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those illustrations are great! esp. since they're on the subway! i mean, what better place to see idealized cartoon twenty-somethings cavorting in love on a billboard just above, say, a man who smells of his own urine? i love new york!!!!!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link

midi, both those pieces are illustrated by the same guy.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

two-timer

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost i think he knows that, hence "illustrator" singular.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Just to clarify, I linked that "ripster" thing (which I hated as much as I like Nick's 'Fork writing, but that's irrelevant) to illustrate that Sylvester obviously is/was the Voice's go-to po-mo satirist; the only ludicrous part of the whole saga is that someone decided his was cover story material - thus subjecting it to a completely unwarranted level of expectations and scrutiny. I mean, FFS, did anybody expect Nick to double-source his facts and log his Factiva searches when his stuff ran in the Choices' "Essay" section?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Now watch the dude become the anti-Adam Penenberg, a poster boy for why bloggerization of the press is an awful, standard-lowering thing. Sad.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

interesting how nick sylvester gets fired for making up stuff but people like kenny goldsmith ["kenny g" to the wfmu-familiar] have entire magazines devoted to his con artist antics.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link

that doesn't explain the viral marketing piece's complete misattributions, tho. those industry-specific columns usually carry the veneer of, y'know, actual research (at least when douglas wolk writes 'em they seem credible).

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link

that last post was to joseph cotten but it could stand in as a response to maria, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe we'll get a "Saturday Night Fever" out of this.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I didn't read the viral marketing piece... The ripster essay was a transparent joke (fake diary entries, etc) and scanned as a parody of a New York mag-style trend piece.
x-post

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, Douglas Wolk is a journalist, whereas Nick Sylvester is a humorist who ended up working at a newspaper.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link

so I guess the only silver lining here would be some updates on his dormant Riff Central?

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:28 (eighteen years ago) link

"I didn't read the viral marketing piece"

i'm not sure anyone did

― noizem duke (noize duke), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I heard he was suffering Post Tramatic Stress Disorder from an iPod War.

― A. Poster, Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link

WINNER!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link

you are given an assignment for the cover of a major newspaper that involves reporting = you learn to be a reporter real quick or you turn it down

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:33 (eighteen years ago) link

No argument there!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

HARMONY

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Side by side on my piano

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link

At least he didn't lie about pizza.

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I think we're all missing the most pertinent question this story throws up: will this The Game book actually help me get laid more often?

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link

no but it might get you booted in the cack

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:41 (eighteen years ago) link

What are you, Cliff Clavin?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:47 (eighteen years ago) link

cack

\Cack\, v. i. [OE. cakken, fr. L. cacare; akin to Gr. ??????, and to OIr. cacc dung; cf. AS. cac.] To ease the body by stool; to go to stool. --Pope.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:49 (eighteen years ago) link

the context was perhaps a bit off

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link

that TLASILA email exchange is ridiculous

― lil' flipper (eman), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link

"perhaps the village voice will be cacked by this experience"

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link

http://villagevoice.com/news/0610,news,72372,2.html

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link

oooh.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Awwwkwaaaaaard

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Here we go.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link

― ohboy (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Does this mean we don't have to wish him the best anymore?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:09 (eighteen years ago) link

the word "reported" makes that statement of apology particularly painful.

― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:11 (eighteen years ago) link

aaaaand....scene

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:12 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread has been abandoned by everyone except vultures.

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:12 (eighteen years ago) link

The City's New Gay Saturday Bash

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:14 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't rilly get how a writer for, despite its aimlessness and paralysis, still the premiere alt newspaper in the nation could think he could get away with this in the age of Jayson Blair and james Frey. Don't know the guy, find the few things i have written smug, don't bear him ill will…but I don't get it. Hamron called it correct.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link

So you're calling yourself a vulture?

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:16 (eighteen years ago) link

that was supposed to be "…things I have read smug…"

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:16 (eighteen years ago) link

commence lmaoing

― lil' flipper (eman), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:18 (eighteen years ago) link

wry ott going on = gold. Just sayin'

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link

why do i have the sinking suspicion that many of the people here sending out their support to him are actually enjoying every moment of this?

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know why the response seems okay to me when I was sad about the Brent DiCrescenzo debacle and wanted him to write again.

― WillS, Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm going to stay out of this, but it's worth pointing out that the voice got rid of all of their fact-checkers about a month ago. that doesn't excuse what happened (if it's true), but the voice should certainly look into hiring some fact-checkers, pronto.

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread makes me sick.

― save the robot (save the robot), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link

why?

― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Sicker than making shit up and publishing it?

I'm willing to overlook the douchebaggery on this thread when the offense is so serious. That's not to say that we should all be rubbing it in though.

xpost

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link

This thread could be filled with much more douchebaggery.

But my heart goes out to poor, poor Sylverster. All he did was fabricate quotes - when did that become such a crime?

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:25 (eighteen years ago) link

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