Joyce Cohen, the New York Times real-estate columnist — her column is The Hunt – blogs at HuntGrunt, one of my favorite blogs. Part 1 of this interview.
SR: Why did you start?
JC: Because HuntGrunt was too good a name not to use. Also, I started at the time we had The Walk-through. [A Times real-estate blog.] The Walk-through was on WordPress and WordPress sucks. It’s all buggy and glitchy. I had to teach myself HTML to even do it. It was while I was doing that that I came up with HuntGrunt.
SR: Did you think of HuntGrunt?
JC: My very first entry tells you that. You can’t make a diminutive from my name. You can’t make a diminutive from “The Hunt” either.
SR: You’d be JCo. Like JLo.
JC: No one’s ever called me that. HuntGrunt came from Property Grunt. Property Grunt would write to me — to me and about me. He’s a Corcoran broker. Property Grunt was his name and all of a sudden HuntGrunt came to me.
SR: You’re the pure artist who has an idea and has to use it. Your blog is a way of drawing attention to the phrase HuntGrunt.
JC: Without the name HuntGrunt, I’m not sure it would exist. I’m not sure there would be much resonance.