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From:
jeff salamon
To:
Chaircrusher
Cc:
intelligent dance
Date:
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:30:57 -0600
Subject:
Re: (idm) slagging magazines
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Chaircrusher wrote:
quoted 1 line>
YOU try putting out an expensive
quoted 5 lines color magazine, attract advertisers, and attract enough readers to justify> color magazine, attract advertisers, and attract enough readers to justify > your ad prices, etc. When I read those mags, I'm struck not by their > shortcomings, but by how much they GET RIGHT, despite being pulled several > different directions at once by the forces that would put them out of > business.
wooo! at last -- a note of sensible, hard-headed realism amidst the fantasyland pontifications of all the authenticity-poseurs on this list!
quoted 3 lines Look at it this way. You may be the ultra-cool, tastefully pierced art fag> > Look at it this way. You may be the ultra-cool, tastefully pierced art fag > who's down with the true players,
uh... _art fag_? please ignore the compliment above. But I like Jockey Slut and the Wire, and appreciate the
quoted 1 line job they try to do. If they aren't perfect, well, neither am I.> job they try to do. If they aren't perfect, well, neither am I.
agreed. jeff