The CA broke a pretty fascinating story on Sunday: Ernest Withers, the iconic civil rights photographer, was a paid FBI informant. It’s almost too crazy to contemplate, but most history is, if you think about it. I was lucky enough to get to do the print layout, although that meant that I had to sit on such a crazy story for a few weeks. That’s nothing compared to Marc Perrusquia’s having to keep mum about…
I am burned out. I am sick of working nights and weekends. I never see my friends. I don’t even think they notice anymore. I am sick of a job where I just sit on my ass and stare at a computer screen and deliver page proofs to people like some kind of copy boy. I have grown tired of some people’s refusal to recognize me as having earned the creative freedoms I feel I’ve…
… you can go damn near anywhere you please as long as you strut as hard as this fellow is strutting. (Cue “Strut That Ass” remix.)
This time with sweet election results coding action. Which is sweet in the way that a hernia is pleasurable.
(Cross-filed in the shameless friend promotion cabinet) Check out these sweet page designs featuring Shane McDermott’s artwork. The Facebook page is my favorite, even though Shane had to bust ass to get it done on deadline since his original sketch was lost to the ether thanks to some kind of shitty Illustrator-related technical glitch. Shane, when he reads this post, will probably leave a comment saying that he likes the Facebook illustration, just not as…
It’s 2:35 am. I am still at the office. The power went out shortly after 10 and we’ve just been sitting here, waiting for it to come back so we can put out the paper. MLGW has told us they have no clue what the issue is, but that substation 21 has been affected, and that means us plus The Med and Le Bonheur. Our office phones are down and our emergency lights are running…
I have started posting over at The Memphis Blog again. The first thing I did when I decided to take a hiatus two months ago (prompted, mostly, by the fact that I have very little time to do blog cultivation during work hours now since the newsroom reorgnization, and I was spending a TON of hours at home doing for free what I should probably be getting paid to do) was unsubscribe from every Memphis…
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