Re: first Skeptical Inquirer column
Subject: Re: first Skeptical Inquirer column
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 3/18/10, 19:17
To: Shanna Carpenter <shanna@ted.com>

My meeting in Harlem was cancelled so I'll be at my place if you want to stomp on by later, yo. 

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't think I'll be around tonight, depends on when I get back from Harlem, but give me a call when you're free as I may be home. Regarding the summary, I took out the last sections (d) on media unaccountability as another friend of mine noted that it seemed to be a whole nother (that is a Texas word) issue sort of overlapping the others, so I'm going to be addressing that and other dynamics in a separate section. 

Also, I had that meeting with the New York Observer yesterday; the editor wants me to a bunch of pieces attacking various New York-associated pundits and credits, including Ross Douthat of the New York Times and that douchebag Michael Wolff. Wolff writes  for that same Politics and Power blog at Vanity Fair that I do, so this might piss off VF, but I'm really not big on them anyway insomuch as that they publish the work of James Wolcott (douchebag), Henry Rollins (can't write, offers obvious criticisms of conservatives and the religious and is clearly on board for novelty purposes), Tom Wolfe (see Wolcott and Rollins), and, of course, Wolff, who has no values and is otherwise just a scrub. Also VF has turned down a couple of my pieces that I took elsewhere and which got lots and lots of attention, so I question their judgement - one was a piece on Richard Cohen which they wouldn't run because the fellow is a "friend of the magazine." Plus, Observer pays ridiculously high word rates; it would be by far the most lucrative gig I've ever had. And it's printed on pink paper, and I am a faggot.


On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Shanna Carpenter <shanna@ted.com> wrote:
You clever thing, you. By the way, I know I still owe you comments on the Project PM Summary. Overall, it's awesome, but I have a couple little suggestions ... I'm going out with some work people in Williamsburg tonight, will you be around later on?
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