Posts Tagged ‘Brooke Astor’

Hoax Ticket Sales For Brooke Astor’s Funeral … and How I came To Be Quoted In A Gannett Article About The Hoax

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Yesterday I wrote this post in my other blog: Selling Tickets To Brooke Astor’s Funeral: Scam Or Satire. My post includes a haiku, a limerick and a one-liner about Brooke Astor and the uproar over a Craigslist ad purporting to sell two tickets to Astor’s funeral for $500.  My post also tells the saga of how I came to be quoted in this Gannett Journal News article, Ticket sales for Astor funeral branded a hoax.