About Bob Sassone

Bob Sassone is the editor of the critically-acclaimed web magazine Professor Barnhardt's Journal and a writer for several AOL/Weblogs, Inc sites, including TV Squad, Slashfood, and Adjab. His book Book, With Words and Pages, a collection of humor essays in a box, was released in August 2003.

A former columnist for North Shore Magazine and Cape Ann Weekly, he was also a section editor at Tripod.com and iUniverse.com. He has written about media and pop culture for several publications, including Salon,The Huffington Post, Esquire, McSweeney's, The Boston Herald, The Black Table, Ironminds, Compuserve, and other publications and sites. He was the creator and editor of the music magazine RPM (1990-92) and the television newsletter Channel Surfer Journal (1995-2000). He has been featured in USA Today, The Boston Herald, and Yahoo and has been a commentator on MSNBC and PBS.

He currently resides near Boston, MA, where he is working on his next book.

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Enough of the third person. Here's more info:

If I Had A MySpace Page

Well, first of all, my page would look like it was designed by tequila-fueled monkeys. But I'm talking about the content that most MySpace pages have: the favorites, the likes, the interests. I don't really have a section for all that stuff here, so if I had a MySpace page, here's what it would say.

Interests:

General: Writing, reading, tennis, baseball, eating pizza.
Writers: James Sallis, David Sedaris, Charles Bukowski, Ross MacDonald, Raymond Chandler, Andy Rooney, Isaac Asimov, Will Christopher Baer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dufresne, Rod Serling, Aaron Sorkin, Charles Schulz, more, more, more.
Film: It's A Wonderful Life, L.A. Confidential, Swingers, Out of Sight, Miracle On 34th Street, You've Got Mail, Say Anything, Evil Dead II, Havana, Three Days of the Condor, Bourne Identity/Supremecy, Tequila Sunrise, Back to the Future, Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven (remake), Memento, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Goldfinger.
TV: The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mad Men, Simpsons, Seinfeld, Twilight Zone, Looney Tunes cartoons, Magnum, P.I., West Wing, NewsRadio, Alias, Dinner For Five, MST3K, The Andy Griffith Show, Letterman, Boy Meets World, Eyes, Spenser: For Hire, Star Trek: TNG, Ed, It Takes A Thief, Columbo, M*A*S*H, Wings, The Rockford Files, The Daily Show, anything Amy Sedaris does, a ton more.
Music: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Rosemary Clooney, Marshall Crenshaw, The Police, Frank Zappa, Tommy Keene, Foo Fighters, Kevin Gilbert, Chris Isaak, Fountains Of Wayne, Sarah Vaughan, classical, movie soundtracks.

Details:

Status: Single
Orientation: Straight
Zodiac Sign: Gemini
Smoke/Drink: Two cigars a year/Yes
Children: Not that I know of 

Well, first of all, my page would look like it was designed by tequila-fueled monkeys. But I'm talking about the content that most MySpace pages have: the favorites, the likes, the interests. I don't really have a section for all that stuff here, so if I had a MySpace page, here's what it would say.

Interests:

General: Writing, reading, tennis, baseball, eating pizza.
Writers: James Sallis, David Sedaris, Charles Bukowski, Ross MacDonald, Raymond Chandler, Andy Rooney, Isaac Asimov, Will Christopher Baer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dufresne, Rod Serling, Aaron Sorkin, Charles Schulz, more, more, more.
Film: It's A Wonderful Life, L.A. Confidential, Swingers, Out of Sight, Miracle On 34th Street, You've Got Mail, Say Anything, Evil Dead II, Havana, Three Days of the Condor, Bourne Identity/Supremecy, Tequila Sunrise, Back to the Future, Rio Bravo, Ocean's Eleven (remake), Memento, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Goldfinger.
TV: The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mad Men, Simpsons, Seinfeld, Twilight Zone, Looney Tunes cartoons, Magnum, P.I., West Wing, NewsRadio, Alias, Dinner For Five, MST3K, The Andy Griffith Show, Letterman, Boy Meets World, Eyes, Spenser: For Hire, Star Trek: TNG, Ed, It Takes A Thief, Columbo, M*A*S*H, Wings, The Rockford Files, The Daily Show, anything Amy Sedaris does, a ton more.
Music: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Rosemary Clooney, Marshall Crenshaw, The Police, Frank Zappa, Tommy Keene, Foo Fighters, Kevin Gilbert, Chris Isaak, Fountains Of Wayne, Sarah Vaughan, classical, movie soundtracks.

Details:

Status: Single
Orientation: Straight
Zodiac Sign: Gemini
Smoke/Drink: Two cigars a year/Yes
Children: Not that I know of