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True, Vice magazine’s editors probably think of skinheads as being passé, but Vice editor Gavin McInnes’ ironic racism and in-your-face nationalism echo the sentiments of young white supremacists everywhere: "I love being white and I think it’s something to be very proud of," he told the Times. "I don’t want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life."
It sounds like a stupid, jocular thing that VICE would write. But then again...
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... and @Foster Kamer beat me to the punch. You learn something new every day!
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It's the same sort of insecurity that drove you to be picked on in the first place, but the converse of it. Where you're still at heart insecure, which is why you get such a fucking rush out of being "manly", and of getting beaten up in underground boxing matches and lionizing fighting like every Vice issue does (fighting is sort of fun, but once you lose part of a precious, irreplaceable tooth the gleam goes off the fucking rose real fast). Some people eventually get over that, and just start being men.
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Throughout my 20s, when I was deeply into training in Japanese martial arts, I studied under a lot of very old men who have nothing left to prove to the world.
My conclusion from the whole experience is that "real men" of accomplishment and authority rarely have much to say about anything divisive.
I'm talking about men like Mikami ([www.lkakarate.com]), Oishi ([www.oishi-judo.com]), and Mori ([www.jkakarate.com]) -- witty, powerful, quiet, inscrutable, impermeable and always keeping the ethic and responsibility of power close to their hearts.
To me, the anti-hero worship of Vice, etc. (bikers, racists, terrorists, criminals, etc.) is just childish fantasy.
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Also, he's Canadian, so I think a lot of that 'love being white' schtick has a lot to do with sticking it to Americans.
I worked with McInnes years ago. He's a genuinely friendly, hilarious, bombastic dude.
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Not buying it.
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(1) I knew no one in New York media when I took my first MB class. My first assignment for my first class was my first NYT byline.
(2) I met one of my best friends in that class - Glynnis MacNicol. She's now the editor of FishbowlNY. Actually, come to think of it, her first assignment for that class was her first NYT byline, too. Also another good friend of ours who now works at the New York Post.
(3) I took four MB classes in total - boot camp for journalists, humor writing for journalists, screenwriting and sketch comedy. Still have great friends and contacts from all those classes (tho my script, alas, languishes on). Also, one teacher, Lynn Harris, got me my first assignment at Glamour (plus a standing invitation to High Holiday services).
(4) I was recently on an MB panel about breaking into journalism, and invited audience members to contact me. Someone did, and he had a great idea, and so I went back into those MB "How To Pitch" and "So What Do You Do?" files and found him the guidelines for the NYT City section, and then passed on the name and email of a terrific editor there. She took the story.
(5) My first job in media was with Mediabistro, writing FishbowlNY. I can source 2.5 boyfriends to that gig. Oh god, 3.5. I have to stop thinking lest I come up with more. Or feel compelled to define "boyfriend."
Point being, MediaBistro courses and panels can be very useful.
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And I pissed on their door.
Then I walked over to Asian Pub with my fly down, where a kind bouncer informed me, "Yo, you got piss on your fly. And zip it up, man."
Moral of the story: it costs nothing (except possible jail time and a fine of $75) to piss on someone's shit.
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They wanted to pay me a small hourly rate. The people who take my own, non-Media Bistro workshops, pay me several hundred dollars each. So, um, yeah. I would be taking a huge pay cut for no reason.
I think anyone who teaches for Media Bistro is a bit of a fool. Why give away your knowledge to make them money?
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You might first want to check out my certificate program on how to start a blogging school.
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I'm going to go smoke some cigarettes and vomit for a while so I can be ready for tonight's catwalk.
Afterwards, I'll be writing free articles for HuffPo.