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Sep.30.2010 The Peep Diaries at Vancouver's Canzine West Peep Comes to Vancouver Hey everyone, I’ll be doing a Peep talk in Vancouver as part of Canzine West: festival of zines and underground culture. I’ll be talking about the rise of Peep Culture and exploring Peep phenomenon specifically as they pertain to independent culture creators, namely: is...	Mar.18.2010 The Immortal (Until Melting) Peep Peepy and I were in Arizona recently for the Tucson Festival of Books . . . It was a FABULOUS festival, and Peepy made lots of charming new friends . . . There were over 76,892 (or 450) authors at the festival, including a slew of children's authors like Robin Brande and 50% of the Baby...
Feb.23.2010 Peep in the News: ChatRoulette Everything I think I’ve hit the ultimate peep phenomenon, the one thing that totally conveys everything there is to convey about Peep Culture, something new comes up. In this case, it’s ChatRoulette, a site that is spawning all kinds of articles, blog posts and states of excitement. On ChatRoulette...	Nov.17.2009 Unfriend is the Word of the Year I start off my book The Peep Diaries by noting that the 2008 word of the year as identified by the Webster’s New World Dictionary was Overshare. (Read the original blog post here.) Now the new Oxford American Dictionary has stepped up to the plate to preach the new lexicon of Peep to the...
Aug.01.2009 On the Set of Fox Reality's Solitary: Hal Enters The Pod http://thepeepdiaries.com Okay, I’m on the last leg of my flight back to Los Angeles. I’ll fill you in on all that’s been happening so far, at least the highlights. Got into LA Tuesday. Actually pretty hilarious arrival since director Sally and shoot assistant Melanie (aka “the Hotness”) managed...	Aug.01.2009 Los Angeles via Denver I’m on the plane to Los Angeles via Denver. Yesterday was a crazy day, trying to tie up loose ends, film my “reality tv casting tape” with director Sally, and find some time to work on/figure out the peep themed monologue I’m going to deliver Thursday night in Washington DC. Didn’t get to bed till...
Jul.01.2009 Michael Jackson: The King of PEEP from http://thepeepdiaries.com He went the way he lived, veiled in bizarre secrecy even as the entire world wanted to know everything. Michael Jackson, king of pop, who thrilled me and my teenage cohorts with the audacious creation of a half-million dollar 14 minute music video complete with...	Jun.14.2009 Peep Culture and Fiction In this era of the confessional--what Hal Niedzviecki calls our "peep culture"-- when people's sense of privacy and decorum seems antiquated, a dusty old thing from the Nineteenth Century, is there a place for the interior in fiction? In today's San Francisco Chronicle, a mother gives...
May.22.2009 Hal in the Shower: Peep Documentary Update http://thepeepdiaries.com Tuesday was the first official day of documentary shooting. The idea for this first day was just to show my relatively mundane boring life, pre-peep. I got E. dressed, the whole family had breakfast (actually our second breakfast since this was around 10 am and E. wakes...