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Diminutive, exploiter of dying old men-novelist and Detroit Free Press "columnist" Mitch Albom jumped up on a stack of a phone books in order to impart some moral judgment about sad recruitment faker Kevin Hart. Albom, pumped full of rock star ego thanks to Oprah Winfrey's fanbase embracing him like their personalized pookie doll, says the Hart situation casts an unflattering light upon society. I always find it startling that Albom stil has a job, but equally baffling is how the Free Press still lets him sit in harsh judgment of others, considering the fact that he's stepped on so many people for the sake of his own self-interest for a good portion of his career. But Mitch Albom obviously is hypersensitive to these types of things. He feels things differnetly than others. He does. He's an angel sent down from heaven disguised a 50-year-old man who dreses like a 12-year-old boy. God, I just want to flush him down the toilet. In this hoax, maybe the joke is on us [Free Press]
Poofy-Haired Gnome Takes Kevin Hart to Task
Diminutive, exploiter of dying old men-novelist and Detroit Free Press "columnist" Mitch Albom jumped up on a stack of a phone books in order to impart some moral judgment about sad recruitment faker Kevin Hart. Albom, pumped full of rock star ego thanks to Oprah Winfrey's fanbase embracing him like their personalized pookie doll, says the Hart situation casts an unflattering light upon society. I always find it startling that Albom stil has a job, but equally baffling is how the Free Press still lets him sit in harsh judgment of others, considering the fact that he's stepped on so many people for the sake of his own self-interest for a good portion of his career. But Mitch Albom obviously is hypersensitive to these types of things. He feels things differnetly than others. He does. He's an angel sent down from heaven disguised a 50-year-old man who dreses like a 12-year-old boy. God, I just want to flush him down the toilet. In this hoax, maybe the joke is on us [Free Press]
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Mitch Albom: Still Full Of Gooey Crap
Slate's Bryan Curtis, fine critic of brunch and one-time Deadspin contributor, uses his column this week to sink his claws into the infamous Mitch Albom, and he absolutely shreds him. Some highlights: More »
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Viva Los Mitch Albom Haters!
Those of you who hate Mitch Albom, be advised — your reason for living has returned. After a five-month layoff, the blog Mitch Albom is a Terrible Writer has returned — full of vim, vigor and gleeful contempt for its subject, the author and columnist for the Detroit Free Press. Excerpt:"Mitch Albom is a shithead. He just wrote a dreadfully insignificant article about John Lennon. To attempt to lend himself credibility, Albom notes that as a child he dreamt of becoming a musician. Instead, he became the worst writer of both the 20th and 21st centuries — quite a distinction."
We became familiar with this blog while doing research for Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks and were sad to see it had gone dark. So where has this blog been for five months? The author, who calls himself "Morrie Schwarzenegger," tells a tale of South American adventure and political intrigue that sounds suspiciously like the plot to the Russell Crowe movie Proof of Life. But anyway, he's back, and Mitch Albom might want to consider a restraining order. More »
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Sorry. We're Not Done With Mitch Albom Yet
Even though we wrote about it recently, we still can't stop thinking about that time Mitch Albom made up a bunch of stuff and turned it in as a column. Like, we're still supposed to read him after that. More »
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Why Your Hometown Columnist Sucks: Mitch Albom
To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, your local sports columnist is like Larry of the Three Stooges: You don't really need him, but it wouldn't be the same without him. We always vow to use our powers for good, so we part the newsprint curtain each Tuesday and examines a different lousy local columnist. Who knows — next we could be coming to your town. So for God's sake tidy up a little.If all of Mitch Albom's soccer mom fans were to gather in the same place at the same exact time, the resulting pressure on the earth's mantle could very well change our orbit around the sun. Albom could not be more popular with the SUV set if he set out in a rowboat and stopped Hurricane Katrina single-handedly, saving a few dolphins from fishing nets on the way back in. Best-selling author, composer, host of his own radio show — Albom is a cottage industry.
But then there is the actual writing. Let's step inside one of Albom's columns, shall we? Pandering? Laborious? Albom can be all of these and more. Of course you know that Mitch recently made up a bunch of crap in one of his columns, Jayson Blair style, and almost got canned. There's also the rumor about how Oakland University is refusing to send any more interns to his radio show because he once threw something at one of them, a la Russell Crowe. More »
