December 08, 2008
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Nothing personal, just business.
About a week before Thanksgiving, a representative from genre-friendly Monsters HD contacted me with a proposal: Pimp their "Thanksgiving Day of the Dead" on my site in exchange for an interview with one of three individuals. Since I really do respect the guy as a make-up effects wizard, I selected Robert Kurtzman. Naturally, I was more than a little hesitant to choose Robert, especially since I referred to him as both "creepy" and "one of the worst scribes working in the genre today" in my review of The Rage. Double ouch. Despite my reluctance, I e-mailed the questions in a timely manner and waited patiently for an interesting response from Mr. Kurtzman. Several weeks later: nothing at all. A kindly inquiry to my Monsters HD representative proved fruitless; the message ended with "We'll be in touch!" which, as you may already know, is basically a thinly-veiled brush-off designed to keep morons like me waiting patiently for correspondence to arrive sometime in the near future. Needless to say, they've pissed me off a little bit. Had I not delivered on my end of the bargain, I could understand why they'd give me the shaft. Whatever the case may be, is a little digital communication really that much to ask for? Perhaps.
Regardless, I'm still pumped about Bump.
4 Spasms:
Sorry to hear that, dude. I got the same offer but didn't bother. Monsters HD isn't in my market (is it in anyones?) and I just didn't give a shit about the available parties. Plus, I couldn't think of anything interesting to ask any of them. But over Twitter I heard from other horror bloggers and podcasters that the network was tripping all over themselves to hook them up with phone calls and shit, so I guess it's all about pecking order or something.
Don't get me wrong -- Monsters HD was intially very friendly and very accommodating. They just never delivered the goods. I completely understand that I'm low on the proverbial totem pole, so maybe it is about pecking order. That's totally cool with me. But if you're going to short change the little blogs, don't even bother extending the offer in the first place.
That bites!
[Kurtzman was an excellent choice!]
You're standing tall though, as I too am looking forward to Bump! :-)
That's some pretty lame stuff right there. If you're too low on the totem pole to bother coming through on the deal, why would they want you to help advertise? Now the same demographic they wanted to appeal to are going to think they're a bunch of jerks.
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