Editor and Publisher: “Asked how often they visited blogs, the responses from the 78% who said they used the Web, came out this way: frequently 10%, occasionally 9%, rarely 17%, never 40%, and 2% did not answer. That suggests that less than 2 in 10 Americans now visit blogs a lot or occasionally.”
Month / August 2006
K00L DUDEZ!
The Bat Segundo Show, a new weekly podcast, will premiere several times this year at 9 PM. And sometimes at 9:01 PM too!
Seeking new or established fiction novelists, real-life memoirists, comic strip graphic novelists, epidermal skin flick directors, cash-concerned money men, love-centric romance novelists, and other interview subjects that encourage such redundant use of language.
Send me logline summations and visit my kool site at:
http://www.edrants.com/segundo
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Bat
Mr. Segundo
(via TEV)
Did Marisha Pessl Get the Memo?
Professor Barnhard, who was my advisor during an ill-suited stint studying the semiotics of marsupials in compressed environments, has a few ideas on what it takes to look like a writer.
Jonathan Ames Alert
Several years ago, I made a deal at a rustic crossroads. A man, clad only in a red velveteen suit, told me that good things would happen under the following proviso: Mention anything Jonathan Ames is involved in and I might — just might — learn how to play decent bluegrass guitar. To this day, my bluegrass skills are shaky at best, although I can play a mean pentatonic riff if you ply me with enough liquor. But I am a man of my word and I still retain some dim hope that I’ll wake up from a scandalous dream involving a few topless librarians with the abilities to outplay Jerry Reed, only to cast aside my Taylor unexpectedly to play second banana to Burt Reynolds in a series of marginal cinematic comedies.
While things have been quiet on the Ames front of late, I’m pleased to report that they haven’t been flatline. A new outlet called The L Magazine has seen fit to publish a Jonathan Ames story called “A Walk Home,” and it involves, of all things, the Gowanus Canal.
There’s Also an Raging Middle-Aged Borderline Alcoholic Who Can’t Accept the Fact That He’s No Longer Thirty and Seems to Believe That He’s God’s Gift to Women
Publisher’s Lunch: “David Hasselhoff’s autobiography, MAKING WAKES. written with Peter Thompson, showing “there’s more to The Hoff than great hair and legs that look good while running down a beach,” to Erin Brown at Thomas Dunne Books, for publication in spring 2007, by Kate Hibbert of Hodder & Stoughton UK (NA).”