) began over five years ago, panel members have correctly predicted the economy’s direction-of-change nearly 70% of the time.

BLCI’s Economic Outlook Down Expectations for the Arizona and national economies fell by 10.7 and 11.4 points respectively. Both were the largest drops ever recorded.

Nearly three of every four (72.5%) of our panelists expect the national economy to worsenin the first quarter, of which nearly 22% expect things to be much worse. Only 11.2% expect the national economy to do better. 16.3% expect conditions to remain the same.

A much larger proportion (68.5%) of our panelists now expects Arizona’s economy to worsen during the first quarter. Only 10.6% expect [Arizona] conditions to improve, and 20.9% expect the state’seconomy to remain the same.

By: Jeryy Masters

Jeryy Masters — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:25:17 +0000

Ho Hum. So who should I start with first. Oh yes. The fat one. Ooops. I mean the fattest one.
Mr. Nash. Please, stop groveling.You sound like you want to kneel at my feet and kiss my ring. You are embarassing. make some sense instead of sucking up. Be a man and fight back insted of inviting me to sit at an imaginary round table of losers like yourself. Sedona needs positive re-enforcement, not wimpy-assed criticism from a small-time player with a massive inferiority complex.
Sheesh…
And as far as the other fat boy is concerned, You…are …fat! Yes Mr. Normand. your writing is as corpulant as I know you must be.
You obviosely must be as out of shape as the notorious Terry Bash. Instead of writing for Sedona-Verde Valley Times you should be the official poster-fat boy for Sedona.biz or the Red Rock Snooze.
Let me tell you a bit about me, Sparky. I’m 6’9″ and weigh 250 pounds. I am rock muscle and do not have a pot belly like you. I can kick your *** with either hand.
Also, you steal everything you write from the internet and do not have a single original thought.
Go back to raising chickens.
And then there is Mr. Maddock. Oh yes, Mr. Nice guy. Stay out of this rumble little boy. Go back to complaining about this or that and being innefectual. You write like a woman. Grow up. Be a man.
I tire of this. Is there no one out there who can match my brilliance? Let me put it this way. I can out write any of you Cretans with one hand tied behind my back.

By: J. Rick Normand

J. Rick Normand — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:46:52 +0000

Mr. Masters (if that is, indeed, your name, which I doubt)

I realize you may be a pseudonym writing in jest. Nevertheless, having read your invective directed at me, I have some suggestions for you. First of all, if you believe yourself to be a literate person, why don’t you learn how to spell? You appear to be semi-literate to me! Secondly, please don’t denigrate Joe the Plumber by ascribing his character to yourself…you’re not as astute as he and you could never rise to his stature. Thirdly, I suggest that you ask the Chamber of Commerce and City Council if you could become their official spokesman since you sound like just the person Sedona needs to “maintain the illusion” providing, of course, you can get all the state legislatures and the U.S. Congress to repeal of the First Amendment. Finally, please don’t be too demeaned by this, by I think you’re most decidedly too much of a coward to face me down in person. If you’re not a coward (but I’m sure that you are), just give me a public place and a time where we can meet to discuss your problems…or you can agree to a public debate as against me to debate your issues. Do you have the guts, sir?

J. Rick Normand

By: Terry Nash

Terry Nash — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:06:32 +0000

Thanks Mr. Masters for your kind words.
What you said reveals so much more about you than I could have ever
imagined. I know you’re a great joker with a sublime sense of irony.
If only we had lived in another time, perhaps we could have attended
the Algonquin Rountable, it would be me, Rick Normand, Eddie Maddock,
Tommy Acosta, Mr. Jerry Masters, Dorothy Parker and of course Benchley.
Wouldn’t it have been wonderful to spar and jab and to be just so jaunty
with our spins of phrase and to occasionally cause a ruckus.
God how I long for the old days at the Al just prior to the crash of
’29. It was my granddaddy who in partner with Joe Kennedy
shorted the market and made zillions.
As for Freedom of Speech I think I want to hear more from you.
Much more. As for my freedom of speech I think you are right –
I should be gagged and thrown in the back of a Nash sedan and
driven off a bridge. As for Normand, or Dr. Doom as I so fondly
refer to him, he should be sent to Gitmo for some waterboarding
so that he will disclose his ties to terrorist organizations, the one
most obvious, the Federal Reserve.
Thanks again for your alarmingly frank assessment of my mental
condition. It is almost as if you have gone through my medical
records.