In case some of you missed it. Artie’s grandmother’s obituary was placed online the day following the funeral.  I linked to it in a previous post and it looks like some of our readers and Howard Stern fans left some nice comments in the guest book.

Amalia A. Caprio 
CAPRIO Amalia A. Caprio of Kenilworth, 92 Mrs. Amalia A. Caprio (nee Manto), 92, of Kenilworth died on Feb. 24, 2008, at the Center for Hope Hospice in Scotch Plains. The funeral was held on Feb. 27, 2008. Arrangement were by the Galante Funeral Home, Union. Born in Newark, Mrs. Caprio lived in East Orange before moving to Kenilworth 31 years ago. She was a homemaker. She was the wife of the late Salvatore; mother of Thomas and Bruce Caprio, Judy Lange and Diane Napolitano Niceforo; sister of Pellegrino Manto, Josephine Lavan, and the late Peter and Frank Manto and Vera De Angelis; also survived by seven grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.

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I wasn’t sure how much Howard was going to bring up the Grandma Caprio routine he does but on Artie’s first day back after the funeral Howard did a little impression. Seemed Artie may have been a little bothered by it when he went into a Beth impression. Howard seemed to get the hint and it was dropped and the next subject came up.

Thanks to Ted Cotrotsos for submitting a new Artie photoshop!

Sad News. Lisa G announced today that Grandma Caprio has passed away. Our condolences are with Artie and his family at this time.

I know many fans loved Howard doing the Grandma Caprio voice and he did it again as well today. I imagine we won’t hear it too often but I would guess we will “hear” her speak from the grave now and then.

Update 2/28/08: We failed to get any info on where to send stuff, it was worth a shot.
Obituary here

I keep waking up halfway through these Eric the Midget bits. Now Eric is admitting to lying… but not what we all thought he was lying about. He claims that yesterday was all a sham and that they were lying about breaking up so the show would get off Kendra’s back. And now that he has a beautiful (whore) girlfriend, he is going to leave the show.

But we have all heard this before. He will be back to a week or two. He thinks the Stern fans will keep giving him attention after he leaves. Everyone really needs to leave him alone so he can see just how much the show does for his lonely ass life.

Eric the Midget on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Thanks to Allison for finding it for me!

I have pictures of Eric the Midget and Kendra’s weekend!!

PICTURES OF ERIC AND KENDRA

I caught it about half way through this morning but apparently Eric and Kendra finally met. She stayed with Eric for 2 days, went to a strip club (Kendra’s idea - surprise), met Jimmy Kimmel and did a photo shoot. But that’s wear the fairy tale ended… Howard asked Eric about the claim that Eric’s friends convinced him to “play the field” and Eric confirmed it.

Kendra then called up during the discussion mad. Eric reiterated to her on the phone that he doesn’t want to be with her. He said he wasn’t sure what happened. Kendra asked if going to the strip club may have opened his eyes to a new world, Eric agreed.

Then Howard brought up that he thought they had prearranged this in order to get out of the whole ploy. Jimmy said there was some porn quality acting going on. “This is not a goof stern!” Eric bit back.

Steve Langford came in and broke a story he has been working on that this is all a scam. Johnny Frado and Patrick (introduced Kendra to Eric) are listed as sources. Steve claims to have text messages that prove his case. Eric says they were “doctored” by Patrick. Howard asked Eric and Kendra to swear on the life of their mother that they were telling the truth and they did.

Howard went back to treating the whole situation like it was real prying Eric for a reason why its over with Kendra. Eric had no reason. Johnny Frado called in and said that he thought the stripper said something dirty to him and got his mind turning. Eric agreed. YACK YACK.

Howard said he didn’t know what to believe and wanted a lie detector on Eric. Steve said that his source Patrick was willing to take a lie detector. Gary chimed in and said that the rumor going around the office was that Johnny was trying to take over the Stern fan crowd from Mutt (SFN) so this whole fraud was created to get more attention.

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Part of me thinks this is fake. Either 1) The Stern camp created another masterpiece, 2) Johnny, Eric and Kendra committed fraud against the Show or 3) its real and Kendra is nuts or just lying to Eric to get her website popular.

Steve Langford seems pretty convinced and maybe he is just doing a bit of pit bull news reporting trying to create a story but I just don’t get how Kendra and Eric would have”hooked up” in the first hand. This may have been all concocted to get more attention to Eric and his web cam show. With Steve breaking the story and with them already meeting there wasn’t much further they could go on with anyways. Being that Eric is a horrible ad-liber, Johnny Frado had to call in order to salvage the bad acting on the part of Eric.

On the other hand if it is real, I can understand how they would meet and things would go completely wrong. I myself have met girls on the Internet and after talking with them awhile you think the person is one way and within 5 minutes of meeting them in person its completely fucked. Eric doesn’t want to hurt her feelings so he doesn’t give a reason on the phone.

Valentine’s Day at Borders on 57th and Park in NYC with Gary and Artie. Thanks to Paul G for sending this in!

FYI - SBG is moving to another hosting company! This shouldn’t mess with anything. Thankfully this week is a vacation week so there really won’t be much going on as far as posts anyways.
After the move you will see some minor changes, I am hoping to not fuck it up too much

A Sports Illustrated writer over at SI.com has a blog called Extra Mustard where mentioned Charles