March 2011
0 posts
Worst Best Interview
scody relates this crushing story of acceptance.
When I graduated from college, I moved out to NY to live with my then-boyfriend and to try to break into publishing. The job market was terrible, and I was getting increasingly desperate for work. My resume (such as it was) showed that I had done “PR” for various cultural groups and political organizations in college (i.e., I wrote...
February 2011
3 posts
A Christmas Mystery
Did I get forwarded a letter from eastern Europe, or is this the most beautiful gotcha ever?
timsteil heads to AskMe to ask this burning question, about a letter he describes as thus:
Obviously chewed up in the mail, and missing some pages, all I got was the last one. It is possiblly the most wonderful, genuine thing I have received in a long time. My address is clearly done with a printer,...
They get things undone
Dear Tiger Woods, Christopher Lee, Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Hugh Grant, Mark Sanford, and all other public figures who not only can’t manage marital fidelity, but fail on a spectacularly public stage:
There are people for this. Sometimes we’re called handlers. Or fixers. Body men. Executive assistants. Personal assistants.
It doesn’t matter what title you use, but the...