I will continue to be suspicious of all this so long as it involves the recently-hired new face of a product whose tagline is "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger."
Reminds me of the scene from L.A. Story, when Steve Martin's waiting on line to use the ATM, next to a line of muggers. "Hello, I'm John and I'll be your mugger this evening! Thank you, have a nice night!"
That footage could be of LITERALLY anyone doing almost anything.
Mugging? How about tickle-fight!
Maybe he had spilled alcohol on himself and caught on fire and because flames from an alcohol fire would be difficult to see we just thought they were shoving him down Those men could be heroes!
I mean really, for all we know, we just saw Justin Timberlake losing a game of kill the man with the ball against Chris Rock and Tracy Morgan.
Furthermore; the footage is so bad that I'm only assuming the two men were black because I'm racist!
If it's as constructed as it appears, the resulting backlash will make it that much harder to apprehend me when I serial-mug Michael Cera, Justin Long, and Jim Parsons. Keep crying wolf, boys!!!
Omg. No wonder he threw a fit... I'd be flipping my shit if someone was actually responsible for making sure I was safe and then completely dropped the ball. Tiny dudes need looking after, too! Protect Special K!
You know, Andrew, you might want to strike a more considerate tone than the one you have chosen here. Have you ever been jumped? Do you have any idea how the reverberations from this single act will resound for a long time to come for this man? Now maybe he is an annoying and scurrilous person, I have no awareness of him besides seeing him show up every once in a while in projects of dubious interest to me, but you wrote this piece--it was an act of great (I use the word loosely here) intention. What were you going for here? Random acts of violence masquerading as yet another reason to ridicule Seth Green?
My God, man, you were wrong about accusing him of a bogus rant, and this is your way of showing a little penance/compassion?
@TheSometimesWhy: Just a little patience.... yeahhhhhh. Seriously, I'd flip an f'ing F if I got mugged. Sorry, Seth Green seems way too non-douchey for snark.
@Motoko Kusanagi: So let me get this straight: you're saying that having a couple of people come up out of nowhere and roll you isn't traumatic? Let ME guess--south side of Chicago?
Maybe I don't need to get out more often. Perhaps you need to get inside more often. Inside a mind in which you use some kind of insane scale of relativity to assess acts of violence. I know it's not cool to say these things here, but you need to understand that words have power. And you writing that getting rolled shouldn't qualify as some form of trauma erodes the very right that each of us has to be free of any form of violence inflicted upon us.
I am not saying your words don't reflect a truth. I am saying that until we regain the ability to see things in their proper light, we are going to continue on this downward spiral, one in which ever-increasing acts of violence only serve to raise the ante on what we consider "trauma."
I'd keep writing but I hear a knock at the door. It's the police--they have a search warrant for someone they suspect of terminal heavyosity.
It turns out you're right--I do need to get out more often....
@PrincessKashmir: I have no idea why certain people are cool with others getting mugged. I get that the blogosphere is fueled on snark, but when it gets to the point that this guy can't even get an apology from people who accused him of faking a rant for an assault they claimed never occurred, I think that beyond it being really irresponsible, it saddens me.
To exalt a moment's black-hearted amusement in the name of entertainment goes beyond dubious policy--it is existentially bankrupt.
@Sharksbreath: Okay, I can sometimes sympathize with the "WHY ARE YOU COVERING THIS?" comments that randomly pop up during celebrity posts.
But, it's not like Seth Green is a totally unknown phenomenon, unless you A: Live under a rock, or B: Don't care at all about pop culture. In either case, why in hell would you comment on Gawker?
@Go Like Hell Machine: I brought this up to another commenter one day and I got yelled at because it is perfectly plausible that a person would only listen to NPR and watch PBS and only read the Wall Street Journal. So there, geez. (As for that last question, they didn't bother explaining that one. I'm going to assume they get their amusement from seeing how the "common folk" discuss current events.)
@Sharksbreath: To comment on comments about which you supposedly don't give an "F" indicates you have far more time on your hands than anyone else here. Plus, that kind of thing is painfully trite. The real questions is, why do you care so much about Seth Green that you can't even acknowledge your love for him?
@croush1211: Honestly, if 100% of your media consumption is NPR/PBS and WSJ, look in a mirror and repeat after me "I am a boring fuck and no one really gives a shit what I say."
@NerzzleintheVerzzle: Well, I, for one, can accept what you're putting forth here, just so long as you're not saying this out of any sense of rank blanket generalization. That's because you have clearly established your bona fides as a boring fuck whom no one gives a shit about.
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Fakey McFakefake.
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Probably I'd just throw him into the air really high and yell "Yay!"
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That footage could be of LITERALLY anyone doing almost anything.
Mugging? How about tickle-fight!
Maybe he had spilled alcohol on himself and caught on fire and because flames from an alcohol fire would be difficult to see we just thought they were shoving him down Those men could be heroes!
I mean really, for all we know, we just saw Justin Timberlake losing a game of kill the man with the ball against Chris Rock and Tracy Morgan.
Furthermore; the footage is so bad that I'm only assuming the two men were black because I'm racist!
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My God, man, you were wrong about accusing him of a bogus rant, and this is your way of showing a little penance/compassion?
If so, that is one cold bowl of chili....
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Maybe I don't need to get out more often. Perhaps you need to get inside more often. Inside a mind in which you use some kind of insane scale of relativity to assess acts of violence. I know it's not cool to say these things here, but you need to understand that words have power. And you writing that getting rolled shouldn't qualify as some form of trauma erodes the very right that each of us has to be free of any form of violence inflicted upon us.
I am not saying your words don't reflect a truth. I am saying that until we regain the ability to see things in their proper light, we are going to continue on this downward spiral, one in which ever-increasing acts of violence only serve to raise the ante on what we consider "trauma."
I'd keep writing but I hear a knock at the door. It's the police--they have a search warrant for someone they suspect of terminal heavyosity.
It turns out you're right--I do need to get out more often....
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To exalt a moment's black-hearted amusement in the name of entertainment goes beyond dubious policy--it is existentially bankrupt.
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Who the F is Seth Green and why should I give an F.
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But, it's not like Seth Green is a totally unknown phenomenon, unless you A: Live under a rock, or B: Don't care at all about pop culture. In either case, why in hell would you comment on Gawker?
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Thanks for the insight.