Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Concert reviews and comics for a DC punk fanzine
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Of course
How is social media changing news?
By making physically printed publications obsolete
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Tintin
What does it mean to be a journalist?
To be able to successfully convey meaning to fellow humanoids
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
Anything on The Onion or The Hardtimes
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email , text or phone
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
I went from Windows to Mac in 2019
What's your favorite social network?
Facebook
Who do you wish followed you?
Time travelling extraterrestrials
Why did you become a journalist?
The constant jet set parties atop skyscrapers in Dubai
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
I DID write stories,poetry and comics for my high school literary magazine
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Jim DeKorne's book 'The Cracking Tower'
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Always keep reading and listening
When's the best time to pitch you?
Anytime
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Reviewing the Desert Daze Festival
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
To review a band playing at 6pm at a club in LA . No 'worst', really...
What's your favorite drink?
Several -Coca cola, mai tai, Baltika or Sapporo beer, spring water, ayahuasca
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
DoubleBlind Magazin
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Vintage Guitar Magazine
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That it usually pays decent money
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