Loathsome Watch 2004

IT'S FUN TO watch Most Loathsome winners resurface in nature, feeding or mating, after we've captured and tagged them. Here, David Cross, 2004's #19, sheepishly self-deprecates in the current issue of ReadyMade magazine. He even remembered his number!

RM: If you could have any job would it be this one?

DC: Yeah, it's all I know how to do really, and mostly I enjoy it. Sometimes it's shitty.

RM: When is it shitty?

DC: Well, I was just named the 19th most loathsome New Yorker by the [New York] Press. Sometimes it's tough. There's always going to be somebody's expectations you didn't meet. But I have to be open to criticism. I dish it out, so I should be able to take it. And anyway, sometimes they're right.