As we attempt to aggregate all things Grueter, we have our first success: Someone searching for “Mark Grueter” has found his or her way to our site! (Yes, they may have been searching for the gay porn star of the same name, but we doubt it, and we’re not even sure that adult film star isn’t our Mark!) Check it:
Hi everybody! Mark Grueter is becoming a household name as a jurno, and lots of folks would like to keep up with his news, and learn more about the man. You demand, we supply!
First, there’s lots of info about this macho hack at his blog Hitchens Watch, or the site devoted to Mark and his pals, Hitchens Watch Watch. Good readin’!
Here’s a short interview with our functional alcoholic. Have fun!
Question 1: “Do you consider yourself a journo willing to be put under the same microscope you put Hitch under?”
Grueter graciously replies: If someone wants to scrutinize my stuff they are more than willing to do so. Any self-respecting person shouldn’t mind being ‘put under the microscope’.
Question 2: “Are you worried about sounding so vindictive and rejected if you ever got a job as a real writer and your bosses read what you’d written here?”
The Gruet replies: Apparently not. If I were, well, then, I guess I wouldn’t be writing here now, would I, genius?
Question 3: “And, this is a question that’s not supposed to sound sarcastic – what differentiates an anonymous internet person who watches a ‘household name’ from someone who is his or herself willing to be, or considered acceptable by law/socitey to be, ‘put under a microscope’?”
Our Man in Writer’s Siberia replies: Courage, I would imagine. Also, recklessness. A willingness to act as if you have nothing to lose.
