re: The Andy Kaufman situation...
If you haven't been following along, then reading this entry first will get you all caught up...
Okay, after I blogged that article yesterday, Joel, a user on the message board I referred to in the story, noticed that I had given the name "Stephen Maddox" of Greenwood, IN, as the owner of the AndyKaufmanLives.com URL. I had found that information by doing a standard Internet WHOIS search to get the owner of the domain.
Joel just posted the following in regards to that name...:
Okay...this is gettin' kinda creepy now...
He is correct. It was a 1963 movie...
Something is whacky here...either that, or the entire world, including History and the entire Internet itself, is conspiring to play one tremendous joke on me. (Andy, of course, likely would have loved it I suppose.) [ed note: "would have loved it"? or "is loving it"?]