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Chris, you're basically saying what I'm thinking, and so is Pete Scholtes, as usual.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Copy and research editor at This Old House ... life is a funny thing, man.

― Chris O., Tuesday, 25 October 2005 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link

The TV show? Or is there a magazine now? That sounds interesting. Not music! There's a thought. ( You-you mean there are other things in the world?!)

― don, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

It's a go.

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2005/11/doj_approves_vi.asp
http://blogs.citypages.com/pscholtes/2005/10/new_times_takes.asp

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Voice editor resigns:

http://villagevoice.com/news/0549,murphy,70679,2.html

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link

wow.

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

wow!

oh, yeah, like the guy resigned, wow.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link

dang, that didn't work.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Managing editor Doug Simmons has been at the Voice a long time now himself...He used to write about music way back when...

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

has anybody else quit?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I quit reading the paper in 1996 -- does that count?

― Someone (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

So rumors are ciricling that the New Times axe is starting to fall across the music editors in the former Village Voice Media-owned papers and that Chuck Eddy may be looking for work soon.

― jeffree, Friday, 10 March 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe he can start a blog.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

For whatever it's worth, the "rumor" is news to me (both the axes and me looking for a job soon). So far, I've been left alone to do my job.

(I'm not gonna post here again; just thought people might be curious.)

― xhuxk, Friday, 10 March 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

(it does seem kinda rude to circulate "rumors" - esp. personal/professional ones - about people that actually post here)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Quite. Since Chuck has graciously responded we will leave it at that but Jeffree might want to rethink his approach in future.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Agreed.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link

or post under his real name.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes yes, quite.

― cracking sherry, this (nabisco), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

And I would have gotten away with that joke, too, if it weren't for Mark P and his meddling cross-posts.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Toast, Gromit?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

"I want six words on MCR in my inbox by Monday!"

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Writing six words on
My Chemical Romance soon;
A bird flies nearby

― Not Haikunym (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

that was rude, but i love how all the freelancers kiss each others asses and make public shows of support for each other.

like it's gonna get you any work.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

cynicism.jpg

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i love how all the freelancers kiss each others asses and make public shows of support for each other.

You're fired.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i've gotten work from ilm. i'm hardly the only one.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

i've gotten work from ilm. i'm hardly the only one.

You're hired.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean, it's not like i hang out in rock critic bars on the rock critic side of town. you know?

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

and i like writing. might as well make the most of things!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

but not as funny as the cult of Sasha.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

xxpost

33 1/3rd St.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

most of the VVM music editors are already gone! they left of their own accord! hicks left city pages, matos left seattle weekly, friskics-warren left the scene...all within a few weeks of each other. it's kind of frightening, actually.

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

i've gotten work from ilm. i'm hardly the only one.

Indeed, and I won't complain.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I heard that ILX is going to be fired soon.

― Definitely Not Da Na Not! (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

http://eloise.cementhorizon.com/albums/christmas-on-16th-2004/Kati_Vol_flashing_the_bling.thumb.jpg

"Thanks, ILX!"

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

quarterly shares per nanosecond

http://staff.imsa.edu/science/geophysics/atmosphere/structure/ilx.gif

― Da Na Not! (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/9178/orly1rk.jpg

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd like some work. Whose ass do I have to kiss?

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Results!

http://www.ably.co.jp/ilx/img/ilx.jpg

― Da Na Not! (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link

most of the VVM music editors are already gone! they left of their own accord! hicks left city pages, matos left seattle weekly, friskics-warren left the scene...all within a few weeks of each other.

Sam Chennault left Miami NT before as well. Today is my last day at the office. Just moved my office stuff into storage. Apartment gets packed this upcoming week, then off to NYC.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Have Gun, Will Travel reads the card of a man,
A knight without armor in a savage land.
His fast gun for hire, heeds the calling wind,
A soldier of fortune is the man called Matos.
Matos, Matos, where do you roam?
Matos, Matos, far, far, from home.

He travels on to wherever he must:
A chess knight of silver is his badge of trust.
There are campfire legends that the plainsmen spin
Of the man with the gun, of the man called Mi-ch-ael-ang-elo.
Matos, Matos, where do you roam?
Matos, Matos, Far, far, from home.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I love you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Mi-ch-ael-ang-elo

"-ch-"?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

matos your new landlord isn't named ralph by any chance, is he? cause i heard about the block you're moving to, and I USED TO LIVE ON THAT BLOCK! at #69, naturally. i am very very happy about your imminent return!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know who the landlord is; it's a small-BR sublet for a couple months while I find a real place.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

good stuff.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link

First Starbucks and now Matoses! What neighborhood did you end up picking?

Also, Da Na Not!, is your screen name the guitar line from Helmet's "Unsung"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I knew Sam left MNT but...you guys are making funnies about the other music editor change-ups, right? RIGHT?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

i have accepted a well-paid position on burmese public radio

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

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