Savage, 34

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Congrats on your de-aging!
Care to share the technology with the rest of us?

moosefan on June 3, 2011 at 7:36 AM

Eh, you're still a fucking youngster. Enjoy it while you can.

Fifty-Two-Eighty on June 3, 2011 at 7:39 AM

Either the Times staff are in on the joke, or somebody really sucks at research, not sure which one amuses me more.

p.s. to Dan - I'm arguing assisted suicide on another forum in the wake of Kevorkian's death and linked your article on the subject, thanks for the great piece.

Amnt on June 3, 2011 at 7:57 AM

the portrait of dorian savage.

scary tyler moore on June 3, 2011 at 7:58 AM

Wow, I think I remember reading Savage Love in the Chicago Reader when in high school...which means Dan was writing it in when he was in junior high I guess. And puts his Thirty Years Ago post earlier this week in a kind of creepy light.

(Was Savage Love already in a Chicago paper in 91-92? Or am I completely misremembering/confusing my high school times with college times...as happens as you get 36...which I suppose Dan will learn soon.)

LogopolisMike on June 3, 2011 at 7:59 AM

Can I change my age too? Fifty just isn't doing it for me.

AKTheresa on June 3, 2011 at 8:05 AM

For someone who is so confident, self-assured, and so together, why are you so afraid of being your actual age? That has always seemed a disconnect to me. You had better embrace it, because nobody believes you are 34.

smackjab on June 3, 2011 at 8:14 AM

are they just going off that picture of Dan in a white t-shirt that always seems to accompany him wherever he's mentioned? do people think Dan Savage is just a sentient picture of a 34 year old man that gives sex advice?

Catface Meowmers on June 3, 2011 at 8:16 AM

34 - maybe they're using the metric system. Look who won last year - you're in such distinguished and fun company!
http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/specia…

gloomy gus on June 3, 2011 at 8:22 AM

damn, you are getting younger than me.... it fucking does get better!

CommonKnowledge on June 3, 2011 at 8:26 AM

Unless this is a joke, which seems kind of dumb, I can't fathom why they'd mention your age at all. Who cares?

You know how they say that for women, the legs are the last to go? I'd say for men it's the arms. Just keep those biceps looking like they do, and you'll always be a hottie to me, Dan.

Irena on June 3, 2011 at 8:28 AM

your five word acceptance speech?

Josh Bis on June 3, 2011 at 8:32 AM

hmmm dyslexia?

yourmom.com on June 3, 2011 at 8:34 AM

I thought you were in your twenties.

Vince on June 3, 2011 at 8:36 AM

No, @15. He's not 43 either.

Fifty-Two-Eighty on June 3, 2011 at 8:37 AM

Meh. Once you're past your teens, nobody gives a shit how old you are anymore (unless you're buying beer).

Urgutha Forka on June 3, 2011 at 8:40 AM

you are the prettiest '34 year old' ever, Dan.

Womyn2me on June 3, 2011 at 8:50 AM

Well at least you won't be disappointed when a twenty something says "Wow, you've got that premature grey thing going on. It makes you look 10 years older than I thought you would".

despicable me on June 3, 2011 at 8:53 AM

Oooh, Dan, can you print it in The Stranger that I'm 36, and while you're at it, that I weigh 136 pounds and make $136.000 a year?
Thanks.

nocutename on June 3, 2011 at 8:54 AM

Lemme see here. A little math...

Just the other day, you re-ran an article about your first sexual experience in 1981, 30 years ago. So that means you had sex when you were 4 years old?!? No wonder your pediatrician was so freaked out!! That explains everything.

Thanks, Seattle Times!!

Reverse Polarity on June 3, 2011 at 9:03 AM

This means you lost your virginity at the age of 4.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

sall on June 3, 2011 at 9:23 AM

@22, fast on the draw

sall on June 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM

@23: Wait—that means I'm not fooling anybody? Damn it.

Dan Savage on June 3, 2011 at 9:25 AM Stranger Staff

Your arms look 34

sall on June 3, 2011 at 9:26 AM

Oh, so THAT'S the secret of eternal youth!

*looks around for a newspaper to publish my "age"*

BEG on June 3, 2011 at 9:27 AM

Dan, I believed you when you said you were 34 about 5 years ago, and I still believe you now. I don't understand why so many people are so determined to call you out on this. Obviously you'd be the best authority on this.

Bojac6 on June 3, 2011 at 9:36 AM

BEG, my arms look 34 too. I'm not 34. I'm not 46, either.

Fifty-Two-Eighty on June 3, 2011 at 9:42 AM

Actually, that was sall. Sorry.

Fifty-Two-Eighty on June 3, 2011 at 9:44 AM

Good for you and your WMDs, Fifty-Two-Eighty.
I’ve got a pair of guns too and am also not 34 or 43.

sall on June 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM

Not that I'm trying to climb up Dan's gaping asshole, but I think he could pass for 34. He's a looker, thats why they don't mind putting him on CNN.

brandon on June 3, 2011 at 10:31 AM

Exactly. Who are you to argue with that? LOL!

on June 3, 2011 at 10:41 AM

Knowing that I'm a year older than you, I can certify that you must be 34, because I refuse to get older than 35.

angel in indy on June 3, 2011 at 10:57 AM

Well, OF COURSE Dan is 34! Haven't you people seen pictures of Terry? A hotty like that would never be with someone older than 34, naturally.

Dan, I believe you. I believed you when you said you were 34 years ago, and I will continue to believe you're 34 for at least another decade!

Sketch on June 3, 2011 at 11:24 AM

34? Well of course not. Everyone knows he's only 29.

Sheesh, Seattle Times! Do your homework.

saxfanatic on June 3, 2011 at 11:40 AM

I love Dan's effect on the world through his work, but it's nothing less than pathetic when a man doesn't own his age. Dudes improve with age anyway. Duh.

lewlew on June 3, 2011 at 11:52 AM

We're all 34 here!

very bad homo on June 3, 2011 at 12:09 PM

I've seen Dan naked. He has the body of a 34 year old... (Lucky fucker)

You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me on June 3, 2011 at 12:19 PM

If dudes improve with age, then jack kevorkian must be perfect for ya now, lewlew. Yeah, "improve"...being into olds is fetish territory, like emetophilia. It isn't terrible or good, but it's not statistically normal, and for very good reason. A man whose face has more lines than a frank stella or the bonneville salt flats is sooo...hot? Falling apart is so attractive....to some people.

on June 3, 2011 at 12:37 PM

King5's videos are shit. They grind away and grind away but never display.

Weekilter on June 3, 2011 at 12:50 PM

Dan -- Just adding this comment to make sure that search engines pick up the fact that you intentionally lied to our intern not once, but twice, about your age. The correction to her story on your achievement award will show up in digital searches of her work. I want to be sure her future employers know how the mistake happened. The Seattle Times erred by not catching it; you erred by scamming an intern.
Kathy Best, Managing Editor, The Seattle Times

kbest on June 3, 2011 at 12:53 PM

Oh come on. Dan's been perfectly clear about how old he is -- if you read his books there's question about that.

He's just having fun here. As are most of us.

(Oh hey... twelve years... are you trying to tell us that the secret to youthful good looks is *children*??? )

BEG on June 3, 2011 at 12:54 PM

I support Dan being 34, because that means I'm 34 as well. Take that, Kathy Best.

By The Way, Kathy, your paper is ridiculous. I would think having the Seattle Times on the intern's resume would be worse than believing Dan Savage to be 34.

Catalina Vel-DuRay on June 3, 2011 at 1:37 PM

lol Dan. If you're 34, I'm 14 and it's 1999. Is it 1999?

random_lez on June 3, 2011 at 3:23 PM

We'll all shake our heads with bemusement when people claim that the world is 6000 years old, but, to quote a previous post on here today) BITCH, PLEASE! (Spoken with all the love in the world)

RugbySkin on June 3, 2011 at 5:07 PM

It gets bitter birthday card quote: "Oct. 7, 1964 – Daniel Keenan Savage, born in Chicago, becomes fabulous somewhat later."

Rhett Oracle on June 3, 2011 at 7:21 PM

So if this paper wrote something about me, I'd be 22. Fuck it, I'm moving to Seattle!!

catballou on June 3, 2011 at 8:03 PM

Such a shame though. They fixed it already.

rockshrine on June 3, 2011 at 8:30 PM

I love how people are taking this so. damn. seriously. I'm notquitethirty (I get to do that for another month), and I already jokingly lie sometimes. 'Specially when people sound so surprised about where I am in my career for "such a young professional." I just laugh and tell them I'm a genius who finished my MA at 19 (seriously, the "best guess" as to my age by strangers has made it all the way up to 24...it's quite nice).

Oh, and Ms. Best, your intern would do well to learn to use the internets. If she can't quickly Google a public figure with lots of info about him on the internet before she interviews him, she's totally sunk. I thought kids today were tech savvy?

Ms. D on June 3, 2011 at 9:10 PM

@50 kids today are (sorta) tech savvy, but as someone who teaches research skills to college students I can tell you that they are not critical-thinking, critical-reading savvy, unless very carefully trained and highly motivated.

lori, ohio on June 4, 2011 at 5:57 AM

Meh...The joke's less funny to me because it happened at the expense of an intern. Internet or not, wouldn't you trust the person you're interviewing not to lie to you twice?

missgizmo on June 4, 2011 at 8:12 AM

@50 and @51: Even the most experienced journalist would likely not feel she had to go to public records to check the age of someone she was writing a positive article about and who had given her an age not once, but twice. She would reasonably expect the story subject to have some integrity.

Tony the Tiger on June 4, 2011 at 11:04 AM

@42, your comment only shows your ignorance of how search engines work. You'd need to include the intern's name in your comment for this page to pop up in any search likely to be done by a potential employer. Although it would be easier, and not inappropriate, to include in the correction itself a humorous bit about the fact that the intern was punked by Dan Savage. Especially as Dan is famous first not for any one achievement, but for personality - the kind of personality that drives him to pull this and other stunts. Or does the Seattle Times really have *no* room for a sense of humor, however small?

e. ebullient on June 4, 2011 at 11:24 AM

@54 Oh, they did include that... after a fashion...

"Information in this article, originally published June 2, 2011, was corrected June 3, 2011. A previous version of this story said Dan Savage was 34. Savage is 46. When Savage was asked for his age, he lied to the reporter twice, both times telling her he was 34."

"He lied to the reporter twice"--factually correct, but somewhat lacking in grace and sense of humor...

FFS, how can these people be so upset about something that's quite possibly the oldest white lie in the book? Okay, stereotypically it's women who lie about their age, but...

Sketch on June 5, 2011 at 4:51 AM

35

you know how that works, don't you?
Dan has to let Terri cheat all he wants.
And Dan pays all the bills.
Plus Dan wears two bags over his head when Terri fucks him.
with the lights off.

on June 5, 2011 at 12:32 PM

no one should blame the intern for believing Danny is 34...

http://images.nymag.com/arts/theater/fea…

us on June 5, 2011 at 12:39 PM

@54, 55: My guess is that the Seattle Times, like most newspapers, hates running corrections. Usually the reporter shoulders all the blame, but in this case Dan told the same "white lie" twice. So they're emphasizing that part of the story to shift the blame - and questions about their accuracy - off of themselves. Maybe they could have handled it more gracefully - but Dan did fudge the truth, and it is the Seattle Times we're talking about, so it's not too surprising how they responded.

skett on June 5, 2011 at 5:22 PM

And while it sucks the person he lied to was an intern, and pressumably young, but seriously, 34? 34?

skett on June 5, 2011 at 5:26 PM

Dan, you're the handsomest 46-year-old around, and you do great work through Savage Love and IGB. Own it. Be proud.

brendan on June 5, 2011 at 6:10 PM

@56 Don't extrapolate from your relationship to Dan's, mate.

@58 Oh, I guess that they're pissed, but I think this whole thing would be a lot less embarrassing for them if they had more of a sense of humor about it.

Sketch on June 6, 2011 at 7:36 AM

@50: Really? Isn't it a much bigger problem that people today regurgitate whatever they find in Wikipedia as fact, without checking it out? So in this case the reporter goes directly to the source, and he lies -- twice.

Asshole.

bigyaz on June 6, 2011 at 10:37 AM

Can I just say how much I love that "LIED TO SEATTLE TIMES INTERN(TWICE!)" is now part of Dan's byline?

Lissa on June 6, 2011 at 10:38 AM

@62 well it's certainly an asshole move to then make fun of the newspaper for it. seems like lying about your age is one of those permissible things to do though. :)

but mostly your comment shows some ignorance about Wikipedia. It's biggest sin is having disorganized articles, not being inaccurate over basics facts like birth year.

IowaIan on June 6, 2011 at 11:08 AM

It's almost like after reading years of bullshit right-wing editorials in the Seattle Times, Dan has contempt for that paper! Plus he's funny! Haw! I larf!

Puty on June 6, 2011 at 12:12 PM

Wow, a lot of people who read Slog have no clue what a 34 year old looks like.

flan on June 6, 2011 at 2:08 PM

Why the fuck did the intern feel the need to report his age in this story anyway? This isn't high school English class. Focus on relevant facts and get pissed if someone lies to you about those.

K3 on June 6, 2011 at 5:26 PM

It's a shame the Times is training it's interns to take whatever someone says on the phone as verified fact. I thought the point of being a journalist was to have some skepticism about interviews and to verify via other sources. Teaching someone to be a note-taker is not teaching journalism. Maybe this is the best lesson this interns will get while at the paper.

I Love IPA on June 6, 2011 at 5:33 PM

"Why the fuck did the intern feel the need to report his age in this story anyway? "

It is standard journalistic practice in dailies to report the age of the subject in this type of article. (for subjects that aren't reported on every day). Very common. If you read newspapers regularly, you'd know this.

Steven Bradford on June 6, 2011 at 9:34 PM

I'm happy to see that someone called bullshit on Dan. Sure, he's an uber-talented guy with amazing achievements. But he can also be an arrogant, self-righteous ass, as he clearly was in this case when he not only lied to the reporter, but then ridiculed her for believing him.

on June 6, 2011 at 10:26 PM

Harsh Realm! Eazy-E did it too, except he actually wanted people to believe it.

Larry Mizell, Jr. on June 8, 2011 at 11:16 AM Stranger Staff

Dan can be 34 and 46 at the same time: 46 in base 10. 34 in base 14. Or, if he wants to be 31, base 15. Or, with an amusingness factor of two, 22 in base 22. Too!

Math geeks rule.

Swobbie on June 27, 2012 at 1:43 AM

Savage, 34

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