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Since my photo runs in the paper and online, I use disguises from time to time to stay anonymous. I've been known to rock a Santa suit (when the season is right) or a beard, shades and white suit. It looks something like this ...
Erik Maza is a features reporter at the Baltimore Sun. He writes for several sections of the Sun paper and contributes weekly columns on music and nightlife. He also writes and edits the Midnight Sun blog. He often covers entertainment, business, and the business of entertainment. Occasionally, he writes about Four Loko, The Block, the liquor board, and those who practice "simulated sex with a potted palm tree." Before The Sun, he was a reporter at the Miami New Times. He's also written for Miami magazine, the Orlando Sentinel, the Sarasota Herald Tribune and the Gainesville Sun. Got tips? Gripes? Pitches? He's reachable at erik.maza@baltsun.com. Click here to keep up with the dumb music he's listening to.
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Comments
This is awesome. I had no idea about this guy. Thanks for this.
Posted by: Nikc Bonerz | August 18, 2010 12:06 AM
I thought this might be the trailer for the Joaquin Phoenix documentary.
Posted by: Sturmy | August 18, 2010 9:14 AM
@Nikc -- You gotta watch this awards ceremony performance he did a couple years ago. Pretty hilarious. I love the helium-filled ball:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0D0ZxjpbkM
Posted by: Sam Sessa | August 18, 2010 9:24 AM
Good idea with the disguise, Sam. You wouldn't want anyone to give you special treatment and thereby interfere with your no-holds-barred, bareknuckle style of bar reviewing and nightclub criticism. Journalistic ethics are a wild animal, I know. Maybe some bartender would recognize you, and then they'd give you a free beer, just for being your adorable self, and then you might find yourself "accidentally" overstating the number of tables in the bar by 6, or, god forbid, describing their beer list in far too charitable language ("No Coors Light here, folks!"... "It was refreshing to see Spaten, a medium-amber beer with just the slightest hint of hops, on the menu").
Phew.
Posted by: Harvey Duncan | August 18, 2010 1:26 PM
Sturmy,
That's the funniest thing I've heard all day. Thank you.
Mark Twain
Posted by: Mark Twain | August 18, 2010 8:58 PM