Harlan Ellison is a Stupid Stupid Head
Is it true that Harlan Ellison monitors Google Alerts to see if anyone is bad mouthing him so he can jump up and down on whoever it is? That he has no sense of humor about himself? Harlan Ellison, the guy who likes to grope women at cons, sit on other people's short stories for decades so they can't publish them, and freaks out and sues anyone who looks at him wrong?
You know, for a guy who's been around for a while, Ellison sure has thin skin.
Also, he's a douchebag.
You hear me, Harl? I'm talkin about you!
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while I concur with the basic
while I concur with the basic premise that ellison has been a douche in this case (and probably lots of other cases too), the post you linked to contains several factual errors regarding the current kerfuffle.
the main two:
--tempest didn't actually create the parody cover - she simply reposted it
--ellison heard about it from one of the wackos on the messageboard section of his web site, not from some sort of compulsive auto-googling.
see tempest's blog (http://tempest.fluidartist.com/) or do a google search for (I swear to god) "boobfail" to piece together the actual story for yourself. if you really want to make your brain bleed, you could also try reading ellison's messageboard thingy. it's pretty wack.
Correction
Thanks for the correction w/r/t who created the joke cover in the first place. I checked it out and fixed it. My speculation on Harlan Ellison's Googling habits will stand, however, because this is somehow less sad than the alternative; that he pays somebody else to scan his message board to find online insults so he can rush to his own analog defense (since he claims to not own nor ever use a computer). I tried to go through his message board to find the original post, but after sorting through about six pages, I gave up. I'LL ADMIT IT. I AM A BAD JOURNALIST. Luckily, the internet -- that "asswipe of a medium" -- does a pretty good job of fact-checking itself.
if you made it through six
if you made it through six pages, you're sturdier than most.
I don't know which is more fucked - the form or the content.
Ellison's flunky squad
Actually Ellison's wack job fans usually keep him up to date on anything said about him on the internet.
This time though he was "informed" privately an then freaked out.