- It looks like a guy named Alexis Debat has faked a number of interviews with a number of substantial subjects and still managed to get his fabricated interviews into policy journals. Incredible. (via The Publishing Spot)
- Tricia Sullivan’s Manifestation of the Really Shitty First Draft. (via Gwenda)
- Ricky Gervais’s newest project? A big-screen film where everybody tells the truth.
- Dahl triumphs over Rowling!
- Bad Sex with Shalom Auslander.
- It looks like the Boston Globe has a new women’s lifestyle magazine in the works.
- The 50 worst cars of all time.
- Martin Amis on 9/11 and the cult of death.
Month / September 2007
Thursday
It is a day of deadlines and madness. But I will try to offer some posts later.
In other news, my 62 minute self-help presentation, “Cooking an Omelette for Breakfast, Cooking an Omelette for Life” is now ready for the professional lecturing circuit. Interested parties may inquire directly, as the Steven Barclay Agency has recently affixed a large poster in their office with the words “DO NOT HIRE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES” just underneath a grainy Kodachrome photograph of me.
For Freelancers
If you’re feeling despondent about the lack of responses, check out Susannah Breslin’s freelancing stats.
And Speaking of Red Dwarf…
…apparently, you can watch every episode online. (via Quiddity)
Impartial Information
It is especially heartening to know that some ostensible writers, scribbling in blog-like form for their columns, confuse their shaky Fleet Street sinecures and their indolent journalistic dispositions with “educated comment” and proceed to make absurd generalizations as egregious as these apparent “axe-grinding amateurs.” (Sorry, Mr. Sanderson, but not even a Red Dwarf reference cannot inure your ass after writing such nonsense.)