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This makes it in, but the guy downtown this morning that doused himself with gasoline, set himself on fire and ran flaming down the street doesn’t?
BREAKING: THE MEDIA-BUYING PUBLIC IS FICKLE. I didn’t even think of it as a story.
BREAKING: DAVIS=IDIOT. Still, hopefully I won’t have to suffer the same kind of abuse as Slovic over at the WWeek is, currently, thanks to asking a smart question of Greg Oden last night:
http://blogs.wweek.com/news/2010/01/26/gre…
[oh boy….thinking of bad joke….quickly….]
City hall hasn’t seen this kind of smolder since a secret bathroom kiss…
OR
Just another failed shmear campaign against the mayor….
@tsw “SCHMEAR CAMPAIGN”
BOOM BOOM!
Word is … the guy who lit himself up tried to barge into the furrier on 12th and Yamhill, presumabely to burn it down. The problem was… the fur shop was closed, and locked. So he had to burn on the sidewalk.
Seriously, media tends to avoid giving attention to suicide attempts as a matter of course. Doesn’t mean there’s a blanket ban, but it’s not high on our priority list. More here:
http://www.nwcn.com/news/oregon/Man-sets-h…
Didn’t this exact bagel thing happen on the office?
Dang it, Matt – where are my BIG UPS?!
@Reymont: BIG UPS. Although I actually ripped this straight off from Byron Beck, and then thought, no, Davis, don’t give him credit. This was revenge for Beck failing to come to Stephen Beaudoin’s “Songs For Haiti” event last week. I think we’re all square, now.
It was in The Oregonian, so it must be true/newsworthy.
Whoa, that self-immolation thing actually happened? I read temblors comment and assumed it was just dark humor. Then, I continued reading and my eyes grew cartoonishly wide, my eyebrows nearly flew off into the sky and my lips pursed like a Gucci bag full of shivering Chihuahua.
That is … that’s … wow. What an incredibly painful way to off yourself.