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Gorgeous Guy: Comments (most recent posts first) Ironically the "Craig" of craigslist.com is a hoax too! Maybe... See this story: http://www.sfbg.com/SFLife/tech/54.html But since I don't believe anything I read and only half of what I see, I don't know if this is just a Hoax-Hoax to try to get people to buy into the story. I mean can there really be 3,000 lonely women "who write erotic stories about his sexual adventures in a Babylon 5-style universe populated by telepathic aliens and curvaceous spaceship captains?" That seems a little silly... There is a link to the story on the Craig's list site: http://detroit.craigslist.org/about/press/craigsdeadbaby.html Over all it's an amusing little story and makes you think about what we accept as "truth" and what is "real." P.E.S. Eotku Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 04:46:52 I just did a search on google images for 'gorgeous guy.' That was about a year ago, so maybe the article I got it from is no longer up. Posted By: Alex Boese February 27, 2003 That reminds me. The part where you mention on your web site "No one knows who posted the original picture of Baca, but Cassel discovered that the majority of the initial follow-up messages that drew attention to the picture had been posted by Baca himself." - If you are referring to the photo on your web site it was taken by a freelance photographer for USA Today. A simular photo appeared in the print version of the newspaper. If you don't mind me asking - where did you obtain this photo? Not even I was able to obtain any photographs. Thanks Posted By: The Real Gorgeous Guy February 27, 2003 Well, here's one consolation from the entire affair. After seeing your picture people still thought it was perfectly credible that you were a 'gorgeous guy.' By contrast, I don't think that my lovely mug would ever be able to whip up a gaggle of admirers. Posted By: Alex Boese February 27, 2003 Alex, I will assume that your book sales is doing well for the amount of emails that I have been receiving has once again increased since late last year. Everyone that I talked to seems to enjoy it. Answers to your questions: So what's your take on the whole story? I have a lot of mixed feelings about everything that happened. I will tell you this. How does anybody pull this off? Sit back for a moment and seriously think about doing what everyone said I did and picture yourself doing the same. Place "water cooler" ads about you being a gorgeous guy - I don't know about you but for me it sounds stupid. Who would believe you? The answer is nobody would. Think about it. You will then understand what I am really talking about here. The emails were never traced back to me. There were numerous amounts of emails traced to a single static IP address. Unfortunately for me I got hit for it because it was the IP address for the firewall of the organization I worked for. So I got blamed for it. They never put any thought that the firewall IP address was also utilized by hundreds of employees in the entire organization and not just me. Also how does anyone receive national attention for being a most talked about "Gorgeous Guy"? I don't think so. What was placed in print is NOT exactly what happened. I am not going to discuss this any further. Its a dead issue for me and I got screwed. I let everyone think what they wanted to. I just wanted them to leave me alone. I got tired of being harassed by the media, the public on the streets, people at work, family and friends. So I took the fall for it. Period. What details did I get wrong/right? Just leave it alone. What's been the long-term fallout of the episode for you? It never ends. I check this email every so often just out of pure curiosity and it still amazes me that I still receive message from something that happened to me almost 2 years ago. I search the web with google and news article are still being printed to this date across the world regarding this story. Posted By: The Real Gorgeous Guy February 27, 2003 Okay, you're right. I should have asked. So what's your take on the whole story? What details did I get wrong/right? What's been the long-term fallout of the episode for you? Posted By: Alex Boese March 9, 2002 You know all you had to do was ask... Oh well one more web site to add to the never ending list. For your information yes I am the guy. Check the SF Bay Guardian to confirm the email address. [I checked. It was the right email address. -Alex] Posted By: The Real Gorgeous Guy March 9, 2002 |