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July 9, 2008

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Fake Steve Jobs heads out; Fake Apple stock plummets

Posted Jul. 9, ’08, 5:05 PM PT by Dan Pourhadi
Category | Geekery

fsjLeaving3.jpg‘Tis a sad day in the world of Fake Apple fandom. Fake Apple Fake CEO Fake Steve Jobs is leaving the Internets for bigger and better fake things. Sorta, I think.

You’ll recall (if you dare!) that Dan Lyons—FSJ’s alter-ego/the guy who pretends to be Fake Steve—recently jumped the S.S. Forbes to join the crew of the intrepid Newsweek. It wasn’t totally clear what would happen to Fake Steve, but we all sat back comfortably assuming he’d follow Lyons and crash at the new crib.

Well apparently not, at least as far as I can tell from this vague post on the Fake Steve blog. Lyons says he’ll be starting a new blog under his own name, and goes on to conclude the post with this head-scratching perhaps-misleading paragraph:

I know you’ll miss FSJ. So will I. But rest assured, Fake Steve is not really going away. He’s just taking on a new form. As Jimi Hendrix once said, If I don’t see you no more in this world, I’ll meet you on the next one, but don’t be late.

How, you ask, can we—and Lyons—miss Fake Steve if, as Lyons claims, he isn’t really going away?

It’s the mystery of the Fake World, oooooooo CRASH! other creepy noises lightning flashes etc.!

Lyons has compiled ‘Best of Fake Steve’ books at Blurb.com—one “short” version for $25, and one long-ass version for $58 ($70 for hardcover). If you’re a hardcore FSJ fan, be sure to check out Lyon’s other FSJ book, oPtion$: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, which we reviewed back in November. And, to relive the excitement in a sitcom-series-finale-esque bang, you can also read two months of the original Fake Steve posts from the summer of ‘06.

My only question through all of this: Who’s going to be running Fake Apple after Fake Steve leaves? Fake Tim Cook? …Fake Phil Schiller?

Fake cringe.


2 Comments

goobimama Author Profile Page said:

| Fake Steve Jobs heads out; Fake Apple stock plummets

^^ ROLFs and LOLs in excess! That title had me laughing so hard that I didn't even bother reading the content of the page!

July 10, 2008 5:08 AM
Anonymous said:

I have a fake interest in this story

July 10, 2008 12:56 PM

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