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Title: 

Mr

First Name: 

Paul

Last Name: 

Carr

Location: 

London

Country: 

United Kingdom

About Me: 

“Carr is funny enough that you can almost forgive him.” - Mil Millington Paul Carr is a writer and journalist, specialising in media and popular culture. A former Guardian media columnist, he also edited various publications and founded numerous businesses with varying degrees of abysmal failure. After getting fired from every job he’d ever had - including at least two where he was his own boss - he realised it was easier to write about other people’s success than to have any of his own. Bringing Nothing To The Party: True Confessions Of A New Media Whore, the bizarre story of his not-entirely-successful attempt to become a famous Internet billionaire, will be published in July 2008 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. He has been described as ‘a latter-day Jonathan Swift’ by the Christian Science Monitor, ‘Hilariously cynical’ by the Observer, ‘Brilliant’ by i-D magazine and ‘capable of inciting violence’ by the Obscene Publications Squad (really) His favourite drink is dark rum and Diet Coke - despite repeated attempts to convince him that mixed drinks aren’t proper drinks, he worked as a magician for four years, is a sucker for a heist movie, wears an Obama ‘08 wristband (it broke), has a guilty crush on Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks, knows the lyrics to every Barenaked Ladies song and every novelty rap from the early-to-mid 90s - and he would have Aaron Sorkin’s baby (except it would probably be cancelled after eight months). He divides his time between London, mainland Europe and the USA - which makes him technically homeless. He is 28-years-old and resolutely NSFW.

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