Me with a 102 degree fever, chatting with CNN’s Howard Kurtz

I spent a week in LA doing LA-y sorts of things, during which time I managed to pick up some kind of very enthusiastic pathogen, something resembling the black plague but worse. When I got back to New York I decided to dedicate myself to some really focused, bed-centric sweating and shivering. At some point during the week I got an email asking if I’d like to come in and chat with Howard Kurtz, host of CNN’s Reliable Sources, because he’d read my Salon essay and wanted to interview me about it. Yes, cough cough gack, I cough cough gacked, that would be great. In the end they were kind enough to send a very nice limo to pick me up at home, put enough makeup on me to make it appear that I still had a pulse, and then drove me back home again so I could suffer for a few more days. Howard was very nice and we had a great discussion both on and off-camera. Or perhaps that was all a fever-induced hallucination. Evidence suggests that in real life he’s not half chicken.

 

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