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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)

But is it a sanitary napkin? :-)

― Chris O., Tuesday, 14 March 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

awkward!

― erklie (erklie), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

___P>

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

"Doug Simmons is no longer acting editor," the napkin said.
Towelie ?

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gothamist.com/images/2003_10_towelie.jpg

Wanna get fired?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 22:05 (twenty years ago)

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

Lacey IS the new mgmt.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)

Yup.

― Chris O., Wednesday, 15 March 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

OK, here's what we've got: New Time Media, in conjunction with the saucer people -- under the supervision of the reverse vampires -- forced Sylvester to run a story with fabricated quotes in a fiendish plot to eliminate Simmons.

We're through the looking glass, here, people...

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

the riff raff comments box is gonna be a laff riot.

"OMG you gotta be shitting me, Nick! Did you make this up?"

― [email protected], Wednesday, 15 March 2006 00:12 (twenty years ago)

nick (or someone) has apparently been studiously censoring the box.

anyway there should totally be a genre called nü-management.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:41 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Fin, apparently.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

So Mr. Sylvester ended up losing not one but two jobs over this? Poor guy. Unemployment is a pretty harsh state, y'know.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 1 April 2006 04:48 (twenty years ago)

Poor guy my ass. He made the mag into a laughingstock in the affair and took down someone else in his damn vanity.

― Paul Hornung, Saturday, 1 April 2006 18:02 (twenty years ago)

save your pity for all the people at the voice who got laid off despite doing their jobs well and knowing not to make up quotes.

― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 1 April 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

(shrug)

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 1 April 2006 18:58 (twenty years ago)

he'll be over at vice mag in a week's time

― gear (gear), Saturday, 1 April 2006 23:19 (twenty years ago)

he might displace momus as the star writer? :-(

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 2 April 2006 00:47 (twenty years ago)

"star writer"

shame about ridgeway

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 2 April 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

cemented with a four page story celebrating kill whitey with a cobrasnake-esque photo spread? : (

― gear (gear), Sunday, 2 April 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

he'll be over at vice mag in a week's time

Excellent. I need a reason to stop reading Vice.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 2 April 2006 00:49 (twenty years ago)

yes, draw the line there

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 2 April 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

No-one needs a reason to stop reading Vice.
xpost. Beaten to the punch.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Sunday, 2 April 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

it's ok, the Voice is still hiring more Pitchfork 'trap hop' groupies to balance out the loss of Sylvester:

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0613,shots,72686,20.html

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Sunday, 2 April 2006 01:17 (twenty years ago)

It's entertainment with ambition, but I can't front though; the soundtrack is pretty fly too.

copyeditors, count the things wrong with this sentence.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 2 April 2006 01:43 (twenty years ago)

also, was the voice "letters" section on the webpage always called "letters / corrections" or is that a recent, ahem, improvement?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 2 April 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I totally thought "debutant" wasn't a word, but it turns out it is! Never heard that one before.

― [email protected], Sunday, 2 April 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

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