The Nappy Cat Chronicles

This story is important for three reasons. First, it answers the question that everyone has been asking me for some reason. That question is, “Is Montel Williams still alive?” Second, it lets us know what he’s been up to recently:

Montel Williams showed up in Savannah, Georgia Friday to promote the drug industry’s program to help people afford prescription drugs. By the time he left town, the talk show host had threatened to “blow up” some local reporters, according to the Savannah Morning News.The threat was apparently triggered by the following question, posed by a high school intern working as a reporter: “Do you think pharmaceutical companies would be discouraged from research and development if their profits were restricted?”

Williams, who has multiple sclerosis and is a paid spokesman for the industry’s Partnership for Prescription Assistance, abruptly ended the interview shortly after that question was asked. Later in the day, the reporter went to a local hotel to do a feature on gingerbread houses displayed there. Williams, who was at the hotel for a separate event, believed they had followed him there.

And finally, it reminds us all that Montel is still dangerous after all these years of fame:

According to the reporter and two of her colleagues, Williams approached them and said, “Don’t look at me like that. Do you know who I am? I’m a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up.”

Williams has since issued an apology and offered to apologize to the young reporter during a taping of his show. Ken Johnson, an SVP at the industry trade group PhRMA told the paper it was a “regrettable incident.” Johnson noted that Williams suffers a great deal from MS, but added that “even on bad days bad behavior is not acceptable.”

Complete and total badass. Really though, I’m just using this as an appropriate excuse to post Talking Heads – Psycho Killer. Is there a better theme song for a lanky and socially awkward gangsta? I think not.