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The fabulous 3AM Magazine recently published an interview with Asterisk, the anonymous prankster who was tangled up in a bizarre literary affair with Hunter S. Thompson some months ago. As previously blogged here, Hunter sent several apoplectic faxes to his agent because he believed Asterisk was passing off HST’s unpublished work as his own. But from the interview, it turns out that the faxes themselves were fake - Asterisk had perfectly imitated Hunter’s idiosyncratic writing style and simultaneously managed to point the finger at none other than Jerry Seinfeld as the possible real identity of the prankster. I for one was completely taken in by the faxes - and, given the good Doctor’s lack of output recently, reckon Asterisk should become his full time ghost writer.
The full 3AM interview is here, and splinters reader Andreas Gursky sent word that there’s an interesting coda on Fimoculous.com - “Sidenote: Beck and Seinfield were both on the Tonight Show some night last week. When Beck came over for his 10 seconds of face-time with Leno after playing, he off-the-cuff asked Seinfeld “who is Asterisk?” Seinfeld stuttered through saying he knew but didn’t know.” Thanks Andreas!
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