The Dead Guy Interviews
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Michael Stusser
Our short documentary, "Sleeping with Siri," was just accepted into 3 film festivals: The American Documentary Film Festival, the Big Easy International Film and Music Festival, and the Palm Beach International Film Festival! Here's the trailer we made for the film: http://lnk.ms/dz2jX
"Sleeping with Siri" documentary film trailer
Inspired by a high school's "Digital Blackout" campaign, where students went without Facebook, e-mail or texting for an entire week, journalist Michael Stuss...
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Michael Stusser
My recent article in the Seattle Weekly about going wild with a Techno-Gorge, followed by a second week of a Digital Blackout. http://lnk.ms/dfrvG
Sleeping With Siri - Page 1 - News - Seattle - Seattle Weekly
Four of us were having a perfectly romantic evening when my friend mentioned a YouTube video he wanted to share. My objection was quickly overruled 3-1, and in an instant the viral clip was playing tableside. You've pro…
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From all of us at the Canteen..
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- Chico Marx3 years ago
Thank you for your friendship, have a great night, love Chico
- Liquid3 years ago
Ha Ha Michael, I just got the email and your article My Bailout: Stimulate This Package! was a hoot. We need more like you to help us laugh during these trying times. I will think of you in the laundry room doing your best work. Ha Ha I needed that today. I surely did.
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You're god damn right!
Be safe, my friend..and keep your ice cubes wet..
Mahalo!
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- Josh4 years ago
I LEFT YOUR BOOK ON A SMALL ISLAND CALLED BONAIRE LAST WEEK. I NEED ANOTHER ONE...
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“Michael Stusser’s ingenious ability to bring historical figures to life falls somewhere between brilliant writing and method acting. Or perhaps even necrophilia. Who knows. Point is, The Dead Guy Interviews is both wildly educational (yes, it’s possible) and wickedly entertaining.” —Neely Harris, Editor-in-Chief mental_floss magazineMusic
In The Dead Guy Interviews, you’ll get dating tips from Henry the VIIIth, a palm reading from Confucius, some couch time with Freud, the real scoop on where Amelia Earhart landed, and if George Washington actually inhaled.
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Participants include: Alexander the Great, Ludwig van Beethoven, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Buddha, Michelangelo, Julius Caesar, Caligula, George Washington Carver, Catherine the Great, Coco Chanel, Winston Churchill, Cleopatra, Confucius, Crazy Horse, Salvador Dalí, Charles Darwin, Leonardo da Vinci, Emily Dickinson, Isadora Duncan, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Sigmund Freud, Henry VIII, J. Edgar Hoover, Harry Houdini, Thomas Jefferson, Joan of Arc, Robert Johnson, Frida Kahlo, Genghis Khan, Abraham Lincoln, Mao Tse-Tung, Karl Marx, Montezuma, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Benito Mussolini, Nostradamus, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Sun Tzu, Vincent van Gogh, George Washington, Mae West, and Oscar Wilde.Television
The concept of the "Dead Guy Interviews" came out of one living guy’s desire to "talk" with fascinating historical figures who, in addition to being dead, weren't giving out interviews during their lifetimes - sometimes due to difficult surroundings (Montezuma, Helen Keller), or just because they had lousy PR agents (Mussolini, Caligula, etc.). In depth, knock-down, drag out, tête-à-têtes with Lincoln, da Vinci, Genghis Khan (no relation to Chaka, apparently), Cleopatra, and a whole host of famous dead guys (and gals) throughout history. Edutainment, you'd call it, but with a little theatre and pop-off pop-culture thrown in for good measure. It's how we get away with asking Alexander the Great who he’d have preferred play him in the movie, Hoover's take on the cross-dressing, and Catherine the Great about her sex life. (For the record, she insists, “I did not, have, sex, with that horse.”)Books
The interviews are historical, hysterical, and great conversational fodder. If you ever wondered what it would be like to have dinner with anyone in history - now you’ll know…
Heroes
Read the interview with Cleopatra
Read the interview with Nikola TeslaMLK, Jr. Ralph Nader, Abe Lincoln, Greenpeace, and, as sappy as it sounds, my wonderful parents.
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- Emily Dickinson
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- HARRY HOUDINI
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- Bettie Page
- Penguin Group (USA)
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About me:
.. Ever wanted to ask Van Gogh about the whole ear episode or Beethoven for his take on “American Idol”? How about Napoleon about his complex, or if Frida might consider a brow wax? Here’s your chance! In The Dead Guy Interviews (Oct. 2007, Penguin Group USA), modern-day journalist Michael Stusser chats with the most famous personalities of all-time, asking them probing and illuminating questions about their lives, accomplishments, and what’s on their iPods.
www.michaelstusser.com "Michael Stusser's The Dead Guy Interviews is a funny, educational way to get to know almost fifty of history's late greats. Finally, a way to talk to the dead without all that tedious messing around with seances or grave robbery!" --Ken Jennings, Jeopardy genius and author of Brainiac. ..
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- Status: Single
- Here for: Friends
- Hometown: Seattle
- Orientation: Straight
- Zodiac Sign: Aries
- Children: Proud parent
- Drink: Yes
- Education: College graduate
- Occupation: Writer
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University Of California-Berkeley
- Berkeley, CA
- Graduated: 1986
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: Mass Communications
- Minor: Political Science
- Clubs: Berkeley Non-Partisan Developmental Committee (aka BNCD - Before Noon Drinking Club)
- Greek: Phi Kappa Psi
1982 to 1986