{"id":12263,"date":"2015-09-19T22:59:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=12263"},"modified":"2015-09-21T01:20:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T08:20:45","slug":"eulogy-for-a-douchebag-micheal-hemmingsons-not-so-unfortunate-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2015\/09\/19\/eulogy-for-a-douchebag-micheal-hemmingsons-not-so-unfortunate-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Eulogy for a Douchebag: Micheal Hemmingson&#8217;s not-so-unfortunate death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Obituary]<\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Michael Hemminson\u2019s Fat, Bloated Corpse<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3>a beer memory<\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Reviewer Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With childlike glee I read, earlier this year, of novelist Micheal Hemmingson\u2019s demise in Tijuana short of his forty-eighth birthday. The guy was well past his pop-noir writing prime, although I\u2019m sure could still annoy. When he was trying to be a resident paid writer (and antagonist) here at <strong><em>Reviewer<\/em><\/strong> in 2004 it lasted long enough for his sweaty narcissism to make him more of a liability than a real contributor. He revealed to me that he was both a news wire stringer in Rwanda during the wars of the 1990\u2019s and that he was currently a police informant for the SDPD. Neither of these I doubted but later when I told him I couldn\u2019t find anything from him on the internet about Rwanda he became belligerant. Hemmingson was a dick, and not a very good writer, although he did win \u201cawards\u201d. I quickly grew to hate him. I\u2019m late with writing this obituary &#8212; he died in Tijuana over twenty months ago &#8212; but I have no qualms about kicking a dead horse, or jackass in this case, especially when it was known to give plenty of kicks when alive. I shared a pizza with the guy. It was pizza and beers, tall cold Budweisers, to be exact, at a Moulin Rouge-themed bar in San Diego\u2019s gaslamp district around the corner from Hustler Hollywood. We had agreed to meet there one night in 2004 to discuss collaborating on some editorial in Reviewer. More on that later. Hemmingson always had to be in print somewhere. He&#8217;d published novellas and was on staff at <em>The San Diego Weekly Reader<\/em>, but all that wasn\u2019t enough to feed his gluttonous ego. He needed to see his name in print everywhere and at all times. I began getting email after email from him, and he would message me all the time on Livejournal. Back then, more so than now, <em>Reviewer Magazine<\/em> had a tawdry \u201cstreet\u201d nightclub scene flavor that a noir-beat writer was drawn to. So once on the scent he began aggressively courting it as a source of wind to fill his sails while navigating the seas of cheese. I could say more here about how he bullied people to help fan the dying embers of his literary fame but he\u2019s run out of room. Goodbye, Micheal Hemmingson, glad you croaked, hope it hurt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo credit: a CNN iReport interview, where Michael Hemmingson\u2019s fat, bloated corpse lives on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12264\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/michael-hemmingson-bloated-corpse-cnn-ireport1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12264\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/michael-hemmingson-bloated-corpse-cnn-ireport1.jpg?w=600\" alt=\"Michael Hemmingson, from a CNN iReporter interview where he &quot;grades Obama&quot; during his first year in office.\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/michael-hemmingson-bloated-corpse-cnn-ireport1.jpg?w=873&amp;ssl=1 873w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/michael-hemmingson-bloated-corpse-cnn-ireport1.jpg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Michael Hemmingson, from a CNN iReporter interview where he &#8220;grades Obama&#8221; during his first year in office.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Obituary] Michael Hemminson\u2019s Fat, Bloated Corpse a beer memory Tweet by Reviewer Rob With childlike glee I read, earlier this year, of novelist Micheal Hemmingson\u2019s demise in Tijuana short of his forty-eighth birthday. The guy was well past his pop-noir writing prime, although I\u2019m sure could still annoy. When he was trying to be a resident paid writer (and antagonist) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[574,891,895,598,731,576,1001,1040,1014],"tags":[1130,1127,1129,1128],"class_list":["post-12263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-beauty","category-beer-zine","category-books","category-first-person-account","category-food","category-sports","category-the-law","category-world-politics","tag-books","tag-michael-hemmingson","tag-noir","tag-tijuana"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11366,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2015\/03\/05\/quality-of-light-the-heart-of-the-andes\/","url_meta":{"origin":12263,"position":0},"title":"Quality of Light: &#8220;The Heart of the Andes&#8221;","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"March 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Frederic Edwin Church's \"The Heart of the Andes\" on display at Luminous Views Gallery Reviewer TV video interview Micheal Slattery is a San Diego art gallery owner and photographer who specializes in the sale of multi-image, light-drenched, high-resolution versions of his own photography where he takes 20 or so photos\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5590,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2011\/11\/16\/new-talent-at-reviewer-magazine\/","url_meta":{"origin":12263,"position":1},"title":"Contributing Art Editor, Katherine Sweetman","author":"admin","date":"November 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"[Announcement]Introducing The New Reviewer Magazine Contributing Art Editor, Katherine SweetmanTweet Reviewer Magazine welcomes the smart and savvy writer, artist and filmmaker, Katherine Sweetman as the new Arts editor. 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