Randy Cassingham's Blog

Never Has One Boob Created Such a Phenomenon

You either saw it or you heard about it: the Janet Jackson "flash". I happened to be walking by the TV (my wife was watching the Super Bowl) at the exact moment it happened. I stopped in my tracks, backed up, and said to her, "Did I just see what I thought I saw?" My wife, a bit stunned, said "I think so...."

We have a Tivo-like recorder, so I picked up the remote and went back a half-minute. Sure enough. I went over to my desk, waited five minutes, and then started searching for news stories. It didn't take long; since it was a Sunday, and I was in the middle of writing this week's issue, I made sure the story was included.

You probably expect me to have a photo to go with the story, right? Nah -- I like to exceed expectations: I've got a Flash (heh heh) movie sequence of it -- zoomed in from HDTV screen captures. "Wardrobe malfunction"? Yeah, right. Take a look and see what you think. Yes (warning!), the content of the page is "adult" in nature, but hey: it's nothing you can't see on TV! And, well, I ended up doing a mini-rant about the whole thing, and there are links to all sorts of news item about the resulting ...um... fallout (including an item on the woman who is -- sigh -- suing over it. I think her name is Stella.)

I announced the page to the Premium crowd on Monday, and it got such huge traffic that I was afraid the True site would bog down when I announced it in the free distribution, so by Wednesday morning I got it moved to its own domain on my backup server. There, even though things settled down a bit by then, it has received more than 5,700 page views -- in just 60 hours, on a brand-spanking-new site! By only announcing it to the relatively small Premium list! Astounding. Anyway, the URL is http://www.JanetJacksonFlash.com, which also includes my story.

Be sure to see the link at the bottom for the wonderful parodies of the "malfunction".