Rochdalecollegebook.com ripped off by Brian Grieveson
Brian Grieveson is attempting to rip off my Rochdalecollegebook.com website. Grieveson is an uneducated criminal parasite who masquerades as a shitty writer. He is essentially a burnt-out druggie alcoholic and thief. He ripped me off for $200 when he was living in free "educational space" on the 6th floor of Rochdale, where he was a drug dealer. I have an entire book of material relating to the crimes of this redneck hick who was never a hippie, and cannot even spell "hippie" correctly.
Grieveson is currently a Cyber-Rochdalian, part of a small cult of former Rochdalians on the internet who are sleazy obnoxious phonies. He wrote a dreadful unresearched booklet about Rochdale in 1991 titled "Rochdale College: Myth and Reality". It contains mostly bullshit with many errors. Brian Grieveson states in the first paragraph that he first moved into Rochdale "in the fall of 1972". On his Facebook page he claims he moved into Rochdale in 1970. How can that be? According to another book by Grieveson, he was not in Canada in 1970 or 1971. Why the bullshit? Because Brian J. Grieveson is a phoney. He was never a hippie, just a very confused druggie and alcoholic. He cannot even spell "hippie" properly. Grieveson misspells it "hippy", which means too much flesh on the hips. The sleazy parasite never paid rent in Rochdale, just crashed in EdCon space where he was a drug dealer. His neighbour Art Jacobs said, "Brian is so burned out."
Today Grieveson imagines he was a founding father of Rochdale, when in fact he was a sleazy late comer parasite who used free EdCon space to sell drugs and never contributed anything to Rochdale. Nothing. Not a single entry in the Rochdale newsletters from this so-called writer. The last time I saw Grieveson was over 25 years ago and he was definitely a redneck from living among rednecks. Now he is a redneck hick druggie alcoholic. In his burnt out senility he may actually believe that he was part of what he has read about Yorkville Village that I have written. Many Rochdalians are phonies like that. Most likely Grieveson chose the year 1970 as "evidence" that he was somehow part of Yorkville Village, which was never the case. Grieveson was living in Hamilton back then. He is re-inventing himself with lies and has joined the Yorkville facebook group as yet another Rochdale phoney who was never there.
Brian Grieveson and I sort of made up after the building closed, and he sort of repaid his debt to me when we worked on the "Rochdale" underground paper and for his hospitality when I visited him in Haliburton in 1987. But most of the time in Rochdale I hated Grieveson intensely for ripping me off. Like Don Holyoak, Reg Hartt, and many others, Brian Grieveson is attempting to reinvent Rochdale and reinvent himself for reasons of personal aggrandizement. Holyoak was a gay teeny bopper ward of the Children's Aid Society in Rochdale for a few months in 1969. He did fuck all. Hartt was a nerdy capitalist who did not live in Rochdale, but exploited it to make a living showing Hollywood movies and hard core porn. He did not pay rent for the second floor Lounge he monopolized. Brian Grieveson was a sleazy druggie and alcoholic parasite who did not pay rent, but crashed in free EdCon space where he was a drug dealer. That is the truth.
A good example of Grieveson's bullshit happened the first day I visited him in Haliburton in 1987. He asked me to paint a bedroom floor, which I did. A few hours later a neighbour dropped by and Brian told him that he had painted the floor. I was there when he lied about painting the floor himself, and he bullshitted like that habitually. In his Rochdale booklet about the "Unknown Student" sculpture there is no mention of Ed Apt, only "Dale" Heinzerling. Grieveson stole the incorrect "Dale" from David Sharpe's book. Grieveson wrote that the "Unknown Student" weighs 2000 pounds. It was just a number he made up. In fact, the sculpture weighs about 500 pounds according to Ed Apt, Derek Heinzerling, Alan Reed, and Brian Johnson. They designed, created and installed the sculpture, and I interviewed all of them for my book "The Life and Art of Edward Apt".
Grieveson's most obvious written bullshit is the fictional stories he has made up about Cindy Lei and himself. Cindy was my next door neighbour and she was not Brian Grieveson's friend. The only time Grieveson visited our 15th Floor Commune was to rip me off for $200. After that he was banned from our commune. But Grieveson treats Cindy Lei like his fucking Siamese twin and has fabricated stories about their many adventures together. I believe that when he came across historical information for his writing he didn't simply report it, but made up bullshit stories about Cindy and himself to explain it. Obviously he thought that Cindy is dead and cannot contradict him, but I certaintly can. Brian Grieveson is a bullshitter and a shitty writer with an illiterate "Fun with Dick and Jane" writing style. I hate reading bullshit and bad writing, which is what I had to do to learn the truth about Grieveson.
Jim Washington was my neighbour in the 15th Floor Commune and later my neighbour outside Rochdale. He was also the next door neighbour of Brian Grieveson on the 6th floor of Rochdale where free EdCon units were used by drug dealers such as Grieveson. Jim told me everything in excruciating detail about Grieveson's sleazy drug dealing. FUCK OFF Grieveson! Stop stealing my work. I have already destroyed you, which is unnecessary considering your sleazy abominable reputation as a burnt-out redneck hick druggie alcoholic.
How did Brian Grieveson buy a small lot of land in Haliburton? He had an illegal "booze can" in Toronto that was a front for his drug dealing operation. That's where he got the money. I know much more than this about sleazy scumbag Grieveson, and if he does not FUCK OFF and stealing my work, it will all be published.
