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Fake Steve Jobs, at last we meet [Live Coverage]
November 1st, 2007 at 9:59 pmSource:Valleywag
So I’m here at Keplers, the bookstore in Menlo Park, with a bunch of Stevetards waiting for Dan Lyons, the faux Apple CEO who pens The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs and the new book Options, a parody memoir of Steve Jobs. Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has taken the podium, and is speaking a mile a minute, referencing his on-again, off-again romance with comedienne Kathy Griffin. And then he spins into a weird numerological digression. I’m starting to think this guy is actually kind of nuts. And then Wozniak presents him with a genuine Apple turtleneck. It’s only getting weirder from here, I fear.
“This is the highlight of my life — the birth of my children, and meeting Woz,” says Lyons, like some pathetic starstruck fanboy. This is the man who called me “Bigglesworth“? I’m wondering who the real pussycat is.
Lyons starts by explaining how he got the “Secret Diary” moniker from the British magazine Private Eye. The whole idea, he explains, was just to learn more about blogging and figure out how tools like Blogger works. The blog spiraled from there.
“I don’t know anything about Steve Jobs,” Lyons says. “This is as close as I’ve ever gotten,” he adds, pointing to Wozniak. He recounts how he closed down the blog, and a reader actually reposted his archive, which prompted Lyons to continue.
Lyons then makes a gaffe: “I’ve written a lot of books, which are still available on Amazon.com.” The owner of Keplers coughs and glares at him. “Sorry. In a brick-and-mortar store, you never say the ‘A’ word.”
