Number 3...

Reason Number 3 in my epic series of reasons why I hate the City paper enough to have started this campaign against them:

Their short fiction contest; their “after-comments” and advice to the writers who contributed. (2006 version)

City Paper has held a short fiction and poetry contest for years. On occasion, I have entered it, mostly as a way to motivate myself to finish stories that I would otherwise not have the motivation to finish. I never expected to win, so it’s not out of bitterness that I include this as reason #3. What does make me include this is the unbelievably condescending and insulting advice thrown down from the offices of our friends over on Park Avenue.
Consider that in a six paragraph introduction to the 3 winners, four of those paragraphs were filled with this obnoxious criticism. Way to go! Snotty City Paper Attitude has been served!

Read for yourself…

http://www.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=12962

(Please, please read the letter at the bottom of the page--it almost writes my post for me!)

What I’ve noticed over the years is that if anyone from City Paper can write worth a damn, they are soon snatched up by other, better papers (Max Weiss, Wiley Hall, Tom Scocca--all good writers over the years who went somewhere else). And who stays? Mr. Wrong--a guy who could barely write a shopping list, let alone a column. And these people think they are somehow qualified to shit on the aspiring writers? Because you were sooooo fortunate to be one of the few who can work your crappy alternative paper gig?


And now the links…before my head explodes.


Movies

Charm City Cineaste!

http://charmcitycineaste.blogspot.com/

Columns

Political Animal
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11037

Savage Love
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove

Straight Dope.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/071116.html

Comics

This Modern World
http://www.thismodernworld.com/newest-comic/

The Maakies
http://www.maakies.com/

The Perry Bible Fellowship
http://www.pbfcomics.com/

Music/Events

A good music listing site.
http://patsdistrict.com/music_scene/maryland_music_scene.html

Other Music sites.
This week in music!
http://www.bmoretunes.com/?p=74
http://www.bmorelive.com/

Clubs/Performance Spaces

http://www.talkingheadclub.com/
http://theottobar.com/
http://www.sidebartavern.com/
http://www.themetrogallery.net/
http://www.lofisocialclub.com/
http://www.fletchersbar.com/
http://www.redemmas.org/2640/
http://hamiltonart.org/dhome/

Yin/Yang

Free Will Astrology!
http://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/

Michael Shermer’s E-Skeptic Newsletter!
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-11-14.html