Quote of the day, from Jessica Cutler, in this piece on her inspiring rags to riches story:
"I was only blogging for, what, less than two weeks?" she says. "Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them."
You know who I feel sorry for? People who think that the public interest in them is for any reason other than the fact that they are a scandalous train-wreck of a skank.
Posted by: Emily at August 16, 2004 07:05 PMDid you read the entire Washington Post article Frank? Naomi!!!
Posted by: Josh Maxwell at August 16, 2004 08:33 PM
*sigh* it surely is a hard life to be scandalous,
i don't know what i'd do with myself.
Early on in every blogger's life, one has to make the choice between getting famous or not having things put in one's butt.
Posted by: dave bug at August 16, 2004 11:50 PMDude, there's this thing called "The Punk Rock Minute" or something down here on Indie 103.1, and according to a friend of mine who was listening they just mentioned that "Dr. Frank is coming out with a new book!" or some such.
So, like, what is up with that?
Posted by: Matt Welch at August 17, 2004 01:52 AMHey, Matt, that's funny about the "punk rock minute." In a "worlds are colliding" way, I mean. It's a young adult novel. There has been some discussion of it, but I haven't said too much because I'm still trying to finish it. Tell your friends, though.
Posted by: Dr. Frank at August 17, 2004 04:11 PMMatt,
Here's a little something that appeared in the Sunday edition of the SF Chronicle...the Bay Area's own punk rock nanosecond:
Dr. Frank, songwriter for the Mr. T Experience and UC Berkeley history major, has completed a young adult novel, "King Dork," due in 2006. Says the punk musician turned author: "What I'm going for is an amalgam of Judy Blume, P.G. Wodehouse, Philip Roth, Agatha Christie and 'Behind the Music.'"
I find it amazing that in one paragraph the Chronicle made at least two mistakes: a) the young adult novel is apparently not yet completed, and b) King Dork, by Dr. Frank's previous accounts, should be published late 2004 or early 2005, not 2006 as reported.
Can't wait to read it!
Well, J. Francis, "completed" is a relative term, though maybe it shouldn't be. It won't be complete till an editor hacks away at it, for one thing, and I haven't yet delivered the full ms since I'm still sweating the small stuff on it. And it is likely that it won't actually be out till 2006 - the development/marketing curve for Big Publishing is pretty long.
Posted by: Dr. Frank at August 17, 2004 05:20 PMI stand corrected, relatively speaking. That will teach me to pick on the Chronicle, won’t it? I still can’t wait to read it. And I hope King Dork is snuggled up closely to Fudge-a-Mania on the shelves at Target (conveniently across the aisle from the Kabbalah bracelets).
Posted by: j francis at August 17, 2004 11:26 PMThe "it" that I can't wait to read is King Dork, not the Chronicle. I should have run that last entry by MY editors! ;)
Posted by: j francis at August 17, 2004 11:29 PM