{"id":176,"date":"2004-05-19T11:43:56","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T15:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2004-05-19T11:43:56","modified_gmt":"2004-05-19T15:43:56","slug":"brad-at-tony-clifton-andy-kaufman-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Brad at Tony Clifton \/ Andy Kaufman Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/andy_hob.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TonyCliftonAndBrad_highlight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">When I set out to look into what was going on at the &#8220;Andy Kaufman &#8211; Dead or Alive?&#8221; 20th Anniversary event after midnight last Sunday, little did I know I&#8217;d be sucked into it&#8217;s vortex. I&#8217;d wished I&#8217;d brought a camera or a tape-recorder, but hadn&#8217;t. Fortunately, I found this picture of me behind &#8220;Tony Clifton&#8221; over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wally Wingert&#8217;s website<\/a>. He&#8217;s the guy who setup the Andy Kaufman memorabilia in Andy&#8217;s old apartment which was opened for viewing in &#8220;Act 4&#8221; of this bizarre and wonderful &#8220;event&#8221; around 2am or so that night \/ Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Full details on my experience and how I ended up at this &#8220;event&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradfriedman.com\/BradBlog\/archives\/00000167.htm\">here<\/a>. Pointers to all the BRAD BLOG &#8220;Andy Kaufman Dead or Alive?&#8221; investigative articles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradfriedman.com\/BradBlog\/archives\/00000166.htm\">here<\/a>. Original photo on the web from which the above is taken <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/andy_hob.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (for all those Photoshop cynics!)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE (4\/25\/04):<\/b> The photo above (sans the red circle) is now also on the Official Tony Clifton website in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyclifton.net\/sightings.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sightings&#8221;<\/a> section. And hence, Brad ignominiously ends up, if only in the most insignificant way possible, as part of the annals of Andy Kaufman \/ Tony Clifton historical folklore. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I set out to look into what was going on at the &#8220;Andy Kaufman &#8211; Dead or Alive?&#8221; 20th Anniversary event after midnight last Sunday, little did I know I&#8217;d be sucked into it&#8217;s vortex. I&#8217;d wished I&#8217;d brought a camera or a tape-recorder, but hadn&#8217;t. Fortunately, I found this picture of me behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}