The Travails of being a Writer

[Bub, Andrew]

A one-two punch to the glass jaw of any struggling writer/journalists out there...

1. http://www.salon.com/people/wire/2002/06/18/fisher/index.html
2. http://www.salon.com/people/wire/2002/06/18/pamela_anderson/index.html

He's down for the count!

[Bullhajj]

What are you complaining? Like you can't have an illicit affair with someone and then shoot their partner in the head if you wanted in on a piece of the action.

But, yeah, seriously. What a drag. When the media has to do this to sell stories, you know advertising is really in the toilet.

[Murph]

That's sickening.

Nothing like a total kick in the crotch like that. "I know there are a thousand struggling real writers out there, but we want Pamela Anderson instead."

Bastards.

[Ben Sones]

The real question is this: if Amy Fisher was 16 in 1992, as the Salon article says, how did she get to be 28 today? Was there some sort of time machine in that prison of hers?

[DavidCPA]

I think she was 16 in 1989.

Edit: I thought I read this somewhere but can't find it. The answer must be Ben's prison time machine idea.

-DavidCPA

[Reeko]

Of course, a time machine to the future in a prison would sort of defeat the purpose of the prison. :?

[DavidCPA]

Along the same lines but probably less offensive to writers on the board, Asia Carrera wrote the Adobe Photoshop 7.0 review in the July 2002 edition of Maximum PC magazine. I visit her site from time to time and I remember her mentioning in one of her bulletins that she was writing a Photoshop review for someone. I guess this was it. The review is pretty good and accurate as my wife recently upgraded to Photoshop 7 and is very happy with it.

The bulletins on Asia's site (www.asiacarrera.com) are pretty funny and interesting because she has a lighthearted view of her industry and has a keen interest in geeky stuff (PCs, software, games, etc). The travails of Asia and her recently deported English boyfriend are also a bit interesting much like the Shoot Club combo of Trevor and whateverhisnameis.

-DavidCPA

[Mark Asher]

Hey, that famous security guard Gary Coleman wrote for UGO.

[Ben Sones]

Actually, Asia Carrerais a huge computer nerd. She's pretty knowledgeable (or so I hear--I've never met her), and is apparently a vicious Unreal Tournament player.

[Jim Hoffman]

Who's Asia Carrera? Super model? Pr0n star?
I'm at work, and fear to go to the site of a woman with such a name.

[Mark Asher]

Porn star.

[Tyjenks]

Porn star.

I not sure what this is. All the movies I order for $10.99 on Pay-per-view or purchase at the video stores with the strangely sticky floors are adult films. Is she maybe an adult film star?

[Anonymous]

Excerpted from Jane's All the World's Pornography, 2001 Edition:

How to spot a porn addict in the field:

#17: Insists on calling porn flicks "Adult Films."
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[Tyjenks]

Excerpted from Jane's All the World's Pornography, 2001 Edition:

How to spot a porn addict in the field:

#17: Insists on calling porn flicks "Adult Films."


Excerpted from John Cryer's character in Andy Richter Rules the Universe:

"You caught me Fatlock!"

Sorry, I do not mean to offend anyone who is weight-challenged. I just thought that was a hilarious line.

[Anonymous]

Yeah THAT Asia Carrera, adult film star, porno star.. she reportedly is a card-carrying Mensa member as well.

--- Alan

[Anonymous]

I never met a card-carrying Mensa member that I could stand. Nothing bugs me more than smart people who are really excited and proud of how smart they are. Most of them are asses.

I went to a Mensa meeting once when an acquaintence of mine wanted to get me to join. It was like a whole room full of the people who work at the comic book store: condescending pricks who act like they're doing you a favor by talking to you. No THANKS.

I'm not saying Asia is that way, because hey, I don't know her. But I tend to think of Mensa as "the pompous club" more than "the smart club."

[Mark Asher]

I had a supervisor who was a Mensa member. She was scary. She was nuts, really nuts. She got a hate on for me and really started going after me through my work, really ripping it. I couldn't stand it anymore, so when she emailed me about our next little review session I talked to her boss and asked him to sit in. He agreed. She hated him even more than me, though, so this really set her off when I emailed her back agreeing to the meeting and mentioned I asked her boss to sit in and he agreed. So I'm sitting there in my cube and she comes up behind me -- I don't hear her -- and she raises my manuscript over her head and slams it down on my desk as hard as she could and then proceeds to cuss me out and then stalks off telling me she's reporting me to HR. Needless to say, the whole thing was unsettling.

Anyway, they fired her for being a psycho-freak after that event. The other tech writers and I got together in the break room and had a coke and sang Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, ha ha.

So, that's my experience with Mensa members. Brrrr!

[Bernie_Dy]

In Spanish, 'mensa' means stupid.

[Aszurom]

Actually, I met Asia Carerra. She was lurking around E3 about 3 years ago.

Remember Clan Crackwhore? She's a founding member, I do believe. Anyway, we talked some geeky stuff and I finally let on that I knew who she was - but we never talked about the Pr0n aspect of things. Wasn't really any need, considering that I haven't once partaken of any of her films.

Now, as for the subject of "Bimbos taking your writing jobs"... just remember - every time Pam Anderson writes an article, a trumpet sounds and editor gets its wings.

[Mark Asher]

Why should Pamela Anderson getting a column bother me? There are more than enough crappy professional writers clogging the market already. One more, trading on her name, doesn't make much difference.

[Jason McCullough]

'She got a hate on for me'

That's a phrase I haven't heard before.

On Pamela Andreson: who, exactly, are these people that like to read for entertainment and <ba>also[/b] will want to read something ghost^H^H^H^H^H^Hwritten by Pamela?

[Bub, Andrew]

Jason, shouldn't that be ghostwritten FOR Pamela? I'd hate to think Pamela Anderson might secretly be behind hundreds of other columns out there...

[Jason McCullough]

God, I hope not.