While Emily Holleman gets some much-deserved R&R, I am pleased to be her fill-in, starting next Monday. What does this mean for the Open Salon community? Well, it mainly means your questions and comments will be answered as usual. Most likely the answer will be, "Let me get back to you on that." Followed by a real answer, hopefully with some modicum of alacrity. It also means that we'll all be a little more appreciative of the excellent job Emily does here. And, finally, it means I'm very excited to be an active part of a community I read often.
Here's a little bit about me: I was a newspaper reporter before I moved to New York in 2009 to pursue my M.A. in Journalism at NYU. That association gave me the opportunity to become an Editorial Fellow at Salon, which officially concluded last week, along with my graduation.
In two weeks I will begin my new position as Media Adviser and adjunct professor at Colorado State University, an hour north from my childhood home. I will also continue to write a blog about technology and entertainment for Forbes.com.
I'm excited to read and promote your good work and will try my best to help in any way I can. Let's bring in the New Year with some sparkling ideas, words and images.
All the best,
Mike Humphrey
Emily Holleman
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com
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Two weeks goes by quickly. Hopefully, it won't be that painful for you.
I'm sure you're anxious to get to Colorado so you can share "I Was A Zookeeper for Two Weeks."
I also see that you wrote for the National Catholic Reporter. Does that mean that I shouldn't expect an EP for my next post, titled "That No Good Pedophile & Molester Protecting Piece of Crap Benny "The Nazi" XVI - Formerly Known As Cardinal Ratbastard"????
Welcome Mike..
Actually Mike, have fun and think about poetry on the cover... a tab would be right nice.
You have your work cut out for you. I am sure Tink will be schmoozing around with cans of sardines.
But sincerely, this is the best place in the world.
Welcome, and rated with hugs
Secondly, yes, yes, feed me, and or pet me, and I'll be your friend for life, or at the very least not piddle on your front step and/or roses.
Thirdly, "Followed by a real answer," I don't know how they handle questions over at Forbes(restraining order, don't ask, I can only tell you it involves a rose bush and a bottle of Jack Daniels!) but over here, Ed I Tor only gives answers from the Big Book of Answers, question not in big book, make it up!!!
:D
Seriously, welcome to the madness, you'll do a fine job, and probably only mess up ten or a hundred times. Also, remember, you can't please everyone, so ignore the hate mail!!!
tell thomas that i miss him.
rated with high hopes
@Torman - it takes a sincere desire to work for free.
@Tink - I asked about a Big Book and it was the whole "...if we blah, blah, blah, then we have to blah, blah, blah, security clearance, Dan Brown, blah, extra dimension..." You are so right.
Welcome aboard, Michael. Hope you enjoy (what for you will be a mercifully brief) stint....
::THUD::
Tink... Tink! Wake up, Tink! He's only a temp Ed I. Tor! Him agreeing with you doesn't really count! Kerry STILL hates you, dude so don't worry.
BTW, I hear tell Joan's gonna come back just to bitch slap Mike for even thinking you're right about anything, much less actually saying it, so things are back to normal.
Lezlie
He's home.
He's going to attend Colorado State University. Seriously. I share this with my son.
I may be in your neck of the woods real soon. My son is blessed. He'll be on top of the world.
Friends of ours are cheese folk.
The Destefano's manages Canadian Cheese Facilities. the cheese-manufactured (made) here, in Western Maryland, brings in 18-to-24 Tractor Trailers Full of cow milk. That's 55,000 pounds of milk per day.
I'll bring Ya cheese
Visit a Family Farm,
a CSA sustainable homestead.
My son will be 'put-up' in mountains.
He's beginning to read Wendell Berry.
My son thought the agrarian was black.
Maybe we can sing solo `Joy To World.
No sleep in classes. Professor mule kick.
silly.
Good Luck.
Have Pot Lucks.
Cheese. Feta.
Gosh
Golly
Respect
Hospitality
That's 55,000 per 18- wheel tractor trailer. No eat just cheese. Ya be in ER.
No breakdance in ER,
classroom, or barrooms.
No cut-up @ Open Salon.
Be kind, sweet, and nice.
Cheese need wine. barley.
O Barley unclogs bowels.
"It would be an honor to be slapped by Joan Walsh. Or Kerry Lauerman for that matter. Thomas Rogers, on the other hand, that would just be another day in the office."
Dear Michael, I think I'm going to like you. It has been my dream to be kicked in the groin on MSNBC by Joan Walsh, and you are living the dream!!
Let alone, slapped by Kerry.
I don't know about Thomas, he seems like he might be a fun date to take out on Wednesday night bingo, maybe a trashy disco club later.
:D
welcome, michael, and thanks. csu will certainly be a healing experience after your time served here. :)
happy holidays!
hope you have fun...or whatever...while here.
(hey! I went to NYU, too. but I would have made a terrible journalist)
One quick note -- I don't have any way to change covers until Monday. Emily did some miraculous thing and set up the pages until then and my tinkering would most likely cause the first disaster. So I'm on the clock first thing Monday morning and then the beatings may begin in earnest.
Poetry, huh? I'm thinking hard on that.
@Mary - I grew up in Westminster, so Boulder was like a second home to me. A second home where my parents couldn't track down what I was up to. I love that town!
@sparking - you had me at light.
;) -rr
:-0)
Seriously, this is no doubt a hard job, and I admire you for taking the reins. Best wishes. G
@Gary - Can't wait to see what that's like.
Happy Holiday weekend all. I promised my wife I would log off until Monday. (She's still asleep, so I don't this counts.)
Merry Christmas, Monday will come quick enough!!! :D
Glad to read your bio and to know where your heading. For your complete holiday experience I invite you to see..Stone poems for Christmas. Cheers and best regards
Algis
If the the place doesn't belly up I expect that a century from now we will all be legends!
As you've noticed, Tink already is.
Sorry. I'm not usually this sassy. Well, that's debatable. Have to get all the naughtiness out before the new year's resolutions begin...and end.
Chivalry is not dead. Best of luck!
Emiliy's shoes are pretty hard to fill. Just sayin'...