Last weekend was NordstromGate. “Steve” claimed he had won an exclusive $5,500 shopping spree with 20 other families at the Nordstrom’s store in Tyson Corners, McLean, Virginia. Several people called the store’s phone number, very easy to obtain through the magic of the internet (703) 761-1121, and talked to the very nice young gentleman who answered the phone. The exclusive event was a VIP card-holder shopping event, “Would you like to be invited?” Why no, it wasn’t an exclusive, 20-family-only shopping spree. Imagine that.
When questioned, “Steve” was furious. Among a long string of comments, he stated:
“You see… it was awarded to me as a gift for raising a lot of money at a silent auction at a hootie-tootie school; you fucking moron….It was prize given to me as part of a donation package for doing an auction. That’s what we wealthy people do… We donate money and give each other gifts as tax write-off’s” (http://anythingbutsad.wordpress.com entry for 8 December, 2007, no longer viewable online).“Steve” has hinted that he comes from a wealthy, politically connected family. At one time he reported that a grandparent was a United States senator. Another time he claimed that he and “Joshua” had bodyguards protecting them.
Strange. At other times, he has suggested that he doesn’t have much money. In one entry, no longer viewable online, he stated that he was trading three of his drawings a month to a woman who was going to provide him health insurance in exchange. One wonders why someone who self-reports that he is wealthy would need to have someone else fund his health insurance.
Two other brief mentions of financial problems suggests that the wealth is illusionary. “Steve” has said he a Baltimore Orioles fan and he goes to game whenever he can. “And when I can’t afford it, I watch them on television (www.anythingbutsad.wordpress.com entry for 15 June 2007).
After a period of depression, during which he apparently didn’t leave the house for months (but still managed to find a boyfriend), he wrote: I called all the companies which I’d ordered from online; to see if I could return all the purchases (which I can’t afford) (http://diamondexperiment.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/like-burroughs-thanks/)
So what’s the truth? Was the person who asked about the Nordstrom’s shopping spree really a “fucking moron,” or was the spree a big fib?
I’m gonna go out on limb here and say it was a big fib.
Someone is a big fibber. A fibbing fibber who fibs and fibs and fibs. And then fibs some more. I shall write a haiku honoring said fibbishness:
when bloggers fib
jesus in heaven gets pissed
and kills a kitten
Let’snot forget that “Joshua” was supposedly a dentist owning a practice in Minnesota, but is not listed as being a licensed dentist by the dental board of that state…..he owns a 15,000 square foot home in Seattle but doesn’t even have enough $ to rent an apartment to live with his boyfriend ( a business owner) in Baltimore……instead he lives with “Steve”….
This story of theirs is written more poorly than any soap on TV.
Keep up the good investigative work…
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