David Hochman writes frequently for The New York Times, Playboy, Details, Esquire, Forbes, Reader's Digest and many other publications, on and offline. Simon & Schuster recently published his first children's book, The Potty Train. He lives in Los Angeles.

Blog Entries by David Hochman

What I Did On My Twitter Vacation

Posted June 3, 2009 | 06:24 PM (EST)


What are you doing?
Quitting Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Too much chatter. Too many birthdays. TMI from Bucky Blankstein from Camp Winn-ee-saw-kee.

What are you doing?
@Peace! Reading actual newspaper. Drinking coffee. TV! Unholy urge to tell someone all this, so am cleaning stove with...

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What Twitter Numbers Reveal About Celebrity Self-Absorption

9 Comments | Posted May 21, 2009 | 11:53 AM (EST)


Fame has always been a numbers game. The weekend box office gross. The square footage of your Malibu estate. The hits you get from Googling yourself. With Twitter, numbers tell a deeper story. The more famous your Tweets, the more followers you have. But what do loyal followers get in...

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Why I'll Miss Nick Nolte's Burned-Down House

Posted October 8, 2008 | 11:40 AM (EST)


As part of my ongoing effort to keep the public informed about celebritykind, I frequently visit the homes of famous people. Sylvester Stallone lives in a faux-Mediterranean castello high above Beverly Hills with a Rocky statue guarding the pool. Robert Redford's Napa Valley residence is, like the actor himself, a...

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What George Carlin Told Me About the Afterlife and What He'd Like on His Tombstone

Posted June 23, 2008 | 04:11 PM (EST)


Somewhere in heaven, George Carlin is probably watching Lou Dobbs right about now. At the end of the Playboy Interview I did with him a few years ago, he was full of thoughts about the meaning of life, his legacy and what was next -- if anything -- after this...

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