I don’t know what it is lately but I keep running into film makers (e.g. Rosenbaum)- must be the Clark Factor. FFTP!
The latest - Brian Flemming- guy I know personally (virtually) from working with /on Nothing So Strange.

Here is the timeline as I understand it:

In case you don’t know it centers around the lonelygirl15 phenomenon on YouTube…

Flemming blogs on the lonelygirl and from the en passant blog entry becomes a prime suspect in the Illuminati-like theories that seem to guide these things. (I think he is a Discordian). From here you get all the hot and juicy speculation and Brian ends up with a denial.

Flemming’s Jest: “Adapting the epistolary novel form to YouTube still has some promise, however. I’m certainly ready to be fooled by another one. Or perhaps to perpetrate one.Unless I really did perpetrate this one and I’m just trying to distance myself from it because it’s now failing.Just kidding.You know me. I’d never try to fool anybody like that.”
and then…

“Oops. In my defense, I don’t make a habit of trying to fool anyone with my projects. Nothing So Strange didn’t actually try to hoax anybody. When the project caused a downturn in the South Korean stock market, that was because someone else hijacked the storyline and made their own web page, which did try to hoax people. Nothing So Strange and Bat Boy deal with alternate worlds and demand suspension of disbelief, but they aren’t hoaxes in any meaningful sense of the word.” From personal experience I know Brian is telling the truth.

a) Bat Boy was a real musical and sadly he isn’t real. He might be real if you grew up in West Virginia, read the tabloids after a 12-pack or local hootch. Not kidding years ago a collegiate friend of mine tried to convince the National Enquirer that we had captured him, had him locked in a cellar and was keeping him alive for the reward, but they wouldn’t even bother to investigate…hmph. If the National Inquirer won’t dispatch a “reporter” to WV to at least check and see if we had BatBoy- you know he isn’t real.

b) Nothing So Strange was never trying to fool anyone- it just didn’t blink or bat an eye- very much like the Blair Witch style…wink, wink you could speculate the Haxan people were involved if you want. Actually if people watched the film they would see it is all about political activism and the sad end of a misguided activist. Gates (Steve Sires) playing a minimal part. Nor was it Flemming’s fault the L.A. Times covered the Citizens for Truth demonstration as news…or the other myriad of strange things that happened in that project. (My only regret was not pushing hard enough to get John Vanderslice’s Bill Gates Must Die on the sound track- now THAT was a deliberate attempt to fool people, but damn funny and a great track…errr if you can handle the subtle meaning of the tune. eck. More on it here…)

c) The South Korean stock market crash was never orchestrated- we weren’t that damn clever or foolish. It’s not the director’s or the producer’s fault the parallel world was so damn convincing that a hacker can change a date and feed it to the media who doesn’t bother to fact check a story and started reporting Gates was dead. I mean- c’mon. I should have told the South Korean media we had Bat Boy in a cellar…Sorry. I don’t buy it- I don’t think, no- I know- Flemming isn’t behind lonely girl…now he might be behind this…and yes he realizes he might be an asshole.

Brian has provided inspiration for me though….for my anti-brand charity site… I Hate Wayne Porter.com Time to get Jimmy to add Wayne Might Be An Asshole to the product line.

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