No one can say that Sarah Needleman is not smart, edgy, trending, and pasteurized. Her articles in the Wall Street Journal and other media have always drawn attention from the Cognoscenti, Montagues, and Capulets. Currently engaged in chronicling the video game industry, her previous writing gigs include writing about how the word 'entrepreneur' would never be used if it weren't for Spell Check, and reporting on small businesses -- in fact she nosed around and found dozens of businesses so tiny that she had to buy a microscope to examine them.
She is the recipient of the Aimee Semple McPherson Award for her coverage of the International Tea Cozy Knitting Competitions in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 2011. During the ensuing riots she was injured and lost the use of her coccyx for several years.
She says that literature runs in her family -- or was it runs from her family? I'll have to check my notes . . .
She graduated from Rutgers University in 1997 but likes to tell complete strangers that she is taking an online course in taxidermy to help support her dream of one day owning a kumquat ranch.
Even though Sarah admits to possessing a cat, she has not yet developed the facial tics and nail biting habit that most cat owners acquire over the long, tortuous years of feline subjugation. Her bravery and stamina in this area have earned her the admiration of scores of influential people, including Tom Cruise and KICD Meteorologist Corey Harguth, who have set up the Sarah Needleman Memorial Fund to help victims of cat ownership recover their self respect and dignity.
Social Media stories that she has amassed a giant blob of Silly Putty in her basement and intends to use it to take over northern New Jersey have been labeled as 'Fake News' by the Columbia Journalism Review and the South Brunswick Post. But nobody, least of all Ms. Needleman, seems to know just exactly what her cat does with all its spare time.
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Ms. Needleman emailed me her response to this piece, thus:
I think it's odd and has several errors. I'd prefer you take it down.
| Regards, Sarah E. Needleman | |
| TECHNOLOGY REPORTER THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. |
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"I'd rather own a porcupine than a cat."
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