Well, I finally made it* into the hallowed pages of the New York Times (as noted by Gothamist and my cousin Nick Tang) in this article about the use and abuse of Japan as a culture in American movies.
Of course, while I'm quoted in the article (and they even included my italics), I'm not actually, ya know, mentioned by name....
Can't win, can I?
*after just about everyone else** I know made it first
**OK, that's not really true; it just seemed that way, and I'm not even counting my brother's mentions in the Washington Post, BBC.com, and the Smithsonian...
Well, congratulations anyhow! NYT is big time! Though, admittedly, would have seemed bigger had you been mentioned by name!
Not quoted by name? Then how the hell do we know it was you? Hey, everybody, I was quoted by name too! I'm an unnamed source deep inside the administration!
Ken, it's been long established that you were Deep Throat. Get over it.
Of course. The one article from Sunday I set aside to read after skimming the rest of the paper and sending it to recycling. Congrats! Maybe later this year your name will get into the paper too.
If you really want to get in the paper, you could just try killing someone. That seems to work fairly well.
But to get in the Times, you might have to kill Henry Kissinger or an ambulance crew or something. Hm. Maybe you should just stick to blogging after all.
PS: Where'd the TITLE-bar poetry go? I'm not satisified, and I want my money back!
The check is in the mail.