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[Sarah - 21 Grand]

George Cremaschi wrote:
Typical: nice 'awards' from basically the only
publication in town, meaning the East Bay, which
if anyone hadn't noticed is where almost all of us
live and play at this point, and y'all get out yer
red pencils and pore over every line, looking for
each and every slight, imagined or real...

- and we shouldn't criticize the president either, because he's the only one
we got, right? 

I don't know who wrote the blurbage, by which we were fairly flattered,
though we were scratching our heads at the part that mentions Mr. Djll and
Phillip, until we realized, "Aha, it came from Noisy People!" (The last time
the writer seemingly picked a few names from our previous month's calendar.)
I wouldn't be surprised if it was Kelly Vance. His heart is in the right
place, but he's a lazy writer, and regularly gets things wrong, though I do
appreciate his effort at actually writing, rather than cutting and pasting.

Whenever I see the exact verbiage of press releases in write-ups in the
paper, I start thinking of trained monkeys and requesting payment of the
paper for writing their content ... no payment, "then, the least you could
do is quote me." (Berin Golonu's cut and pasting of text from my performance
proposal in her curatorial statement for that "Sampling Oakland" show at
YBCA is another story ... she really should have quoted me ... but then
really, should one have more professional respect for a YBCA curator than a
New Times writer/copy editor?)

For the record, Darren was thrilled that the Express, for once (since 2001)
got his name right ... after being referred to as Darren Johnston and Dennis
Jenkins.


GC:
hopefully
no one's sent a righteous e-mail to the anonymous author,
or it'll be another five years until the next honorable mention.

- well we got "best of the East Bay" in 2004, and since then I have sent a
righteous email in response to that "Hipster Invasion" cover story. So I
don't see how that follows. In fact, they might be more likely to honorably
mention you if you write them righteous emails. They love printing them!
It's the New Times M.O.

sl