Enrique Rubio (aka "Fantomas") Is "John Longfellow"

Perhaps the most famous personality in the history of Cuban-American blogs is "John Longfellow," who achieved his greatest notoriety at Miami's Cuban Connection, Oscar Corral's un-blog, but who at one time or another pestered practically every Cuban-themed blog before being booted. The Longfellow persona was infantile, anal retentive, bigotted and obsessed with Cuba and Cubans though purporting to be a "100% percent American." At times he presented himself as an admirer of Castro and a defamer of Cuban-Americans, and at other times, far fewer, he pretended to side with the oppressed Cuban people and defended Cuban-Americans. Whatever his political stance on any given day, or, indeed, at any given moment, Longfellow's purpose was always to disrupt discussion and make himself the center of attention. I tangled with him many times and always got the better of him, much as I've always gotten the better of Fantomas here (first clue). Based on my analysis of Longfellow's writing I correctly surmised years ago that he was Puerto Rican. And so he turned out to be. Though Cuban by birth he has lived in Puerto Rico for most of his life and acquired the native's distinctive inflection which was reflected also into his writings (at least to my trained ear). I listened yesterday to Fantomas' sporadic blog radio show where he had invited me to appear (same distinctive Puerto Rican accent). The final clue he himself provided when he threatened to do to RCAB what he had once upon a time done to Miami's Cuban Connection, flood it with propaganda from NAMBLA (the North American Man-Boy Love Association). It was this tactic that brought down Oscar Corral's blog even before it was decimated by fallout from the Miami Moonlighters story.

Nowadays Longfellow (aka Fantomas) moors at Stuck on the Palmetto, where he is the chief attraction and is kept on a much tighter leash than he ever was by Oscar Corral, whose disdain for his once-popular blog is legendary. Indeed, perhaps it would be more correct to say that Corral's indifference killed his blog and Longfellow was the catalyst. I would have left Longfellow to his own devices, wreaking havoc here and elsewhere on the Cuban-American blogosphere, except that last night he threatened to do to this blog what he did last year to Corral's. Under the circumstances I was left no choice but to expose him.

I do not know but strongly suspect that Babalú is complicit with him. This is certainly ironic because as "Longfellow" Fantomas was booted from Babalú more times than he could remember and his personal disdain for Val Prieto, as expressed hundreds of times on Corral's late blog and elsewhere, make everything I've ever said about Val after March 29 sound like gentle chiding. The end of the cat-and-mouse-game that fantomas has been playing with the Babalunians is my only regret in "outing him." Val and Henry are dumb enough to have been fooled forever by him. Having joined BUCL and become Val and Henry's "good friend" and nominal ally — that is, been embraced and co-opted by the Babalunian establishment — one would have supposed that Longfellow (aka Fantomas) would have ceased his efforts to sabotage Babalú blog; but the fifth-columnist continues to challenge them and spout pro-Castro comments as "tango." I guess fantomas (aka Longfellow) was right when he claimed here time and time again that he was not a Babalú "satellite." No, the sun has not been born yet that can trap and neutralize this wayward comet and harbinger of ill.

Last night, fantomas was challenged here by an Anonymous commenter, whom fantomas himself identified as his "New York nemesis" Alex ("Ya No Más). It was quite a contest between the two with me as the reluctant referee. They tore each other apart, but Alex connected with the most punches and at the end fantomas was literally begging him "No más." I cannot vouch for the truth of anything that they said to each other here, although fantomas' threat to turn this blog into an outpost for NAMBLA is certainly no way to refute Alex's accusations of pederasty. I removed most of their comments to The Madhouse, where readers may make up their own minds.

Despite his having threatened to destroy this blog, I have not banned Fantomas (aka Longfellow). Banning, deleting and censoring are Babalú's tools, not mine. But the enemy within has been exposed.

Longfellow is Fantomas. And Fantomas is Enrique Rubio.