I can't complain but sometimes I still do
My national exposure from The Onion thus far has been limited to penning News Item pieces, but today I finally landed my first big interview story. It's with Paul Stanley from Kiss, and it originally ran in the Milwaukee Onion last week. Hope ya like it!
posted by Steve Hyden @ 10:56 AM
I can't complain but sometimes I still do
My name is Steve and I'm a newspaper reporter and writer living in northeast Wisconsin, which is just below the armpit created by the bulk of the state and the peninsula. I don't live in the actual armpit, which is Green Bay, which is a place where fat people sit on their porches and watch traffic go by when the Packers aren't in season. I live in Appleton, a place where slightly less fat people do slightly more interesting things, like watch NASCAR, which is traffic with better camera work. I like living here 79 percent of the time. I fancy myself a deep thinker, an iconoclast, a man who can enjoy both high and low culture. Think Chuck Klosterman with a dose of Jack Nicholson from "Five Easy Pieces." However, I suspect I am not nearly as cool as I think I am. I may in fact be a dork. For example, look at how I described myself a few sentences earlier. What can I say? I'm the guy who started listening to the Clash when he was 13 not because he was reacting against the repressive Republican regime he had lived under most of his life, but because John Cusack wore a Clash T-shirt in "Say Anything..."
2 Comments:
Mr. Hyden,
I'm on a recruiting mission for World Series of Pop Culture 2. If your boys from the Onion aren't participating, I'm gonna suck it up and apply again. First week of Feb. in Chicago. Drop me an e-mail, sucka.
Good interview, although I think we can all agree that picture of Paul Stanley would have been a lot better had he been completely topless...and wearing a cheesehead.
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