Is It Real? Or Is It Jim Frey?*
Jim Frey's website, which was password-protected as of yesterday, now sports this disclaimer (Frey is full of disclaimers these days):
Hello to the Friends and Supporters of James Frey -Unfortunately the BigJimIndustries site is down right now because of the enormous amount of traffic it was getting. There were over 300,000 unique visitors in the past week, his bandwidth was up around 3200kb/s, and most importantly it was affecting access to other clients who share the same network connection as BigJimIndustries.com. As you probably saw in the first few days during the heat of the controversy the site was still up, so it is not down now b/c of the criticism or detractors. We basically forced James to take the site down, and for that we apologize to his friends and fans. As the controversy and resulting traffic dies down, I'm sure the site will go back up.Thank you for your understanding and patience.Is it true? The "essential truth"? "Some form of journalistic truth"? Who the heck knows? I guess that's what happens when you lie like a cheap rug.
(Although the fact that the "we" who "basically forced James to take the site down" go unidentified does make one wonder....)
Hey, folks, come on over to Shots in the Dark...I won't lie to you: I have
never been arrested.
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P.S. For you young folks out there, the title of this blog entry is a play on an old ad for Memorex cassette tape. (Don't you just love that company name? Memorex!)
Cassette tape was...oh, never mind.
