You wanna save Sports Illustrated? GET RID OF TERRY MCDONNELL. The guy sat at Esquire watching circulation fall through the floor, his only real talent being to spend ungodly sums of money on basically nothing and for that he ends up being promoted to SI? I swear to god, the best way to save every magazine out there? Bag the over-paid, over-spending captian of the ship and keep everyone else's jobs.
Tossing McDonnell is perhaps the best example of how this would save the industry.
@manchops: Terry actually "sat at Esquire" doing just the opposite: publishing dozens of literary icons, many of whom are now in the canon thanks in part to Terry's faith in them. Talese, Mailer, McInerney, Salinger, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, Cormac McCarthy...are you kidding me?
Under Terry's editorship, Esquire was an ASME finalist SEVEN times. Just try comparing Esquire's (well-documented recently by DiGiacomo in VF) pathetic fiction to the work Terry accomplished back then.
@Immaculate:
1) Jann promoted Terry because he earned that ME position.
2) "Personal habits"? You're actually chastising someone who worked at Rolling Stone under Wenner in the early 80s for having fun?
3) Jann and Terry, to this day, are close friends. If Terry stole anything from Jann, it was a series of classic Hunter S. Thompson anecdotes due to the fact that HST adored Terry and wasn't so fond of Jann.
4) Nick writes his own novels. Terry is (and will proudly admit it) an editor, not a writer. And an effing legendary one, who works seven days a week, has completely revived si.com (who do you think oversaw the CNN partnership?), and most importantly, a gentleman.
Jealousy doesn't justify idiotic, ignorant bashing of someone you clearly know nothing about.
Keep in mind, in these latter days, "ambitious traveling" just means getting through the TSA lines without a body cavity search and before your flight leaves. "Really ambitious traveling" involves not bitchslapping a flight attendant when s/he tries to convince you that making you buy your own 'food' is an opportunity and not the airline cheaping out.
I was trying to explain Twitter to my 52-year-old father and told him how users update with what they're doing/thinking at the time and he was like, "...so, basically it's for people with no lives?" Nothing gets by that man.
11/19/09
Tossing McDonnell is perhaps the best example of how this would save the industry.
11/19/09
Under Terry's editorship, Esquire was an ASME finalist SEVEN times. Just try comparing Esquire's (well-documented recently by DiGiacomo in VF) pathetic fiction to the work Terry accomplished back then.
@Immaculate:
1) Jann promoted Terry because he earned that ME position.
2) "Personal habits"? You're actually chastising someone who worked at Rolling Stone under Wenner in the early 80s for having fun?
3) Jann and Terry, to this day, are close friends. If Terry stole anything from Jann, it was a series of classic Hunter S. Thompson anecdotes due to the fact that HST adored Terry and wasn't so fond of Jann.
4) Nick writes his own novels. Terry is (and will proudly admit it) an editor, not a writer. And an effing legendary one, who works seven days a week, has completely revived si.com (who do you think oversaw the CNN partnership?), and most importantly, a gentleman.
Jealousy doesn't justify idiotic, ignorant bashing of someone you clearly know nothing about.
09/02/09
Yeah, I'm jest jealous.
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You should check out his old band, Bitch Magnet -- for real.
David Grubbs + Sooyoung Park were also in the band so they were kind of a post Squirrel Bait almost-super-group.
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No, because you read Twitter so that I don't have to. Thanks!
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Sitting at work. Reading Gawker. Coffee not strong enough. Guess I'll work now.
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(Joke.)
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Somebody sent me a direct message telling me they weren't constipated anymore and I told them to fuck off and die.
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