Apparently I'm going to be quoted in the New Yorker Observer...

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Should I be scared?

I don't quite know what it's for yet -- all I know is that they're using one of my Pazz & Jop quotes. My guess is that this is going to be some Grammy/industry-doom article and they're gonna use the quote about MP3-usage. Or they just might make fun of me and everyone else at the P&J. Again, should I be scared?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

WHERE'S MY FIFTY DOLLARS

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I found out via an e-mail from a NYO fact-checker. He said he knew I wrote for Freaky Tiger (haha) -- was there anything else? He also mentioned he needed this info RIGHT AWAY because they were going to press tomorrrow. I think I might be a little late.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

WHERE'S MY FIFTY DOLLARS

Lodged in my g-string, Jess.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

freaky tiger sounds like a korean gang

anyway mike just make sure you stay paid

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently my names Nathan Barley and my dick smells of conkers. Fuck off.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread now makes no sense to me whatsoever.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a sandwich in my pants! Gimme some cheese!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, *that* I understand.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

My head hurts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Suck Shit

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

You shouldn't save all your love so much. It makes you bitter and angry.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 06:42 (twenty-two years ago)

It's hitting that last note that would make anyone bitter and angry - I mean, you start by shrieking "I'm saving all my love" 3 times like you're burning in hell, and you're just working yourself up to the last part, which you're REALLY going to belt out, and then when it comes down to it, you realize you just can't make the word "YOOOOOOUUUU" any louder without sending your lungs flying out of your mouth, and then they DON'T COME OUT, well, I guess that's just got to be disappointing.

― tom (other one), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

(The only thing that makes me feel better about not getting the $50 is the irrefutable proof that I am not the only person in publishing who sometimes doesn't accomplish everything I say I will.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Mac Randall, "My Two Cents on 50 Cent, Lovett, Massive Attack, Other ‘Pokey’ CD’s":

"Speaking of time, one of the funniest assertions made by a Pazz & Jop participant was a short paragraph by an online critic named Michael Daddino. "I’d sooner download a song than dig out the relevant CD only five feet behind me," he wrote. "Compared to the immediacy of MP3s, CDs are too pokey." Mr. Daddino also pronounced compact discs "a pain in the ass to listen to" as well.

As much as Mr. Daddino’s mind-boggling laziness portends a brilliant future as a music critic, I’ve got to disagree with him."

MotherFUCK. I'm lazy. One of the principals in my company just got a good long laugh at that.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

those of us who routinely traffic in overstatement will take this as a cautionary tale, though it won't lead us to change our behavior or anything

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

And in the meantime the rest of us will chase down this fool and berate him/her/it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, but it's a LITTLE LATE, Ned. My reputation...ruins...just ruins.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

So we'll go back in time! Have some faith in your friends.

(This is where I say "Who the hell is Mac Randall anyway?")

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Randall wrote a book on Radiohead, it seems, but what difference does it make? He's got cooties as far I care.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Is it just me or has the NY Observer gone really downhill over the last couple of years?

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 November 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago)

Hmm wrong board

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 November 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago)

Sarris and Reed's movie reviews are perfunctory and at least half taken up with relaying the plot - they're almost grudgingly written

Music coverage is essentially nonexistent

Van Hoffmann doesn't do any editorials any more as far as I can tell

Basically, every article is about two grafs long unless it's about multi-million dollar real estate deals, then it gets a two-page spread

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 November 2008 18:25 (sixteen years ago)

yeah the change in ownership has done it no favors. also, the editing has gotten incredibly sloppy. typos galore. overall it just seems like a wispier paper.

― tipsy mothra, Monday, 24 November 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago)

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