Jesse Camp
- Josiah A. Camp, III was born in 1979 and grew up in Connecticut.
- His mother, Henrietta Camp, was the principal of Frank M. Kearns school in Granby, CT.
- JC, a vegan, failed English Literature his senior year of high school and never graduated.
- Who cares about that, though, because he walked around campus carrying a large silver rectangular boombox and made funny announcements at school meetings.
- He entered an MTV contest and passed himself off as a homeless person, hoping that voters would feel bad and vote for him.
- Whether this tactic worked or not is uncertain: voters were to cast their votes online, but due to a flaw in the system, the user “UglyPig” was able to cast 3,000 votes for Jesse Camp.
- He beat out Dave Holmes and was crowned victor.
- JC hosted TRL on and off for the next year.
- After his MTV stint, Jesse Camp formed a band, “Jesse & the 8th Street Kidz.”
- An outraged America rejected the (intentional) misspelling of the word “kids,” and refused to support such mockery of the English language.
- In reality, the album went platinum, but the band was dropped from their label.
- In 2006, Jesse Camp worked at a pet store in Los Angeles.
- In 2008, he worked as a telefundraiser for Telefund, raising funds for this and that.
Jesse Camp and I seem to have similar daily routines, causing us to be in the same place at the same time several times a week. That is why I chose to write this blog. As I type this (I am typing and not looking at the screen), I am staring at an old man with a beard, a jaunty hat, a blue and white checked button down long sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up (in the pocket are a few pens), a brown belt, khakis (no pleats, thank god), and dark brown boots (as far as I can tell). He’s holding a book and I think he just got hip to the fact that I was staring at him.
