Modified On January 2, 2006
Hop on over and read the interview with Patton Oswalt on website/chat board/portal Aspecialthing.com, in which Oswalt displays his special talent for remembering details from incidents that occurred in his formative (comedy) years. (Especially interesting for those of us familiar with the setting of some of his stories.)
The graf that caught our eye was the one about the New Media:
The other thing that’s really exciting now is the Internet. I don’t think things would’ve been as bad, even on the East Coast, even in D.C., if the Internet had been around. Because now, with sites like aspecialthing, and blowupthemoon, and Shecky Magazine, and Cringe Humor, even though a lot of them are at odds philosophically, it is a subjective, critical look at this art form. And it’s treated as an art form. It reminds me of the early, stapled-together punk zines, or Cream (sic) Magazine, where you had people that were really passionate about what they loved and what they hated. You don’t need to agree with everything.
We’re thrilled to be compared to Creem.We stumbled across the interview (and the reference to us) after following a thread off their chatboard. Someone posted that “Shecky are a bunch of big meanie heads” after reading what we posted about the debut of Comedy Central’s Comedians of Comedy. In our defense, our posting about Mr.Oswalt and his show was reasoned, somewhat positive and hardly enough to earn us the title of “meanyhead.” Unless it’s a (misspelled) attempt to portray us as fans of Kevin Meaney, in which case, we plead guilty.