Sunday, January 16, 2011

A note to our readers

Hey --

Very late edition. We finished the bulk of it by 9:00 am this morning but agreed to regroup this evening for the editorial and anything else we needed to add.

We thank everyone who helped with this edition. The credits for it are Dallas and the following:

The Third Estate Sunday Review's Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess and Ava,
Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude,
Betty of Thomas Friedman Is a Great Man,
C.I. of The Common Ills and The Third Estate Sunday Review,
Kat of Kat's Korner (of The Common Ills),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Ruth of Ruth's Report,
Wally of The Daily Jot,
Trina of Trina's Kitchen,
Marcia of SICKOFITRDLZ,
Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends,
Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts,
and Ann of Ann's Mega Dub.


And what did we come up with?

Katha Pollitt was in serious consideration a few weeks back but got bumped due to a theme edition. This week, she gets her first truest.

"Short and sweet," was Dona's edict. We were attempting to figure out, at 9:00 a.m. this morning, whether to plow through or not. I (Jim) was all for it. The editorial would be brief and we could figure out the rest since the bulk was already written. But others felt differently. A vote had us agreeing to regroup late tonight which is what we did. We did follow the edict. Sometime, the least words say the most.

When we regrouped, we had computer problems. And we'd posted a number of articles when they came up. This wasn't among them leading several angry readers to e-mail and state that we were burying Ava and C.I.'s TV article. We weren't. They wrote two for this edition. How did we decide this was one we'd give primary focus to? All you e-mailing asking for more entertainment coverage from Ava and C.I.


When we were going to be posting in the morning, a group of us -- Ty, Jess and me -- decided not to participate in this so we could type up what was written and get it ready to publish. Others who didn't participate, as I understood it, hadn't yet read the book. We may not do another book discussion for six months, FYI.

A masterpiece from Ava and C.I. Had the e-mails not been coming in for entertainment coverage, this is the one we would have highlighted and given the prime slot. This is really something and wickedly funny.

An e-mail roundtable. Except for a topic Betty brings up, everything asked is from your e-mails.

When we regrouped, Rebecca, Betty, Ty, Stan, Ann and Marcia wanted to do this piece. We were more than happy to have it but insisted that since this was becoming a regular feature they think up a title we can use for the feature from now on.

When we regrouped, Betty and Wally noted that this needed to be covered in some form.

And we'd already agreed to repost this from Great Britain's Socialist Worker.

Mike, Elaine, Rebecca, Betty, Kat, Ruth, Trina, Cedric, Wally, Marcia and Ann wrote this and we thank them for it.


And that's what we managed.

Peace.

-- Jim, Dona, Ty, Jess, Ava and C.I.
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