January 2011
38 posts
Live From New York, It's Saturday Night!: GLAAD... →
This Saturday, on an airing of Saturday Night Live, NBC (a subsidiary of Comcast) broadcast a dangerous and blatantly transphobic segment which they called ‘Estro-Maxxx’ - the punchline of which was the lives of countless transgender people across the country.
The piece was a mock commercial…
“Can I tell you something? Can I tell you a secret? A week ago I bought a rifle....”
– Woody Allen, ‘Hannah and Her Sisters’
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Listen to Gaby Dunn talk about behind the scenes... →
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“To be here with Jesse Eisenberg is dope. I mean, we’re both from New York so we’re just going to be, you know, representing for all of the five boroughs. This definitely is just as exciting for him as it is for me, I’m sure. I’m sure he’s been losing sleep about this. But I think it’s going to be a really exciting show.”
Nicki Minaj talks to MTV News about her appearance on...
100 Interviews: #47. BOBBY PULEO - "A hardcore... →
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It takes over an hour before Bobby Puleo mentions going to Japan.
Here’s the funny thing about Bobby: he talks very dreamily about skateboarding and then very factually about his own success.
Bobby’s pretty well-known. Googling his name brings up many videos of him doing tricks around New…
Skateboarding is an art where your canvas is the city.
100 Interviews: #26. TONY ORTEGA (THE VILLAGE... →
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When I was in ninth grade, I tried to create a school newspaper. But my attempts at publishing were routinely thwarted because the administration at my small, private Jewish high school in South Florida didn’t want to risk angering parents or donors with a student-run paper.
Every month,…
JOURNALISM LOVE OUT THE WAZOO IN THIS ONE.
What makes someone a real New Yorker? Knowing which direction to look for your train while waiting on the subway platform.
— Michael Ian Black, New York Magazine
100 Interviews: #91. SHAKIRA CROCE - "An animal... →
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The worst thing Shakira Croce has ever seen was a video of a fox.
“He was being skinned for his fur and his skin is totally off,” she says, cringing both outwardly, and it sounds like, inwardly as well. “You think he’s dead but then he lifts his head up and blinks at you.”
I appreciate…
100 Interviews: #51. DARYL HAYOTT - "A black belt... →
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My boyfriend and I drive two hours on Sunday out to Northampton, MA to meet up with Daryl Hayott and his girlfriend, Tomaca. He’s wearing a red, yellow, green and black Jamaican cap and has a barely visible tattoo of the Eye of Horus on his cheek. Daryl is black, as is the ink on his…
Josh makes his first official 100 Interviews appearance and a 70s karate master keeps...
“I always get afraid of relationships. Somebody’d ask me out and I’d...”
– Maria Bamford
“There is no cure for curiosity.”
– Dorothy Parker
100 Interviews: #38. ANDREW LUAN - "Someone who... →
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The old saying “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade” might seem patronizing and simplistic. I’ve always preferred the messed-up version said by Paul Rudd’s character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall: “When life hands you lemons, you say ‘fuck those lemons’ and bail.”
Luckily, the same…
“That’s the terror of being a reporter. You are always some place you are...”
– Charlie LeDuff
100 Interviews: #83. HAROLD TOUSSAINT - "A refugee... →
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Harold Toussaint is in his 60s, but he won’t tell me his exact age. He has Morgan Freeman freckles on his cheeks and tufts of gray and brown curls, mainly on the back and sides of his head. When he sits down across from me, he pulls out a small hairbrush and combs them. It’s such an…
Interviews like this are why I’m even doing this crazy project.
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100 Interviews: #29. DAVE BERMAN - "Someone who... →
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Dave Berman is a gentleman.
An emergency medical technician in his second year of med school at Mount Sinai, he is the only interviewee to insist on paying for me and almost naturally dotes from the get go. “Here, let me get you a fork and some napkins,” he says and before I can say…
In which my mom makes her 100 Interviews debut.
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“Happiness hit her like a bullet in the head.”
– Florence and the Machine
Well, it finally happened: someone turned down doing 100 Interviews, calling the blog - “far from what I would allow in my house” and not wanting to participate in “a book they don’t approve of.” Wow.
100 Interviews: #64. MICHAEL & THEODORA VINEREANU... →
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Discussing incest with twins is not how I envisioned this evening going.
Michael, who contacted me, is an adorable skinny dark-haired gay boy in thick rimmed glasses and a white neck scarf. His twin sister, Theodora or “Theo,” is equally as thin in a bright blue cardigan and has long wavy…
100 Interviews is back!
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buttondownshirt asked: You look like a girl who is into Jewish boys. :P
pattysaurus rex: "You Look Like a Girl Who's In To... →
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Real life. This is a real life real dumb “pick-up” line thrown at me a few weeks ago at a bar in Santa Monica. After the 10 seconds it took for my brain to realize the dumb shit that just happened to me, I diffused the situation by laughing/ spitting beer on his pink button down. I told you guys…
I’m reblogging this because I <3 Patty but also because I HATE...
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Reading the newest post from 100...
youngerdumber asked: Do you mind that I read and recorded your latest post? Gotta keep our blogging synergy going, you know.
The point of the 100 Interviews list is for me to...
And I’m being honest when I say I’d never met them, but on one, I fudged a bit.
True, I’d never met an amputee before. But I did know someone who was missing a limb.
And I’d stood idly by while others bullied her.
We all like to think that when push comes to literal shove — when someone is being bullied, we’d step up. We’d say, “Hey guys, cut it...
100 Interviews: An Update for the New Year →
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Hello many new followers of 100 Interviews!
I don’t usually “break” from the interview-posting here, but in the week before New Years, instead of doing interviews, I’ve been setting some up for the coming weeks and into the well…new year. Okay, really, it’s just that no one wants to meet during…