The Man Behind The Curtain (Henning)

Master and Commander
Name: Henning B “As in Barfoed” Fog
Occupation: Former Student
Likes: Nintendo Wii
Dislikes: Bigotry
Comic Book Du Jour: Fables
LIFTING FOG was born in 2008 on the heels of The Great Recession and 'The Dark Knight', two great tastes that tasted great together. For basically half a decade, DJ Steve and I charted our post-college journey in posts about Paramore, Harry Potter, and ski-wee instruction. DJ Steve became a music producer; I, Henning, became a television writer.
A decade+ later, blogs like this are retro at best and the internet even less in need of navel-gazing pop culture essays disguised as records of burgeoning maturity. But where else are we supposed to publish this shit? Medium? (They don't want us!)
And so LIFTING FOG is where we (read: mostly me) dump our many and varied thoughts and creative experiments -- stuff that was maybe too niche for network TV, too rambling for a tweet, and too eye-rolling to share over text. But here... just right.
July 21, 2008 at 7:01 pm |
I liked your criticism of the Mama Mia poster. I was pained to sit through the movie with Kerry when Batman was sold out.
I would love for you to see it and write something about it. There was a great NYTimes review this past weekend that I think captured the anguish of viewing the film, but I’d love to hear your thoughts.
I personally was not a fan. My favorite part was when ex-James Bond tried to sing, I got a good laugh. Looked more constipated than anything else – in line with your assessment of the girlie from mean girls, who by the way looked really good in a bathing suit – great fun bags.
Hope all is well bro. Doing anything Tues or Weds nights? I’ll be around with nothing to do..
July 24, 2008 at 10:24 am |
H,
you’re off to a good start. Keep it coming!
D
November 10, 2008 at 9:52 pm |
[…] seems the wet dream of Lifting Fog’s Editor-in-Chief has finally come to fruition. MTV set up this website to provide every comic book geek with a […]
November 23, 2008 at 1:14 pm |
hey henning
Two blogs you should check out to build your audience. One practical and the other more meta. Good stuff all around though.
Dailyseoblog.com
Doshdosh.com
January 18, 2009 at 11:53 pm |
[…] blog was founded by nerds and for that reason I feel comfortable posting this revelation. After I finished whipping myself […]
April 8, 2009 at 3:06 am |
does this mean you are DJ Steve as well?
April 8, 2009 at 11:43 am |
Like some Fight Club shit? That would be crazy. No, I am only me. Which is to say “Henning.”
December 13, 2009 at 6:29 pm |
Hi Henning! This is Brandi from HMHS, that place we went to a million years ago. :) I just stumbled across your blog through facebook – I was killing time (i.e. avoiding finals) looking up our graduating class’s pages and found your site – it’s pretty funny! Keep up the good work!
January 27, 2010 at 1:28 am |
Hey Brandi! So sorry for the late reply — as you could probably tell, we haven’t much kept up the blog these past few months and as a result have fallen behind on comment replies. (Or to be more specific, “not checked at all.”) That changes now! You and others want us to be funny and SO WE WILL BE FUNNY.
June 11, 2015 at 1:22 am |
Hey,
I just saw your I’m impression of Ira Glass. It was incredible.