I didn’t become a journalist to tweet. That platform didn’t exist when I started, back in the early 2000s. It would have seemed alien at the newspaper where we used a waxer and X-Acto knives to collage together the broadsheet pages before sending them off to the printer. I know this makes me sound positively geriatric. I’m honestly fine with that.
I had completely forgotten about layout on physical broadsheets until you brought it up. Strange how memory works. Instantly, I could hear STP's Purple album and smell the Elmer's Rubber Cement we used to paste up the broadsheets for the high school paper. It quickly faded into the smell and taste in the air of Kodak D76 developer. I never covered anything more exciting than a state tennis meet or the retirement of a popular teacher, but your little paragraph at the beginning brought back many fond memories of my very short journalism "career". Thank you.
I find your work incredibly valuable, so it makes me glad that you were able to spend that time you needed to find inspiration. I look forward to what it will turn into.
Leah, thanks for the writing. You're not a geriatric, or a dinosaur, or obsolete. If you are, then I am too, as someone who remembers setting type for a merit badge in Scouts when some real practitioners were also actually setting type. I look forward to following your new adventure in your newsletter, and to listening to Two Minutes Past Nine (it's queued up after Louder Than A Riot). Your Bundyville work - both seasons - opened my eyes to a danger I'd never seen to be as present and urgent as it is - thank you for that, too. Stay safe, and well.
Thank you for your writing. Just subscribed.
I had completely forgotten about layout on physical broadsheets until you brought it up. Strange how memory works. Instantly, I could hear STP's Purple album and smell the Elmer's Rubber Cement we used to paste up the broadsheets for the high school paper. It quickly faded into the smell and taste in the air of Kodak D76 developer. I never covered anything more exciting than a state tennis meet or the retirement of a popular teacher, but your little paragraph at the beginning brought back many fond memories of my very short journalism "career". Thank you.
I find your work incredibly valuable, so it makes me glad that you were able to spend that time you needed to find inspiration. I look forward to what it will turn into.
Leah, thanks for the writing. You're not a geriatric, or a dinosaur, or obsolete. If you are, then I am too, as someone who remembers setting type for a merit badge in Scouts when some real practitioners were also actually setting type. I look forward to following your new adventure in your newsletter, and to listening to Two Minutes Past Nine (it's queued up after Louder Than A Riot). Your Bundyville work - both seasons - opened my eyes to a danger I'd never seen to be as present and urgent as it is - thank you for that, too. Stay safe, and well.