Fake Jay Adelson, calling Fake Jay Adelson

So at last night’s Rhapsody launch event at Hiro Ballroom, somebody said he spotted Digg CEO Jay Adelson.  Except it wasn’t Jay Adelson.  Jay was apparently in San Francisco last night, and suggested that perhaps it had been the model from the Clarins Men ads, who really does look just like him.

Creepy.

My personal conspiracy theory is that there exists a Fake Jay Adelson who repeatedly perpetuates rumors about selling the company. Like he walks into some industry event, rolls up his sleeves, orders a Belgian beer at the bar (that’s the Kevin Rose influence) and says to the drunk next to him, “Hey, you know, I’ve got a secret. I’m selling my company to IAC.” Boom! One thing leads to another and it’s on Valleywag the next morning. Fake Jay Adelson strikes again.

Someone who actually was at the Hiro thing, which featured a live set by Ben Gibbard, was John Krasinski (apparently, he and Gibbard are buddies). That guy was totally my celebrity crush up until last night. It’s not that he’s unattractive, it’s that he’s remarkably generic-looking in real life. The dude looks so much like a typical ‘bro’ I would’ve known in college that for a moment I wondered if he was a former dorm hallmate from Princeton and I got all shitshitshitIdon'trememberhisname before realizing that I’d actually seen him on TV, minus the three-days’ growth.

Except he was wearing a plaid shirt, which nobody at Princeton circa 2004 ever wore unless it was on behalf of an engineering student who buttoned it up all the way and tucked it into a pair of khakis. Maybe the fratty ones wear them now. Either way, celebrity crush fail.