Dec 122011
 

Over the weekend, I noticed that people began finding my website using a brand new phrase. It’s not a phrase people have ever used before to find me, and what’s more, it wasn’t a fluke. Multiple people successfully got to this website using it.

The phrase is “jason cochran porn.”

At first, I didn’t know whether to be flattered or insulted that my adoring public was thinking of me that way. Then, I had a sinking feeling that maybe I did something at last year’s Christmas party that slipped my memory.

But when I plugged the same search into Google, I found my answer. It turn out that I have a newly minted namesake. Here he is. Grab some blue!

Jason Cochran, porn star

I'm surprised they stuck with the 'h'

So that should give my life some future fodder for Three’s Company-style miscommunications.

Welcome to the Web, Jason, and thanks for the clicks! Shame about your clothes. But I truly hope your erotica-craving fans enjoy my recent post on how dirty Oklahoma! is.

It has not escaped my notice that there are a lot of incoming Cochrans these days. This guy is John Cochran, known simply as “Cochran” from CBS’s Survivor. Cochran also takes his clothes off on camera:

John Cochran, Survivor

Cochran the diabolical mastermind. Well, the other one.

I’d make some amusingly crass crack now, but Cochran attends Harvard Law, so I have to be careful. He also probably endured the same witless grammar school Cochran puns that I did (“It ran? Where did it go?”), and besides, I like the guy. So maybe I should just ask him to write a stern lawyerly letter to the porno Jason Cochran to demand he stop using my name, although Jason Cochran Two’s guns certainly give me credit.

The only person that should be allowed to use my name on screen is me. And besides, in this economy, I need to keep all options open.

I have a few other namesakes on the web. One is an aspiring racecar driver. One is in Arizona real estate. But as far as I can tell, most Cochrans do their jobs clothed.

Most.

 

May 092010
 

Jason Cochran is an award-winning travel journalist, pop historian, consumer reporter, and digital media pioneer. He was awarded Guide Book of the Year by the Lowell Thomas Awards (Society of American Travel Writers) and the North American Travel Journalists Association for Pauline Frommer’s London. He also wrote the first editions of Orlando and Walt Disney World and San Francisco for the same series He was Executive Editor at AOL Travel and filed popular roaming video segments as Editor-at-Large for WalletPop.com. He has also written extensively for the New York Post, Budget Travel (as senior editor); Entertainment Weekly (as staff reporter); the New York Daily News and Times; USA TodayTravel + Leisure and T+L Family; Travel + Leisure.com; BBC Travel; Concierge.com; Newsweek; City; Frommers.com; the South Florida Sun-Sentinel; Arena (U.K.); Who (Australia); Scanorama and Seasons (Sweden). He has been an arts columnist for the milestone Web magazines Inside.com (covering late night TV) and Sidewalk.com (covering theater).

His writing has been awarded the Golden Pen by the Croatian government and was selected to appear in a permanent exhibit in the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. He devised questions for the first American prime-time season of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (ABC) and before that, spent nearly two years backpacking solo around the world. He originated, produced, and hosted AfterShark, the post-show for Mark Burnett’s prime-time program Shark Tank (ABC) and has been seen as a regular contributor to CBS’s The Early Show and on his weekly segment on Fox Philly. As a commentator, he has been on outlets including BBC World, CNN, CNN Headline News, Fox News, the CBC, Good Morning America, CNNfn, Australia.com, WOR, Outdoor Life Network, MSNBC.com, and national radio shows including those of Arthur Frommer and Doug Stephan. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and New York University’s Graduate Music Theatre Writing Program.

 

 

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