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Main Discussion Area => Stream of Consciousness => Topic started by: Gazoo at da Voice on March 14, 2005, 08:40:26 PM
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Dan: (mutters something unintelligible yet profane)
Jorge: Was that Spanish?
Dan: No, that was the sound of frustration.
Jorge: Oh, then it was Basque?
I love this place.
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Dan: (mutters something unintelligible yet profane)
Jorge: Was that Spanish?
Dan: No, that was the sound of frustration.
Jorge: Oh, then it was Basque?
I love this place.
haahaaaa!!
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Dan: (mutters something unintelligible yet profane)
Jorge: Was that Spanish?
Dan: No, that was the sound of frustration.
Jorge: Oh, then it was Basque?
I love this place.
That's great, is Jorge actually Spanish as opposed to Latin American?
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Dan: (mutters something unintelligible yet profane)
Jorge: Was that Spanish?
Dan: No, that was the sound of frustration.
Jorge: Oh, then it was Basque?
I love this place.
That's great, is Jorge actually Spanish as opposed to Latin American?
I think he's Dominican -- just quick on the draw.
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Thread revived for another bit of Voice humor: We were talking about revising our Style Guide (mostly derived from Chicago, with some exceptions), and I suggested calling it ...
wait for it ...
the Comma Sutra.
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Thread revived for another bit of Voice humor: We were talking about revising our Style Guide (mostly derived from Chicago, with some exceptions), and I suggested calling it ...
wait for it ...
the Comma Sutra.
OOOooooo...that's good.
May I use that if the occasion ever arises?
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OOOooooo...that's good.
May I use that if the occasion ever arises?
yes, i'm salivating over it, too. I think that's how I will refer to Gaz from now on: J.M., creator of the Comma Sutra.
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Thread revived for another bit of Voice humor: We were talking about revising our Style Guide (mostly derived from Chicago, with some exceptions), and I suggested calling it ...
wait for it ...
the Comma Sutra.
OOOooooo...that's good.
May I use that if the occasion ever arises?
It's all yours, friend.
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Gaz --- another article on Barry Zito, shutterbug:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/14/SPGKDD81Q11.DTL
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Gaz --- another article on Barry Zito, shutterbug:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/14/SPGKDD81Q11.DTL
Interesting piece, too bad they couldn't have done this in time for Memorial Day. Also seemed kind of odd that they included photos of Zito from 2002 and 2003 -- makes this all feel like a marketing campaign of some sort, "building the brand of Zito" in the community. Something's going on, and I don't know what it is.
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makes this all feel like a marketing campaign of some sort, "building the brand of Zito" in the community. Something's going on, and I don't know what it is.
or maybe making him him look less like a left-coast flake, which will be helpful if he gets traded to someplace like Atlanta.
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makes this all feel like a marketing campaign of some sort, "building the brand of Zito" in the community. Something's going on, and I don't know what it is.
or maybe making him him look less like a left-coast flake, which will be helpful if he gets traded to someplace like Atlanta.
If that were the case then they'd show him lugging around dumbbells instead of a guitar. But the glowering "patriotism is one of his interests!" tone in the opening lends credence to selling him to middle America.
Why a SF paper wants to sell middle America on Zito remains a fascinating question to me, though.
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Two great lines from tonight's issue close:
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Dan: The cover's in!
(we look at the cover: an article on Mike Bloomberg as the "Colossus" of the mayoral race has Bloomie rendered as the Jolly Green Giant.)
Jorge: Why is he the Jolly Green Giant instead of a Colossus?
Phyllis: Does the Jolly Green Giant smoosh people?
2.
Dan, proofing an article: What?! I dehyph'd 'multi-culti'! I know I did!
Phyllis: Ward CQ'ed it. He said it looked like an eggplant dish.
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Well gang, it's happened: Village Voice Media and New Times have agreed to a merger. You can read about it at villagevoice.com or at gawker.com. Meetings today to discuss the implications -- of course, not being a proper employee, I wasn't invited to the "real" meeting, and must make do with a fill-me-in meeting with the copy editors afterwards. This isn't going to go down well.
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Well gang, it's happened: Village Voice Media and New Times have agreed to a merger. You can read about it at villagevoice.com or at gawker.com. Meetings today to discuss the implications -- of course, not being a proper employee, I wasn't invited to the "real" meeting, and must make do with a fill-me-in meeting with the copy editors afterwards. This isn't going to go down well.
We feel your pain, bub :cry: The NY Times is reporting the story too -- a friend just emailed it to me.
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Well gang, it's happened: Village Voice Media and New Times have agreed to a merger. You can read about it at villagevoice.com or at gawker.com. Meetings today to discuss the implications -- of course, not being a proper employee, I wasn't invited to the "real" meeting, and must make do with a fill-me-in meeting with the copy editors afterwards. This isn't going to go down well.
We feel your pain, bub :cry: The NY Times is reporting the story too -- a friend just emailed it to me.
It was reported on KFOG this morning too. Funny that it has to go through a government anti-trust review, considering how lax the gov't has been about the amalgamation of power into fewer and fewer hands in the media lately.
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Musto on the new musical Jersey Boys:
"Big Gaudio dynamite."
I wish I'd thought of that.
Meantime, for those with an affinity for the Voice, there's this:
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/14987/
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Musto on the new musical Jersey Boys:
"Big Gaudio dynamite."
I wish I'd thought of that.
LOL! and speaking of, I read the review in the Times today (apparently the kid who plays Frankie Valli is quite good) and it said that Bob Crewe is portrayed as quite the queen. Who knew?
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From the resident coffee snob here in Copy:
"Use the good coffee. You may dispose of the Folger's. Throw it out the window; feel free to sprinkle it on pedestrians."
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From the resident coffee snob here in Copy:
"Use the good coffee. You may dispose of the Folger's. Throw it out the window; feel free to sprinkle it on pedestrians."
The best part of walking theeeeere...
Is Folgers in your hair!
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One thing I love about copy editing here is the queries I get to ask that I will never get to ask again. In the past two days:
"Dehyph, close 'ass-fuck' as noun per precedent of closed 'buttfuck' in word list?"
"Not sure how to hyph 'ultra super gay DJ' here: is he ultra-super? or ultra-super-gay?"
(The latter is about Junior Vasquez, in case anyone wondered.)
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One thing I love about copy editing here is the queries I get to ask that I will never get to ask again. In the past two days:
"Dehyph, close 'ass-fuck' as noun per precedent of closed 'buttfuck' in word list?"
"Not sure how to hyph 'ultra super gay DJ' here: is he ultra-super? or ultra-super-gay?"
(The latter is about Junior Vasquez, in case anyone wondered.)
only Bruce Vilanch and Carson Kressley are ultra-super-gay.
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One thing I love about copy editing here is the queries I get to ask that I will never get to ask again. In the past two days:
"Dehyph, close 'ass-fuck' as noun per precedent of closed 'buttfuck' in word list?"
"Not sure how to hyph 'ultra super gay DJ' here: is he ultra-super? or ultra-super-gay?"
(The latter is about Junior Vasquez, in case anyone wondered.)
And does "ultra super" modify "gay" or "DJ"?
In CNET style (which I often don't agree with personally), it would be ultrasupergay DJ.
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One thing I love about copy editing here is the queries I get to ask that I will never get to ask again. In the past two days:
"Dehyph, close 'ass-fuck' as noun per precedent of closed 'buttfuck' in word list?"
"Not sure how to hyph 'ultra super gay DJ' here: is he ultra-super? or ultra-super-gay?"
(The latter is about Junior Vasquez, in case anyone wondered.)
only Bruce Vilanch and Carson Kressley are ultra-super-gay.
When I was driving around greater Cleveland last week WMMS had Mike Teutel, the son from OCC on as a guest (you know, that chopper building show on Discovery channel? if not see here: http://www.orangecountychoppers.com/occweb_ver2_biopage_mike.php). Now Mikey's a 'bigfella', and the WMMS deejays were asking him if people ever say he looks like this or that other famous bigfella. He said, "No, but sometimes I get Bruce Vilanch."
WMMS guys: "Who??"
Mikey: "Some comic guy, gets paid like $10,000 per joke for the Oscars."
[that screeching sound in your imagination is me trying not to swerve the 12 passenger van into the ditch]
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One thing I love about copy editing here is the queries I get to ask that I will never get to ask again. In the past two days:
"Dehyph, close 'ass-fuck' as noun per precedent of closed 'buttfuck' in word list?"
"Not sure how to hyph 'ultra super gay DJ' here: is he ultra-super? or ultra-super-gay?"
(The latter is about Junior Vasquez, in case anyone wondered.)
only Bruce Vilanch and Carson Kressley are ultra-super-gay.
When I was driving around greater Cleveland last week WMMS had Mike Teutel, the son from OCC on as a guest (you know, that chopper building show on Discovery channel? if not see here: http://www.orangecountychoppers.com/occweb_ver2_biopage_mike.php). Now Mikey's a 'bigfella', and the WMMS deejays were asking him if people ever say he looks like this or that other famous bigfella. He said, "No, but sometimes I get Bruce Vilanch."
WMMS guys: "Who??"
Mikey: "Some comic guy, gets paid like $10,000 per joke for the Oscars."
[that screeching sound in your imagination is me trying not to swerve the 12 passenger van into the ditch]
That last line justified everything that preceded. This is why I want y'all as my podcast cast!