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    10/01/09

    In reply to Rumor: Layoffs at Reader's Digest (Updated)
    I hear the halls of RD headquarters ijn Pleasantville are emptier than Dick Cheney's heart
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    09/30/09

    In reply to Rumor: Layoffs at Reader's Digest (Updated)
    I had an aunt who worked for Reader's Digest when I was a kid and she said it was a great place to work. I only remember a lot (a whole lot) of shark stories or shpwrecked at night stories...that kind of thing.
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    09/30/09

    In reply to Rumor: Layoffs at Reader's Digest (Updated)
    i never thought much about reader's digest always being in my grandparents' house until i went back as an adult and read it -- really fringe rightwing lunacy in between the "clever" anecdotes
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    09/30/09

    In reply to Rumor: Layoffs at Reader's Digest (Updated)
    Layoffs: The Best Medicine
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    09/30/09

    In reply to Rumor: Layoffs at Reader's Digest (Updated)
    I hope Joe's Kidney can find work.
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    09/30/09

    In reply to Rumor: Layoffs at Reader's Digest (Updated)
    It no longer pays to increase your word power.
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    09/30/09

    In reply to Rumor: Layoffs at Reader's Digest (Updated)
    I understand the Reader's Digest pink slips were incredibly concise.
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    09/30/09

    @onebadclam: You're ......
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    09/30/09

    In reply to Rumor: Layoffs at Reader's Digest (Updated)
    So do the layoffs at CN mean that they're going to unload a couple of dozen of those VF "Contributing Editors" who get paid a handsome sum each month so their name can appear in that clusterfuck on the masthead but never ever write?
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    09/30/09

    @Swordfish: Can you be more specific on the range of the handsome sum? I've always wondered. Also, excellent use of the word clusterfuck.
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    09/30/09

    @Swordfish: All of the magazines have been getting rid of contributing editors for the past year--just not renewing contracts. In some cases they leave the people on the masthead for various reasons.
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    09/30/09

    In reply to Rumor: Layoffs at Reader's Digest (Updated)
    I can only pray my 401K isn't jumping on the "newspapers are back" bandwagon.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    I will never forget the thrill of The Village Voice when I arrived in NYC for college in the fall of 1975 from an upstate small town. The ads for gay movie theaters tweaked something within me. And then, my first semester, going to the personals ads and, very nervously, picking one by a gay man with his phone number and even more nervously calling him to make a date, thereby starting my way through the various baby steps to coming to terms with my sexual orientation, just six years after Stonewall. It really was wild and wooly and that wonderful Village Voice of days past, still so fondly remembered and the doors it opened still so deeply resonant to me.
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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    08/06/09

    @TrevorNatta: When the VOICE was still interesting and the SOHO WEEKLYNEWS was around, it was heavenly newspaper reading for this arty suburban girl!
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    08/06/09

    @TrevorNatta: OK: so obvs you've been in NYC forever, do you remember the first NYC matchbook covers which had ads for phone s3x circa 1987, plain black text on white background reading simply "in the middle of the night, when there's no-one else" and a number to call? please, please, please tell me you remember this
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    It's sad, because Tom Robbins' weekly skewering of Bloomberg has been fantastic reading, and really the only critical voice in a NYC media that has fallen head-over-heels in love with our mayor.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    Back in college I worked in a library that for some reason hoarded VV back to the mid-70s. It was interesting to see how straightforward the writing style was -- until about 1981 -- when it started reading like Semiotica meets Lester Bangs.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    Am I the only one who clicked on the "New Wave" article link thinking I was going be reading a takedown of Truffaut and Godard?
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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    08/06/09

    @1.1.1.: Yes! (Good article, though. His description of David Byrne is hysterical. And he recognized that The Ramones were a "killer band". Now, does ANYONE remember The Bananas? Not me...)
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    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    Just about every free weekly alternative paper in the US was based on the Village Voice. The Voice clones were all bought by New Times Media. Then New Times buys the Voice...
    New Times Media comes in and decides that their experience with Voice clones qualifies them to use their management techniques to make the Voice "better"...
    Do you see where I'm going with this?
    It's like if MAD TV took over Saturday Night Live and made SNL be more like MAD TV... (vomit)
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    08/06/09

    @se7a7n7: That's a good analogy, especially since Saturday Night Live also long ago lost most of its relevance. I guess that makes Michael Musto the Voice's Kristen Wiig?
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    08/06/09

    In reply to Remembering When the Village Voice—and New York City—Mattered
    Graham Parker, Joan Armatrading and ads for stereo equipment that made your music actually sound good.
    Major sigh.
    OH GOD I'M AN OLD!!!!!
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    08/06/09

    @BxgrlJeri: Oh, pipe down and finish your prune juice. I need help getting those damn kids off of the lawn.
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