So this is how Matt Damon and Ben Affleck got famous? For anyone who missed the suitcase nuke dropped on a sycophantic Nashville commentariat this morning, their beloved “Gas Guy” revealed *gasp* The Truth(tm).

“What,� you cry aloud “You weren’t telling us the whole truth about your life?� Well, of course I wasn’t. This isn’t a court of law. Gas Guy is a character, not a human being. He reflects certain aspects of my life, principally the thing I do for beer money between English lit and rhetoric seminars that would bore most people to tears. There is no savant devoid of formal education standing in a gas station in Tennessee. I don’t even live in Tennessee. Honestly, I’ve never set foot in the state. Shocked? Horrified? Pleased and delighted? Does it matter at all? Not really.

I kind of had a feeling about this. That scene in The Silence of the Lambs kept playing over in my head where Hannibal Lecter had warned Jodie Foster about the “elaboration of a bad liar”. But the Gas Guy is neither bad or a liar. I’ve enjoyed some of these things he’s written. Particularly this one: “Evil”

I’d like to think that his creative writing experiment would make some people rethink the way they project their own biases to fill the gaps in what they don’t know, or worse, intentionally deceive themselves to only see what they want to see - but that would be giving some people too much credit. And we know how the Gas Guy feels about extending credit.

Consider it an important and inexpensive lesson. And a well played one.

Posted by Smantix @ 11:48 am
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1. Great. Next thing you’re going tell me is that Eggagog isn’t real either. Or that Hot Abercrombie Chick is a guy.

   comment by Preston Taylor Holmes — Saturday, September 24, 2005 @ 2:51 pm

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2. Garsh, Spanky. Writers using sarcasm and fake I.Ds on a web log?? Must be the end of the world.
   Good thing that never happens anywhere else.

   comment by Joe P. — Saturday, September 24, 2005 @ 4:14 pm

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3. Who mentioned sarcasm?

   comment by Smantix — Saturday, September 24, 2005 @ 5:57 pm

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4. I would never, ever, stoop so low as to use a fake I.D. on a web log.

   Ever, ever even.

   Not even in a web log’s comments section.

   comment by Mad Dog Vinnie — Saturday, September 24, 2005 @ 7:39 pm

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5. Adultery happens all the time (I’m not comparing Gas Guy to an adulterer, just making a point) yet we shouldn’t just shrug it off if we find one of our friends is committing it.

   Just because lying is common, it still does not justify it.

   comment by Lee — Monday, September 26, 2005 @ 10:44 am

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