NO DEAL!!! (Fifth anniversary edition)

"Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny"

- Bruce Springsteen

Hard to believe, but it's been five years since Casey originated the innovative "NO DEAL!" maneuver in contract negotiations.

Reading through that original post, we are struck with how empty it all seems now. At the time it was so bizarre that it had us laughing out loud at the office as we read through the post and the hundreds of comments that followed. Today, jaded by the five years of Casey's ongoing insanity, we still find it amusing, but it's hardly as funny.

Still, it's nice to read through and see comments by some of our old friends like Stephanie J, ratlab, Ogg the Caveman and others who made the blog so interesting way back when.

It's also been interesting to do some research into the whereabouts of the three parties to the NoDeal-dom:

Casey, of course, we know all too much about. He's hiding out, presumably at his parents' new shithole in Antelope, just outside Sacremento. He doesn't appear to have any internet access or at the very least has been maintaining a low profile. The other events of the past five years of his life have been thoroughly documented and we won't bother to list them here.

Joy O'Day pretty much disappeared. An online search suggests that she went back into the real estate biz. There is one YouTube video of a house that she was apparently trying to sell back in 2009 that lists her phone number. And if the music to go along with that video don't make you want to kill something, then you're a far better person than us.

We also turned up this wonder of a video, purporting to promote something called strengthengine.com, which is a website selling something related to fitness. It's not really clear what it's selling, but there is a one-week free trial if anybody wants to sign up and find out. We don't care to provide Joy and her associates with so much as a throwaway email address.

Also, Joy's personal website is nothing more than a generic Arizona MLS search page, with the addition of a picture of a really hot woman who is clearly not Joy. The LLC that did business with Casey -- Tao Realty -- no longer appears to exist.

Erin Morgan, aka "prlinkbiz" has also disappeared off the face of the earth. We wouldn't be shocked if she switched back to her maiden name, or maybe remarried just to get away from the name she had. Because the happy truth is that the name "Erin Morgan" is completely trashed. Virtually everything you can pull up about her in a search is Casey-related, including lots of embarrassing photos, critical Caseypedia articles, nasty comments on EN, etc.

The website she had managed for Robert Kiyosaki, WorkingForRichDad, went dormant some time back. The other website she managed for Kiyosucki's wife, RichWoman.com, has been folded into the greater Kiyosaki empire and no longer has unique content of its own. Erin's previous association with those sleazeballs presumably ended some time back.

There was a No Limits Ladies website for a while, run by the third NLL, Kimber Chin. It no longer exists and instead forwards to Chin's freephotooftheday website. It is unclear why this one exists at all. Chin, like Casey, has also tried her hand at writing really bad e-books, the design of which could be mistaken for Marty Stewart's handiwork. Some believe that Chin is the woman who was photographed in some rather compromising situations with Erin. We aren't sure, but are reproducing one of these photos here, just in case you haven't seen it. Because we like publishing photos of Erin acting stupid.

It is this third and usually unmentioned NLL, the one who was not part of the NO DEAL with Casey, who remains visible. Perhaps that's fitting, as everybody else who has ever had anything to do with Casey has either voluntarily or involuntarily removed themselves from the internet. (OK, except for Nigel.)

At this point, the NO DEAL is irrelevant. Whatever story Casey may have had to sell five years ago is no longer worth much to him or to anybody who may think they have a claim on it. If a movie were to be made or a book written, it could be done easily using the vast quantity of public information available and without involving Casey at all. Realistically, that's not going to happen. What appeared at the time to be a hysterically funny comedy of errors worthy of treatment, is more rightly seen today as the opening act to ongoing national tragedy. Someday we may look back on this and it may seem funny again, but that day is probably far, far off in the future.

The validity of the "No Deal!" legal maneuver has yet to be tested in any court.

And that's the way things are at the mobile FC headquarters, which is currently buried in the snow.

Super Secret HaterzCon™ Picture

First, let's be real. HaterzCon™ is nothing but a name for BTC, Funky and Nigel getting together and acting stupid. As anybody who was listening to todays bore-cast with Casey knows, they did exactly that. It turned out to be a good thing because their drunken ramblings were the only thing in the whole two hours that wasn't putting us to sleep.

But we have received a photo from a Mr. Bandit, who purports to have inside knowledge of the affair and who has included the attached photo of preparations for a Haterzcon™.

We're not certain, but we think the one with the torch and pleater jacket is meant to be Nigel, but he's obviously wearing a toupee. BTC seems like the type who would have gone for the shotgun. Funky is just plain too weird for us to try to figure out.

We also like the island touches in the background and of course the iPhone, which is a necessity for any solvent blogger.

And is that a Chatzilla window in the upper left of the screen? Are the haterz quietly communicating and coordinating or manipulating things behind the scenes? Is there a new "inner circle?"

Mr. Bandit has also provided the following, purportedly showing the refrigerator at some point near the start of the event, which may or may not explain the state of the threesome when they called in.

And that's the way things are from FalseCasey HQ, where we wish WE could be up in the mountains for Octoberfest tomorrow!

Casey breaks the law again

So, Casey has no problem computing and streaming while driving? That's what he seems to imply in one of his latest moronic videos:

"Is it illegal to drive with headset... maybe... hee hee heee... just tryin to have a good time.... maybe I'll find out later... who sez you can't stream while drivin'... hope I don't miss my turn here..."

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2152812

He might want to pay attention to something going on around him from time to time. Hard to believe anybody living in California was not aware of this, because it got a huge amount of publicity around January 1st, including signs on the freeways and elsewhere:

The new Wireless Communications Device Law (effective January 1, 2009) makes it an infraction to write, send, or read text-based communication on an electronic wireless communications device, such as a cell phone, while driving a motor vehicle.

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/cellularphonelaws/

The law is fairly broadly written. If all he were doing was streaming with a camera that is set up before he started driving, that would probably be OK. But throughout his various streams he made it obvious that he was also checking the chatbox and even banning people while driving! This most certainly qualifies as "writing, sending or reading text-based communication."

Here is another great example where he clearly is leaning over to play with his laptop while behind the wheel in traffic:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2153590

And yes, he appears to have done it mostly when he was stopped or moving at low speed. But per the law, he is considered to be in control of the vehicle until he is safely parked and out of traffic. A red light doesn't cut it. "Low speed" doesn't cut it. "No other traffic on the road" doesn't cut it. Listen to his narration. He's yammering on and on about what's going on in the neighborhood he's driving through, making it clear that these are areas where pedestrian traffic is common.

He was behind the wheel, in an active lane and he was playing with his chatbox. Guilty!

His second infraction is the headset. Headsets are legal -- in fact they're required for cellphone use by a driver in California -- but are only allowed to cover one ear. His is a two-ear stereo model and the video clearly shows both earpieces in place over his ears. Again, Guilty!

[Edit: Here are the actual rules, for those of you who want to check for yourselves:

Requirement to use a hands-free device: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc23123.htm
May not cover both ears with any device: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc27400.htm
Prohibition on text communication: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc23123_5.htm

- FC]

If he got into an accident and hurt somebody, he'd be paying it off for the rest of his miserable life. Not that he'd have much to pay it off with.

However, whoever owns the vehicle he was driving would probably be on the hook too. As Nigel knows from his experience with Casey a year ago, the boi is not exactly all that responsible about the vehicles he borrows. Maybe anybody who decided to lend him one for the afternoon needs to reconsider.

Of course, if he hurt or killed somebody we loved, he wouldn't have a chance to "pay it off" and neither would the owner of the vehicle. Whatever remained of their lives would be lived in excruciating pain. And we'd stream it.

And that's the way things are at FalseCasey HQ, where we can be thankful for a few brief moments that we are not anywhere near a place where Casey might be driving.

Casey's Gone

It seems that his firing is for real. This may be the first time in history that Casey has managed to actually throw himself under the bus, though clearly there has been collateral damage to his various associates.

Information we have received suggest that the idea to engage the Haterz™ was entirely his, and was done before he received any permission or even discussed it with his boss. She was dragged in to his world with no prior understanding of what was about to happen, no opportunity to evaluate whether it was a good idea, or even the chance to research what had happened to everybody else who had become a known associate of Casey's, as has been thoroughly documented on Caseypedia™.

As has been noted by others, Casey started two personal blogs last month: BloggerCasey which was all about him, and his boss's blog, which in the end also turned out to be all about him. He sold her a bill of goods and she's paying for it.

As Nigel noted the other day on CHC: "Casey's problem is he blogged about it. He reached out to key people like WWTF and others to make sure everybody knew he was coming back. He went on the talkcast and brought Angel with him. He created BloggerCasey and opened comments. Haterz didn't do any of this. This was all his doing."

Casey is poison because he can't turn off the "I/ME" switch in his head that makes him convinced that every project he's involved in has to involve him as the frontman. As a result, he ends up sabotaging everything he touches.

Our advice to him: Recognize that 99.9% of what you do in the world is not about you. It's about getting stuff done for somebody else. Keep your own name out of it. For everybody else's sake, if not your own.

And that's the view from FalseCasey HQ, where the sun finally came out this afternoon.

Will TrueCasey Make it to HaterzCon West?

A number of major developments have taken place. TrueCasey was invited by Nigel earlier today and apparently agreed to show up. BTC, Nigel and Mr. Funk will fund the flight, though BTC later posted that he wishes he had not agreed to this some time back. TrueCasey agreed and plans to be on a flight in the morning.

However, there have been later developments:

• We have become aware that TrueCasey has just read Mr. Funk’s open letter to him, which was published in this space some time back. Feel free to check out the original text as preserved on our massive servers.
• TrueCasey has informed Mr. Funk that he is no longer able to respect him.
• As an aside, we wonder why he thinks anybody would care about receiving respect from TrueCasey?
• Apparently TrueCasey asked that Mr. Funk be excluded during a phone call with Nigel. Nigel provided assurances that Mr. Funk will be on his best behavior. Casey also expressed concern that we at FalseCasey might be in attendance. As we are not a single individual, it would be quite difficult for an individual "FalseCasey" to be there.
• Finally, TrueCasey is scheduled on an 11:35 flight. This would require TrueCasey to be at the airport no later than 10:35, and really would need to be there earlier to be sure of making it through security and all the other hassles. This would entail him leaving home by 10:00 and presumably being awake by 9:00. No such thing has occured recently.

We believe it is unlikely that TrueCasey makes it to his flight.

And that's the view from FalseCasey Headquarters, which appears to be in a third-world corrupt and cronyish country where the key to success is not hard work, but rather just being connected to the right corrupt officials.