July 2010
Here I am on all the ‘Idol’ rumors. Bonus anti-celebrity-culture content!
- maura johnston: Tomorrow's lineup:
- VILLAGE STAGE
- Danielia Cotton: 2:50-3:20
- Jill Hennessy: 3:50-4:20
- Priscilla Renea: 4:50-5:20
- ABC STAGE
- Serena Ryder: 3:20-3:50
- Beth Orton: 4:20-4:50
- Missy Higgins: 5:20-5:50
- MAIN STAGE
- Sara Bareilles: 5:50-6:35
- Suzanne Vega: 6:50-7:30
- Cat Power: 7:50-8:30
- Indigo Girls: 8:50-9:40
- Sarah McLachlan: 10:00-10:50
- Seth Colter Walls: jill hennessy
- Seth Colter Walls: that just kills me for some reason
- Seth Colter Walls: they sent me her album about 15 times
- Seth Colter Walls: with headshots
- Seth Colter Walls: it's like
- Seth Colter Walls: NO
- Seth Colter Walls: THANKS
- maura johnston: i'm excited
- maura johnston: maybe chris noth will be there!!
- Seth Colter Walls: you are such a L&O nerd
- maura johnston: MAYBE SAM WATERSTON WILL
- Seth Colter Walls: adfladskfjadwklfjbaewkf
- Seth Colter Walls: you can't wait for Sam Waterston's alt-country record, can you?
- maura johnston: 'the songs of abe lincoln as they would have been sung by abe lincoln'
Sadly, insight doesn’t bring in the pageviews. But thank you for the kind words.
She elaborated further on this text in an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s culture blog.
When you ask Dan Rohn, founder of JournalismJobs.com, how his job listings website is doing these days, he summons an automotive analogy.
At its peak, in the mid 2000s, he says, it was like a Rolls Royce, it was so busy. Then around 2008 it dropped down to a Lexus. These days it’s back up to a Mercedes - “a very nice Mercedes,” he adds.
Which is a roundabout way of saying that after the sturm und drang of the last few years there are jobs to be had in the news business. Good news for Rohn, good news for everyone.
“There’s plenty of jobs out there,” the 43-year-old says by phone from his base in the San Francisco area.
Indeed, on one recent day this week there were more than 390 jobs listed under the Newspapers/Wires category; 120 in Online Media; and 30 under TV, among other categories. Rohn says on average the site carries 900 or so listings on any given day.
No look at the pay scale of those jobs; no look at how senior the positions are; no look at whether or not the ‘120 in Online Media’ are 60 listings of the same ad for Seed.com tweaked to fit different Patch.com communities. Just “everything is hunky dory” boilerplate from someone who sorta-refuses to say just what sort of parts the aforementioned Mercedes is made from, and whether or not the car being driven simply a Mercedes logo slapped onto a hastily painted Yugo with a sputtering battery.
THE CHECK-IN IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE CRAZY
Although if this bit of hysteria stops people from auto-Tweeting their 4sq updates, I’m all for it.
Where in Manhattan would one build a Target that is convenient to the subway (and I’m going to guess bicyclists too cough) without completely upsetting the city’s fabric? The now-deserted ESPN Zone space, I guess, but otherwise…
Also the whole “build a store for this city” argument would work better if more people who, you know, actually lived in the neighborhood could weigh in on the supposed pedestrian-hostile quotient of this store! Numbers are not experiences.
superchunk covering the cure!! ayayayaya
the project runway banner ads on the nymag site reminded me to check my dvr and make sure thursday’s premiere was set to record.
(seriously though, what a disconnect listening to it was. i would be ok with it and then i would remind myself that wait, GWYNETH GOOPY PALTROW was the person allegedly singing, and the utter disconnect would creep me out something fierce.)
thanks (“thanks”??) matt!
