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Thursday, December 4th, 2003

If you’re in the Bay Area and you wanna talk music journalism, or–whoa–even pitch the top local music editors, I’m holding them captive in a room on Saturday for 3 hours. Bring yourself, your wallet, your pitch, and a couple-three opinions.

Panel: So You Wanna be a Music Journalist?

Moderated by Jeff Chang

Saturday December 6th, 10am – 12:30pm

ATA, 992 Valencia at 21st Street., SF

$5 Members, $10 Non-Members

Sign up here.

Get inside the heads of actual flesh-and-blood Bay Area

music and arts editors. Hear insider advice from working

music journalists.

You won’t want to miss this opportunity to meet folks

who actually do this day in and day out. Come to this

panel armed with your story ideas and pitches.

Panelists:

J.H. Tompkins, Arts Editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian

Tomas Palermo, Editor, XLR8R Magazine

Joel Schalit, Associate Editor, Punk Planet Magazine

Oliver Wang, Contributing Editor, URB Magazine

Eric Arnold, Music Columnist, East Bay Express

Todd Inoue, Music Editor, San Jose Metro

Kimberly Chun, Music Editor, San Francisco Bay Guardian

Hot to death right? Be there, homie.

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Thursday, December 4th, 2003

Bad news travels fast but since I’ve been book-making I’m the last to know. So now…

Bronfman owns Warner.

Vanguarde is dead. (Just when Selwyn was about to turn around Savoy. Now Liz needs a job too.)

Arnold’s about to obliterate health and human services.

I have a new Medicare bill to pay, and then to bequeath to my kids.

Productivity is up, as well as the murder rates. Jobs, meanwhile, are still down. Way down. (See first two, that is, three for that matter.)

Bush’s polls are up.

Cal’s losing to scrub teams.

There’s more but I’m not supposed to say.

At least we know Cal will turn around. Maybe I can hope some of the other things will too. Aiya. Happy birthday JZ.

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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003

Quote of the week comes from Rob Sheffield on this RollingStone.com review of Missy Elliott’s This Is Not A Test!. “Her fifth album, This Is Not a Test!, hits new levels of bananas-osity. She jumps so far off the heezy, she lands right on another heezy.” Somebody say ouch!

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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003

HIGH ON HIS OWN SUPPLY

In case yall missed this over the holiday weekend, here’s

the best article on Jay-Z ever. It’s by the brilliant Elizabeth Mendez Berry, a Latina born in Colombia, raised in Toronto, now living in NYC, late of Vibe now at Honey. In that brief bio are at least three strikes against being included in Da Capo’s Best Music Writing of 2004, but I’m supposed to be off that topic. Sorry. Peep it and pass it on.

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Monday, December 1st, 2003

Geezus. So I haven’t blogged in a minute. Trying to avoid bad news this past weekend. Very satisfied after the holiday meals, the Q.T. with the kids, and the Outkast appearance on VH1’s Big Thing last night.

Also spent some time reading about John Lennon and Yoko Ono. And I’m looking back at these posts and realizing I’ve been tough on old white males recently. Look, the ones who married into my family can take it. Hell they get it from their kids on a daily basis! But I know some of you can’t. So here’s an article on Bix Beiderbecke. See? I can be nice.

More on the weird business of developing a marketing plan for yourself as an author later this week.

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