I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyon... by Joel Stein

I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.

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When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

wine taste rose

The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

army order people

If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

vegas war america

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

taken people thinking

Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than hell.

luxury-hotels blue clouds

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.

class mean believe

When I lose my column again, I'm sure I'll get hungry again. Maybe it's having a kid, but it's probably just getting to do what I always wanted to do - I'm really not that hungry.

columns hungry kids

People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I wouldn't be good at it - which is true - but also just wanting to hold on to some part of my identity.

identity people thinking

As journalism dies, I kind of feel like I want some skills besides writing. I'd like to be able to write movies or host TV shows or whatever. Things that I might actually not inherently like quite as much, but are interesting and fun things to do. A good backup plan.

skills writing fun

Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other people. So that makes it more marketable.

college writing people

I'm good at marketing myself through the columns. But compared to other people I know, as far as networking and pushing yourself out there, I'm not very good at that.

networking marketing people

Being in New York and having worked at Time Out New York and then being at Time, living in New York for a long time has helped because I know everybody. And they're the people who call me and give me jobs. So that kind of real networking, which is just living in a place and having jobs where people around you are extremely successful, has helped me tremendously.

real new-york jobs

I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it. by Joel Stein

I love sushi, but I'm not going to write a column about it.

sushi columns writing

I'm not that clued into what people are that touchy about and how many of them there are and how niche these niches are.

touchy niche people

I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.

hate games boys

Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction. by Joel Stein

Online reaction is very different than real-world reaction.

different real world

You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online. by Joel Stein

You're not going to change anyone's mind. Especially online.

I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even h... by Joel Stein

I have a really high bar for being angry. Like, it doesn't even happen every year.

bars happens years

I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was insensitive, that would piss me off.

imagine disease writing

I've gotten thicker skin mostly from being older. You just stop caring quite as much about everything.

stop-caring skins caring