Sunday, January 15, 2012

A note to our readers

Hey --

Another Sunday.


First up, we thank all who participated this edition which includes 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),
Mike of Mikey Likes It!,
Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz),
Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix,
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?

First timer Pablo Manriquez wins the honors.
As does first-timer Brandon Harris.
All the above worked on the editorial. That's the only piece for which this is true.
Ava and C.I. wrote this piece covering the new TV show The Firm and NPR's live coverage of the New Hampshire primary.

It was Golden Globes. Dona and Jim decided they wanted to go. Usually the rest of us are tagging along. So it was C.I., Dona, Jim, Ava and Jess. That made doing the edition a little rough. To help out, Dona did a feature by herself. This is already hugely popular in the inbox.

After the Golden Globes, at the first party, Jim called to ask how the edition had worked out. I (Ty) told him not good. And explained two planned pieces ended up unworkable. He said he'd ask Ava and C.I. if there was anything they could cover? They replied that they had already started drinking and didn't have the time. Jim put them on the phone. They ended up agreeing to write something but "quickly" and (on the phone later) I'd have to do links because the iPhone they were using wasn't letting them insert the links.
This is the piece that all the above except Jim, Dona, Jess, Ava and C.I. worked on. We had fun with this and even more so when it became the only thing we worked on that worked.

PSA.

Repost from Workers World.

Mike and the gang wrote this.

Archives of last year's edition.

And that's what we came up with.

Peace.

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