Date: 2004/04/06 00:32
From: "No Anthrax Vaccine" <noanthraxvaccine@earthlink.net>
To: "John Kaminski" <skylax@comcast.net>, "The Webfairy" <webfairy@thewebfairy.com>, "Gerard Holmgren" <holmgren@nettrade.com.au>, "Scott Loughrey" <scottl44@yahoo.com>
What I think is most revealing about all of these little stories is the way
all of this information which has very little to do with the actual person
gets crowded into them. Notice the transition from "Mark" into the Giants
players and so forth.
In fact, it seems to me that this "Mark Bingham" from NY who was involved
in Octagon has also worked in important capacities with the NY Mets. That
is interesting bit of info.
> [Original Message]
> From: Scott Loughrey <scottl44@yahoo.com>
> To: Gerard Holmgren <holmgren@nettrade.com.au>; The Webfairy
<webfairy@thewebfairy.com>; John Kaminski <skylax@comcast.net>;
<noanthraxvaccine@earthlink.net>
> Date: 4/5/2004 6:56:01 PM
> Subject: Mark Bingham
>
> http://www.markbingham.org/
>
> The writing for the Mark Bingham site is pretty
> amusing. On "the friend" page, his acquaintenances
> totally love every experience they ever had with him.
>
>
> I've known my share of All-America jocks and I've
> known a lot of cruelty from that type. Yet, these
> people are writing about him like being around such an
> Alpha Male was the experience of their lives.
>
> "My Big Brother":
>
> Dan Chu called returned my call Monday and asked me to
> contribute to this page.
>
> [why mention the web designer's name?]
>
> I was quite a dork and many would argue (probably
> rightly) that I still am. I can still remember the
> reception Mark gave me that first night, warmly
> shaking my hand and talking with me for hours it
> seemed like, later going down to the bar and drinking,
> inviting me to the drink-a-room party the next night.
> I was excited to get my bid, but even more excited
> when I had the opportunity to choose Mark as my "Big
> Brother".
>
>
> * * *
>
> "Re: Mark Bingham"
>
> Mark would be so excited to know that the Giants
> (Barry Bonds! Rich Aurilia! Jeff Kent! et al) even
> know who he was. He loved all sports, particularly
> baseball, football and rugby. An outstanding athlete
> himself, he was an integral member of three of Cal's
> National Championship rugby teams, and he followed
> Jeff Kent's career even closer simply because Jeff was
> a Cal Bear too.
>
> [notice the switch from inexperienced sports fan
> talking to "An outstanding athlete himself, he was an
> integral member..."? HAHAHA]
>
>
> "From Joseph Salama":
>
> We were playing Wisconsin, and we were not entirely
> winning. Every time the other team scored, the
> Wisconsin Badger would come over to our side of the
> field, and rub his butt in our faces.
>
> [really?]
>
> Next thing I know, Bingham was running down the
> bleachers, determined to beat the crap out of the
> Badger. He thought all of us were right behind him. We
> weren't, and before I could point that fact out to
> him, he was on the field running toward the Badger in
> the middle of the Cal Memorial Stadium.
>
> What a sight.
>
> Then three security guys came out of nowhere and
> tackled Mark a few feet shy of his goal, and he got
> carried away.
>
> [does this anecdote seem a little over the top to
> anyone else?]
>
>
> Scott
>
>
>
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