Friday, November 28, 2008

Me and Malcolm Gladwell

For those of you into that sort of thing, the new issue of Fashion magazine contains a short interview I did with zeitgeist trawler and afro enthusiast Malcolm Gladwell on his new book, Outliers: The Story of Success.

If you do come across it, please note how cleverly I was able to write the piece without ever letting slip what I actually thought of the book.*

That’s called “paying the rent.”





* let's just say it took me a few days to get the smell of snake oil out of my clothes...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hahahahaha. Hmmm...doesn't lemon juice remove the smell of snake oil from a shirt? Or does it make it even worse?

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