An angry little man.

My only piece of advice is to remember the words of Yoda: Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering...

UPDATE: At least he folds when you challenge him...

UPDATE: Moose, I must be honest in evaluating you. You post and run all the time, often being absent for weeks at time, and your arguments are usually poorly formed and laced with garbage like racial slurs, plus you contradict yourself way too often to be taken even halfway seriously. Maybe if you got your act together people might not treat you like a dimwit, but you've gotta quit sounding like one first...

UPDATE: I bring you a gem from this asshole...

"Anyone who is not with the new program is a traitor. Kill them if they don't see the evil of their former ways."

Really, how is this twat still on RIA? Go ahead and tell me I'm wrong admin, but when a guy is saying I should be killed for the way I think, I'm not taking that shit. If RIA wants to act like they have any class they'll kick this shithead to curb where he belongs.

I don't think he's ever heard of the phrase "Let's agree to disagree", do you?
Far too aggressive and venomous to be considered a truly class reviewer.

Kinda a cross between Johnny Rotten and Henry James, I guess...


Update: He has a lot of writing talent, but I suspect he just likes to fuck with people. The relentless barrage of vitriol can get predictable and tiresome, and there is also a great deal of self-praise, self righteousness, and braggadocio in his reviews if you read them closely. It's hard to enjoy reading someone without some degree of self- deprecation and modesty.

I had promised myself that I would never post anything negative about another reviewer here, no matter my feelings or opinions. I break that promise now because this individual abides here only to spew hatred and see how offensive he can be to others. He adds absolutely nothing to the RIA experience. He detracts quite a bit.

I certainly think he's got a gift in writing, but as far as whether he's a good reviewer or not should probably base on how credible his takes on issues, and that's up to the general public to decide. Unfortunately, can we rely on the average public to decide whether someone's opinions are valid? Very doubtful sometimes. I do have a problem with his reviews though. If he seems to hate everything he reviews then it's either he only reviews the items he hates with passion, or he just generally hates the existence of everything. In either case it's not helping me out on what to pick for my next vacation.

UPDATE: This guy is the only regular reviewer whose writing skills have actually declined the more he writes. When I first encountered him I could appreciate his technical skills with the language and his turns of phrase, even when I found his opinions specious. Now, however, his constructs have slipped, and his personal idioms are repetitive, obvious, and unimaginative. He's become quite boring, which for me is the worst crime on here.


ORIGINAL POST:
He is a damn good writer and an intelligent guy.  Unfortunately he usually demonstrates his talents like a smart-ass punk
His angry auto-rant act comes dangerously close to the tiresome threshold.

Update: Can somebody please correct me on something, am I suppose to rate Moose as a writer or reviewer? Or is there a difference? The question seems to be split along political and social lines. He could write a review that highlights your mother's ability to suck prick like the whore she is, but as long as he writes it well...its five stars all the way! Moose wrote that the Virgin Mary was actually a two bit slut, I wouldn't have said it quite like that, but did you see the way he wrote it?! You gotta show him some love for his brilliant writing style.
I have a funny feeling that if Moose wrote from a far right perspective, he wouldn't be getting accolades from guys like Frank, and other lefties. I could be wrong.


Original: An intellect will back up his writings with debate. When someone's intellectually bankrupt, it's the drive-by mentality. All that matters to him is his message of hate, and I hope he continues to put it out there.

I typically avoid rating active reviewers, but I've seen enough of Moosekarloff around here, and it's not just because I disagree with him 99% of the time. There are plenty of reviewers around here that I disagree with more often than not who are on my trusted list. I even consider a few of them to be some of the best reviewers here.

I dislike Moosekarloff because he is disrespectful and derogatory. It seems like he hates just about everything. I think the only positive review I've seen from him is a review of Dennis Hopper (yeah, that was kind of out of nowhere). I'm not exactly an optimistic person, but this guy is ridiculous. I'm even starting to wonder if it's all some sort of act. Is anyone really that pessimistic about everything?

UPDATE: So here is what this dumbass ukulele player has to say about me: "it's virtually impossible to believe this poster's claim to have studied "high energy" physics. Yeah, maybe Physics 101 on the high school level, as the writing indicates an educational level well below that of college. Methinks we have yet another internet imposter here." I normally don't like to brag about my academic credentials, but when someone says stuff like this it flat out pisses me off. What I've done isn't easy. I'm currently in my 9th year of physics education past high school. I have a BA in physics, am working on my PhD in physics, and I could have my masters if I wanted to jump through the hoops required.

 I graduated Magna Cum Laude, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. I was the primary author of a journal article on glass research as an undergraduate. I presented this work at several conferences, including two international conferences. I did astronomy research for a summer at Wesleyan University. My undergraduate honors thesis won a science writing award. I was accepted for an SPS internship the summer after I finished my undergraduate work, where I worked on a molecular electronics project.

I'm now a graduate student at the University of Iowa, participating in the CMS experiment at CERN. I've presented talks at meeting too numerous to count. I am an author on several internal notes, and have a pending analysis note on the Higgs. I passed the PhD qualifying exam, which would probably reduce old Moose to tears and make him shit his pants. Right now I'm grading final exams for an undergraduate physics class which Moose would probably fail with flying colors.

Moose also commented about spelling and grammatical errors, but what does that have to do with physics? I never claimed to be an English major. In fact I haven't had an English class since high school.

In summary, Moose is a complete dumbass and should be treated as such.

UPDATE #2: I've shared this hilarious information with a few members of my trusted list, but since Moose has decided to insult me for no apparent reason, this is the real Moosekarloff, a ukulele player from New York. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=use r.viewProfile&friendID;=23775946 

He's got a way with a turn of a phrase, I'll give him that.  There's not a lot of surprise in reading his stuff, shock occassionally, but not surprise.

Obviously has a bug up his ass, but after the past 30 years or so, who wouldn't?

A typical neo lib communist, the likes of which all advanced societies have and tolerate. Much noise, much agenda, much distortion, nothing to worry about.

Update: is his avatar is a self depicting aspiration of what he would like to become?

Well, Boris has been taken a lot of heat lately, so I figure I might as well jump in and expose the real Moosekarloff...caught here on tape....

Moosekarloff....exposed!

Probably a card carrying member of the Communist Party.

His  attacks on believers may be unneccessarily  cruel, but they kind of provide a balance to the fire and brimstone opinions of our most rabid religionist reviewers. 

UPDATE:

I cringe when I read some of the Moose's more thoughtless reviews, but he's right more often than he's wrong... just not very diplomatic or kind.

Today I received a PM from Moose, responding to some topic or other we were discussing on one of the lists, in which he wrote:

Furthermore, Palin is a sadistic piece of shit who knowingly and deliberately brought a mentally and physically challenged child into the world, condemning it to a life of agony and second-class existence because of her mutant religious beliefs and warped politically ideology. In her case, abortion was a totally justifiable option, but she deigned not to so that she could make a specious and mentally retarded statement of her sick values.

I think that satisfied any sort of curiousity I had regarding his point of view about any topic. 

We need more people like Moosekarloff in this world. His view on this country is basically dead on. Especially his pizza theory. lol!

For writing ability I think he would go way off the charts but his attitude is just too bleak. Ive always felt that righteous anger can be a good thing and I definitely believe Moosekarloff has a gift for writing as well as mixing cynicism with humor. Yet, it seems that he is just too irate about too much. I would agree that there are some really ugly things in this world but the picture he paints is so black and empty that its not only depressing its practically a void. If we are to believe his view of the world anyone with any type of authority, musical tastes different from his own, who did not attended a specific college, or who resides outside a 20 mile radius of New York City are all blithering idiots in need of a brain transplant. Well, that takes in just a little too much of the world to make much sense to me. I may be one of those Heartland morons he so loves to rant about but Im really thankful to say that my world isnt quite as small or dark as this.

MooseKarloff (wonderfully monstrous name) has pissed so many folks off that he must be doing something right. Bolder and braver than the rest of us, he seems not to care what you think, and if you really get riled up by his remarks, then you're just the person he's trying to skewer. He is guilty of some snobberies ("your typical American has only the vaguest notion as to what constitutes good food," he writes) but if you're not occasionally guilty of being a snob, well, you probably have bad taste. Most of the time his zingers are spot-on: on Michael Chertoff, he writes: "They constantly mispell this guy's last name. Let's set the matter straight. It should be spelled, 'J-E-R-K-O-F-F.'" No matter what you think of his politics (I don't share all of his views), you have to think that is funny.

The best writer on RIA (as others have mentioned). Lives in Manhattan, middle-aged and has a house in North Carolina. Otherwise a mystery, mostly. Stereotypes certain groups (c.f. Sundiszno's looong paragraph), and displays remarkable arrogance and insolence (or confidence and contempt, depending on your point of view and the comment in question). In any case, more fun to read then any other writer on RIA; especially interesting music and literary criticism, subjects where ad hominem attacks are more limited than politics and of greater general interest than old TV shows or New York Restaurants.

As is the case with most of us, our content is not always agreeable; however, I appreciate his mechanics.

The greatest writer on this website. Very knowledgable and I tend to agree with a majority of his views. Give him credit. He's done a superb job.

Though aside from the cool name(go moose!!!) His comments are very disagreeable and his personality is sometimes very rude. Lighten up a little Moosekarloff.

I am upgrading my rating of Moose to a 3, because he deserves credit for his intelligence and ability to express himself. I still don't care for his comments about the South, and I could really do without his references to flatulence and other bodily functions. However, at least he is thoughtful and backs up his statements, unlike other posters who arbitrarily make outrageous and absurd statements. I'm sorry for the insults I hurled at you, Moose; e.g. that you live in a dungeon with your pet rat, Ben and abuse yourself with a cat-o-nine tails.

This individual is acknowledged by many raters to be the best writer among RIA reviewers, and I share that assessment with minor reservations. He has a very well developed vocabulary and often comes up with interesting, arcane, and sometimes archaic words. May of his posts fall into the realm of essays or, in some cases, mini-epics. He is a talented writer, at least stylistically and mechanically. Based on some hints in some of his posts, I'd guess that he's in his late 30's or early 40's (not a kid, as some have opined), and has a close association with academia (maybe an English professor or teacher). He confines his comments to several broad topic areas, i.e., politics and political figures, literature and authors, entertainment and actors, education/universities, and beer. At least on the face of it, his knowledge in these areas is impressive. If I were to rate him on only those elements, I'd easily give him a 5. However, there is a broader spectrum of elements that I feel enter into a rating such as this, so in fairness to him, I forced myself to plod through (or at least skim over) every one of his almost 1,100 comments rather than base my rating on just a small sampling of his efforts that I disagreed with. At the end of it all, I came away with an even more negative impression than I had initially. He is very negative about many things, but his outright hatred, contempt, and disdain for conservatives, southerners heartlanders, people with religious beliefs (especially Catholics, it would seem), the World War II generation, the military, and anyone old enough to be collecting Social Security (I think that's who he continually refers to as droolers), to name the more prominent areas, does tend to wear thin after a while. His vituperative comments on those areas tend to be formulaic and degenerate into predicatble diatribes. Conservatives (and the other categories enumerated above) are worthy only of scorn, derision, denigration, and invective, all unabashedly delivered with unrelenting gusto, with the liberal use of pejorative adjectives and negative descriptors. Black politicians who are conservative are singled out for special scorn as being traitors. He regularly evinces supercilious hauteur with respect to anyone or anything that does not measure up to the undefined standards of his own pompously august personality. Liberals, by contrast, are the object only of paeans of praise, glory, laud, and honor, effusive adulation, and general (at times explicit) sycophancy. Basically, no matter how eloquently he may state his views, he strikes me as being a pseudo-spohisticate, pseudo-intellectual anarchist, slavishly committed to the defense of liberal ideology and to uncompromising attack on conservative ideas, ideals, and personalities. He comes across as mean spiritied, immature, and incapable of objective evaluation. His approach seems to be a classic case of My mind is made up, don't confuse me with the facts. There are other raters on this site who are committed liberals and who state their views forcefully, articulately, and eloquently, but without the pervasive narrow mindedness and insular outlook marked by his posts. I don't know whether to find his views on homosexuals amusing or completely hypocritical - on the one hand, he frequently makes gratuitous characterizations of people (conservatives) he rates as homophobic, clearly conveying the impression that he believes homophobia to be an undesirable characteristic worthy only of opprobrium, but on the other hand, his true colors seem to come to the surface when he refers to people or groups he doesn't like (i.e., military members) as f*gs or qu**rs, which strikes me as blatantly homophobic. Perhaps Le Mousse is a dsciple of Janus, so double standards are permissible. I have had (to date) one personal message from him calling me to task for a statement I made about the French language in one of my posts. Overall, the message was not offensive, although it was fairly patronizing and condescending, professorial, and laborious, but he made his point effectively. He is capable of some very good posts, especially those dealing with literature, and I agree with a few of his posts dealing with social issues at least in part, in spirit and substance, if not in tone. However, overall, I believe that his Weltanschauung is parochial, myopic, and constricted, and his posts frequently give indications that he is severely afflicted with a persistent case of cerebral flatulence. I guess you can chalk these remarks up to the petty comments of a brainless poster (which must be, because Moose said so about me in one of his posts). Sorry if this post itself reads like one of Le Mousse's blatherings. I rate him as a 2 because the system mandates at least a 1 if you want to give any kind of rating at all, and he truly deserves one more for his command of the English language.

the guy knows his stuff.........and most of his politics are right on.

Talented writer.

Best writer on the site.

I can't really add to what everyone else has said about him/her/it. I get the feeling that moose is just another one of multiple ID's used by the same person.

An extremely cynical, negative reviwer that seems to hate Americans!

Heh, good ol' Moose. Now for starters I'd like to say Moose is a brilliant writer, expresses himself superbly and is quite frequently funny. After reading his posts on Donald Rumsfield and other cold warriors which was better written then most professional writers, I was all kitted out to give him five stars. However I did then note he thought that the English were a pinheaded people. A common theme throughout his posts seems to be he HATES everything I hate but HATES everything I like as well. Top reviewer and all I just think he'd prefer to sit on the political fence and throw sharp objects at the people in both yards then be positive about anything besides music.

I agree with some of his ideas, but I think his comments about Middle America were way out of line. Most Mid-Americans, I've noticed, are decent, non-pretentious average joes who just want to live and earn their keep. That's true for most people in all areas of the country. I too am a liberal, though decidedly more moderate, and, for instance, EVERY decent working person, including the people of the Deep South, deserves certain basic things such as health insurance, worker's comp, and some allotment of paid vacation. I will be the first to admit that Middle America has some definite social problems, and I often disagree with their opinions, but I still will award them with their deserved human respect. And I say this as the proud grandson of a Midwestern sodbuster's daughter.

Besides being unreasonably cynical on virtually every single topic, I think it's widely accepted now that this guy was an obvious fraud.

Oh, I hate doing this now! I really do. Don't get me wrong. Moose is very intelligent but lately, some of the things he's saying are getting a little too....well....offensive. (Referring to Whitney Houston's post.) I like Moose. He's a smart guy and he's not afraid to be outspoken. But to use such nasty degrading slurs like the ones used recently are no excuse.

To rate and review real music (not Britney or N'Sync) you need to know at least something about music, saw this guys review about Yes and the guy is clueless. Better stay rating stupid sitcoms.

Anybody need a good laugh? Check out this cheater's response to my comments about his Little Caesar's post- it took something as inconsiquential as Little Caesar's to push you over the edge. Maybe the truth hurts, maybe living out in the vaunted Heartland isn't all it's cracked up to be. Maybe you are experiencing severe cultural and class envy towards those of us who live in a civilized corner of the universe where you can get a good education and paying job, have a neverending choice of decent restaurants and other entertainment and cultural options. You Heartlanders like to come off as so decent, Christian, moral, upright ect. when the truth of the matter is you're a cadre of small minded, parochial, provincial, mean-spirited and resentful hicks opertaing under grave feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. If y'all had anything on the ball you'd be living on the coasts or in the belly of Chicagoland like the rest of those accomplished types who've been pulling the lion's share of the load for the rest of you slackers for decades.-- Cute, huh? And I bet all the accomplished hipsters of Chicago and NYC spend hours on end cheating on a web-site, not enjoying the trendy, center-of-the-universe cuisine and entertainment that his celebrated corner of the world has to offer him. My guess is that he lives in in a greasy trailer off the Jersey turnpike with his dictionary to make him sound smart. But I need not elaborate on this mess of a reviewer too much. His lacks of ethics and astounding amount of free time to create multiple ID's to boost his trite speaks volumes about just how empty his life really is. I pity him, actually.

Another backasswards soul convinced that if the United States simply turned a blind eye to the problems of the Middle East then they will either go away or someone else will take care of it. Who, France? HA! Furthermore, Moosekarloff gives me the overwhelming impression that he writes his comments with an Oxford dictionary at his side in hopes that he may find just the right word for maximum I'm So Much More Literate Than You Peasants value. Let there be no doubt that Moosekarloff is very skilled at expressing himself. Unfortunately, said expression is limited to I'm a pompous, socialist ASS!

I can see he writes well. He is awful negative when he rates. I do not know if he is in on it, but he sure has gone up the ratings list awful fast. Number one. HMMMMMMM. Does not seem fair. I do not mind if someone goes up the list fair and square,but it sure seems odd when they accumulate over 1000 votes in a few days.

Some comments are pretty funny. But here's another liberal who thinks that common sense opinions and politics are outdated and outmoded. Too bad Moose can't see that what he's preaching is Communism. Yes, Communist butchery and the abolition of all individual rights is something to strive for. Not on my watch. UPDATE: Well, suddenly Moose has decided to become a cheater and vote himself into FIRST place on the top 100 reviewer list. What a jerk.

Fraud.

Update ! As of late, I really can't see anything that great about Moose or his reviews....he is really negative, and I just hate it when people are like that ALL the time. Some negativity is normal, but come on !

Well he's obviously a multiple-identity using fraud. And on top of that I don't agree with anything he says on here. He's really one back asswards kinda fellow.

Numerous television reviews and 754 comments in 6 months, does he have a life? Often tasteless remarks veiled in snobbery. Obnoxious nicknames filled with sexual references and scatological humor, his obsession seems pretty obvious. Has Mouse come out of the closet? His comments on John Leguizamo, Very broad and vulgar comic who appeals to those of low taste... seem to be an accurate self-assessment as well.

He seems like a very unhappy person. I hope he finds Christ some day.