thievery
back when t.s.o.a. was alive, i had an entry in which, challenged by the wife, i attempted to create a fake Metropolitan Diary entry that might have a chance to get published. i never submitted it, but apparently a similar idea was hatched on a radio show on WFMU last month. and then, as reported on WFMU's Beware of the Blog, a listener took the idea, ran with it and then actually got a fake anecdote published in today's paper. (note: it has since been pulled after the story got mentioned on Gawker and possibly elsewhere). while it's always fun to see the paper of record get the wool pulled over its eyes, a part of me feels kinda ripped off. of course, that just means i should have sent in my original bit at the time. it makes you wonder how many of all the other bits they publish are actually made up. can that many pretentiously witty stories really take place every year? probably. at least we have Overheard In New York to balance things out.