If it’s in our local paper-of-record, then it must be true:
Dan Savage, editorial director of The Stranger and a syndicated columnist in Seattle, will be presented a Webby Special Achievement Award in New York City this month for an online-video project aimed at stopping bullying against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth. The Webby is considered the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, from websites to online film and video. Savage, 34, said he launched the “It Gets Better Project” last year…
Congrats on your de-aging!
Care to share the technology with the rest of us?
Eh, you’re still a fucking youngster. Enjoy it while you can.
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.
the portrait of dorian savage.
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.)
Can I change my age too? Fifty just isn’t doing it for me.
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.
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?
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…
damn, you are getting younger than me…. it fucking does get better!
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.
your five word acceptance speech?
hmmm dyslexia?
I thought you were in your twenties.
No, @15. He’s not 43 either.
Meh. Once you’re past your teens, nobody gives a shit how old you are anymore (unless you’re buying beer).
you are the prettiest ’34 year old’ ever, Dan.
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”.
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.
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!!
This means you lost your virginity at the age of 4.
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…
@22, fast on the draw
@23: Wait—that means I’m not fooling anybody? Damn it.
Your arms look 34
Oh, so THAT’S the secret of eternal youth!
*looks around for a newspaper to publish my “age”*
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.
BEG, my arms look 34 too. I’m not 34. I’m not 46, either.
Actually, that was sall. Sorry.
Good for you and your WMDs, Fifty-Two-Eighty.
I’ve got a pair of guns too and am also not 34 or 43.
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.
Exactly. Who are you to argue with that? LOL!
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.
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!
34? Well of course not. Everyone knows he’s only 29.
Sheesh, Seattle Times! Do your homework.
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.
We’re all 34 here!
I’ve seen Dan naked. He has the body of a 34 year old… (Lucky fucker)
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.
King5’s videos are shit. They grind away and grind away but never display.
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
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*??? )
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.
lol Dan. If you’re 34, I’m 14 and it’s 1999. Is it 1999?
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)
It gets bitter birthday card quote: “Oct. 7, 1964 – Daniel Keenan Savage, born in Chicago, becomes fabulous somewhat later.”
So if this paper wrote something about me, I’d be 22. Fuck it, I’m moving to Seattle!!
Such a shame though. They fixed it already.
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?
@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.
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?