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― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:11 (twenty years ago)

the voice DOES need a shakeup, DESPERATELY. but firing people who wanted it shaken up in the first place, and who would have worked to make things better, just seems bizarre to me.

-- Tracey Hand (tracerhan...), April 19th, 2006 5:16 PM.

I was just thinking that this morning - Voice is far from perfect and could use some well-placed kicks, but the Stalin routine is overkill.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Well, yeah, what's happening isn't really a shakeup, is it? Its an attempt to impose the standardized template that NT uses for all its papers.

xxxpost Ha, I remember that awful Devil's Rejects rev, urgrghh!!!

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I really loved "Shelter," especially in its later years when Schlesinger's writing was getting more and more playful & she was messing with the borders of the column's format. It never got stale for me.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

if it's true about chuck, it's very sad. didn't always agree, but he knew his shit, and knew how to know his shit (if that makes any sense).

plus, he was a supporter of legendary chicago power-popsters GREEN. can't go wrong there.

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

the axing goes national - they cut loose the Dallas Observer's music editor last week.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

And Xgau is x-ed out.

― js (honestengine), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

See the separate threads on Christgau's firings

x-post

"To better clarify, I was fired. I was not fired by anyone in this office in Dallas, but by a corporate office outside of Dallas. The reason on my goodbye letter says “you are being terminated today as a result of the performance issues we have discussed with you on multiple occasions.” I will better dispute both the “performance issues” and the “multiple occasions” in the near future..." -former Dallas Observer music editor Sam Machkovech from his myspace blog

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 4 September 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

If he doesn't know better than to publish that on his blog, then you have to wonder what he did to get fired.

― save the robot (save the robot), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

yes, after all we must be sure to never do anything that would piss off our new times overlords in the future

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

"performance issues" makes it sound like he had wobbly gaskets

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

"you are being terminated because your Level-2 cache is insufficient for today's processor-intensive applications"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

watch me shoot down my future career prospects while drunk: new times media can suck my cock until i cum blood

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

they should be flattered, that's a sweet offer

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

If he doesn't know better than to publish that on his blog, then you have to wonder what he did to get fired.
Eh? What's wrong with posting that on your blog after you've been axed? Clearly New Times ain't hiring you for anything, and there's no competition in town.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

FWIW, my ltter from my Phoenix canning said simply "due to performance." And I never verbally got a concrete reason. And I got a promise of a reference and a month's severance. Not much of a firing, right? Doesn't mean much. Personally, I now think they did me a favor letting me go in light of the direction the company has gone, the tanking of music journalism this year and a lot of personal shit in my life that would have never gotten resolved had I continued as a municipal music editor.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I hope this doesn't mean you have more time to post on ILM.

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

nah, using about the same amount of time ... :-)

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe the New Media folks read ILM and fire everyone who's ever posted on here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

bye bye saul williams sex column

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I am afraid to check to see if that actually exists.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe the New Media folks read ILM and fire everyone who's ever posted on here.

Maybe we started ILM as one of many performance benchmark tools/guttersnipe filters we ultimately plan on licensing on a B2B basis for a host of workplace functions. Coming soon: I love TacosTM,I love editing videoTM, I love scalping ticketsTM.

cc:Everyone who's fired and gonna be fired

― New Times Folks (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

I am afraid to check to see if that actually exists.

don't search for the momus medical advice column then, either.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

The Washington City Paper Arts editor quit on his own back in June and the following ad's been running since that time:

ARTS EDITOR. THE
posted 06/23/2006
Arts Editor. The Washington City Paper needs an arts editor to help us rethink our award-winning arts section from the ground up. We’re looking for someone who’s addled by pop culture, who’s equally comfortable with brows high and low, who can effortlessly absorb our editorial sensibility (hint: Start working on your puns now). You’ll develop and nurture a stable of freelancers and channel the efforts of our own staffers. Your ability to direct and edit coverage across boundaries must be unsurpassed-we need someone who’s conversant about Francis Picabia and Park Chan-wook and can glimpse the eternal in freak folk and Mamet. The ideal candidate will astonish us every week. Send a cover letter and resume to: Arts Editor, Washington City Paper, 2390 Champlain St. NW, Washington, DC 20009; artseditor@washingtoncitypaper.

― cornyrocker (DC Steve), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

can glimpse the eternal in freak folk

"interminable," i think they meant

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe we started ILM

Your name ain't Tom Ewing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

start working on your puns?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, or else.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

so do i need a GED?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

or just some good puns?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

equally comfortable with bros hi and lo

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

t or f: a year from now hi and lois will be too highbrow/leftist for the village voice

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

"So there's this great new web comic I think we should run, Day by Day."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

btw you guys know that newsmax site? they'll have those awful gif's on drudgereport with stuff like 'who hate's america most?' and the choices are osama, hillary, and michael moore? anyhow turns out they put out a glossy! saw it at publix earlier - thing's really awful, worse than talk magazine even.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, if it helps with bankruptcy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

anyhow here's the thing - i've read an issue of newsmax more recently than i've read the village voice. and i suspect that will hold for awhile.

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Soul Coughing's take on Christgau's sacking below. Was NY Press ever vital though?

http://www.mikedoughty.com/blog/

"I've snarked at him plenty, but ultimately much respect.

Funny that my old alma mater, the NYPress, has been able to maintain
its pose--that of the drunken self-destructor--longer than the Voice's progressive-avenger pose. Not that the Press is vital in the least anymore. Both papers lost the people that justified/created those personas years ago.

New York is the city of Time Out. I never would've thought so when it debuted. It seemed so laughably gee-whiz, I thought they'd fold in a month. But New York is like that now. (I really, really don't want to be the "I miss the rats on Rivington Street" guy, OK?) The children move here for fantasies of Sex and the City, expensive shoes and bottle-service clubs, not squats and art and rock and roll.

And I, and I think everybody else, goes looking for their drunken self-destructors and progressive avengers out in the blogosphere. I pass the street corner boxes that distribute the Voice and the Press, and man, they look sad. Moribund."

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

"Your ability to direct and edit coverage across boundaries must be unsurpassed -we need someone who’s conversant about Francis Picabia and Park Chan-wook and can glimpse the eternal in freak folk and Mamet."

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

The children move here for fantasies of Sex and the City, expensive shoes and bottle-service clubs, not squats and art and rock and roll.

How nice that his fantasies are more valid, apparently.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

Curmudgeon is pretty much OTM - for most of Manhattan, at least.

Is there anything genuinely good on the rise in Brooklyn? The Rail?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

How nice that his fantasies are more valid, apparently.

They're more egalitarian, at least.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Are they or is it just fetishization?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

ned adores his manolo blahniks

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I adore my Manolo Blahniks too, but I'm more impressed by people striving to create than people striving to be served.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

While I am as well, I'll be damned if I see that as a sign of moral superiority. (Which may not be what Doughty is trying to convey, I'll grant, but the aftertaste is there. Doughty himself was never a 'kid' or anything, oh no.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think he's trying to convey moral superiority so much as "what made ny cool and a great place to live for me and people i know is changing"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

which is a very personal lament and not an objective moral critique.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Well, fair enough. But I get the same feeling like what Todd Haynes did at the end of Velvet Goldmine, namely that *he* felt the art while the 'kids' are just sheep. Charming, maybe unavoidable, and I'm hardly guiltless I'm sure. But it's ugly and I will call it out.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

(I knew that old article I wrote for FT on said film was around somewhere, here it is.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Ned looking down from his lofty computer shocka.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

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