Journalism: My work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Globe & Mail (Canada), The Times- Picayune (New Orleans), The Oregonian, and Willamette Week, as well as in magazines including Details, Vogue, Publishers Weekly, and Portland Monthly.
Publishing: Tight Shot, my first novel, was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America. Its sequel, Hot Shot, was roundly ignored by everyone, but was a far better book. I'm also a member of the National Book Critics Circle.
Stage: I was a member of the Groundlings and Circle Repertory West in Los Angeles, and am a playwright (see "Stage" in the right-hand rail).
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Patty Friedmann: A Little Bit Ruined
One of the first post-Katrina novels, and probably destined to be one of the best. Friedmann's sequel to Eleanor Rushing finds her crazy heroine still holding everything together after the storm (after a fashion), until she has to leave New Orleans and she falls apart physically as well as mentally. Mordantly, morbidly funny.
Tom Piazza: Why New Orleans Matters
The best post-Katrina book I've read. In 150 small pages, Piazza explicates the New Orleans experience simply and beautifully. I'll be passing this one on to anyone who wonders "But why would anyone want to live there?".
It's Reddit, where readers submit links to various web pages (including blog posts) and other readers vote them up and down. The top two ranked items of recent vintage are displayed and linked on the front page of OregonLive. It can get those items a lot of traffic.
The no-arguing-with-assclown post was on Metroblogging, and it was a good one:
http://portland.metblogs.com/archives/2007/11/no_arguing_with.phtml
Posted by: Jack Bog | November 16, 2007 at 01:01 AM
Damn, that's the third most annoying internet ad I've ever seen. The entire page folds down so that I can't read the paper. Talk about assclowns.
Posted by: Frolic (aka Todd A. Price) | November 16, 2007 at 11:31 AM
That's priceless. And Frolic, not sure if you are in Portland or not, but if not, welcome to our pain of having to suffer through the Oregonian. Not that you'd want to read the Oregonian even if it wasn't obscured by the internet ad you refer to.
Posted by: Cuisine Bonne Femme | November 16, 2007 at 12:04 PM
That's priceless. And Frolic, not sure if you are in Portland or not, but if not, welcome to our pain of having to suffer through the Oregonian. Not that you'd want to read the Oregonian even if it wasn't obscured by the internet ad you refer to.
Posted by: Cuisine Bonne Femme | November 16, 2007 at 12:04 PM
What's an assclown and how do I avoid them. I would want to avoid them, right? Clowns scare me and assclowns, well, I don't want to go there.
Oh, wait, I Googled the definition. An assclown is: One, who, through the fault of his parents' conception, is a skid mark in society's collective underwear.
Nice.
Posted by: Joe Wilson | November 16, 2007 at 01:33 PM
I thought Portland, collectively, was a kind of underwear-free town. When did we vote on this?
Posted by: metroknow | November 16, 2007 at 02:33 PM
Heh heh heh.
No Arguing With Assclowns on the Internet Day (NAWACOTID) was the brainchild of Portland blogger Wacky Mommy. (The metroblogging post linked to the orginal.)
http://wackymommy.org/blog/archive/2007/11/14/hello_bitches/
NAWACOTID.com will be launched soon to chronicle to follies of internet trolls, cranks and kooks... you know, assclowns.
Posted by: Steve | November 27, 2007 at 04:00 PM
It might not be up there for much longer, but the current "hottest link" is titled "Oregonian: a Day Late and a Dollar Short."
Posted by: Steve | December 13, 2007 at 04:33 PM