Originally Posted: August 9, 2007
I was going to go talk to them yesterday. I didn't want to. I'd go today, but I got to go pack and stuff after work. I won't be here tomorrow. So I figure I'll go Monday. Monday is good. Plus I figure I should write this thing in case they ask me to write somthing like it.
But like I was saying before, I do whatever I want. I want to be able to write things like my boycott of Hairspray. Things about the bridge collapse. Although I would probably take a different angle on that one, as the one I took for my web log was pretty insensitive. My Hitler idea would have never crossed my mind for the paper. Like it did for my web log. Even I have morals though. Sometimes I want to be able to just talk randomly about numerous subjects. Maybe talk about the latest shows on TV. Problem with that though is that summer TV is clearly the best and there isn't much to say about TV other times, except To Catch A Predator. I could fill people in on my ongoing itunes addiction. Maybe even throw in some music reviews.
I suppose that I can occasionally do some kind of real news story, when I feel like it. I don't feel like it much, but sometimes I do.
Most importantly I'd be able to inject my mildly amusing perspective on various topics. Meanwhile mildy entertaining readers of the paper. That's what the paper needs, something entertaining. It's been lacking in that area for the most part. Every once and a while there is something entertaining in there. Ocassionlly you'll get an entertaining news story. You can't count on your news entertaining people though. You need a column in there that is meant to do one thing and one thing only, entertain. It can inform too, but it's main purpose should be to entertain.
The paper has had those in the past, or I assume that's what those things were there for. I feel like they fell flat for the most part. As an example I'll use that guy that did the Geek Beat last year. Steve was his name I think. I found that only about one in four of those was worth reading. Sure the one that was good was really good, but the rest were just blah. I found that most people I talked to felt the same way about the Geek Beat. It's not Steve's fault either. He's a very good writer and is entertaining in his writing. He was in one of my classes and I always throughly enjoyed everything he wrote for the class. I see why he was chosen to write for the paper. His articles just fell short most of the time and I think I know why.
He was forced to write about geeky things. I'm sure there was times when he wanted to write things, but he felt he couldn't becuase it wouldn't fit with the name of his column, The Geek Beat. Sure the geeks were probably always entertained. I don't know for sure as I refuse to associate with known geeks. That's why I propose the I write the What's On Marty's Mind column. Or something of the similar variety. That tells everyone what the column is going to be about, but it's not restricting. I can write about whatever I want. That's perfect as that is what I want to do. It's hard to write about the same norrow topic and keep it interesting time after time. But without it being restricting I can keep it good.
The only problem I see with my idea is that over time I will just end up writing about naked woman all the time.
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