Walken And Cruisin'

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When Gage and I did "data dumps" for Gawker [1] and Defamer [2] we never collected one red dime from them for our efforts. Nevermind that red dimes are not usually exchanged in any kind of work-for-no-pay agreement or that we only put forth a wooden nickel's worth of material. We finally got the call from an editor at Giant magazine who offered us $200 a pop for these retardometers. Holy shit, we thought, two of these a month would be easy work to make some extra beer and hooker money. Then we remembered how lazy we are. Fortunately we had one in the can ready to go for Defamer and it was an easy decision to pick which route to take. Money! Print! Legitimacy! Our Cruise/Walken Celebrity Face-Off chart made it into Giant's third issue which was on the newsstands this past January/February. Of course, we never got paid, many more people would have seen it on Defamer, and I'll be surprised if Giant publishes an issue #10.

One note about the chart, we originally compared Google hits for "[name]" + "gay" but they made us change it to the lamely "genius." As it stands now, the results for the original search phrase are:

1,740,000 for "tom cruise" gay
237,000 for "christopher walken" gay

Clarification: I should have said my contact at Giant gave me so many chances to be a regular contributor of data pieces but I squandered them all. (Sorry, Ben.) The re-design of the magazine looks great, may they live to see issue #100 and beyond. Also, I never got paid because I fucked-up the paperwork and never bothered to follow-up with them. Completely my fault. I used to do the same when I delivered the Washington Post in junior high. For some reason I hated going back to the houses to collect money. Such a pain in the ass.