RE: Stephen Asking Me To Take This Site Down

A long absence and a long amount of tears.

As I'm sure you've all seen on SGSP, Stephen has asked me to take this site down.  I'm not going to lie:  This hurts.  I've spent some time now considering this request, weighing the pros and cons of continuing this site. Is keeping this blog alive worth a potential lawsuit and the abandonment of my dream of being good friends with Stephen to the point where we hang out in a coffee shop in a library in Manhattan in New York in the future?

Here's the conclusion I came up with:  Taking the site down just to save myself from getting sued and also just to keep my Stephen friendship dream alive is selfish.  It's selfish!  Fans need to discuss things.  They just do.  Fans need a special haven where they can act out their own ideas and pay tribute to whatever genius Stephen has come up with on that day.  They need a place where their own comments, curiosities, poetry, art, and expression can be heard in a community-like setting.  They need a place to vent when the movies aren't made fast enough.  They need a place where they can speak to others that are as passionate about SGSP as they are.  They need a place where someone can say "No, you aren't crazy, they be just that good."  They need a place where they can read fan fiction.  They need a place where they can not feel alone.  They need.  They need.

So with all due great respect to Stephen, I will not be taking this site down.  This site will stay.  Also, for those of you who asked, the amputation of my two fingers went as good as can be expected and I'm doing fine, thank you. Okay.  So back to SGSP:

What if Death Hat, thirsty for mercury, realizes that he can get way more mercury from the fish people eat.  He stops killing people and becomes a connoisseur of sushi and seafood.  Everybody is really happy about this and Death Hat becomes sort of a C-list celebrity, often judging contests on the food network (Iron Chef?).  Then one day we realize that he's eating way more sushi and seafood than he could possibly afford and he must be killing people to get it.  And he is!  There's this huge trial kind of like with O.J., and the trial itself moves him from C-list to B+list and all of a sudden he's getting all of these offers to judge fancy cooking shows on prime time.    But get this - only if he's proven innocent.  The movie could be a comment on the justice system and Death Hat would be presumed innocent but in the end you'd see a bunch of fisherman's dead bodies and he'd say "Me being innocent was just a delicious Red Herring."

Namaste,

Peter Kline (numberonestevefan at gmail dot com)