perfessor multigeek's Journal: Well, I *guess* I should be happy about this.

So, after all these weeks, The L Magazine has finally posted my screed on not seceding.
Of course first they buried three layers deep with no permalink (Home->Features->Caustic), then they used a photo that makes me look, well, I don't know like what but whatever it is, it's awful, then they put a pathetic headline on it, then they edit it into a combination of what I liked least about each of the different versions, leaving it bland and sloppy.

You think writers are neurotic because they are "creative types"? Yeah, right, it's just the natural result of the frustrations of dealing with editors and never knowing what or when will result from that passionate session of "sitting at the keyboard until blood drips from your forehead".

Grrrr. Arrrgh.

Good things I've got my own damned site and my own damned publishing company.

Goddamned editors, goddamned pandering, hipster, middlebrow, short attention span, 300 word thinker, grumble, mumble mbgdbbblbl . . .

-Rustin

screw the L.

[mekkab]

I went to sk00l with one of the VPs of it (or maybe he's president of it). And he SUCKS.

Re:screw the L.

[perfessor multigeek]

Are you perhaps referring to Scott? Or Jonny? Truth is, I've found them genial enough and nice enough and gawd knows it's handy for me for them to keep providing me with a venue (not to mention free drinks), but I've found them to have a "clear vision" that is, AFAICT, proudly built around being shallow, callow, half-inattentive "hipsters".
They are, by and large, educated folks with a decent amount of intellectual horsepower. Better, on average, then the editorial staffs at most publications I've worked fo

Re:screw the L.

[mekkab]

neither. Dev.

Vanity, anyone?

[kimdog]

The pic is fine, Rustin. You look vaguely disgruntled, but it not a bad pic at all. Besides you DO look vaguely disgruntled pretty frequently. Yeah, I know that written version can't capture adequately convey the spanking that you gave to the other guy, but it's still pretty clear that you triumphed. Well, time for me to go prepare for the arrival of my Aunt and Uncle. Yes, more Southernors invading NYC. Maybe you'll rething that wall thing after all. I'll be scarce this weekend.

Re:Vanity, anyone?

[perfessor multigeek]

Kim,
Oops. Well, since you're a better judge of what I look like then I am, I'll take your word for it. Thanks for the positive words. Yet again I find that I have no clue as to what my own output means once it is out of my head.

Good luck with the preparations. If you're thinking again about crashing here then you'll be happy to know that I just posted listings for about a third of my magazines and old tech books on Craig's List. I'm thinking seriously about selling off, shipping away, or giving away as m

Re:Vanity, anyone?

[eugene ts wong]

I agree with you. The picture looks fine to me.

Rustin, I actually think that you look kind of cool. Don't take my word for it, though. I don't have the best taste in people.

For some reason, I keep thinking that you look like that tall white guy on MadTV [is it Michael McDonald?].

Okay, maybe I'm oversensitive

[perfessor multigeek]

Well, it's been a few more days, more people have seen piece, picture, hed, and so on. The uniform conclusion is that all are just fine. Not a single person has found the efforts of the editorial staff anything less then entirely reasonable.

Harumph.

I continue to find each deeply and stunningly grotaticious.

I hereby reluctantly concede that I just need to take a chill pill when others publish my stuff and not get so het up about it.

*sigh*

-Rustin