the slate:classic or dud

Also their Onion/possibly Vice gimmicky style is one thing, but now they've started doing album reviews and they're crap. I mean by all means guys, do your snarky reviews, say every politician is corrupt, every company evil, every celebrity is a wanker, but don't start thinking you can actually write.

Finally they can shut the fuck up with their anti corporate stuff because the last issue is rammed with ads, lots of them for the same companies they criticise.

The Irish one - I think it's at its best when it's doing humour stuff. Their listings tend to be a bit rockist and run of the mill, and at the end of the day Dublin doesn't really need two listings mag. The humour/snipey stuff tends to be fairly amusing. I agree with Ronan, though, that they drift a bit into just being offensive for the sake of it, and for all that I got the anti-racist point of their "Blacks In The Jacks" piece, you can see why some people would see it as racist. They also have a worrying tendency to use the term "protestant" as a term of abuse, something I, as a vicar, find a bit upsetting.

obviously though, the real reason why the Slate is going downhill is that I haven't submitted anything to it for months.

this can be a false economy, as you could end up getting free into shite you wouldn't otherwise go to. Just because something is free doesn't mean it's worth going to.

Whats funny here is that yout assume that writing about politics and the news is easy, but you really need talent to write about music.

I think the listings can be fine, but the guys doing it are really tired, there's never anything enthusiastic and this month in particular they're ridiculously negative.

Is it legal to eat your cat?
By Brian Palmer