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2007/03/02

Who, or What, is "John Nelson?"

Many of you will remember the pathetic antics of Newsom Administration Professional Embarrassment Peter Ragone on the SFist blog and how it got exposed. Well, lately it appears that someone is continuing to appropriate the name in order to post some rather surreal contributions on the Wall Forum:

I Like Press Secretaries (A rather unfortunate ripoff of a widespread Net meme)

Bathroom "Humor"

And the most disturbing yet, "I Am Homer Simpson"

Maybe there's more than meets the eye here - a second look at the bathroom post indicates that the "Spock, in a chef's hat" reference may actually be Benjamin Spock, not the TV character. And the Homer Simpson reference in the newest missive is most certainly not the cartoon charcter, but from the Nathanael West classic "The Day of the Locust" (Donald Sutherland plays him in the movie.)

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