A Great Reason to Blog Pseudonymously

With Friends like these...

Tim Rogers of D Magazine: The Front Burner has this bizzare confession:

Yesterday, a good friend of mine, Eric Celeste, a former D and Observer staffer who now edits the in-flight mag Spirit, was called into his boss's office and asked to explain his personal blog. His boss had found the blog late last week and was shocked by some of its content. Propriety prevents a detailed description of what Eric had been writing about, but let's just say it was a very personal blog that sometimes used language a bit stronger than PG-13. As an example, Eric regularly posted on his month-old blog about his post-prandial trips to the men's room at work. And this was probably the most harmless of the content. As I say, it was pretty shocking stuff.

The problem was that the blog didn't belong to Eric.

The hilarious conclusion? Tim Rogers and a friend set up a bogus blog using Eric's own URL and posted up a controversial storm of bad-taste blathering. Well, it's all hysterical until someone loses a job, right?

I'd love to explain this one to my principal. I'm sure she'd be so understanding. Yeah.

Know what? I'll keep my secret identity secret. Not that I don't trust you.

I just don't trust you!

Hat tip to Julie D. for this one!