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Hal Niedzviecki's Blog
November 17, 2009
- I start off my book The Peep Diaries by noting that the 2008 word of the year as identified by the Webster’s New World Dictionary was Overshare. (Read the original blog post here.) Now the new Oxford American Dictionary has stepped up to the plate to preach the new lexicon of Peep to the linguistically inventive masses, giving us Unfriend as their 2009 word of the year. (Lamely, Webster’s ...
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November 8, 2009
- For more on my book The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning To Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors visit http://thepeepdiaries.com There’s so much Peep culture in the daily news, I can barely read it all, let alone blog about it. And yet I know I should be doing a way better job of getting everything that’s happening out there onto the blog. But I just can’t keep up. I need an ...
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November 4, 2009
- Visit http://thepeepdiaries.com for complete info on the book, the documentary and more Last week, director Sally brought the film crew over the house to film a scene she’d come up with. The plan was to record me making a sandwich. No big deal for me. I’d already napped, urinated, played Scrabble, gotten drunk, wandered around half naked, made spaghetti and pretty much done ...
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November 3, 2009
- Hi everyone, I’m really excited about the Peep event I’m doing in Houston tonight. It’s part of the Annual Jewish Books & Arts Fair at the Jewish Community Centre there, and it’s also a special event for 21–40 year olds. You get drinks, snacks, a copy of The Peep Diaries and, best of all of course, an evening with Hal all for only $15! What a deal! What a night. Hope to see you ...
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October 23, 2009
- Hi everyone. The interactive International Festival of Authors party “Peep Show” is tonight. I will be your host for this weird and wacky and, with your help, wonderful, event. Doors open at 9:30 at the Brigantine Room. If you don’t already have a ticket, you can get one at the door. So I hope to see as many of you as possible tonight. But if for some sad sad reason you can’t make it ...
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August 1, 2009
- http://thepeepdiaries.comOkay, I’m on the last leg of my flight back to Los Angeles. I’ll fill you in on all that’s been happening so far, at least the highlights. Got into LA Tuesday. Actually pretty hilarious arrival since director Sally and shoot assistant Melanie (aka “the Hotness”) managed to miss the connecting flight due to a sudden thirst for Jamba Juice. No damage done, they ...
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August 1, 2009
- I’m on the plane to Los Angeles via Denver. Yesterday was a crazy day, trying to tie up loose ends, film my “reality tv casting tape” with director Sally, and find some time to work on/figure out the peep themed monologue I’m going to deliver Thursday night in Washington DC. Didn’t get to bed till 1am and was up at 5:30, but other than that, I feel like I’m in decent shape going ...
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July 26, 2009
July 13, 2009
- from http://thepeepdiaries.com All this documentary peeping is playing havoc with my blog peeping. We’ve been working 12 to 15 hour days, getting up early, going to bed late, and I just haven’t been able to sit down to a blog post. And it didn’t help that I accepted a last minute assignment from the Globe and Mail to review Free, the new book by Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson, who ...
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July 1, 2009
- from http://thepeepdiaries.com He went the way he lived, veiled in bizarre secrecy even as the entire world wanted to know everything. Michael Jackson, king of pop, who thrilled me and my teenage cohorts with the audacious creation of a half-million dollar 14 minute music video complete with choreographed zombie dancing, is dead at 50. He will be remembered as much for Billie Jean and ABC as ...
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June 25, 2009
- This is You…This Could Be You….Broken Pencil Summer Sale and Fantasy Party I interrupt the normal flow of peep info and debate to bring you breaking exciting news from Broken Pencil, the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts. (I’m the publisher and the fiction editor of this amazing mag!) We’re having a summer sale and contest. Sign up now for a $10 subscription ...
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June 25, 2009
- Last night my brother was watching the 6pm broadcast of the CBC (Canadian Broadcast Company) news with his 12 year old son. They showed one of the videos currently sweeping through YouTube that captures the last gruesome moments of life of Neda Agha-Soltan, shot dead by persons unknown while walking the fringes of the protests against Iranian’s repressive pseudo democracy. My brother, who had ...
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June 16, 2009
- from http://thepeepdiaries.com So there’s an article in Forbes right now about The Hidden Cost of Privacy. It makes an interesting point which dovetail with my own thoughts about privacy in the corporate age. The article argues that most privacy laws achieve very little and actually desensitize the consumer: “On the one hand, laws designed to keep consumers apprised of privacy issues have ...
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June 12, 2009
- The Peep Diaries has been chosen by O Magazine as one of the “25 Books You Can’t Put Down” this summer. There’s a paragraph about the book in the July issue on stands now, and online here there’s an excerpt from the book and a reader’s guide with discussion questions for book clubs. Thanks Oprah! Actually I’m not sure that Oprah has gotten around to reading ...
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June 12, 2009
- When should the public visual record of your kid’s life start? This is a tricky question, sort of like “Does life begin at conception, at a certain point in pregnancy, or at the moment of birth”? I’m not going to touch that one with a 200 hundred foot pole. But if you want to have a permament public record of your precious little star’s life, when do you start? Do you start with the ...
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