October 2008
1 post
Definition of Cory Carroll: Too good for life!
It seems that veteran intern for about 2 months now, Cory Carroll is too good for all of us at Blackbook. He struts into the office in the morning, not only as an intern, but as a bank for his “bossman” Nick. Every day Nick orders Cory to go across the street and get him coffee and NOT ONLY does he not give him money, he makes him go with no pants on. Although, Cory does not seem to...
August 2008
6 posts
Goodbye, BlackBook!
After two incredible months at BlackBook, my time as an editorial intern has sadly come to an end. There have been many highlights during my time here, and just a couple of low-lights.
High-Lights:
- Blogging for the BlackBook website. Now Googling my name links to my articles rather than foreign porn sites and a list of all my high school activities.
- Events. I’ve gone to a VIP record release...
A Farewell Surprise
Spotted across the street from the lovely BlackBook offices, casually sipping on a caffeinated beverage: none other than the sometimes pirate, sometimes elf, always smoldering ORLANDO BLOOM. I have lived in New York my entire life and this is by far the biggest celebrity I have ever spotted (with the help of a gracious hint from Nick and Cayte). Today is my last day at BlackBook (tear, tear) and...
Life after BlackBook...
…just isn’t as exciting! I’ve been back in Texas for less than two weeks and I still am in denial that I won’t be back in the city for another couple of years. I come home expecting to walk everywhere, or hopstop directions to wherever I need to go, and then realize I need $40, which I don’t have, to put gas in a car I have no interest in driving. Where are the cabs...
A Happy Ending
Today I can barely walk my legs hurt so bad. Why? Because I spent the evening dancing the night away to welcome NYC’s newest arrival, my dear friend from back in Tampa, FL, Amy, who moved to the city yesterday! It’s always a good feeling to have one of “your people” close by when living in a new part of the country.
Staying true to my unpaid internship budget, I whisked...
Stepbrothers
Like any good Adam McKay flick, “Stepbrothers,” (starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly) gains credibility through laughing at itself. Ferrell and Reilly play two 40-year old men who are each still living at home with a parent. When their parents marry, they become stepbrothers, enemies, friends, and, ultimately, business partners. The film explores a pretty interesting dilemma that...
July 2008
48 posts
You're a Mean One, Mr. Hince...
Dear J”Hotel”H,
I effing love your band. I know you’re a big fancy rock star with a big fancy supermodel girlfriend and an international tour and bla bla bla. But give a poor little intern a break. Quit yanking my heart strings the way you’re doing.
DON’T TELL A PR PERSON TO CALL YOU BACK AT 3:30 KNOWING FULL WELL YOU WILL BE IN SOUND CHECK.
The interview has been...
Update—I’m (re)scheduled to interview Jamie Hince at 3:30 our time. Meaning in twenty-one minutes anybody’s time. Will let you know if it happens.—AG
Rock star schmock star
I’m in the process of being stood up by Jamie “Hotel” Hince. He won’t pick up the phone.
I should have known I wasn’t cool enough to talk to a real life badass rock star. I’ve threatened that I will quit my job if he doesn’t come through, which isn’t much of a threat considering it’s not a real job and it’s my last full day. At least...
Fader time?
I don’t know what fader time is. I don’t really care, either. All I know is it just saved me from eternal self-loathing and loss of journalistic integrity.
I was supposed to interview the Kills at eleven this morning. I fucking love them. I fought for this interview. Kinda. I didn’t have any competition, but I made it clear that I would fight for it if need be.
At 10:57 my...
In case you are poor in NYC...
What could be more exciting than a 4 hour trip to IKEA in Brooklyn with 3 other interns to pick up 10 folding chairs for the office?
How about the fact that IKEA sells all 3, breakfast, lunch, and dinner for under $5 in their food court. NOT even joking. 2 hot dogs, chips, and a soda for $2.50… people, you can’t find that anywhere these days. $1 for a nice hot cinn-a-bon. $1 for a...
presents!!
I just got my fanfriggintastic intern-of-the-week gifts:
NARS Super orgasm blush
Sephora electro glitter eye pencil (set of five.) (i wanted to buy this anyway!!!)
cute silver clutch-style Sephora bag
napoleon perdis lip primer
napoleon perdis skin primer
and apparently i had four nominations. which is delightfully mysterious, since i can think of maybe two people who i would have expected...
Sound Advice
Because it’s my last week with BlackBook, I sat down with editors B and N to discuss my performance this summer and any advice they have for my future as a struggling writer/editor.
Since this blog is supposed to offer guidance to other starry-eyed young hopefuls, I thought I’d share these inspirational gems:
Stop. Go into finance or something.
Get cooler friends, particularly ones...
The 7th Thing I Hate the Most about the Itunes'...
The Itunes Music Store’s Top Songs list, has started to become, to me, similar in nature to having a large train smash into my upper thighs, over and over again. Today, The Jonas Brothers, have finally reached peak position, (no pun intended towards the pristine and boning-free gentleman) with their rousing number, “Tonight.” This brilliant piece of music simply repeats,...
Lesson Learned
I’m just an intern. I do mass mailings. I unpack boxes. I offer to get lattes in the hopes that coffee runs will garner a good rec at the end of my four-month stint. But I’m lucky enough to intern for a publication that gives me editorial assignments instead of typical admin bullshit expected of bottom-rung feeders. And when prized opportunities arise, like doing red carpet interviews with Chris...
MGMT pool party in the rain
It started off like any other free summer concert in the city. I showed up two hours before the gates opened, got scorched in line, people cut and I swore under my breath that blood would be shed before I cut in line myself, and had to piss so bad but tried to “wait it out” for fear that for some miraculous reason the line would start to move any faster than 0.000013 MPH (phew that has...
tres tres
Other than the free food, free booze, and free entry to places I wouldn’t bother trying to go otherwise, my favorite part of representing BlackBook at events is the VIP treatment. There’s just something about having PR reps, too-cool-for-school people, and product pushers falling all over themselves to make sure you’re accommodated. And those beautiful words, “Oh,...
My First Errand
This afternoon, Abby, Katie, Chris and I went on nice summer stroll to the Madison Square post office. It was a gorgeous day—the sun was shining, the pigeons were aloft, and the Chrysler building thrust upwards into the clear blue sky like a sharp needle in a concrete haystack—and I was lucky enough to leave the dim office to mail bags and bags and bags of Blackbook mags to lucky...
BlackBook perks, cont.
Cool things via BBook this week:
Bubbly Q tonight. That would be a champagne-cum-bbq party at ICON.
Diesel Black Gold line debuts tomorrow, checking it out at 11:30.
INTERVIEWING THE KILLS ON THURSDAY. Translation: my dreams are coming true. Now I’m just waiting for that phone call from Jimmy Page telling me Zep only wants to reunite if I’ll be their roadie… —AG
Plus...
The endless cycle
Cyclists in this city piss me off in a way I’ve not encountered elsewhere. They assume all the rights and privileges of cars, driving in the road and keeping pedestrians from scurrying past the DON’T WALK sign. Fine, they are vehicles, they should do what other vehicles do.
BUT then they think they’re entitled to all the rights of pedestrians as well! They won’t just stop...
Last week for a lot of us. Weird. —AG
BlackBook Intern Fest 2008
Hello Interns,
I’ve finally nailed down our intern appreciation, end of summer extravaganza. It will be a catered BBQ dinner on a beautiful roof in the West Village. It will be held on THURSDAY, JULY 31st at 534 Hudson Street.
I will have more information to follow, but please clear your schedule!
-Cayte-
Cram for this exam
One of the expectations of being an “entertainment writer” is everyone expects you to know every lyric from every Bob Dylan or Patti Smith song and have every shitty indie album hyped by Pitchfork. Not to mention know who the hottest new directors and actors are and have read every book by Chuck Palahniuk or Hunter S. Thompson and know who the fuck Lauren Conrad is and watch every...
Hi, I like to write like GossipGirl.
update: L and I tried the Flash Power. N told us it had been sent to the office for free and is fair game. You should all try it during your afternoon slumps! Our verdict?
It smells like Red Bull, but tastes like a hugely improved version of it. It tastes less artificially sweet, and more like it has natural flavors. Is that actually the case? Fuck if I know. But it doesn’t make my teeth...
What is Flash Power energy drink?
It looks like the office won a life-time supply. Is it good? Are we interns allowed to try one of the million cans in the kitchen?
And where are you guys—someone other than me please post!
—AG
http://www.chanel.com/fashion/8-sequined-goat-sandals-with-functioning-bulb-heel—2,2,9,9#8-sequined-goat-sandals-with-functioning-bulb-heel—2,2,9,9
raise your hand if this ISN’T the coolest thing you’ve ever seen… —AG
Don’t worry, OG Res—we couldn’t remember last semester’s frat parties if you paid us.
What it means to be a grad-school intern:
One: Chronologically, it means that I’m older than dirt. It means that I have to strain to remember the frat parties and mixers I attended back when I was in undergrad, when I walked to class—barefoot, uphill, both ways, in the snow. I drown in a wave of nostalgia when I hear the others talk about the ragers awaiting them when they return to their colleges and universities. I...
Hey, Mid-East Siders—
Forget Saul Williams — Mary-Kate Olsen is Niggy Tardust!
you know you love us.
xoxo-
gossipintern
Did you guys know Trojan has come out with a line of office supplies? Oh, yes. I went to talk to a certain editor and noticed a giant Trojan box proudly displayed on top of his things, holding everything in place. “Gee whiz,” I thought, “What an innovative paperweight. These BlackBookers are so ahead of the times.”
My editorial partner-in-crime intern with whom I share a...
Gypsy Death and You
“The sky is grey, the sand is grey, and the ocean is grey. And I feel right at home in this stunning monochrome, alone in my way.” - Ani DiFranco
It’s one of those days where your heart just feels heavy, and you feel like you might just start crying. I stepped out for lunch and the sky was feeling my pain, it was heavy and cloudy and thick, like it wanted to rain but...
Celebrity Sightings
Last Friday, mere steps from the beloved Blackbook office on 19th and Broadway, I saw Adrian Grenier emerge from a store…sigh…I nearly stopped in my tracks, and for a split second, his blue eyes were locked with mine. He was gripping a lanky blonde’s arm and I could hear her confused, high-pitched voice, “Wait. So we’ll first go to my friends and then go to...
I concur...
As a dark-haired girl who eats, I can’t agree with Abby more on this one. Furthermore, it’s disconcerting to read comments that refer to Ferrera as a “wetback.” Sometimes I’m amazed at how far our country (America) has come from its racist history and then I’m reminded how far we still have to go.
— Katie Parker
People think OUR vision of America is photoshopped or distorted? Hello, she plays Ugly friggin Betty and the girl is gorgeous. Her most famous role distorts her natural beauty, which is probably because she has a beautiful, curvy figure which is considered “ugly” in Hollywood. We showed her at her glowing, gorgeous best. Screw us, huh, we should have slapped some nasty glasses on her...
I would like to thank...
Apparently I’m BlackBook’s “Intern of the Week,” which I’m pretty stoked about considering I was always the kid at summer camp who was uber nice to everyone but didn’t ever once get “Worlds’ Smiliest Camper” or the “Super Radtacular Camper Award.” So, in essence I feel like this is karma finally working itself out. Thanks karma!
...
Res says: “I was fifteen minutes late which is a good chunk of time wasted.”
Don’t forget Resalin, in that time you could have been world famous, according to everyone’s favorite soup-can-silk-screen Pittsburgher.
It’s ten sixteen today, though, and no sign of you.
-AG
Young, Fabulous, and Broke
i feel like edie sedgwick. “poor little rich girl”. there may be something chic in theory about living the good life while having no money, but i wish i had a job to fund my sauvignon and marlboro habits. or i wish i were a big strong man who never had to opt for a taxi for safety’s sake.
-AG
Office Space
Perhaps it was 1982 when Dilbert, clad in a short-sleeved button-up and tie, climbed to the top of Paperwork Mountain, and read from a white dry-erase tablet the Golden Rules of Professionalism in a modulated office voice. The first and perhaps most important being: Thou Shalt NOT be late for WORK. For the most part, I follow this hallowed tenet. Five days a week, I rush like a madwoman in the...
My Life as an Intern
The word “intern” to me has always seemed to imply someone who is responsible for going on Starbucks runs, making copies, and pretty much doing the things that no one else in the office wants to do. Fortunately, more than half-way through my time here at BlackBook, I have not once taken any one’s coffee order and have not made a single Xerox. While not all of my duties as an editorial intern are...
Say wha?
Q: What do editorial interns do?
A: Well, besides the menial tasks of fact checking and researching upcoming articles for the magazine we get to do tons of the stuff like this blog for instance and my (fabulous) posts for the website. My most dreaded days, however, are the days where I’m asked to transcribe interviews >8-o !!!! (Enter Jaws theme music).
Well, I shouldn’t say...
I
For those of you who don’t know me, my existence can be summed up as such:
Yes, I am a die-hard, run-across-town-if-i-hear-where-she-is, stalker-grade Mary-Kate fanatic. Hey, we’re the same size and we both worship Zeppelin, leave me alone.
So today, I was sent on an errand to deliver a package to MK’s PR rep. I was so excited that I left, got back on the downtown train,...
For the Unconventional Intern
It was always my dream to move to New York City. The first time I took a vacation here 3 years ago, I remember flying over Manhattan and seeing the Statue of Liberty out the airplane window. It sounds so cheesy but I started to cry because I remember feeling like I was a part of something bigger now. My world was so small before (straight out of a small town in south Florida), and I always knew...
Get that foot in the door
http://www.summerinternships.com/
University of Dreams.
Sounds hokey, right? Well, that’s how a handful of us got our fabulous BBook internships. You really should check it out if you’re looking for a summer internship, especially if you’d like a placement advisor who will help professionally revise your resume…
—AG
