03/20/2008: "Herald Article"

Hi All,

Well, an article from my home paper, the Calgary Herald. Read it, why not? Or not. Again, that photo! Why do I let photographers talk me into embarrassing poses?

PHOTOG: Straddle the chair.

ME: Why? [Do it anyway.]

PHOTOG: Do you have any photos of you doing steroids? Pull up that old shirtless boxing photo on your computer, why not?

ME: Why? [Doing it anyway].

PHOTOG: [aside, to himself]: Now that you look like a complete, chair-straddling fool who, for all anyone knows, sits staring at half-naked pictures of himself on his computer all day ... now I can take a picture.

The article makes me sound like a douche, too. Then again, maybe I am a douche---sort of like hearing your voice on a tape player and saying, "Is THAT how I sound?" I don't feel like a douche, talking, but again, maybe so.

Another, more interesting photo sent to me today. It's on my MySpace page, where the tumbleweeds blow. There was a line in a Bret Easton book, THE INFORMERS, where a character says, "Ally Sheedy looks good beaten up." I think that's the same with me: I look better photoshopped to look beaten up. Plus it's the first time I've ever had my face on a magazine cover, and the first, and perhaps last, time my name will be above Harlan Coben and Michael Chabon's. Just once. It is enough. I think it's sort of neat-looking.

Thanks to Michelle from the Herald for conducting the interview.
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/reallife/story.html?id=9dcbab40-ad8b-40db-b261-c5548ed493f9

http://www.myspace.com/craig_b_davidson

All best, Craig.