Miscellany

Updated: "Marijuana Man" turned out to be none other than Martin Truitt!

-- Took some pictures of the Doo Dah for eventual posting, including the chicken standing in as Wayne Lusvardi.

-- Reports of Sierra Madre blogger Jim Snider's suicide death(?) are true.

In a ... unique ... account of a conversation with Molly Okeon, a Foothill Cities poster openly contemptuous of Jim channels a VH1 narrator and appears to credit her for terminal spiral (emphasis mine):

Months later I had an opportunity to ask the author of this article, Star News staff writer Molly Okeon, what it was she saw of value in The Cumquat when she wrote this obvious puff piece. Her answer was that she wrote what she was told to write, and that this article in no way reflected her personal views on the matter. She seemed to want to make it known to me that it wasn’t her idea, and that she shouldn’t be held accountable for it. When I asked who it was that was interested in publicizing Jim Snider’s on-line venture, and why she was asked to relay the desired message, she declined to answer. It was only later that she would redeem herself, as you shall see. ... On July 1, 2007, an article entitled “Planned Web Site Raising Concerns,” appeared in the Pasadena Star News. It would rock what was left of Snider’s world. Molly Okeon now had her second cover story on this fellow, one that was decidedly less flattering to its subject.