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Hoax Ticket Sales For Brooke Astor’s Funeral … and How I came To Be Quoted In A Gannett Article About The Hoax

Yesterday I wrote this post in my other blog: Selling Tickets To Brooke Astor’s Funeral: Scam Or Satire. My post includes a haiku, a limerick and a one-liner about Brooke Astor and the uproar over a Craigslist ad purporting to sell two tickets to Astor’s funeral for $500.  My post also tells the saga of how I came to be quoted in this Gannett Journal News article, Ticket sales for Astor funeral branded a hoax.

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This entry was posted on Friday, August 17th, 2007 at 2:46 pm and is filed under Celebrity Humor, Entertaining New Yorkers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Hoax Ticket Sales For Brooke Astor’s Funeral … and How I came To Be Quoted In A Gannett Article About The Hoax”

  1. D says:
    September 12, 2007 at 9:28 am

    Hello

    I came across your blog about the hoax ad for brooke astor’s funeral while reading about other sales of media rights for other celebrity events –
    what you said about the ad hoax being a masterful satire was very apt!! Although the context is not humourous, I feel strongly about the way some celebrities and even ordinary people will go to any lengths and commercialise any part of their lives that will sell – and so was writing a blog about my thoughts on that. I have referred to your blog and included your quote masterful satire ( and Mr. Marchant ). In case it offends you, please let me know if you need me to remove the reference.

    D. Gaind

  2. madkane says:
    September 13, 2007 at 2:14 am

    Thanks for the Mention, D. Gaind!