Let me be clear about something. I've never been a big fan-fiction person. Sure, I come up with a lot of stories involving other peoples' characters and so forth, but I've never felt the inclination to write them. Among many reasons, it puts me in bad company. Most fan-fiction is simply atrocious. Not to say that there aren't some great writers out there doing it, but I would hartily suggest that they develop their own ideas and put their talents towards something more productive. But hey, that's just me. As someone who works for a production company that rips off Japanese animation footage to create original comedies suited to the lowest common denominator (we love you, fans!), who am I to talk.

So via Warliberal I ran across an article about a lawsuit against the music group Creed for a doped up performance they gave last December. In it, it mentions some nasty things that Timberlake has to say about Creed.

Let me be clear about another thing, I am not what one would call "hep" with popular cultures. Sad, but true. Five of my favorite artists are Phil Pritchett, Jason Boland, Blue October, Dub Miller, and Bleu Edmondson. Who? Precisely. So a feud between Justin Timberlake and Creed is of the same level of interest to me on a personal level as is, say, the presidential election in some South American country I've never heard of. Less interest, actually, because who becomes president of Senegal may just matter some how some day. A feud between Creed and Justin Timberlake? Not so much.

But nonetheless, I was driven by morbid curiosity towards it the same way I followed the school district scandal in Florida while I was out there for a week one year. Morbid curiosity, boredom curiosity, whatever.

So I went to Google and did a search for: "Justin Timberlake" slams Creed

I look around to no avail, as most of the links seem to be just lists of bands for this purpose or that (venue schedules, top 40, whatever). Then I run across a site that appears to be in narrative format.

Narrative format? Narrative format. Why would there be a story about NSYNC in narrative format? Who would be privy to this scene:

The next morning, Justin stands up in the lounge of the bus and says, "I'm breaking up with Britney." Lance looks up, surprised.

Joey looks at Justin, wearing one of Lance's t-shirts stretched tight across his taller frame and boxers, a small hickey on his neck. "Really? I'm shocked. You two seem so close."

Justin gives him the finger. "No, you know what I mean. I'm gonna break up with her in public. Not a big public fight, I mean, like end it so everyone knows."

Chris looks up from his Sports Illustrated. "You told her that yet?"

He shrugs. "It'll be okay."

Joey shakes his head. "That's cold, bro."

It took a few minutes of reading through it before it sunk in. Oh. My. Heavens. NSYNC. Fan.Fiction.

Somehow, I doubt we have all that many NSYNC fans in our readership, but if you're just dyin' to hear Justin Timberlake say, all up close in personal, "What. The. Fuck. Do. You. Want."... give it a read.

It might be good. I don't know. I can't take the concept seriously enough to wade through it. It hasn't sunk in yet. If I write a post at 4 in the morning asking "WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?!" you'll know that it's sunk in. Right now, though, I'm about to go out and see Roger Wilko (Who? Exactly), meet up with Kevin and company, and have a blast.

If anyone knows about the whole Justin Timberlake-Creed spat, drop me a line or leave a comment.

Same if you're privy to the most recent elections in Senegal.

If they even have elections.