Apparently, my little comical retort got a reply!

Blasphemy (corrected your spelling their, Mr. DT).

Yes, I really do object to your creation. Or lack of creation, in my opinion. Really, what do you bring to the field here.

1) You don't know your history. Casey and Finnegan were on Butternut Square (best check your own links there.) My piece is more fitting of the history of our subjects. When they left the show, they left in a slowly phased out matter. I would think a more "gritty" and "real" presentation of a woman and her puppets retiring wouldn't be a suicide, but maybe... a legal battle or a change in company perspective? I think my (in the italics you love to use) story is much much more in line with reality and history then your squalid retelling.

2) No need to quote theorists to explain yourself either. This isn't English class. But if you want to quote theories, I could quote a few theories for you too.

My story is all about a plot that doesn't matter. The true point of my story isn't in the content, it is in the message about what has happens to our aging youth. What we make of ourselves is critical in this new world. My story is less about Cassey, and more about the interplay between capitalism and youth culture. It's like jPod is with the Internet and computers: the content isn't as important as the experience. I've tried to write my story as a tale about youth of our age coming of age. Casey is cast out for not being a good enough commodity, but like any good movement, he stays around until the culture accepts him in spirit because he does not disappear.

3) You can't create a fictional reality, or ficitional fiction, and then complain that it isn't real enough. It exists in the imagination, and there we have the ability to write whatever we feel. Doesn't mean we are "artists", what we create are expressions, not art. I think you need to grow up a bit yourself, get out of that Arrested Development stage (fantastic show, you are a fool), and get on with your life. You won't be a child-man forever, you need to become a man-man. Only fools and the narcotized don't realize how to deal with the information from someone like Virilio. He's scaring you till you change. (That's right, I can read theory too. Especially when it's short and entertaining.) You need to take in his message, not accept it as fact.