Hard to Believe
Those hoping for an A2 victory on “Average Joe” were disappointed when U of M grad student Jennifer Lifshitz was eliminated from the contest. Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick calls her “stunningly neurotic.” We know - a grad student, neurotic?
Also, it’s been pointed out to us that we didn’t mention Goodspeed Update’s second-place finish in the Current contest. That’s because we listed only the winners for whom we had a dismissive remark. Let’s see…
- Best Blog (runner-up): goodspeedupdate.com. Sure, whatever, if you like “news items” and “opinions” that are “relevant” and “timely.”
And a neurotic Social Work grad student? Almost unheard of.
posted by torONTo on April 5th, 2004 at 1:51 pmOK, I saw something on Pollstar that I’m finding hard to believe. Maybe my eyes doth deceive me, but uh, is The Fall actually playing Magic Stick on 4/23. As in *THE FALL*????? I love those crazy bastards.
posted by Alex on April 5th, 2004 at 3:39 pmStay with us, here, Alex.
I can only hope that Jennifer will somehow manage to pick up the pieces. Still betting she turns the experience into her thesis.
posted by Laura on April 6th, 2004 at 12:06 amI’ve got bad news for you folks. Zingerman’s is back in the press. The Atlantic just spent four pages extolling the virtues of wild rice. Not paddy grown wild rice from California, but wild, wild rice, harvested by indigenous people in canoes. It seems that a certain local emporium is at “the vanguard of the movement to preserve the old-style rice growing techniques, and thereby the environment, the health and economic vitality of the locals, and of course the incomparable flavor”.
What I cannot fucking fathom however, is why the hell those bobos can’t eat Minute Rice like the rest of us! Me, I absolutely thrive on a diet of parboiled rice and cheeze whiz, so where in fuck’s name do they get off wanting more! And what’s up with the noble savage bullshit? If they lived up here, they’d know the red man for the drunken, thieving, diabetic bastard that he is!
To add insult to injury, they provide recipes for these $8 a pound grains of manna, but at least on of them requires a blender! A blender? As if I can afford a god damned blender? On a GRAD student’s stipend? In Canadian dollars? Please! Fuck Zingerman’s, fuck the injuns, and fuck Ann Arbor.
posted by torONTo on April 6th, 2004 at 12:20 pmthat one got me cackling out loud. that rocked!
posted by Alex on April 6th, 2004 at 12:35 pmI’m just glad that Current has iced the “Best Local TV Show” category, which Safety Girl kept winning even though it has been years since her show has aired at all. It’s sort of a slap in the face to all of us producing programming that actually still exists.
posted by 29.97 fps on April 6th, 2004 at 12:46 pmDon’t worry, I’m sure that Shaky Jake will keep winning the “Best Local Personality” even after he’s dead and in the ground (or reanimated and writing one-note blues songs about eating brains. Come to think of it, I’d vote for Zombie Jake…)
posted by js on April 6th, 2004 at 3:27 pmjs
from an article about mr. average joe, in which a contestant debates the merits of Adam “joe” Mesh dating a jew vs. a non-jew:
Pointing out that, in the long run, Mesh may have more in common with a Jewish woman than a non-Jew, April said, “He should go with his heart, but his heart should be saying Jew.”
posted by jno on April 7th, 2004 at 4:41 pm“I did not know that. Jew?”
posted by js on April 8th, 2004 at 10:29 amjs