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Hello! My name is David Shankbone, and I am a Wikipedia editor, Wikimedia Commons photographer, and an accredited reporter for Wikinews. I am also a member of the New York Press Club and the National Book Critics Circle.

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Transcripts of conversations with the following people I interviewed for Wikipedia and Wikinews

Senator Sam Brownback - U.S. Senator and Republican Presidential candidate.

Augusten Burroughs - Author and memoirist

Caribou - Electronica musician

Antje Duvekot - Folk singer

Vivien Goldman - Professor of punk and reggae history at NYU and columnist for the BBC called "Ask the Punk Professor."

Murray Hill - Comedian and drag king.

Duncan Hunter - Congressman and Republican Presidential candidate.

Natasha Khan - Lead singer of Bat for Lashes, British singer and artist; finalist for the Mercury Prize

Joseph Merlino - Author, eminent psychoanalyst, and psychiatry adviser to the New York Daily News.

Frank Messina - The "Mets Poet"

Michael Musto Columnist and celebrity journalist.

Alex Necochea Lead guitarist for the band Bang Camaro.

Kira Nerusskaya - Documentary filmmaker, Big Beautiful Woman, and fat acceptance movement leader.

Ingrid Newkirk - Co-founder and President of PETA.

The Onion - An interview with the President and Editorial Manager on the operation and creation of 'America's Finest News Source.'

Shimon Peres - An interview with the President of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

Trisha Posner - Health columnist fired for taking a public stand on a zoning law.

The Raveonettes - Danish rock band.

Torture as business series - Interviews with the owners of an S&M dungeon and a few of the dominatrixes employed there.

John Reed - Novelist.

RuPaul - Singer, drag queen and performance artist.

Al Sharpton - Civil rights leader.

Nadine Strossen - President of the ACLU

Gay Talese - Legendary journalist, founder of New Journalism, and author.

Congressman Tom Tancredo - Congressman and Presidential candidate.

Craig Unger - Vanity Fair contributing editor and fellow at NYU Law School.

John Vanderslice - Musician and singer.

Tashi Wangdi Representative to the Americas of the Dalai Lama.

Billy West Voice of Ren and Stimpy, Philip Fry, Bugs Bunny....

Edmund White - Author.

Evan Wolfson - Founder of the modern gay marriage movement.

Victoria Wyndham - Leading actress from Another World.

Audio clips from my interviews

  • Billy West talks about his childhood abuse and surviving his lost years.
  • Augusten Burroughs discusses dating when newly sober, writing and the Turcottes.
  • Shimon Peres discusses his legacy and whether he will run for a 2nd term as President of Israel.
  • An angry exchange at a protest between a religious woman and a secular man, found on the Anger article
  • Billy West talks about the problem with using celebrity voice actors
  • Porn star and director Michael Lucas discusses his views on the Iraq War.
  • Ingrid Newkirk uncomfortably talks about herself.
  • Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA, discusses the Animal Liberation Front.
  • Al Sharpton reflects on Tawana Brawley twenty years later.
  • Coco Peru talks about how to make a rough life funny.
  • Israeli President Shimon Peres to David Shankbone on whether Israeli culture is in a state of decay.
  • John Reed on Orwell, the Iraq War and post-9/11 politics.
  • Senator Sam Brownback discusses Mormonism, science and religion in American politics in October 2007, during his Presidential run.
  • Bang Camaro guitarist Alex Necochea and David Shankbone discuss Necochea's problems with capitalism, politics in post-9/11 America, the kind of women he likes, and whether he could go gay.
  • Two professional dominatrices interviewed about the psychological aspects of some of their stranger BDSM requests.


| Herb Keinon | America-Israel Friendship League | Marcelle Machluf | Uri Bar-Ner
With Shimon Peres, President of Israel
(you can read my hour-long talk with him here)

Articles I wrote on Wikinews


You can read my dinner conversation
with Augusten Burroughs here)
Hiking around Viñales, Cuba in 2002.

With Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis

David Shankbone has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as David's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear David!

Love,
Phaedriel
06:09, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

A record of your Day will always be kept here.
This little gift was kindly suggested by Wizardman!


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