January 2010
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“I don’t go to scary movies. I don’t like the experience of being scared. I think...”
– -Chuck Klosterman
Funny, after years of saying how much I cherish the rare sensation of truly being scared by a book or movie, to read someone on the opposite end. Nice observation.
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The Beatles - You Know My Name (Look Up The...
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Wrote eleven pages of fiction yesterday. Picked up my novel for the first time in sixish weeks and almost finished a short story. Gonna be a good weekend.
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“The year that followed—was it the happiest year of his own life? He often thought so, even knowing that such a thing was foolish to claim about any year of one’s life; but in his memory, that particular year held the sweetness of a time that contained no thoughts of a beginning and no thoughts of an end, and when he drove to the pharmacy in the early morning darkness of winter, then...
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And to paraphrase Brett Martin, Alex Pappademas... →
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That last Stephen King post, now GQ-ified →
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File Under Most Prolific Writer in the History of...
Wow! Wonder if either of them are the Shining sequel or the Dark Tower spinoff. Doubt it. TWO books though? Maybe one’s an almost-novella like The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon or The Colorado Kid? Dude just HAS to write, nonstop. Big part of why he’s the best.
[via Lilja’s Library / King’s message board]
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iPaaaad
via mattonrails:
Well, my first thoughts on hearing about the iPad today:
Doesn’t that just sound like “iPod” but with a Boston accent?
Just sayin.
Hahaha.
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The days-late verdict on that Office clip show
Yup, people were whining just to whine. The episode was lazy, yes. Not what some people expected after the holiday break, sure (PS—Were you the same people who loved the awful “Dinner Party” episode that brought The Office back from the painfully long writers’ strike?) But if you’re a fan and haven’t seen every episode 10 times, this was a fun 22 minutes. I was...
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EELS - “A Line in the Dirt”
I...
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The only place a metal fan without an iPod, surrounded by non-metalheads, can listen to raucous shredding and double-bass is in the comfort of his home, when he’s alone or thinks he can get away with it without driving his roommates batty.
Perfect time to be unemployed with a metal show on Saturday night to study up for! Between the Buried and Me (a Pink Floyd of metal), Devin Townsend...
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GQ made me watch Heroes again →
Ongoing torture campaign for The Verge.
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What a birthday
Chuck Klosterman sort of retweeted me (via Alex Pappademas, viiia my GQ post, and all thanks to Eryk Salvaggio in the first place…but it was still awesome!) and Jason Fagone (easily the most talked-about GQ contributor of the moment with his searing Marvin Harrison investigative feature) tweeted:
Someone please hire the talented @ZachDionne before he runs out of beer and Yellow Submarine...
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Scouring Craigslist is becoming less productive...
Yup. That’s under Writing/Editing Jobs.
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Search engine optimization copywriting: Is this... →
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Just used some intense (for me, anyway) algebra to figure out something with a blog post. File under: Never thought I’d see the day.
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Today, Michael Jordan's number becomes my age
That’s all.
Well, and my friend made me a delicious Yellow Submarine cake. And my girlfriend made history by putting Skittles and Nerds on a baked good. Yeow!
Okay. Go enjoy my birthday, guys.
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Downloading the latest Office, which I heard was a clip show deciphered was a clip show amidst the interminable bitching. If I enjoy this episode, Internet, we’re going to have another go-round.
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Some things I just learned
Bob Dylan can smile.
Mick Jagger can grow a severely rad beard.
Well-known babeatron Marilyn Monroe was capable of looking like a 2000s-era Sports Illustrated swimsuit model.
Steven Tyler’s even weirder looking than I (everyone?) thought.
So is David Bowie.
Seriously.
Annnd so is Elton John. (Actually, this is about on par for ol’ Rocket Man.)
There’s more...
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Shouted references to "GAME TIME, BABY" heard on...
Two. Go Jets…?
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Thanks for the reblogs! →
comedycentral:
popculturebrain:
Comedy Central and Alex at popculturebrain reblogged my Demetri Martin interview today. Thank you guys! Glad everyone’s liking the article. I had a blast.
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My Very Important Conversation with Demetri Martin
[Photo by Danielle Levitt. Click it for the Q&A.]
At GQ’s Verge, where I have graduated from intern to correspondent. Woohoo!
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“NEWSWEEK: You’ve noted that the relief effort so far has been overly...”
– Naomi Klein, on Haiti (via newsweek)
Newsweek’s Tumblr is the place to be. Such a forward-thinking system fusing print news and online methods that people actually care about and will read.
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Here's the GQ.com slideshow of my awesome F. Gary... →
Demetri Martin coming tomorrow morning.
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F. Gary Gray just put me on hold 'cause Lee...
I spent a half-hour on the phone with Demetri Martin at noon and 45 minutes with director F. Gary Gray (Friday, The Negotiator, The Italian Job, more recently, Law-Abiding Citizen) just now. F.GG asked me to hold for a sec while he said what’s up to Lee Daniels, the director of Golden Globe nom Push. Very cool day. Now I’ve got 75 minutes of interviews to sort through to create one...
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Let's pool our writerly/bloggerly awesomeness
And figure out a way to make money, be creative, have fun, write, make something people enjoy. Getting a job in journalism is so damn discouraging. Let’s figure this out. I’ll get lunch, coffee, beer with anyone in New York with ideas.
zachdionne@gmail.com
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I'm sorry if you like Heroes
Woo, Verge Correspondent Zach Dionne!
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EELS - “Mighty Fine Blues”
Because...
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Click the photo for the article. I can forgive them for including Heartland Brewery, as it’s an NYC fixture, but I’m not a fan of their brews. I can’t forgive them for leaving out Peculier Pub, the coolest beer-lover’s spot I’ve found in New York.
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Items in bathroom I'd be wise not to mistake for...
[If you don’t see a via link or a credit, photos are always mine]
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Interview-o-clock
In the next week, I’ll be interviewing the dude who directed Friday, The Negotiator and Law-Abiding Citizen (F. Gary Gray), Demetri Martin (!!!), maybe (hoping sososo hard) EELS, and, tomorrow, Steven Seagal. Most of this came out of nowhere, so I’m asking:
What would you ask Steven Seagal?
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A movie (three of them, actually) that absolutely...
[via GQ’s Verge blog]
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Joe Hill talks about his dad, little-known horror...
Steve and Joe at a Sox game.
Joe Hill published Heart-Shaped Box and won fame and acclaim before anyone realized he was Stephen King’s son. The cat’s been out of the bag for a while and I’ve been hunting for traces of the two of them talking about each other and/or their work. Finally found something today, on Joe’s site, under the Recommended tab. One of his...
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Good news: The Wii is finally getting Netflix. Bad news: Not till spring. Worse news: The New York freaking Times led with “Owners of the Nintendo Wii can finally stop waving their video game controllers in the air and sink back onto the couch” when it could’ve said “Nintendo Wii owners can finally stop waving their video game controllers in the air and sink back onto the...
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Don't judge this mag by its cover
Esquire is a good men’s magazine. I’ve been a subscriber for a couple years. But what the hell is with the cover design? Consider:
White and gray backgrounds have dominated the last 11 out of 12 issues.
The February issue makes Blake Lively look plain and bland, accentuating hardly any of what makes her a superbabe (unless you have the world’s biggest fetish for...
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My Main(e) Man →
Wish I had his work ethic. Talent. Imagination. Etc.
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I wish I was British and could call this my CV
Here’s my resume, for parties both interested and un-. If you want to do some work together, my contact information is now more than available. I know it’s a little blurry in this post—click the image for a clearer version, or click the resume link on my main page to download a PDF.
…please don’t use this to come to my house unannounced.
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