We spend too much time hanging around Demand Media Studios not to know each other better. Let’s fix that. Each week we’ll profile a DMS contributor or staffer and ask them 10 questions in our feature, aptly titled, 10 Things My Studio Bio Won’t Tell You. Here goes…
Blake’s Basset hound, Geraldine, destroyed his soccer ball during a vicious game of tug-of-war.
Name: Blake Guthrie, writer
Location: Rural Georgia, near the small town of Greensboro. I recently traded city life in Atlanta for a life in the country. It’s been quite an adjustment.
Sections I write for: Travel and Food.
Years in the Studio: Six. I started writing for Demand in Dec. 2007, when we emailed articles to studio staff members and payment came via snail mail.
1. I’m usually working hard, but when I’m hardly working, you can find me…
Hanging out with my Basset hound, Geraldine. She’s a low rider. I always sing that War song, “Low Rider,” to her. “All my friends know the low rider.”
2. If I had to describe my work in three words, they would be…
Writes too slow.
3. My favorite websites to waste time on are…
Facebook (how predictable) and the Onion — I love funny and well-written fake news stories.
4. The one thing I wish I could do well, but can’t is…
Write faster. Those who make it into the Ace Writer’s Club here amaze me.
5. If I ruled the world for a day I would…
Ban cell phones and mobile devices from pubs, restaurants, concert halls, music clubs, movie theaters, house parties and family holiday gatherings.
6. I couldn’t make it through the day without…
Coffee, Geraldine and catching up on the Daily Show/Colbert Report.
7. The greatest risk I ever took was…
Leaving the steady-paycheck-every-two-weeks world behind and becoming a freelancer, along with leaving the city to start a new life in the country. It’s been quite an adjustment.
8. You’ll catch me saying this phrase far too often …
“It’s been quite an adjustment.”
9. My theme song for life is…
“Is She Really Going Out With Him” by Joe Jackson. Not really a theme song, per se, but I sing it to myself more often than any other song, so there’s a continuing theme there somewhere.
10. My favorite movie of all time is…
Serious/romantic: “Cinema Paradiso.”
Stupid comedy: tie between “The Jerk” and “Idiocracy.”
Animal movie: “Ring of Bright Water” (most people have never heard of this British film from 1969, but it’s wonderful, in a sad but ultimately uplifting non-Disney kind of way).
