gridlore | A meme living out there in the real world. (Reply)

One that I heartily agree with.

Many of you know that I think that paparazzi are vermin, and that my opinion on the whole cult of celebrity lays somewhere below contempt. So you can imagine my opinion of Gawker.com. Never mind that the site owners are just plain assholes, I believe that everyone, even celebrities, have the right to go about their daily business in relative privacy. Who freaking cares about where Billie Joe Armstrong had lunch? Or what handbag the star slut of the week bought at the trendy boutique of the week.

George Clooney has a solution. Once drawn from the pages of The Art of War.

George Clooney is known as a prankster, but his plan to undermine a Web site that posts celebrity sightings is no joke, his publicist said Friday.

Clooney has suggested swamping Gawker.com's "Gawker Stalker" feature with false notes about stars' whereabouts, spokesman Stan Rosenfield said.

In an e-mail Rosenfield recently distributed on Clooney's behalf to other high-powered publicists, the actor calls for publicity firms and their clients to join the effort against the site that some have called a threat to celebrities.

"There is a simple way to render these guys useless," Clooney said in the message. "Flood their Web site with bogus sightings. Get your clients to get 10 friends to text in fake sightings of any number of stars.

"A couple hundred conflicting sightings and this Web site is worthless. No need to try to create new laws to restrict free speech. Just make them useless. That's the fun of it. And then sit back and enjoy the ride," Clooney writes, signing the note, "Thanks, George."

Have fun. Get creative. Fight the system!