Jenkins' Semi-Memoir

[tapintoamerica]

Lemonjello and Orangejello. Anybody remember their last name?

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Q&A with Texas Monthly.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/dan-jenkins-on-covering-sports?fullpage=1

 

[Armchair_QB]

Quite possibly the greatest paragraph ever written:

Here's how I want the phony little conniving, no-talent, preppiewad asshole of an editor to die: I lace his decaf with Seconal and strap him down in such a way that his head is fastened to my desk and I thump him at cheery intervals with the carriage on my Olympia standard. I'm a stubborn guy who still works on a geezer-codger manual anyhow, so I write a paragraph I admire, the kind he likes to deck around with, especially if it's my lead, then I slip the carriage at him, and whack -- he gets it in the temple, sometimes the ear. Yeah, it would be slow, but death by typewriter is what the forkhead deserves."

One of my all-time favorite books.

"I am NOT forking an Albanian, Jim Tom!"

 

[Riptide]

Grantland caught up with Jenkins, too.

Sound bite:

Jenkins loved being on deadline. Those three hours when he would sit at his typewriter, performing. When I visited him in Fort Worth, I asked why he didn't write more features. Why not spend a few weeks getting inside Lee Trevino's head?

"I don't know how to say this," Jenkins told me, "but I didn't want to spend that much time with anybody. I'm not Gary Smith. Gary Smith liked to dig deeper. fork that. I liked to take my first impression and roll."

http://grantland.com/features/dan-jenkins-pga-majors-masters-ben-hogan-golf-sports-writing/