Posts Tagged ‘slate magazine’
I performed in the dark. Without amplification. The results were surprising.
The worst experience I ever had while telling a story was on election night 2016 at a live show of Slate’s The Gist. I was telling the story about my run for the Presidency of my college when things started to turn in the election returns and eyes quickly shifted from me to phones. Trump…
Read MoreAwful human being alert
It’s hard to believe that someone could be as lacking in self awareness as the woman who wrote this letter to advice columnist Dear Prudence. How could anyone read this letter and not think they are coming across as an classist, elitist, repulsive snob? Dear Prudence, Recently my friend Amy made a new friend, Mary.…
Read MoreI broke into the Brooklyn Navy Yard and committed a crime (I think)
I went to Brooklyn at the end of August to record a podcast at Slate. Slate moved its offices from a fairly convenient location in Manhattan to a terribly inconvenient location in Brooklyn that I had been to only once before. So I plugged “Slate Magazine” into the Waze app on my phone and was…
Read MoreMike Pesca’s favorite sentences of 2015 (and mine)
Back in January, Mike Pesca of Slate’s The Gist discussed some of his favorite sentences of 2015. When Pesca attributed the sentence to someone., I included the attribution. Bill Raftery on how he enjoys learning something and immediately sharing it: “That’s why I went into broadcasting rather than espionage.” “It’s easier to condemn than to…
Read MorePresidential Job Application Question #3 (with my answers): What’s your greatest political triumph?
Slate’s John Dickerson recently published a piece entitled: The Presidential Job Application: Seven questions we should ask anyone who wants to become President. Over the course of the next seven days, I plan on completing Dickerson’s application by answering each of the questions. I’ve always wanted to be President, so perhaps my answers will be…
Read MoreThis is the real reason you go shopping before a snowstorm
Daniel Engber of Slate offers an explanation as to why people behave like idiots before a snowstorm, rushing off to a grocery store that will undoubtedly be open at some point the next day. The word is hunkering, in the specifically American sense of digging in and taking shelter. It’s the anxious form of self-indulgence,…
Read MoreStorytelling on The Gist
If you’re not already listening to Slate’s The Gist, the daily podcast hosted by Mike Pesca, here’s another reason to do so: I’ll be appearing on The Gist as a part of a new project that seeks to teach the art of storytelling to listeners. Whether you are telling stories at a dinner party or…
Read MoreSlate might actually be stealing my ideas. Not really, but you have to admit that it’s getting a little suspicious.
About two weeks ago, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post accusing Slate of stealing my ideas. On the same day, Slate published pieces defending skipping and arguing that climate change skeptics can no longer use the word skeptic when describing themselves because it’s simply not true. I had previously published blog posts that were eerily similar.…
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