On Tim Riggins in Space
@jfruh Jesus Christ, I hate money people who claim to know, based on biased statistics, what people like. I mean, kids don't even know what kids like until they like it. Let the creatives do their job. Free your creatives and the kids* will follow.
(*or you know, other people with money)
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On 'Project X': Why Doesn't Hollywood Get Young People?
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On I Am the World's Worst Sperm Donor
@barnhouse Ha ha, exactly. This kid thinks his generation is the first to believe they'll never find a job, their "elders" are destroying everything, etc, etc, etc.
Flahsback to 1993! I could have written this piece then.
Of course, none of it was really true.
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On The Web Celebs Of Yesteryear
@jfruh My thoughts exactly. Surprise would be 1995, right?
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On Wait, Did People Really Think 'The Artist' Was a Good Movie?
Ugh. Gross tiny mustaches! They ruin every face on which they are grown. Please, boys, don't do this to your face.
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On Some Other Conversations With A Fact-Checker
@theSprawl Autobiographical fiction doesn't sell anymore. James Frey had his novel rejected something like 40 times. However, his "memoir" sold almost immediately. Nearly the exact same manuscript.
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On Some Other Conversations With A Fact-Checker
@M.E. @Moff Excellent response Moff. I might add that what D'Agata is writing used to be called "autobiographical fiction". But, as James Frey can tell you, there is not a market for such fiction anymore (if there ever was it was in the 60s with such novels as The Bell Jar, etc). Call his work fiction and Mr. D'Agata doesn't sell, call it non-fiction and it sells. Yes, it's a sweet gig. It is also a potentially well-paying gig.
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On Spencer's Gifts Is Now A Health Food Store
Uh, not to be all mr. health guy, but the seeds used in chia pets are not the same as the chia seeds they sell in health food stores. News anchors, learn to use the internets!
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On Some Advice for Young People
@katherine If you have to ask, you're a Drama Queen.
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On What It Cost Eight Women Writers To Make It In New York
@Lemonnier You were lucky! I paid $450 to share an apt a shitty six floor walkup on the lower east side, which was totally awful back then. It's that building where Shiller's Liquor Bar is now. Back then it was a boarded up 1950s drug store. You had to approach the building from across the street, run to the door and unlock it as quickly as possible, lest the HUGE rats that inhabited the old drug store attack you.