The WORLD WIDE web.

I couldn't be 100% positive, but I'm pretty sure I wore the exact same outfit to work yesterday that I'm currently wearing. What do you want from me? I get up early and this morning my brain could not comprehend whether the clothes on the chair beside my bed were clean or dirty. So I put them on in my sleepy stupor...only to get to work and realize that I had made the wrong decision. Whatever.

This past week has been incredibly busy. First, I got my ass handed to me by a no-name comedian. I can't say his name because I suspect that he has one of those Google alert things where everytime his name is typed/written/published on the internet, he gets an e-mail with a link directly to the site...but I can tell you that his initials are M.M. and don't worry, even if I told you his name you probably wouldn't know who he was.

Here's what happened:

It was bound to happen. T.J. has been warning me for quite some time now that if I didn't start being more careful about naming names in my blogs that eventually someone would find out about it. She was right. It all started about a year ago. These were in my Myspace days, when I was even dumber than I am now and decided to write blogs on THE most public forum I could think of.

We had a guy come on the show...a comedian...and he was a dick. I get that sometimes offensive humor is part of their shtick. But I also know the difference between when you're joking and when you're not...and believe me, I can take a joke...as I have been the butt of many jokes. So when you come on the show and you're blatantly rude, I don't think it's funny.

Anyways, after he left I wrote a Myspace blog about him. I used his name. What I didn't know at the time is that he was going to find out about it...and read it...and wait an entire year before confronting me about it.

Yesterday he was booked on the show because he's in town doing stand-up this weekend (big hint) in a town not too far from Sacramento. I had long forgotten about the blog and decided that I'd be polite and cordial even though I remember, all too well, what happened the last time he came.

We do the interview, everythign seems fine. He's being very nice. As it's wrapping up I started thinking to myself, maybe I was wrong about him...he's being so cool. Then he did something a little strange.

He said, "You're not wearing glasses anymore. I like the look."

I said, "Yeah I got lasik about a year ago...wow, you have a good memory."

Then he goes, "Oh yeah, I remember...you're from North Carolina and you lived in Modesto for a while...see? I pay attention. I don't forget those things. I also read what you wrote about me on your blog."

Me: nervous laughter. "Ummmm, what?"

MM: "It was something like, how I'm an asshole that nobody's ever heard of...."

Picture a deer in headlights. My inner (panicked) dialogue: Shit, shit, shit. T.J. was right. It's all coming back to bite me in the ass. Right here, right now. He's going to lay the smack down and make me cry. My first instinct was to play dumb and deny, deny, deny. Clearly that wasn't going to work. He could all but recite my post back to me word for word.

Me: "I'm sorry about that. You have every right to be upset and it wasn't cool of me to do. I mean, I remember writing something I just don't remember exactly what I said so I apologize."

I guess he kind of accepted my apology. He didn't really have a choice. He could, in that moment, spit in my face or make amends. I mean, I feel like it was more of a "I'm going to confront you to let you know that I read your blog and think you're a bitch" move than a real "clear the air" effort because it's not like we're good friends or anything but I do appreciate that he was direct and called me on it, without being disrespectful. He made me add him as a friend on Facebook...it could be a trap...but hopefully it's water under the bridge.

Part of me was like, why does he even care enough about what I have to say enough to address it? I'm a nobody. But then I realized that he takes his career very seriously...and if someone...anyone...has something negative to say then he's not going to ignore it. I can appreciate that.

My morning show partner told me (after MM left) that having a comedian call me out for something I wrote about him on my Myspace blog upped my "bad ass" factor but I actually felt kinda bad about the whole thing. I guess this is a lesson learned...it's called the WORLD WIDE web for a reason.

PS - I tried to find the blog I wrote about him so I could immediately remove it from my Myspace page...and guess what, I can't find it!