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The infamous Stephanie McMahon
Yes, that's Stephanie McMahon disgracing our cover this week. It's part of the new policy of our Marketing Department to make the cover pander to your tastes. Rod, our publisher, has apparently decided that all of his old artsy-fartsy covers didn't get your attention. According to surveys, you guys respond to eye-candy and then might read the articles. After doing this for almost three hundred times, we'll try anything to lure people in who might actually read THE WORDS.
SPEAKING OF WHICH, we invite you all back to check out our 300th Web Event on Monday, 21 January. Ain't nuthin' but a party!
The cocktail servers made our cover this week because, publishing from down here in New Orleans, we meet a lot of people in the service industry. Some of these people actually do work hard and are dependent on tips. If you're a lousy tipper, shame on you!
If you're a great server, good luck!
TODAY'S RDR: RADIO RAHEEM takes stock of "Seven Years at the Same Place" -- PLUS our Web Site Pick of the Week and the New Readership Poll: ("This year my boss is going to ....?") RESULTS THUS FAR: "I'm gonnah be my own boss!" - 66.7% -- Now go rock the vote.ABOUT US** TABLE OF CONTENTS **
Somebody has locked themselves in the toilet. The upstairs bathroom is locked and Frank has disappeared with the keys. There is a small riot at the door, as drunk women with smudged lipstick and crooked wigs bang on the door.
There is always that point at a party when people are too drunk to be having fun; when strange smelly people are asleep on your bed; when the good booze runs out and there is only Sedgwick's Brown Sherry and a carton of sweet white wine; when you realise that all your flat-mates have gone and all this is your responsibility; when the DJ is slumped over the stereo and some strange person is playing "I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie Wo-o-orld" over and over again.
I have been working here, in Observatory, Cape Town, for 2 years and rarely breached the boundary of my clique. Fear, I suppose, and a feeling that I am not quite ready to leave a place that has let me be anything I want to be -- and provided not a single predator. That is what this party is all about:
I am going home for a year.
So maybe this feeling that my movements are being guided is explicable. This time tomorrow I will be sitting next to my mother. We shall soak each other up. Flights to distant places always arouse in me a peculiar awareness: that what we refer to as reality -- not the substance, but the organisation of reality -- is really a strand as thin as the puffy white lines that planes leave behind as they fly... More
MARIETTA, OH, USA - The staff at Concord Records on the West Coast will be paying strict attention to the telecast of the Grammy Awards coming up on Feb. 27. Chances for Concord artists to win a boatload of Grammys could be rated from excellent to a dead-on certainty.
When the Grammy Award nominees were announced a while ago, I could imagine watching Concord's publicity director, Audrey Faine, and other staffers dancing around the office.
Why? Because Concord snagged a total of eleven nominations, thought to be the highest number of potential winners in the history of the most prestigious events honoring the music industry.
In one category, the array of riches seems almost embarrassing. For Traditional Pop Vocal Album, there were five nominees. Except for Harry Connick Jr.'s nomination, all of the others went to Concord artists... More
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I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in,
And stops my mind from wandering,
Where it will go
I'm filling the cracks that ran though the door,
And kept my mind from wandering, Where it will go
And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right,
Where I belong I'm right, where I belong
See the people standing there, who disagree and never win,
And wonder why they don't get in my door
I'm painting my room in a colorful way,
And when my mind is wandering
There I will go -- Lennon & McCartney
NEW ORLEANS, 14 January, 2002 - It will not surprise me if you are reading this on Tuesday, the week being what it was. As I type this, my house is suffering an infestation of the J.C. again. It is a moment of supreme irony, in a way. So much about them remains malignant, yes, even the word evil could be applied if not for the fact that they are so pitiable. After all, they know they have chosen a biological as well as a spiritual way of death. It comes out in their moments of weakness, illness or self-loathing when they step into the Confession Booth. Even though I must suspect that even then they are lying, as their lips move.
But that is beside the point this week. The level of drama at Casa de Caca has gone into such high gear in the last ten days that even Matt, who normally prides himself on being "Switzerland" has been forced, at least momentarily, out of his normal lethargy to try to suss out what is actually going on here and how much his own laissez faire existence has been put in jeopardy. When you read this, we shall all know whether an eviction is in the works because Caio has given all of his money to his "recreational" pursuits. Matt learned when the landlord showed up at the door with a five-day notice. That was the tenth... More
OAKLAND, CA, USA - Next week G21:THE WORLD'S MAGAZINE will publish its 300th edition here on the World Wide Web and I shall have the honor of being one of the people writing here who has seen it all from the very beginning. Most of the "special" stuff planned for that 300th issue will appear about his time next week, so I thought I'd write about my own feelings on it now; next week will be Rod's time.
This is also a special year for me because, when I noticed we were approaching number three hundred, I realized that I've been "talking" to many of y'all, Homies, for seven years now. That's FOREVER in Web Years and not darned bad for the Real World, either. We've shared a lot of ups and downs during that time --- and Lord Knows watching our share of changes at this Web site along the way! --- and in a sense you have watched me grow up here, up to and including my marriage. It's gotten to be like talking to family, I guess... More
RDR 01.07.02: BILL STEVENS rants this week, proclaiming "Damn the Shallow!"
RDR 01.02.02: LOUISE WISECHILD, PH.D weighs in at The World's Magazine with "In Praise of FUN." A good place to start your New Year
RDR 12.24.01: THOMAS HART says of 2001: "Glad That's Over!"
Rod; my question is not if your going to move to Houston or move in with
Artcamp people I want to know; who's opening for DR. John? Remember if you
move to Texas Texmex gets old fast, and can't compare to good Cajon.
HAVERHILL, MA, USA - If the medium is the message, then the date, Sept. 11, is the portal where we pour all of our pain to put it on digital display.
The message is our mantra, our artistic Alamo. And here at the new front of the new war, the bleeding hearts and artists are shaken and stirred like all of the flags waving in the breeze.
"Since Sept. 11," says Ron DiRito, a teacher at Montserrat College whose specialty is art and media and its context and meaning in society, "I don't think (people who live elsewhere) understand what it's like for us.
"I think the rest of the country doesn't have the same kind of ...," he pauses, looking for ways to explain how it feels to be at the front of this new war, then, completing the thought: " Everybody in New York understands it better than other people in the rest of the country. The physical distance changes our perception of something. There is this overwhelming sensibility."...More
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