Assclowns Are Becoming Writers

You're going to have a built-in audience in me if you happen to write about serial killers. I haven't met one yet that hasn't perked up my interest, in spite of myself. So if you're writing about serial killers and STILL make me put down the page - and moreover, make me turn away from it in disgust - you know that you have to be some heinous breed of piss-poor writer.

This applies to some dude named Romero, who wrote an article about the 80s LA serial killer Richard Ramirez in a recent issue of Tu Ciudad magazine. His writing was damn near intolerable. I was trying to plow through it, even when he uses the adjective "savage" like it's a verb ("Ramirez savaged several more victims that night"), but couldn't take it anymore after these two sentences...in the same paragraph:

"The detective surmised that the killer had murdered Nelson first, then raped the Monterey Park woman to satiate his sexual desire."

"The detective knew he was dealing with an ultraviolent killer, the likes of which the world has rarely seen."

Jesus. I could eat Alphabet Soup and crap out better writing than that.