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hahaha

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm guessing Norman Mailer doesn't give a shit about any or this, right?

― gritty sanskrit (sanskrit), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

Can someone translate the napkin plz? I can tell whether to be wildly outraged or sympathetic until I can clearly read a note on a napkin. Anonymous napkin.

NORMAN READS TEH NYPRESS NOW

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:28 (twenty years ago)

arizona crony?

― arizona crony (gcannon), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:29 (twenty years ago)

DOUG SIMMONS IS NO LONGER ACTING EDITOR. WARD HARKAVY, LONG TIME SENIOR EDITOR, AND A RISIBLE CRONY / ALEISTER CROWLEY, IS NOW UTENSIL EDITOR. CALL US TOMORROW AND OH MY GOD THE VOICES THE VOICES

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

that note is suspiciously Riff Raff-esque.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

i read it as "...and Arizona Crony..."

― erklie (erklie), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

Mike Lacey is a breathtakingly maverick guy, but that thing with the napkin is nuts even for him. I wonder if he intends it to be used as toilet paper ... for someone who one told an art director that he "wipes his ass with design elements," it wouldn't surprise me.

― Chris O., Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:44 (twenty years ago)

That's sort of the single craziest thing I've ever seen.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:13 (twenty years ago)

And to think there were concerns over feelings being hurt upthread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

It's sort of ironic that they're acting so much like a blog--announcing a vacancy for editor-in-chief on their letters page, making a major announcement in a "wacky" way, etc.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps it's a sign that Nick's about to get the job.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the whole thing's just one big Riff Raff prank. Brr.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Nyurgh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I can't comprehend why they'd make an announcement like that in such a way. Maybe someone hacked in?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

yeah that would be a great prank, malign the Voice's reputation so the next time it dispenses with the celebrity dj cover fluff pieces and does an expose on cop/mayoral staff corruption or an indictment of the Bush administation, no one takes it seriously.

― gritty sanskrit (sanskrit), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

I can't comprehend why they'd make an announcement like that in such a way. Maybe someone hacked in?

this napkin is too good to lose, so.. just in case:
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/544/napkin0xz.jpg

― gritty sanskrit (sanskrit), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the whole thing's just one big Riff Raff prank.

You see, you're making a joke there. But....

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Simmons name has not been deleted from the masthead link yet.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Actually (puts on tinfoil hat), assume for a second that Simmons was a goner before the scandal and Sylvester was the new designated star writer. The whole thing becomes kind of perfect, no?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure the note actually does say "Arizona Crony". (Arizona is where Times New Media is based out of)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

the napkin has to be a hack, no? it's not displayed on the main "news" page.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:14 (twenty years ago)

it's on the homepage tho -- as an "editor's note." the orig. retraction wasn't on the news page either.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

The plot thickens.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

from NY post:

BOSS AT VOICE IS
AXED FOR LAX FACTS
By KEITH J. KELLY

The Village Voice has booted Managing Editor Doug Simmons one week after the cover story "Do You Want to Kiss Me" exploded in his face because the writer, Nick Sylvester, confessed he had fabricated the ending.

At the time, Simmons had suspended Sylvester but stopped short of axing him. "It would break my heart to fire him," Simmons told The Post.

Michael Lacey, the new editorial director of the Village Voice Media, apparently had no such concerns. He fired Simmons yesterday, shortly after meeting with senior editor Ward Harkavy and making him the acting editor.

Even before the Sylvester affair, many thought Simmons was a long shot to get the job on a permanent basis. Longtime Voice Editor-in-Chief Don Forst said in early December he planned to resign but stayed on board until the merger with New Times was completed in late January, and Simmons took over on an interim basis.

But when the new owners decided to run a help-wanted ad in the Voice, looking for a chief editor, Lacey had Simmons read it aloud to the staff. "The staff was horrified," said one source. "People felt very badly for him. It wasn't that he was loved by the staff, but it was a devil-that-you-know kind of situation."

Now insiders are scared and uncertain. Speculation is now turning on who will get the nod as the editor-in-chief. David Carr, a media columnist at the New York Times and former editor-in-chief of the Washington City Paper, had been approached by Lacey, but talks did not advance.

"I know him [Lacey] and we had a nice conversation about the editorial opportunity at the Village Voice, but it didn't involve me editing the paper," said Carr yesterday.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Lacey and Co. seem to get intense pleasure out of firing people. The whole thing is fucked up.

― Chris O., Tuesday, 14 March 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Some people are like that, it's weird. Weirder that they wouldn't take the opportunity to go ahead and axe NS, too, though.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

But when the new owners decided to run a help-wanted ad in the Voice, looking for a chief editor, Lacey had Simmons read it aloud to the staff.

that is fucked.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Pop culture writers in behaving like teenage clique shock horror.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

what "pop culture writers"?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:03 (twenty years ago)

why would anyone actually read that aloud when told to? grow some balls, simms.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

yeah i was wondering that too... what would they have done, fired him?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

fritz otm. more like "media conglomerate corporate types acting like petty dictators shock horror"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's "the man" strongo. Good God...

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

No it's that old punk rock spirit you see.

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

yeah strongo, it's not actually the owners who made him do it, it's the shadowy "pop culture writers" who are REALLY pulling the strings!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

You mean

"Pop culture writers in behaving like teenage clique shock horror SLAY".

― Should've Never Give Jimmy Mod Money (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:12 (twenty years ago)

so doug simmons is made to read the ad to the staff and then this toilet paper picture shows up on the website. anyone gonna defend the voice now?

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

More like "Drunk Dad scolds and humiliates son at a table full of uncles and aunts on Thanksgiving" shocker. It's pathetic, really.

― Chris O., Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

how could i have been so blind slocki!!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

it's straight out of oliver stone

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

"pop culture writer" michael lacey:
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/villagevoice051107_1_175.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

one also has to wonder how much say Lacey has as opposed to the new mgt, etc.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Dibs on "Arizona Crony" as an EP title.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Behind the curve -- DJ Arizona Crony just released his mash-up of Public Enemy and the Strokes from his Williamsburg 'think tank.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Is This It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Be on the lookout for the debut mixtape CDR download NapkinAttack

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 19:58 (twenty years ago)

How are you all forgetting the internet sensation "The New Times Likes Napkins."

― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

"DJ Arizona Crony is destined for greatness. 4 stars." - Steve Lucien

― erklie (erklie), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--villagevoiceedito0314mar14,0,1166040.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

Sylvester returns in two weeks.

― Scrof Scrofula, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

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