“Oh, Mommy please don’t even take me to his movies anymore. He’s just too weird.. Please make him go away..”
“Oh, and Mommy….if he invites us to dinner, please turn him down.”
UPDATE: “And Mommy: look at this. This became a big news story and was carried by wire services and run on newspapers all over the world. A big fuss took place because of it. Now this site says it was just a ‘joke’ that the ‘Internet’ got wrong. Are wire services and newspapers all the ‘Internet?’ Who am I to believe, Mommy? The first reports or the reports after the big fuss broke out? So far the wire services and newspapers haven’t taken their reports back, Mommy.”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.