Lyons: FSJ may return – but SJ still looks like $#!@
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, News, Opinion, interviews
Fake Steve Jobs, aka the Real Dan Lyons, starts work tomorrow at his new gig at Newsweek, and it looks like the Fake Steve Jobs feature may be coming along for the ride. Our friends over at Mac Soda had a chance to talk to Dan about his motives for discontinuing the feature, and the likelihood of its return.
Lyons had previously cited Steve Jobs’s health as the primary reason for ending the Fake Steve feature, and he reasserts that in the interview :
“I was worried about Steve Jobs’s health and felt uneasy parodying a sick person.”
When questioned as to his thoughts on Joe Nocera’s NY Times piece where Jobs himself claimed his health was not a serious issue, Lyons seems to imply he knows otherwise.
“Well it’s a weird situation. I can’t really get into this but people close to him [Jobs] have been saying for quite a while (before the appearance onstage) that he’s really sick. And someone who saw him last week says he still looks like shit.”
While less than tactful, Lyons’s motives for ending the feature seem compassionate enough. However despite his apparent belief that Steve’s health issues may still be ongoing, it looks as though Lyons is prepared to resurrect the feature at some point for Newsweek.
“Anyway, I’m starting at Newsweek tomorrow and Fake Steve was supposed to be part of my job,” said Lyons. “So we’re going to discuss whether to revive the blog.”
So I suppose the question will now be, does Lyons believe Steve is healthy again, or does he no longer feel “uneasy” about parodying a sick person? I guess we’ll have to check out Newsweek next week and find out.
Catching up with MCotM Lauren Reeves, 1 year later
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Celebrity Mac Chick, Photos, Rumors, iPhone, interviews
We recently ran into our August 2007 Mac Chick of the Month Lauren Reeves and noticed she was sporting a brand new 3G iPhone – so we decided to use our meeting as a chance to catch up with Lauren, get her feelings on the new iPhone, and of course, to use it as an excuse to run some more pictures of one of our favorite MCotM’s.
Macenstein: Hey Lauren. So, what have you been up to since last year’s Mac Chick feature?
Lauren: Things have been going great with acting, I’m still doing sketches on David Letterman and I’m still performing Improv at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and I have a few big pranks coming out on the Improv Everywhere website. The big project I’m working on now is shooting a film next summer in Alaska. I have a great script to work with, my older sister Maria (a Northwestern University grad) wrote it and we have a production crew going up to film it. It’s a great story line and I think it’ll do really well in film festivals.
Macenstein: So I see you have the new 3G iPhone there. Did you have any trouble getting it? I know the lines in NYC were (and still are) crazy.
Lauren: Actually I was really lucky, I wasn’t in New York when the iPhones came out. I was in Fairbanks, Alaska. I drove past the AT&T store at 6:45am and there were four people out front. So I went and got breakfast, then got in line around 7:30. I was the 13th person in line. I was out of the store at 10 with my new phone.
Macenstein: Nice: I’ll have to remember that “Go to Alaska” tip when the 4G iPhone comes out. 
Now, as a happy 1st gen iPhone user I was Read more
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