Journeys of Jack Tripper

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Ran into American Idol finalist Melissa McGhee last night at the Hangout.

Minor, not Big, goon.

She was there with the biggest goon I had ever seen. I have dealt with a lot of big goons, but this guy defined the genre. He was the quintessential big goon. If you looked up "Big Goon" in Merriam-Webster, you'd see this dude's picture. Interestingly enough, Big Goon, despite having his meaty paws all over her, is not her boyfriend -- at least Dave, who works with her boyfriend's mother, said so. Except Michael, another friend of mine, swears he's her boyfriend and he's known him for five years or something. Clearly, Melissa McGhee is living an interesting lifestyle for someone completely unemployed (save for singing the Star-Spangled Banner at Tropicana Field).

So we have a new Lonelygirl15 video... and it's a real piece of work. Bree and Daniel go swimming... and we see a side of Bree we haven't seen before. Specifically, her backside.

If you somehow missed this development, check the video.

Almost immediately, an eagle-eyed viewer with some botanical knowledge (see, I knew that line of questioning would get somewhere!) located the swimming-hole site:

rm59918rm (2 hours ago)
This was filmed in Southern California anywhere south of Fresno, along the foothils of the Sierra Mtns., or possibly in the foothills of the San Bernardino Range. The specific Nolari Parryi (Nolari Bear Grass) is indigenous only to that area. Bree walks right through a patch of it, without question, that is what that plant is.

Okay, so it's not a complete location, but it finally gets us out of Texas, Oklahoma, et cetera.

Meanwhile, Milo brings up Lonelygirl15.com frequent poster Jessica (with whom I've had a few conversations) and her apparent geolocationization placing Bree near Mountain View/San Mateo -- home to YouTube. There's also a Scientologist Delphi Academy 25 miles away that is home to short summer camps for the poor children of Scientologists.

And then you have an actual botanist who notices this and says yes, yes, yes, it's Southern California and if she says she lives three hours from the nearest mall she's lying. And yeah, there's a Delphi Academy outside L.A., and San Diego, and all over, really.

The swimming video is notable for a number of reasons, not least among them the evidence that it most certainly was edited by a man -- and probably not Daniel, or whatever his name is. The video is so obviously from the male gaze, yet uncomplimentary to Daniel, that it's practically prima facie. On top of all of this is my contention that the video was edited using Adobe's After Effects studio and the Magic Bullet suite. Now, it's possible Daniel pirated a copy, or something, but you don't see many 18-year-old kids running around with $800 video effect suites.

Things get better.

This gentleman commented in Bree's Myspace:

Following to "My Adolescent Opposite"'s profile, we see... DUN-DUN-DUNHHHHHHHHHH!

Is it a door closing? Is it a window opening? Is the guy just joking around? Stay tuned...

Wikipedia finally undeleted the Lonelygirl15 entry. If you have the time, unlike me, head over there and edit up a nice entry. It deserves it, we worked hard to get the entry undeleted.

John Green asks if Dan Brown might be Lonelygirl15's father. It would be more coherent than his books, that's for sure.

BusinessWeek's Jon Fine, usually a man commenting on more mainstream media content, seems pretty obsessed -- and here presents his email dialogue with the Richard Jewell of the Lonelygirl15 fiasco, Satanic director Brian Flemming.

Our friend Xanax posted in Virginia Heffernan's blog (boy, she seems depressed) that he still thinks it's Flemming.

Flemming adamantly denies it and calls us all a bunch of retards.

And here's an odd post that mentions LG15 and Delmon Young in the same post.

Oh, and apparently LG15 is an alternate reality game.

Back to school. Be good, kiddos.