Garry Trudeau - sixty today
Posted by David Hepworth on 21 July 2008 - 6:58am.
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Speaking for myself
Angry? No
Semi-employed? Yes
Loser? Hope not
Untalented? At blogging perhaps
Too Lazy? Half-hearted perhaps
Journalist? I'm more like an office gossip which could be a good professional starting point
Yeah but
I don't wear a tank top nor sport a moustache and jazz beard.
Nor. . .
is my nose higher than my eyes. We're safe.
Or
shaped like a parrot beak (the nose).
But who from The Word's Office Bunker
are these two characters? Cmon, I bet this is an example of daily banter in the Word office. Every time we disagree or speak out I bet these are the words of at least one member...but who might they be?
Isn't this
biting the hand that feeds?
Or Handling the food which bites?
Whatever.
are we
bovered though? Are we? Are we bovered though?
Little bit of satire...
...is the price of fame.
That’s like saying
everyone who goes to the pub would really like, if they could, to be the landlord or work behind the bar. Journalism is a job. It can be fun, fulfilling etc. but like most jobs there’s a large proportion of drudgery, boredom, pressure etc. Blogging is something people do as and when they feel like it.
People who play cricket or football for fun at the weekends enjoy the game a lot more than your average professionals do.
Drudgery, boredom, pressure? At The Word Central?
Surely not? All that podcast giggling and banter I assumed is a refelction of an average day at the Word Bunker....however waiting around for artiste's I assume can perhaps be a tad weary
A well-run saloon bar
The Word blog is like a well-run, convivial saloon bar. Nice to drop into from time to time but you wouldn’t necessarily want be changing the barrels, pulling the pints, polishing the glasses, clearing up the slop and the empties and fishing the fag butts out of the drain in the “heated patio”.
Of course not
That's Old Lewry's job.
Bless him
A decent-ish cove. For a colonial. Knows his way round a cellar. I’d bung him 20p next time he does the refill honours, but you know what they’re like with change in here. Have to keep your eyes peeled, I can tell you. And, is has to be said, the snug could use a lick of paint.
Reminds me of an interview
that David Hepworth did re Q magazine many moons ago. I think it might have been on GLR one morning and some guy rang in wondering if there were any vacancies in Q at the moment. NO replies Mr H barely drawing breath quickly moving interview on.
Burned my application there and then.
"too lazy to get real jobs in journalism"...
... is that an oxymoron?
Only kidding....ish...
Thing it, this blog ain't so much a blog as...
...a really great forum.
Try reading some of what would classically be thought of as a blog out there... self-absorbed ramblings of those with much too high an opinion of their intellect and too little real insight to share.
Of course, there ARE some great blogs out there but so many are little more than the written form of those YouTube vids where some teenager films him or herself singing along to a Sugarbabes track while holding a hair-brush for a microphone.
The New Yorker had a great cartoon which sums up so much of the blogging phenomenon
PS A very happy birthday GT!
Am currently...
...studying Journalism, Film and Media at university- make of that what you will!!!
Dont get all theoretical on me but
Is Film not Media?
Bloody student
Get a job. And stop enjoying yourself while your at it.
Theory...shudders at the word...
...couldn't get my head around the Barthes, Levi-Strauss, semiotics and the like. In the first year, we didn't do that much related to journalism, film or media so I'm unable to clarify very much!! I imagine 'media' in this case is a blanket term for music and TV which we are definitely covering in the 2nd year in greater depth.
Your homework will
consist of the things I do when I finish work. You picked the right course.