Best So Far
From OC Weekly's The Blotter, I can't resist running Blaft's comment in its entirety:
"obviously, an alternative to the alternative is needed. Fuck new times. Their shitty los angeles paper was a complete load of crap and now these fucking pennyante lightweights run la weekly and oc weekly? Fuck them in their rancid mouths.
i wish the whole staff would leave and then they’d have to resort to hiring a bunchof castoffs and reject who would blindly follow whatever cockamaimie dictums issued by the fatous fat-asses who run that revolting company.
I am fucking pissed. This is a hurricane katrina for free thinking in orange county.
Ah, yes, I remember the old days, the days o’ jim washburn and buddy siegel and rich kane’s haikus and all kinds of neat shennanigans. How about this one from the early days, lampooning the Register’s ridiculous ad campaign: you’ll read. you ‘ll think. you’ll know or something like that with a picture of princess di or some other useless icon.
the weekly’s take was a picture of hitler and the line:
you’ll laugh. you’ll cry. you’ll annex the Sudetenland.
Now that’s journlaism. Rise up staffers! Storm the bastille! Wage in-house Guerrilla Warfare! Shit in the coffeemaker! Hold your collective breaths until thse evil vile motherfuckers release their gurry fucking hands from a paper that’s mean so much–and pissed so many people off.
New Times: I currse your fucking name, your fucking faces and your stupid fucking policies that are driving the best and brightest from your paper.
I can’t wait to piss on your graves when the paper you rape and pillage goes under and a new one rises from its ashes, glorious and triumphant, brave and exalting!
you stupid dumb fucks."
4 Comments:
Clear, and concise!!
Rebecca - I was flippant in my comment on your previous post here, but after reading this one, I'm sorry. Literally the only reason I ever picked up OC Weekly was to read Commie Girl, so I didn't know there'd been a change of ownership or any kind of internal upheaval. Good people (like you) will always get squeezed when The Corporation takes over. No matter what lip service they may pay to integrity and justice, no matter how often they repeat the mantra "Our people are our most valued asset," all they really want to do is make more money, and they don't need smart, honest, funny troublemakers like you around to upset their applecart and piss off the readers.
It was a great run, the stuff of legend, and I'm sad to see it end. But I know we'll get to hear your voice again, and it can't be soon enough for me.
As for OC Weekly, to paraphrase Clarence, the Guardian Angel, they've been given a great gift: a chance to see what their world would be like without Commie Girl. I don't think they're gonna like it.
God, this sanctimonious blather hurts my eyes to read. Seriouly, like the OC WEAKLY means anything in the overal scheme of things. It's Orange Country for Christ's sake. They make TV shows about spoiled rich kids from Laguna and bored rich "housewives" from Coto de Caza. Do you really think anyone outside of Costa Mesa takes the WEAKLY seriously?
Do you really think anyone outside of Costa Mesa takes the WEAKLY seriously?
Oh my god, that's so funny, the way you intentionally misspelled "Weekly!" I'm not kidding, it really is, I crack up every time some right-wing moron does it in the Weekly's Letters page, which is about a half dozen times a week, on average. That's what I love about the Weekly, it makes me laugh so much!
You know, we could all be jumping to conclusions here. What if New Village Voice Times Media Amalgamated really had some brilliant and sexy new ideas for the Weekly to make it ever BETTER and MORE POWERFUL than it ever was before, with TWICE THE BREAST IMPLANT ADVERTISING?!? And Swaim and Becca were just childish and stubborn and didn't want to play ball? Ever think of that? Commie Girl could be the villain here, you know, not the brave hero.
Think about it. In another year, when the first twelve pages of the NEW OC Weekly are devoted to lucrative vaginoplasty and Irvine condo advertising, and we get to read really funny and original columns by super funny and original nationally-known big-media progressives like Al Franken and Art Buchwald (even though he's dead, but I doubt anyone would notice!), we might be shaking our heads over how excited and upset we once were this week. What will be the reaction of a grateful Orange County when we can read a new and edgier version of the OC Metro where you can print the word "fuck?" We'll probably get a little chuckle out of the thought of how WRONG Swaim and Becca were to walk out just at the beginning of a great new era in OC journalism.
Just saying! It could happen, you know!
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