Dispatch from an Interview
January 24, 2008
Ten minutes after a laughing conversation about experiences decapitating small mammals, the scientist and I entered into journalistic no-man’s land. He says to me that the university should be very proud about the research he’s been doing; and that I should write that.
Later in the day, walking in the blustery uptown winds across […]
Gonzo Soup, A Dweezil Halloween
January 17, 2008
gonzo : 1 : idiosyncratically subjective but engagé 2 : bizarre 3 : freewheeling or unconventional especially to the point of outrageousness
Wikipedia on the Origins of Gonzo: The term “gonzo” was first used by Boston Globe editor Bill Cardoso in 1970 when he described Hunter S. Thompson’s The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and […]
Cold Shoulder
January 17, 2008
On Saturday, I am sitting in a very cold, very drafty room in upstate New York. The room is in a house which is rather cold and drafty all over. Outside, it is snowing and the sounds of college students on break splinters through the wet air. Inside, the shuffling steps of people […]
Respite
December 11, 2007
Twenty-four hours ago I wasn’t happy. Thick in the middle of an exam on law and journalism, my head was deep in supreme court rulings. NYT v. Sullivan, Cohen v. Cowles, Bartniki, Food Lion, Shulman, Sanders, the list goes on. These cases outline the borders of how press can function […]
Knuckling up for the new year
December 30, 2007
Things move fast at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
The first semester went by in a blur. Like some distorted bender upon which you find yourself trolling the late night cracks in the sidewalks, boarding the wrong subway and getting into a fist fight just blocks from home (an experience I’d rather not […]