Yesterday’s post, with its incidental mention of Dave Asselin, the world’s foremost Smashing Pumpkins bootlegger, got me nostalgic. I decided to try and find Dave. Not too long ago, he changed his email address and I’ve since lost the new one. My googling didn’t turn up his contact info, but it did uncover a lot of amusing links for other Dave Asselins. But nothing so funny as this.
I’ve no idea what I had been thinking, or why Dave consented, but for some reason we decided to internet hoax his death. This was nine years ago. Almost literally– 7/7/98. Someone still has the thing up. Does nothing digital die?
And to make sure it never does, here’s my own copy:
Did anyone actually believe this? The paragraph indents and the courier typeface, clearly identifying this as something done in Microsoft Word, makes me think no. But someone saved it. I do like the color of the faux-paper and for the record, that’s not a picture of Dave– it’s science fiction author Robert Jordan, who had talked down to me at a SCI-FI CON a few months before.
July 5th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Oh pleasepleaeplease tell the Jordan story. I need to know.
August 25th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Hah hah hah… the internet is awesome. I ended up here because I just watched some show on ABC that adapted a Harlan Ellison story, and the man had a walk-on part. Curious what the hell that was all about, I go to his message board. Reading through the messages, I see that on 8/19, HE posted a message mildly bitching about blog.kobek.com. I said to myself “What are the chances that’s Jarrrettt’s blog? Pretty high, I’d guess! Kobek’s irritaing Ellison again? This should be fun.” So I come here, read a bunch of posts and find that I was namechecked here a month ago.