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Mal­lory Dichtey

My friend Mal­lory is the new Cobras­nake pho­tog­ra­pher and she was at the Fam­ily Guy 100^th 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.

Full Cov­er­age

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.