Acolytes,

An exciting week! First I had a YouTube hit (currently 20,000+ views, linked by Gawker, Buzzfeed, Frisky and many other sites) and then I wrote an article for the Daily Beast in which I made peace with a rival young author.

SPERMBOARDED

Oh, the things I do for journalism... recently I visited a fancy Manhattan spa for a strange European beauty procedure: "Spermine" all over my face, which costs hundreds of dollars for non-journalists. Apparently guys are walking antioxidant factories, and the whole "it's good for your complexion, baby" line is TRUE! You really have to see this to believe it -- as 20,000 people already have!

Column: http://www.martybeckerman.com/spermboarded
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=954FiOkNHk8

MAKING PEACE WITH NICK MCDONELL

Between 2002-2004 I relentlessly bashed an author my age whose success I envied and resented. (My tirades appeared in New York Press, New York, the New York Daily News, New York Post, and every other publication with New York in the title.) We recently sat down for an interview, and I offered an olive branch, which you can read by clicking the link below:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-14/mea-culpa-kiddo/

All right, that's it for now. Remember: I've posted all of my non-book writing from 1998-2009 to my site, which you could -- and should -- spend the rest of your life reading/memorizing/cherishing.

Forever and a day,
Marty