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Sunday, October 15, 2006

mid-afternoon

Leigh-Ann Says I’m Being Too Cryptic

Leigh-Ann says I’m being too cryptic about the fake/real Leanne Domi story, and that it’s even hard for her to follow my odd blog entries.  I don’t know, I guess because it wasn’t something I was especially proud of - I liked the fake Leanne, and I figured the real Leanne didn’t need any more stress in her life.  Plus, most of my readers aren’t big hockey fans and don’t really care much about Tie Domi’s wife, real or fake.  Also, my full name is quoted in the story, and snippets from Friday’s blog entry.  Right now, the search engines haven’t crawled that entry yet, so Toronto Sun readers can’t follow the whole story and read my blog.  The only people who know about the story and my involvement are Leigh-Ann, Michele Mandel (the reporter), the real Leanne Domi, Leanne Domi’s divorce attorney (by the way, if I was Tie, I wouldn’t mess with her), Helly, some of my friends on Vox (they’ve known for about 48 hours), and the other people on the message board with “Leanne”.  Oh, and maybe the fake Leanne too.  Who knows.  If the fake Leanne is reading, the people on the WIYT board know, but like me, they still like you.  It’s honestly the strangest reaction to someone lying online that I’ve ever encountered.  Not a single person is mad.  Confused, perplexed, curious, but no one is mad.  The consensus is, “Oh, really?  Well, I liked whoever it was.”  So, fake Leanne, if you want to come back to the board, it’s still there for you.  But to punish you, you’re no longer a “moderator”, so take that.

One funny thing is - Leanne’s lawyer wrote to the reporter and said for me to contact her.  But when she wrote my name, she put it in quotes, as if *I* wasn’t real.  Oh sure, like I’m going to mess with a reporter, a lawyer, and someone who has enough money to sue me and make my life miserable.  All for this weird story.  Uh, I don’t think so.

Anyway, here’s the link to the infamous story in the Toronto Sun - E-Chat with “Leanne” - Former Leafs wife’s identity taken. I’ve got to say, being introduced on the field at Dodger Stadium in 1978, after my softball team won the national championship, was a lot more personally fulfilling than being the source of an odd internet story.  I appreciate that Michele was completely fair in what she wrote, that it wasn’t sensationalized and that the story reflects that we’re all still a little puzzled by the whole thing.  There was only one slight misquote, I don’t know if “Leanne” loved The Alarm.  Liked, maybe.  Oh, and the fake Leanne saying Belinda Stronach was prettier?  Nicely “self-deprecating”, but not true.  Tie traded down.

lunch time

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