By Mark La Monica
The good people of Newsday and AM New York who employ me to write this blog for the week have been kind enough to print my mug on two different pages of the newspapers.
They also print excerpts of this blog in the Fashion Week sections of Newsday and AM New York. So basically, roughly 2.5 million people can see my mug and read my words on the printed pages of their hometown newspapers.
(I'm fully expecting my workspace to be littered with those mugshots from the paper upon my return to the regular world on Monday. I'd be upset otherwise).
As if that isn't famous enough, one of those printed pages found its way into some laminate and is tacked to the walls of the Cingular press room here in the tents. It's right up there with pages from the New York Times, the New York Post and the Daily News. Now every here can figure out who I am. This could be a problem, or it could work in my favor. Not sure yet.
This is a remarkable turn of events. I always wanted my face in the paper. I guess I just always expected it to be as the subject of a news story rather than as the author.
It's a strange, strange world.