Editor,
Mikhayla Harrell's letter in Monday's Daily Lobo hit it on the nose.
I went back to the Feb. 23 edition of the Lobo and read the article in question, "Maximum mischief." I assume the reader with the right sense of humor could enjoy wallowing around inside Tucker Max's own fascinated version of himself. However, his book seems to be nothing more than another in a line of fabricated works passing as true stories - anyone remember James Frey?
The MTV "True Life" episode featuring Max should serve as the proverbial pudding containing the proof. The man is a stuttering drunk who obviously got no play from the ladies the night he was on camera.
If Max was such a big shot celebrity, shouldn't the possibility of being on national television have boosted his "game" and given him the amplification needed to step to the next level? Instead, he got sick and threw up and then came up with some lousy excuse about his appendix rupturing. The "True Life" episode was Max getting hit and exposed as the bullshit artist he is.
The people in this world with real juice and real bragging rights don't write online about how 30 women want to hook up with them the second they walk into a bar. Sometimes, a high-profile personality such as sports agent Drew Rosenhaus - who can back up his bravado 99 percent of the time - will talk about certain aspects of his or her profession.
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Rosenhaus said sometimes people will come up to him or give him a number simply because he is Drew Rosenhaus and they think he makes the same money as the clients he represents. But, unlike Max, Rosenhaus does have a track record of obtaining his goals, and he can vouch for his claims.
I think space would better be used to chronicle the lives of people who actually are accomplished or events that actually happen. Maybe a "Where are they now?" section about UNM alumni or an article on a local person of interest like Albuquerque's version of Donald Trump, Doug Vaughan - CEO of the Vaughan Company realtors and a UNM alumnus and a supporter of Lobo athletics.
If the Daily Lobo has to feature fantasy fiction in its pages, let me be the first to say I would rather read about fairies, dwarves, wizards, talking beasts, swords and sorcery than drivel from some underachiever who represents events that simply do not happen in order to look cool for the 20-something crowd.
Brandon Curtis
UNM alumnus
