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Mallory Dichtey
My friend Mallory is the new Cobrasnake photographer and she was at the Family Guy 100th episode party last night. Congrats, girl.
The green arrow is me
Soo, I know you’re all just dying to know what it is I’m doing here in the Big Bad City. So far, aside from seeing the big Stephen Shore exhibit at ICP and spending an afternoon at Dashwood Books with Christian, I’ve done absolutely nothing photography-related. Shen Wei and Amy Elkins both have had an opening and closing respectively, and I was unable to go to either and I still haven’t seen the Nina Berman show at jb, let along the thousands of other things there are to do and see in this place every single week. I’ve also flaked on Elizabeth Weinberg twice.
So what have I been doing? Well. After staying at Emily Grenader’s aparment for a little over a week (the cat and I are best friends), I finally moved into this ridiculous building called “The Tea Factory,” (because it used to be one, the landlord told me) on Stockholm in Bushwick. I wouldn’t have named it that and also I’m sort of like the very posterboy of gentrification, but these are the things I’m going to try not to think too much about. But anyway, the place is awesome and my roommate (I brought him with me from DC) is awesome and I’m pretty happy with it. Pictures will come as soon as it’s not such a ridiculous fucking mess.
I’m still working for Wonkette, I may have a monthly feature there pretty soon, which would be pretty exciting and hopefully hilarious. I also picked up a second and more lucrative but perhaps lessed prized blogging gig for the political news site Raw Story. What’s cool about that one is I get bylines from time to time and can do some freelance reporting for extra money. Most significantly though, I was just hired as an assistant for Katie Brown, public television’s home and gardening empress. This is a semi-creative position that going to involve a lot of writing and production work, some photography and probably a whole lot getting coffee and stuff. Most importantly: salary and benefits.
I’m not any less committed to photography. I’m still taking pictures constantly, my new series is almost finished.
On a day that has taken both Ingmar Bergman and Tom Snyder from us, I want to make note of the passing of Marvin Zindler, a commentator on ABC 13 Eyewitness News in Houston, TX. Regularly contributing to the newscast since 1973, Zindler was a local personality rivaled in ubiquity only by Furniture tycoon Mattress Max. Zindler’s crusading weekly report “Slime in the Ice Machine,” had such credibility as to decided the fate of dining establishments who failed to ensure they were up to snuff. Zindler was certainly feared by some, by respected - nay - adored, by most. The vacuum he leaves in Houston’s broadcasting community is undeniable but he will continue to live on in our hearts and, of course, in our ice machines.
Well, maybe funny. Fox News is getting ready to try out a “Daily Show”-esque political satire show that leans right instead of left, according to Hollywood Reporter, via the HuffPo. It’s going to have writers from “24,” “Politically Incorrect with Bill Mahr” and the “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson”. So you know it’s going to be hilarious.
I, for one, welcome this new program which for now is called, “This Just In.” After the repudiation of their world view, I appreciate that Fox is trying to get creative with their programming. I mean, they have 24 hours of airtime to fill with hatred and bile and lies, so I’m glad that they’re thinking about making it funny as opposed to infuriating. They still call themselves a news network; they may as well admit it’s just a joke.
