The Dead Just Messing With This Medium

The Inquirer ran a nice long feature on a local medium yesterday, which described the Bucks County resident’s rise in the psychic and medium community. (Fun fact: Like pro wrestling, many people believe this is real.)

Unfortunately for medium Joseph Tittel — who has a show in WBCB, of course — the spirits in the afterlife just enjoy screwing around with him:

It’s difficult for Tittel to explain exactly how information from the other side gets transmitted. “Mostly when I see things, it’s with the mind’s eye,” he says. “I see it but not like I see you. I get a lot of pictures. The spirits have installed a whole dictionary in my head. Certain things they show me mean certain things. My favorite is [a can of] Maxwell House coffee which has nothing to do with coffee. It’s the name Max, but that’s what they have me trained on.”

Similarly, a vision of a cuckoo clock would suggest to Tittel a link to Germany.

Why are the dead such fucking jackasses? “Hey, we need to conjure up old Uncle Max.” “Let’s give him a vision of Maxwell House.” “Yeah! Yeah! That’ll piss him off.” Man.

Medium gains a following [Inquirer]

Well, Duh.

zOMG! Somebody didn’t update their WordPress (or something) and Philebrity is now listed as an “attack site” when one tries to visit it on Firefox (with safe browsing enabled). Apparently, the site installed a trojan/exploit when Google recently visited it.

Or perhaps somebody hacked the site in an attempt to have it blocked? (Is this the new DDoS?) What a story! I won’t rest ’til Dan Gross gets to the bottom of it.

Update: ‘Twas a hole in WP, and everything’s been fixed. Now the long, agonizing wait ’til the site is removed from Google’s list.