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The Spotlight Sucks
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01.30.08How Come Everyone Has A Stalker But Me?
What am I doing wrong? Even Garrison has one? I was on Chicago Public Radio for almost three years and I got NOTHING. No fair! His super-fan sent him fun stuff like a petrified alligator foot, dead beetles and poems. And kudos to Garrison for dropping his restraining order. Taking out restraining orders sends the wrong message to would-be public radio fans! It was so obviously a misunderstanding. Would a “stalker” claim that “she and Keillor influenced each other’s creative processes”?? I seriously doubt it. I wish I could be creatively influenced by a stranger I’ve never met…
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01.24.08Back Off! Dana Jacobson Loves Jesus.
ESPN has suspended reporter Dana Jacobson because of remarks she made at a roast for Mike and Mike. She reportedly was drunk and she went after Mike Golic cause he went to Notre Dame. Her line was “Fuck Notre Dame, Fuck Touchdown Jesus and Fuck Jesus!” ESPN suspended her for the comments because you can’t say that on the air. Not the fuck part, but the fuck JESUS part. I thought it was funny and after all, it’s a roast, right? Has anyone heard the Artie Lang roast from Howard? The Jesus line wouldn’t even have come close to what they were saying. I don’t even think the issue was that they were airing it (it was taped for radio). It was the JESUS thing. She’s Jewish so they automatically trumped it up to religious hate speech. This is why I can never be on TV. I would make one or two or three jokes and it would be over. Dana, please come work for Schadenfreude. I thought it was hilarious.
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08.06.07Mole Outed by Mole Leads to Walk of Shame
I don’t watch NBC news, so I don’t know what they had to say about this - but the way the inner’tubes are lighting up about this, it’s a pretty awesome story.
There’s a convention of hackers held in Las Vegas called DefCon (which, in and of itself is ironic. I thought the idea of hackers was to stay secretive, and not let your identity be known - but hey, I guess I’m just stuck in Angelina Jolie Hackers - sue me). The conference hands out press badges, but NBC thought they would be sneaky, and try to get a mole in there to get the “real dirt” about what the hackers were doing during the conference.
To make a long story short, DefCon had a mole at NBC that tipped them off to her - and here is the video of them calling her out, and asking her to leave. Be wary - the video is shot by idiots, so there is a lot of nausea inducing fast-running-while-zoomed-all-the-way-in. Also, the videographer drank 4 Red Bulls before beginning taping.
Oh, and NBC - here’s a tip:
Don’t send a hot chick to act like a hacker - they are only hot in the movies, and every hacker knows this.
