Project:Denny's - Trophy Room


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From time to time, various media organizations discover this site and feel some pressing need to publish it, interview me, or ask me to become a contributing writer. Listed below are the publications for which I write, followed by institutions which featured us.

Apocalypse Playground
Standard 'zine sort of fare. I'm somewhat of a contributing write, but only when I remember to write something.

Breakfast
I wrote an article (and will probably write more) for this very entertaining and well written little home-made publication out of Minnesota.

Permission
Sadly now defunct, I wrote two articles (only one got published before they went under) for this fairly good punk-rock magazine. It even had a glossy cover. I think that's what eventually did them in.

American Folk
Given a featured review in this on-line magazine.

The Arizona Daily Star Online
Featured in a local newspaper's online edition.

The Dallas Morning News
One nice viewer of these pages (I forget his name) saw that I was planning on going to Dallas, and so notified the Dallas Morning News about my impending visit. Teresa Gubbins (writer) and Richard Pruitt (photographer) were assigned to the case. They followed us around Arlington, Texas, interviewing us and taking photos as we went. The article was on the front page of the "Today" section on Monday, March 25, 1996. After its original publication, the article was picked up by newspapers all across the country. You can read the text of the article here without having to go out and buy your own copy, since it's too late to do that anyway. But I saved you a trip to the library.

Crazy and Wacky Radio Morning Show DJs
As these things seem to go, various radio stations noticed the articles, and started contacting me. On average, I received three or four phone calls a day from different radio stations, and that only stopped because I moved out after about a month (thought not because of the phone calls). These interviews were usually qutie basic, and it seemed that very few of them were even aware of the web pages or of my quest for free stuff. In other words, they were content with just the idea of me visiting Denny's. Some people are entertained by the strangest things...

Food Service Today
Mentioned as the "flip side" in a cover story about negative restaurant information online, tho' at the time, they called themselved "Restaurant Business Magazine".

Internet Underground
Picked as a "weird" site in their October issue. I'm underground! I'm alternative! I'm hip and happenin'! Why do I suddenly feel like wearing a black turtleneck, drinking carrot juice, and writing bad poetry for inclusion in some "zine"?

The Musicians Guide to the Internet
Featured in this book by Garry Hustwit. What this page has to do with music, I'm still not quite sure.

The Net
Given a pretty damn good revue in their "bluepages". Word has it we're in the running for some sort of design contest, too. No accounting for taste, I suppose. [Addendum: We lost, but they no longer exist any more anyway. Serves 'em right.]

PC Week
Featured in their "Spencer's Gotta Get a Life Bookmarks" column on April 21, 1997; Volume 14, Number 16. To quote: "Who says all young folks are slackers? Jason Alan Pfaff wants to visit every Denny's in the world, and his Homeric odyssey is documented in this nicely constructed Web site." Oh, if only they knew I work soley on Macs...

The Washington Post
Featured among the web reviews in the "Style" section on November 21, 1996. Read the text of it if you're so inclined.

The Web Magazine
We were features as the top weird site in the premiere issue of this now defunct magazine, but I don't think it was our fault. The issue hit the stands on September 17, 1996. We were featured above the ONION and the Exploding Heads web page, which is fitting, as the latter was the first to have a link to us. Yeah, yeah, I know Web Awards are meaningless, but it's still kinda fun.

The Weird Wide Web
Featured in this book by David Pogue and Erfert Fenton, two respectable computer authors... and heckuva nice guys. Have a look at what they wrote about us.

Wired
Not sure when this was printed, but the review went something like this: " Refusing the shackles of "responsibility," this free-spirited slacker has embarked on a grand-slam-seeking Odyssey, which will undoubtably earn him the title of Generation X's Kerouac. Follow Jason Alan Pfaff on his never-ending quest to visit every Denny's with a parking lot big enough for his yellow school bus." They give me too much credit. And besides, the bus isn't yellow.



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