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What have you been up to since then?
A lot of people read Nerve and knew about it, so that helped me get a lot of freelance work. I designed various sites.I'm doing stuff with Ogilvy and Arnold, the two advertising companies in New York.
You were dating Rufus' sister at the time, and you're now married to Lorelei. Was that as awkward as it sounds?
No. I'll explain how it worked, and then you'll see it wasn't weird at all. Amanda and I were dating, and Lorelei was a coworker. It was sort of the standard thing where you're not supposed to date people in the office, you know? So we were coworkers for, I guess a year or two. Then Amanda and I broke up, and not long after that, it was sort of inevitable, a little flirtation around the office. Then at some party, we just found ourselves making out and stuff. And it was kind of great. By that time, Amanda and I had been broken up for probably six months to a year. So it wasn't awkward at all.
So, no scandal.
No scandal at all. And the only thing I thought was funny was, Lorelei would stay at my apartment and we'd take a cab to Nerve. She'd go up, and I'd go get a sandwich and come in five minutes later. We had that whole thing worked out. For some reason, we thought we had to keep it secret. It was kind of fun.
Yeah, actually, I was dating the photo editor who left a year ago, and still am. And that was the exact same story.
Well, tell me if this was the same. After about six months of that--maybe not quite six months, maybe three months--we were at a Nerve drinking event. And we were talking to the guy who ran the office, this guy Eric, and we were all drinking, it was late. And he was like, "You know, you guys aren't fooling anyone. Everyone knows your five-minute-delay thing."
Yeah, it was exactly the same thing. Everybody knew. So do you have any good anecdotes about being married to a sex columnist?
I love it when they're researching a book. They wrote The Big Bang with Nerve, you know? And when they were writing the handjob chapter, Lorelei was like, "Hey, hold on for a second. Come into the bedroom, I've got to try something." And it's like, well, no problem. n°
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Peter Smith is like the lead character of Irwin Shaw's The 80-Yard Run, except less athletic. He's an associate editor at Nerve. |
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