David Mills has a pretty awesome blog

David Mills at some Hollywood mixer talking about "Kingpin" or something. I don't know. iMDB won't let me jank his headshot, so I got this.

There are only two types of people who will likely care about the fact that David Mills has a pretty cool blog: fellow Diamondbackers (and even most of them won’t care) and fans of the NBC miniseries “Kingpin” in 2003 (which I’m not sure a lot of people saw).

I’m a huge Mills fan though he doesn’t have a lot of work to fawn over. But I’m interested in anyone who’s written for television or film and worked at my college newspaper, The Diamondback, which, to date, has been the best professional experience of my life for reasons I’ve discussed ad nauseam with people including Pouya Dianat, Scott Goldstein, Jay Parsons, Justin Fenton, Sam Sessa, Tim Donnelly and others. All of them very good, Googleable journalists, most still working in newspapers.

I met Mills briefly in 2004 when he was the keynote speaker for annual workshops held by Maryland Media Inc., an independent non-profit that owns The Diamondback. He worked at the college paper, The Washington Times and The Washington Post before he bolted for Hollywood. Really sharp guy. At the workshop he claimed his No. 1 dream was to create a television show about his time at the college newspaper (along with about 2,000 other soon-to-be-out-of-work journalists I’ve discovered).

At that point, he had written for “NYPD Blue” and “Homicide: Life on the Streets” and he created “Kingpin.” He said he just needed one “big hit” before he could make the show. It was reassuring to see a successful person still pressed about his days at The DBK. He had some choice advice for student journalists, including how to improve their writing.

“I don’t know… uh… It’s a little like fucking: You do it more, you get better at it. Other than that there’s not much else I can say.”

Definitely never forgot that gem.

ANYWAYS, I was randomly searching to see what he was up to, and I found his blog, Undercover Black Man. It’s pretty cool. Has its moments. Particularly his posts including, “A positive spin on the Ku Klux Klan,” “Attack of the GIANT NEGROES!” and “Black men injected with syphilis? Never happened.”

He’s also got what I would consider the best interview with David Simon about “The Wire” to date. It’s also one of the shortest, showing clearly most interviewers don’t know the right questions to ask when they’re interviewing Simon about his show. Or they’re ill-prepared. Whichever.

He’s a huge R&B and funk fan, and that comprises most of the blog, and he tosses up random shit he likes, including commercials and old “Siskel & Ebert” reviews, which I enjoy because I spend a decent amount of time each week mourning the demise of “Ebert & Roeper at the Movies.”