nick sylvester = maker upper

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its times like this i wish you people had an I Love Freelancing (ILF) board to fuck off to.

― and there are lot's of other sites, but all of them are fake... (sanskrit), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

How do I get a hackland account?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

"ok, how shd he go about getting in new talent? blogs? pitchfork?"

That would seem like the obvious place to start. The online world is crawling with amateur and semi-pro writers who wouldn't mind a paycheck. It'd be a hell of a lot easier than asking for blind submissions and hoping for the best. I mean, seriously, does this guy not have any favorite writers? And he's been doing this how long?

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

why the fuck should we feel that tug of loyalty for chuck (which i admit, i kinda do, not even knowing him, just as an admirer of his writing from a loooooong time ago) when his mentor can't even be bothered to make some noise...

what are you talking about? hot tip: faux-insider poses don't really work when you get things wrong.

― maura (maura), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:44 (twenty years ago)

If established writers stop pitching the Voice, it'll be as much or more a matter of self-interest than collective action in support of Chuck. The pay is only good by alt-weekly standards--nobody getting magazine work is surviving off Voice pieces. If there's no longer any presige to the section, and if creativity is curtailed, why not go make $1 a word as a hack and use yr blog as self-expression.

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and, duh, if you're not getting pitches, you can always ask writers you like if they want to review something for you. Not sure when the idea of an editor *assigning* a story went out of style.

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

i'm not pretending to be an insider, i'm just saying i still see christigau's by-lines in the voice - so why should i join the "collective action" if someone like the dean isn't - especially since his taking a PUBLIC stand would mean about a million times more than most of us

― struggling hack, Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Seems a slightly odd rationale on your part, s.h.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:18 (twenty years ago)

i'm beginning to understand the 'struggling' part

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:27 (twenty years ago)

right. i'm rationalizing, but people who believe that an informal "collective action" (minus christgau) will teach new times "a lesson" are being reasonable.

― s.h., Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

I think they're voting with their feet, s.h., more than anything else. I don't find that hard to understand and neither should you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Since when do ethics have any fucking place in journalism?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

I think they're voting with their feet, s.h., more than anything else. I don't find that hard to understand and neither should you.

this is the reaganoid variant of what i said, more or less, and it's not an extreme position at all, nor is it tied in to what happened to chuck or what xgau does in his absence.

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Thursday, 18 May 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

new times should start a high school writing program in the city

― lf (lfam), Thursday, 18 May 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

I kinda assumed this ad was because people they were "left with" stopped pitching, but I may be projecting.

They haven't stopped pitching, but I'm sure the NT police sure wants them to. Oh well ... the current roster can't all suck to them. I'm sure things will work out there.

Also, whole episode is not a loyalty to Chuck vs. a loyalty to Rob issue at all. It's that the notion of ad being posted when, as has been mentioned, Chuck (and Eric Wisbard I'm sure) got like 50 unsolicited pitches a week is unbelievable -- and tacky ...

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Thursday, 18 May 2006 23:34 (twenty years ago)

some of the same names have some pieces in this issue still -- gotta wonder if they were already in the works before this all hit (chuck also built up quite a backlog of ready to run copy) even tho maybe to my oversensitive eyes they feel like they've been through a difft. sort of editing mill than they woulda been put thru before. also, the new kickers are astonishingly earnest. i miss the roffles.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:47 (twenty years ago)

this thread revival is hilarious.

― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:27 (twenty years ago)

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― tramadol, Saturday, 20 May 2006 04:37 (twenty years ago)

say what? :-)

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Saturday, 20 May 2006 04:45 (twenty years ago)

The college cheating methods are way more interesting than alt-weekly politicking. I can't imagine thinking that any student thought he or she could pull out a cell phone, photograph questions and start texting without getting caught.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 20 May 2006 04:50 (twenty years ago)

sylvester wrote an article about new ways of cheating a while back that was at least half fabricated, was why i posted that.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 20 May 2006 04:54 (twenty years ago)

i joined a gym because of that fucker and i have yet to run into a fellow ripster.

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― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 20 May 2006 12:24 (twenty years ago)

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― Sesso, Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

"Maybe because she kissed me on the cheek afterwards..."

i don't believe it

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Friday, 4 August 2006 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

i'm disappointed that "maker upper" didn't become a catchphrase around here

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Friday, 4 August 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

you never know, man...it still could happen.

i wish nick would start posting here again. he could use the screenname "Jayceon Terell Taylor."

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

(and if he doesn't jess should)

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

Voice welcomes EIC #4

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 14 August 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

is he working for pitchfork again?

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/track_reviews/38116/Wolf_Eyes_The_Driller#38116

― a little knowledge can go a long way (lfam2), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

he was reviewing in the dance column on stylus a while back, maybe still is.

― bad hair day house (fandango), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

i'm better at telling lies than anyone else i know

― nicholas de jong (nicholas de jong), Friday, 20 October 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't believe you.

― ONIMO's fish might turn into lizards (GerryNemo), Friday, 20 October 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

has this been discussed yet?

― don weiner (don weiner), Sunday, 22 October 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ a college professor explaining to her students who Diplo is as part of a lecture

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Sunday, 22 October 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

He's like the Dane Cook for creepy undergrad Harvard girls.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Diplo or Nick Sylvester? I mean, either is applicable, I think.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

I never even hated this guy or had it out for him or whatever but man some people in that comments section are really falling over backwards to defend his actions.

― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

lol at the guy compare sylvester to Chris Morris

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

lol that this occurred at Harvard Law

― don weiner (don weiner), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

This thread needs Colin Meeder, stat.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

"classes with riff"
cast: jake gyllenhaal -- nick sylvester
old guy from blade -- male presenter
wynona ryder -- female presenter

the soundtrack would be pretty good.

― Nicolas Boisvert Novak (Cliffsky!), Sunday, 22 October 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

he is stunningly inarticulate and those Harvard students don't seem much brighter.

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

They don't privilege public speaking at Harvard AT ALL.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

what shookout said. all I kept thinking about while watching that was what an incredible waste of time that class was, how that was a bush league lecture idea that I would expect at Cambridge Junior College and not Hah-vahd Law. At one point, you can see a student's laptop and she's surfing the net when the instructor's dad is rambling on.

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

There's a reason Harvard is sinking in the ratings, guys.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I like Nick, but I kept wanting to jump in there and tell his story for him, since he didn't seem to be doing a very good job at it himself.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

writer not being a very good public speaker shockah. Nick seems VERY young...jeezus, do the kids these days really say "like" that much? I thought it was just my niece. Who is in 4th grade.

if that video is representative, then all I can say is that Harvard must have been very easy for you D.P.

xpost

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

jeezus, do the kids these days really say "like" that much? I thought it was just my niece. Who is in 4th grade.

People have been complaining about kids using "like" for, like, 30 years.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

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