August 29, 2007

[Niveous]

So I got off the train and got one of New York's free newspapers, the Metro and I saw this article that I thought I would share:



Question of the Day:
Have you ever been in a newspaper article?

[Bjam]

Today I'm working and I need to also finish my summer reading.

QOTD: Me, my brother, and a couple friends back home were messing about in a bricked in courtyard of the local community hall, and we found an abandoned sofa. The bottom of the sofa had been ripped off, and a bunch of fake checkbooks had been put in, then cardboard had been stapled over. We called the police, and they drove us home, which completely freaked out my mum(especially as we were due home at 6 for dinner, and it was well past 8 and we were coming home in a police car). We got in the newspaper for being young awesome people. The photographer came to our school and took photos of us waving money at the camera. We only got £5 each as a reward

I've been in the local paper due to various school stuff too (musicals, plays, honor societies, writing a song about smallpox, speaking at a debate, etc etc). And I guess I was in when I was born. That's about it for being in the newspaper, I think.

[The Weakest Suit]

this is about as close as i got:
from 1992 to 1994, i was the guitarist for a band called Nine Days' Wonder.
one time we were interviewed for a local "free" magazine.
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[HeuristicsInc]

Wedding announcement in the Buffalo paper, and other little things in the local small newspaper growing up. Nothing out of the ordinary.
-bill

[roymond]

QofD: I was featured with my boss in a cover article of Publishing Executive back in 1997. I built a digital imaging studio at Time Inc. and did all sorts of pre-press magic. Other than that there was that skinny dipping incident in NH that made the police blotter.

[EmbersOfAutumn]

QotD: I was big in Drama back in high school and had actually made front page (very small town) with my picture, though a secondary role (I guess cause I was a veteran [Senior] at the time). We had done a variation of Greater Tuna, with a cast of 16 instead of 2. Originally Greater Tuna was a hilarious play two guys wrote for themselves with a total of some 31 different characters, all played out by the two guys and a whole bunch of quick-costume changes. Needless to say, with a crew of 16, it made the play a lot easier for us kids.

[EmbersOfAutumn]

So I got off the train and got one of New York's free newspapers, the Metro and I saw this article that I thought I would share:


Question of the Day:
Have you ever been in a newspaper article?

New York free newspaper, that wouldn't happen to be the AM NY would it?

[jimtyrrell]

Working, and then going down to the weekly open mic at The Lucky Dog.


QotD: I've been in the newspapers in NH a few times, and in the Worcester T&G once (back in '91 or so). Nothing national though.

[Hoblit]

this is about as close as i got:
from 1992 to 1994, i was the guitarist for a band called Nine Days' Wonder.
one time we were interviewed for a local "free" magazine.
<a href="http://www.esnips.com/doc/880d17d4-ef1f ... lver"><img border="0" src="http://www.esnips.com//widget/?objectTy ... ypes=.jpeg, .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp, .flv, .wmv, .htm, .avi, .mpg, .mpeg, .mov, .3gp" title="Vue Story on eSnips.com"></a>

I bet it chaps your hide just a little when you think that just a few years later a band called "Nine Days" would meet with moderate success. (But then some mild relief when they don't sustain it)

[erik]

When I was 4, I wrote a letter to Santa Claus, telling him all this stuff I wanted. I didn't realize at the time that I was actually entering a contest held by the local newspaper. My parents, in a fit of brilliance or frugality, gave me un-lined paper on which to write: my sentences appear to be following unseen asymptotes as they approach infinity at the edge of the page. The editors of the Daily Wichita Whatever thought this was hilarious or awesome, or something, because I won the contest, and they printed my letter in the paper, in all it's curvetastic glory. Grand prize was a 6 foot tall stocking filled with toys and stuff, and they took a picture of me next to it and ran it next to my letter.

[Hoblit]

Boring Wed. Just answering phones and junk. Got a new TV a couple of days ago, a 32" that I'll hook up this weekend. It was given to me by the owners of this DSL company.

qotd: I do not believe I've ever been in the paper. My aunt has. I think I was on TV for earth day when I was in like the third grade. I said something about liking tigers. (I'm not counting any time in which a venue has posted my name or my band's name in various rags)

[Niveous]

New York free newspaper, that wouldn't happen to be the AM NY would it?

Nope. The other one, The Metro.

[EmbersOfAutumn]

New York free newspaper, that wouldn't happen to be the AM NY would it?

Nope. The other one, The Metro.

Ahh...

The memories...

[Rabid Garfunkel]

QOTD: Yes.

Crap, I've got to go back to work today. Gots to pay for all the fun of the last week. Damned work ethic.

[Niveous]

I wonder if the songfight mention in that article will garner the site any extra notice from New Yorkers?

QotD:
Nope.

[Leaf]

Yes. Many times. And it didn't really do much for me until the time I wrote a scathing letter to the Minster of Transportation, and THEN after it was in the paper, quite a few people started saying hi to me and using my first name when they hadn't before.


For musical things, it's ridiculously easy to get in the papers here... small towns, etc.

Gert was in teh Toronto Star last year, that was neat.

[Albatross]

QotD: My junior year in high school I took second place in a statewide speech tournament and got a nice little write-up - and a rather large photo - printed on the front page of my local rag (from a town of about 3000).

About the same time it came out, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated. So every newsstand or row of paper machines in town was plastered with headlines like "CHALLENGER DESTROYED", "SPACE SHUTTLE TRAGEDY", "SEVEN DIE IN SHUTTLE DISASTER", followed by my ugly mug.

[The Weakest Suit]

this is about as close as i got:
from 1992 to 1994, i was the guitarist for a band called Nine Days' Wonder.
one time we were interviewed for a local "free" magazine.
<a href="http://www.esnips.com/doc/880d17d4-ef1f ... lver"><img border="0" src="http://www.esnips.com//widget/?objectTy ... ypes=.jpeg, .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp, .flv, .wmv, .htm, .avi, .mpg, .mpeg, .mov, .3gp" title="Vue Story on eSnips.com"></a>

I bet it chaps your hide just a little when you think that just a few years later a band called "Nine Days" would meet with moderate success. (But then some mild relief when they don't sustain it)

i've never heard of them. i do know that there was a german band named Nine Days' Wonder before we took the name. but, for us, the definition in the dictionary perfectly suited what we were.

[Paco Del Stinko]

I've never been worthy of an article but I once had my picture in the paper shooting a bow and arrow. It was at a Catholic summer camp where I was the only non-Catholic. Oh yeah. Lots of friends that summer. I came in 2nd in a design an ad for a local car dealer contest when I was 11 or 12 and they printed all the ones that placed. I thought that was pretty cool at the time. All my glory before I was a teen!

[Hoblit]

... picture...Catholic summer camp ... I was 11 or 12 ...my glory ... I was a teen!

At no time did I rearrange the order of the words.

Context is important.

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By the way I liked the story. My cousin and I went to a 4H camp called Rock Eagle...somewhere in Georgia and he was into archery. We took the bathroom cleaning duty every night during our week's stay and were rewarded handsomely. Extra chocolate milk.

A week away from parents at that age is simply awesome.

[Caravan Ray]

1988 was the year that Australia celebrated the bicentennial of European Invasion. Everyone was Bicentennial crazy! Some friends and I had a drunken idea that we would celebrate the Bicentennial by having a Bicentennial Pub Crawl - driving around NSW and drinking a beer in 200 different pubs.

One thing led to another, and the next thing we knew there were t-shirts printed and we had a photo in the Sunday paper and a half-page story telling of plucky youngsters about to head off on a patriotic adventure! The best bit was that we could cut out the newpaper article and carry it from pub to pub - and some of the publicans gave us free beer! Because we were "official" - we were in the paper.

I also spent a year writing/editing the English language page in the Kiribati national newspaper Te Uekera. It featured such wonderful regular columns as "Spleen Venting" and "Rob's Fish of the Week".

[Albatross]

There needs to be a band named Spleen Venting.