sunday morning trip around the blogosphere
The Superficial posted an entry titled "Jesse Metcalf eats a knuckle sandwich" and as a passive observer of Metcalf's career, I cared just enough to click. According to the entry, Metcalf insulted that cracky looking chick from 8 mile and MTV's Hustle and Flow, and her gloved buddy later retaliated with a right hook to Metcalf's dome.
Notice the shirt up position of Metcalf's shirt in the photograph above? Good. Now watch the video below.
This is a sad statement from Team Metcalf. First off, the obvious: Jesse Metcalf needs a publicity stunt because we just don't care about Jesse Metcalf. Side sad statement about me, I didn't know his last name was Metcalf until The Superficial successfully shat this PR nugget in my brain today. Now both of us know. fuck. So maybe Team Metcalf isn't doing so badly, but they could really use watching some CSI because even Estelle Getty can see these gaping holes.
I wish I could climb into the brains of his PR team during those 2 minutes used to thoroughly plot out their client's humiliation. No one will notice that flash does not fire during the punch in the video though the photo is a flash photo, that there are differences in body and clothing positioning between video and photos, that Taryn's friend had a glove on, nor that the very reason the fight began--the insult--was NEVER MENTIONED.
Let's also not forget that being punched to the ground makes someone way cool. I wonder if they've already gone through multiple other stunts before his one, each not getting those eyeballs they so desperately want, each new stunt growing exponentially more degrading for Metcalf... I wonder what they've tried so far...