We’re going to start a slightly off-topic new segment here on Life’s a Pitch <\/i>called “Things Amanda Cannot Even a Little Bit Handle.” Feel free to pitch content you don’t think I will be able to handle. Let’s begin:<\/p>\n
<\/object><\/p>\nThe logic here appears to be that if there had been a relationship column in The New York Post<\/i> for Ashley Dupre to read when she was growing up, she would not have become a prostitute. It follows, then, that Dupre should be the one dispensing advice to other would-be escorts so they can learn from her mistakes. Excuse me: from her “experiences.” Presumably, at no point will these young readers think to themselves, “Men paid her for sex and now she has her own make-up crew and newspaper column.” <\/p>\n“Is there tell-tale signs that your husband isn’t happy in his marriage?” Yes there be!<\/p>\n“There’s nothing better than learning from someone else’s experiences.” I’m not sure that’s how the expression goes?<\/p>\nAt least this unmitigated disaster gives me the opportunity to tell you that on Friday, a publicist colleague suggested I write “the next great Sex and the City <\/i>type trashy beach novel.” Clearly the life of a classical music publicist promises as much if not more excitement than that of a sex columnist, so I’m fairly to moderately certain the unwritten Flacks and the City <\/i>will get its own HBO series. When I asked my colleague\/friend who would play me, she said “Isn’t it obvious? Why, Megan Fox of course.” I suppose that makes sense: Megan Fox has brown hair, I have brown hair! Megan Fox has brown eyes, I have brown eyes! Wait – I said “hair” already, right? And let’s not forget we’re both women. <\/p>\nSo Megan Fox will have to follow me around for at least a year, I figure, and my clients and artist friends will all get lots of on-screen time, so everyone wins. Right, so I’m here, HBO, if you’d like to throw the idea ball around some time.<\/p>\nB<\/i>logger’s note: I’m told Megan Fox actually has blue eyes, so sadly, we’re down to two things in common. -AA<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’re going to start a slightly off-topic new segment here on Life’s a Pitch called “Things Amanda Cannot Even a Little Bit Handle.” Feel free to pitch content you don’t think I will be able to handle. Let’s begin: The logic here appears to be that if there had been a relationship column in The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The logic here appears to be that if there had been a relationship column in The New York Post<\/i> for Ashley Dupre to read when she was growing up, she would not have become a prostitute. It follows, then, that Dupre should be the one dispensing advice to other would-be escorts so they can learn from her mistakes. Excuse me: from her “experiences.” Presumably, at no point will these young readers think to themselves, “Men paid her for sex and now she has her own make-up crew and newspaper column.” <\/p>\n
“Is there tell-tale signs that your husband isn’t happy in his marriage?” Yes there be!<\/p>\n
“There’s nothing better than learning from someone else’s experiences.” I’m not sure that’s how the expression goes?<\/p>\n
At least this unmitigated disaster gives me the opportunity to tell you that on Friday, a publicist colleague suggested I write “the next great Sex and the City <\/i>type trashy beach novel.” Clearly the life of a classical music publicist promises as much if not more excitement than that of a sex columnist, so I’m fairly to moderately certain the unwritten Flacks and the City <\/i>will get its own HBO series. When I asked my colleague\/friend who would play me, she said “Isn’t it obvious? Why, Megan Fox of course.” I suppose that makes sense: Megan Fox has brown hair, I have brown hair! Megan Fox has brown eyes, I have brown eyes! Wait – I said “hair” already, right? And let’s not forget we’re both women. <\/p>\n
So Megan Fox will have to follow me around for at least a year, I figure, and my clients and artist friends will all get lots of on-screen time, so everyone wins. Right, so I’m here, HBO, if you’d like to throw the idea ball around some time.<\/p>\n
B<\/i>logger’s note: I’m told Megan Fox actually has blue eyes, so sadly, we’re down to two things in common. -AA<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’re going to start a slightly off-topic new segment here on Life’s a Pitch called “Things Amanda Cannot Even a Little Bit Handle.” Feel free to pitch content you don’t think I will be able to handle. Let’s begin: The logic here appears to be that if there had been a relationship column in The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
We’re going to start a slightly off-topic new segment here on Life’s a Pitch called “Things Amanda Cannot Even a Little Bit Handle.” Feel free to pitch content you don’t think I will be able to handle. Let’s begin: The logic here appears to be that if there had been a relationship column in The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}