On the Way Up

Chasing down arch criminals must be tough business:

2-13-09 13:00: I received a couple of comments from Jordan Green and e-mailed to make sure they were authentic:

I would just like to make it clear that (I) have never worked for US Staffing or for Greg Harrison…

Furthermore, I am not the author of this blog post. The post includes excerpts from “Downtown Babylon: Greed and iniquity in Greensboro’s nightlife industry,” a story written by me and published in the Feb. 4 issue of YES! Weekly. That the excerpts are not clearly attributed may cause confusion to some readers of this blog.

Indeed, I discovered I had used the link to Ed Cone’s site for YES! Weekly’s. I have fixed the problem. Sorry for the confusion.

I’ve never met Jordan Green, but this is weird. I left standard attribution. Even the wrong link went to Cone’s site where the correct link is found.

I’ve added what I know of Harrison to the story and given attribution to Green’s story. I’ve asked Green to correct anything wrong and was told he didn’t have time. I’m sure that’s the case:

US Staffing was downtown in the second story near Natty Greene’s. I did some work for them, but always talked to Harrison by phone. He was living in MD, so I declined to do more business.

Those are my words, unlike Green’s which appear in quotes. Three sentences.

Who, but the dumbest of fuckers, could believe for a second that the guy who wrote the stuff in quotes is the guy outside them? This is flattery on a grand scale.

I have arrived at a solution where, henceforth, I will prefix all my prose with:

Jordan Green didn’t say

If it’s that easy to fuck some shit up over at YES! Weekly, why pass on the opp?

Jordan Green didn’t say that Scarfone, Medaloni and Harrison were chronic bedwetters.

Parse that Google. It’s a real problem. Green looks like Kyle Petty on crack. I’m impersonating Philip Seymour Hoffman as Quasimodo.

What I really should do is steal Green’s identity. Start showing up in comments saying really outrageous shit. But of course, everyone would know it was me. It still could be fun. There, for just a moment, we could imagine what it would be like if Green actually did write that stupid shit.

20:00: We’ve enjoyed dinner and I’ve had an opp to ruminate.

Right off the bat, I’m assuming my comment shook Harrison up. I also remember certain well known folks in the local staffing business come and go. Yes, her.

What happened to me is part of a legal defense strategy put up by YES! Weekly. They’re exercising due diligence and I’m happy to help them provide it.

If we’re gonna close all the holes, perhaps we should add a disclaimer to my forlorn posts about Tequila Joe’s. I’m so glad I know that YES! Weekly has exclusive rights to GSO gossip. Such knowledge will save a lot of confusion in future.

Reminder to Jordan Green: Bloggers are people, too.