Well, it looks like it if this is any indication. And remember, if you want to be editor of New Times, you have to be able to edit and write. Not just one or the other. I can't stress that enough, people.
Our current chief, Robert Meyerowitz, will be departing in about a month and is likely heading back to his beloved Alaska. I'll have more on that later, but the Pulp certainly wishes him all the best after his year seeing to our award-winning staff (hey, it says so in the ad, so it must be true).
I'm a bit tardy with this news. In fact, I've terribly neglected all of Pulp readers lately, and I'm terribly sorry for it. I've been busy with my day job and I got this nagging cold thing that has me more sick of being sick than I am actually sick (some of you know exactly what I mean). Oh, and the New Times has shrunk. It looks more like a -- gag -- magazine now. It's all part of a new design (a design to save the company some money, I believe).
While we're shrinking, the Sentinel is softening. More on that later, too, but I'll leave you with this little screen capture courtesy of Cal Deal. His caption: "And the most important story in the world is ..."










Dear Bob
It has always been the best of times and the worst of times in a kind of crazy existential way, if you know what I mean.
And this is certainly the case with the Sun-Sentinel playing Jason Taylor's dancing ability as etc electronic lead story of the moment.
But what the hell.
The other day on the internet I came upon a video of an very attractive woman engaged in frantic sex with the active hose of her humming Hoover vacuum cleaner.
Naturally, I found the visual -- like Jason Taylor dancing on network television -- to be (dare I say) of interest.
Like of the 6.6 billion people living on this tiny planet lost in the great void of the universe, how many have found it necessary to fuck a floor model vacuum cleaner -- which is, I believe, a fair question media-wise?
Like is she the only one?
Or are there more.
Like maybe dozens, or hundreds, or....?
And if so, are they all doing it with Hoover vacuums?
Or do other machines generate as much pleasure as a floor model hoover?
Clearly, like you, I find much about the modern media that leaves me thirsting for some kind of logic and meaning.
Oh yes.
Sorry to hear about your editor leaving town.
However, as an old reporter pal once said betweens shots of bar whiskey and POC beer, "A good bowel movement beats a good editor every time."
Oh yes.
Sorry to hear you're sick.
Hope you'll soon feel well.
But in the meantime, please enter "Love My Hoover" in the search box on YOUPORN to catch the latest news without-meaning.
Or, as the late Marshall McLuhan once put it, "The media is the massage." Or was it "message?"
Posted at: April 16, 2008 3:15 PM