05/21/2008: "Gawker"

Hi All,

So I get an email yesterday alerting me to the fact I'd showed up on Gawker. Gawker is this NY-based web-blog covering all sorts of stuff. It's ... I want to say 'tongue-in-cheek', but no, it's probably more snarky. I mean, that's sort of what it's known for. Anyway, so, that steroid piece got reprinted in The Guardian, a UK newspaper, over the weekend and Gawker got hold of it. And they did a post on the fight I had last year where I got pounded a little by Jonathan Ames, and there were lots of pictures, a lot of Fiona Apple, but anyway, I like the site and I read it weekly. I hadn't checked lately then I heard about this and I was so oddly thrilled---it's lame, yes, but I'm lame---that I emailed in a comment. But it was posted under an odd name as I'm not really going to join the site. The commenters are sort of their own cabal. I love the picture of the dog. I stopped reading the comments after I was called "pussy" and "a jackass": unsurprisingly, I was called those quite early in. If I read whatever else was posted by the commenters I'd probably go down to Fish Creek, the wildlife preserve running through the city, tie succulent beefsteaks to my shanks and lie in the bushes waiting for the wolves. Still, an odd thrill seeing it show up there:

http://gawker.com/391801/method-writer-takes-steroids-for-authenticity

All best, Craig.