anatomy of a fake craigslist ad

the following is an internet chat i had with a friend, the resulting fake craigslist ad that sprung from it, and links to some of the reaction to it.

me: have you seen the obama speech? i just read the full text on drudge and was pretty moved. read it if you haven't already.

http://drudgereport.com/flashos.htm

problemdrinker: Yeah, saw it this morning, it's pretty great.

me: what time is he supposed to deliver it? i may try to run home to watch it live.

problemdrinker: I wanna say it's happened already, but I haven't seen any clips yet.

me: http://www.breitbart.tv/html/64224.html

problemdrinker: Dude is good.

me: awe-inspiringly so.

i'm like a girl who feels herself falling for a guy that some of her friends are telling her is wrong for her. hard as i try to see the faults, the exemplary traits are so monumental that they wash away all of things that give others pause.

yeah, i wanna blow the guy.

problemdrinker: I feel a fake Craiglist post coming on!

me: holy shit, i haven't done one of those in a while! i'm overdue! that might be a great thing.

and about 15 minutes later, this appeared on craigslist...

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/rnr/610308635.html

Reply to: pers-610308635@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-03-18, 1:54PM EDT
Location: park slope
Subject: i really wanna give barack obama a blowjob right now

so i went out to get soy milk for my son ezekiel earlier, my wife chloe was on the phone berating her editor or her assistant or something, i don't know, but i was forced to go. along the way, i stopped off at gorilla coffee for a latte. the girl with the shaved head that wears the bandana was behind the counter. she always smiles at me and that makes me happy.

anyway, they had pulled out a TV from the storage room or something. everyone was gathered around watching obama give his speech in philly. it was so moving.

michel gondry movie moving.

tom stoppard play moving.

elliot smith ballad moving.

even the lesbians were crying.

it was in this moment that i realized that i wanted to, with the intensity of a million suns, give barack obama a blowjob.

now you probably think by my stating such that i'm joking or i'm a closet gay hopelessly trapped in a lustless marriage with my passionless since the day we first met in the library at brandeis flame, but you'd be wrong.

i'm a roaring straight!

so barack, if you happen to read this and you're ever in park slope, look me up. i'm always around, either polishing the manuscript that i've been polishing for the past two years or at couples yogalates with the lovely and gracious chloe.

perhaps she can give you a blowjob too once she comes off of her hillary high horse?


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