>>Erik: Who inspires you?
>>Mark: There are many inspirations. When
I really started writing and doing it consistently,
it was in the early 2000s. I had always written
on the side and done things occasionally here
and there.
>>Erik: When the blogs came out.
>>Mark: When I blogged consistently on a daily
basis, multiple times a day, and spend hours
honing that, one of the people that really
inspired me in terms of writing and who was
writing very differently at the time was a
guy named Chuck Klosterman. He`s an author
done books such as ``Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs``
He wrote an amazing column for Spin Magazine
and also did a great columns for Esquire Magazine.
He was an amazingly talented writer and someone
who wrote really differently. Personally,
a lot of writing I read up until that time
was, you could tell it was filtered through
a number of editors and had been watered down.
He had a really distinct voice and really
kind of funny and novel way to approach pop
culture. He has always been an inspiration
to me.
