Todd Marinovich, the Happy Ending

But they only talked as a couple the first few years. After a while Boom was doing his own thing, and 21 was doing her own thing.

 

Would think CDBoogie, and some others, have some insight.
Didn't she always keep "Boom Operator" in her sig?

 

I don't mean just your exchanges. The whole thing. I love the idea that they were the same person. It's like believing in magic.

 

I don't think for a second it was two people (EDIT: one person), but to continually juxtapose Boom's horrific spelling and grammar with 21's normal writing *would* be a pretty cool feat.

 

You mean you don't think it was one person, right?

 

I do think Boom's spelling and grammar was a ruse, though.

 

Back to the Marinovich thing - it always struck me when I'd read a story in SI or somewhere and they would write "says they haven't used in X years." The first time I saw it, it seemed, I don't know, unfair or skeptical - considering a big part of the premise is usually that they have put their demons behind them - but I realized you never know. You don't know what will happen or come out between the time you press "send" and the copy goes wide. A good reminder for all journos.

 

21 was/is cool. Boom was a very clever internet troll before that term was invented. In those days we called it being an asshole. Good girl likes bad guy, go figure.

Marinovich has seen more than a few miles on a bad dirt road,

 

I wrote a story once about Rob Ford, who said he had stopped drinking and doing drugs. The night we were going to press, new video surfaced of him shit-faced in a restaurant, talking in a Jamaican patois. Some hasty rewrites were in order.

 

I thought he was really funny, because his angle was always obvious. He had a great dry wit.

This site is and has always been incredibly sensitive to “trolling.”

 

Always thought 21's Thanksgiving stuff was some of the best fiction this board has ever seen.

 

Right? I'm almost certain that none of what either of them wrote was real. Which means it was the highest form of art.