Brett Meisner

Brett Meisner (October 31, 1965 - September 13, 2010) was a self-proclaimed rock critic who ran the parody website Rock and Roll Bad Boy. As an Internet personality and humorist, Meisner created a wide variety of articles and videos detailing his celebrity lifestyle living and working in Hollywood. The site was featured on the Sacramento News and Review, which wrote the following:
In addition to the Rock and Roll Bad Boy website, Meisner developed a number of Internet parody sites including KISS Burger - a parody of a non-existent burger chain as if it were owned and operated by the popular rock band KISS; and CSI: CSNY, a parody of the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation series. In this parody the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (C, S, N & Y) are cast as stoner crime scene detectives.
The Jim Morrison Connection
Meisner was featured on the Biography Channel's show ', where he was interviewed about a mysterious photograph of himself standing at Jim Morrison's grave. In the photo a ghostly image of the late Doors singer appears in the background above the grave.
One of Meisner’s most ambitious projects was a half hour TV pilot he shot called “24 Hours In Hell! - Brett Meisner versus the Ghost of Jim Morrison.” The show featured Meisner spending 24 hours alone in room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel on the 35th anniversary of Morrison's death.
The Alta Cienega motel is in West Hollywood, California and is blocks away from the former business offices and favorite bars frequented by the Doors in the late 1960s. The motel was the secret residence of Jim Morrison for several years during the height of his career. Room #32 is now a shrine to the late singer with fans leaving messages and poetry on the walls.
Controversies and inconsistencies
Although Brett Meisner doesn’t directly claim to be a parody on his rock and roll bad boy website, there are many obvious hints that the whole persona is a fake. His message boards are clearly there to trick unsuspecting visitors into flame wars in a manner that is similar to talk radio’s Phil Hendrie.
Although Meisner claims to have been a seasoned journalist having written for major publications including both Rolling Stone and Spin magazine for over twenty years, not a single article has ever been found.
In 2003, a video of a press conference reportedly from a live CNN feed was circulated around the Internet. In the five minute clip a tearful Meisner claims that VH1 music networks had canceled his new talk show after protests from various organizations. There are several problems with this clip. 1) VH1 has never heard of Brett Meisner. 2) The stock market ticker symbol never changes throughout the entire clip. 3) WCBS-TV - the call letters that appear in the clip - is in reference to a station in New York City, not Los Angeles as was claimed by Meisner.
Meisner claims on his website that he fought and killed a tiger shark that landed in his swimming pool. He claims the shark was dropped there by a firefighting helicopter during the Nichol’s Canyon brushfire—Tuesday, August 9, 2005 There is no report of a shark being dropped anywhere.

The shark-helicopter myth goes way back to and old urban legend that claimed a scuba diver was found in the forest after he was sucked into the water tank of firefighting helicopter.
successfully debunked this theory on the TV show.
Death
On September 14, 2010, a message was posted on the Rock and Roll Bad Boy web site announcing that Meisner had died in his sleep.

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