In lieu of comments, this will have to do. After the jump, memories of Spy magazine and word that (gasp!) John From Arlington might not actually be a member of FB Nation.
First up, a note from a presidential-name-having FBvian who had his memory jogged by l’affair @JonahHill_Jew:
That guy John Esquivel is a first class jerk for pretending to be some celeb, for whatever reason he purports.
That said, it is indeed true that celebs are “always hustling.” And gullible, too. I remember a feature from Spy magazine back in the early ’90s. They created a mythical king or prince from some far off country, then had him write letters to famous people offering to give them $10 million if the celeb would just kindly tell where to deposit the money. Each letter was elaborately customized for the hoax, with proper postmark, well researched dates and places, etc. I remember the one to Michael Douglas went on about how the king, as a young man, had met Michael’s dad Kirk way back in the day when Kirk was somewhere abroad shooting a move.
Like virtually every celeb targeted, Michael responded almost immediately. He said his dad had fond memories of meeting the royal, blah, blah, blah, and then he coughed up his private bank account number for the $10 mil.
And then this, from a tweeting TRUE fan of FrontBurner:
I don’t believe he is a fan of FrontBurner. In fact, he only knew of your story because I told him during a brief Twitter exchange when he basically asked why I started following him.
There’s a bit more after that, but let’s just say his take sounds fairly legit. Oh, well.
