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I’ve made no secret of my admiration (read: worship) for The Daily Show, so it only makes sense that I would try to get an interview with one of the members of the show. Since the anchor and correspondents are all very busy, real live serious journalists, it wasn’t easy to turn the tables andContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: JAN. DAY 4 – SAMANTHA BEE”

If you don’t read MUG because you don’t live in New York or … well, that’s the only potentially good reason not to, actually. Anyway, if you don’t, you didn’t see today’s list of “What we’re dreading in 2005.” What a perfect day for such a list to appear — Inauguration Day! In fact, asContinue reading “I SECOND THAT EMOTION”

“Hey Aaron,” Lily said one day. “How would you like to do this model?” OK, maybe that wasn’t her exact wording, but today’s Gothamist Interview is, in fact, with a model. But not just any model, mind you. This is Saira (pronounced SI-ruh) Mohan, a Canadian model of Irish-French and Indian descent who is …Continue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: JAN. DAY 3 – SAIRA MOHAN”

Just when you thought Donald Trump had come down to earth … uhm … OK, I guess nobody ever thought that had happened. Still, after all the bashing Trump and producer Mark Burnett took after the last Apprentice finale, can a story like this really be anything more than a publicity stunt timed for tomorrowContinue reading “EVEN OMAROSA SINGING “WILKOMMEN” DOESN’T MAKE THIS A GOOD IDEA”

So at this point you may be asking, “Hey Aaron. How do you and Lily get so many fascinating people to do interviews with you? And you must know a little bit about everything because the people you talk to are so diverse.” Well, here’s a little secret … it’s all true. Lily and IContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: JAN. DAY 2 – RACHELLE SOCOL”

No rest for the weary. After the past several days of double- and weekend–blogging, today is the start of another series of Gothamist Interviews by my friend Lily and myself. We didn’t set out to do this, but this week turned into a bit of girl power representin’. We kick off with someone I metContinue reading “THE GOTHAMIST INTERVIEW: JAN. DAY 1 – ALEX BANDON”

But hopefully, The Conversation will make a return sometime in the future. For now, though, we always intended it to be a four-day thing, just like what they do at Slate. I suppose ours was really six since we spanned a weekend, or only three if you’re looking at work days but were off forContinue reading “ALL CONVERSATIONS MUST COME TO AN END”

Sadly, I wasn’t able to completely avoid Star Jones after all. When the show was over, my girlfriend wanted to turn on E!, and suddenly I find myself watching former ABC News woman and Monday Night Football sideline reporter Lisa Guerrero (and her ginormous breasts!) interviewing Star Jones. Oh poor Star. She had to getContinue reading “OH STAR! YOUR LIFE IS SO ROUGH. HOW DO YOU MANAGE IT ALL?”

I managed to avoid Joan and Melissa, Star and Kathie, and Al and Lisa and all the witless, inane banter from people who have no idea what they’re talking about, and then I did the little live blogging thing for all three hours. It turned out to be way easier than expected, probably because theContinue reading “LIVE BLOGGING THE GLOBES — LET THE PAIN BEGIN”

I’m always much more secure playing the guessing game before the Oscars than the Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press is such a relatively small group of people, it’s hard to predict what they’re ever going to do. While many of my predictions might as well have resulted from closing my eyes and saying “eenie,Continue reading “JUST FOR THE RECORD: GUESSING THE GLOBES”