Rodger Jacobs who's still working on his magazine piece about the last days of Leonarto di Fordio, had a good chuckle about some of the recent Rossian retorts to di Fordio's postings, particular the responses to Jacobs' e-mails about di Fordio.
Jacobs [laughing]: "Carvellesque? I'm not Ford's apologist. I'm not his "mommy." I said he's in the gutter, and he's not a credible journalist. That's not a mommy. That's not apologizing for him. All I say is if you've got dirt on him, lay it out on the table.
Ross: "I never had dirt on him! That's the point of the whole thing. Luke thinks I went and did some research on him. Everything that's on my site laid it out exactly what happened. I April Fool suckered him into this!"
Jacobs: "It's very funny. My story got extended, thankfully. I'm just sitting here watching this thing play itself out and see where he goes and what happens to his page. He has resorted to a lot of cut and paste. Reading his page sometimes is like reading a recap of geneross.com. But I don't care if he has two addresses, are you sure that the other isn't a P.O. Box?"
Jacobs was informed that, if it were, di Fordio manages to throw his voice out of a mailbox. A phone call to di Fordio's secret second address in Beverly Hills elicits an answering machine in Ford's voice.
Jacobs: "Oh, that's funny. That is interesting. I wish we could do a phone number search and find out whose name it's in. Ford asserts that Leonarto August was his ex-roommate [Ford says from March 1995 to May, 1996], but there's something fuzzy about this Florida-thing."
The Ford Dossier shows Ford being in Orlando for a period of time in March, 1994 - nothing that would raise eyebrows, except for the fact that Ford managed to get a driver's license there which would suggest that he intended to stay there a lot longer than a month. He didn't. What's equally interesting is that Ford's dossier shows that he lived in California from April 1992 to August 1992, but disappeared, virtually, off the face of the earth from August 1992 to March, 1994 where he lands in Orlando.
Ford's driver's record, however, shows him obtaining a California license in October, 1993 but with no corroborating address. Ford's California residency doesn't get re-documented until he leaves Orlando in 1994 and moves back to LA. Nothing to suggest foul deeds, a point of curiosity, if nothing else.
Jacobs acknowledges the discrepancies inherent on Ford's driver's license where he's listed as a blond, and said he "overreacted" in his letter on Ross making the point about the connection between clerical errors and the Marc Wallice snafu.
Jacobs: "I jumped into the middle of this to have a little bit of fun. In a way I was being his [Ford's] apologist. I told him don't get in the middle of it. I'll send Gene a little note, you stay out of it. It's not your fight. He'll tell you I was the first one to jump all over his shit about the 'poofter' and 'pansies.' He claims to have a problem with CFS - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. My contention is that he has a problem with manic-depression that he's not revealing. I'll talk with him a couple of times a day and I'll see the mood swings. When he started the poofters and pansies-thing he was absolutely giddy. He asked me how do you spell 'poofters.' I said, Luke, 'What are you writing?' He starts giggling. I told him he shouldn't be posting something like that. I talked to him later on that same day, and the giddiness was gone. I know some people who are clinical manic-depressives, and I see the same behavior in Luke."
