Mile High
July 28th, 2008 by Gnat
So I’m headed off to Denver, aka the “mile high city,” for a few days this week for my job. I’m also planning on visiting a few old friends that I’ve known since high school who now call Denver home. My friend Matthew and his girlfriend Jamie own the Fancy Tiger boutique, which I hope to be able to stop by sometime this week as well. I prolly won’t be blogging much or at all while I’m away, so I’ll leave you, gentle reader, with a few juicy links to chew on. This first was sent to me by my friend Sue, and it’s a real doozy:
NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell claims alien contact cover-up
Now it’s true that this article came out (coincidentally?) on the heals of the release of the new X-Files movie, which is subtitled: “I Want to Believe.” But just admit it to yourself, dear reader, didn’t you always know deep down inside that aliens were real? My friend Brian predicts that many aging baby boomers will start to come out about this kind of thing more and more regularly as they get older and less likely to give a fuck about the repercussions of disclosure. Whatever the case may be, this article about aliens being real made my week.
Now let’s get on to less celestial subject matter. More gossip, please. Here’s the buzzworthy, already much talked about article the LA Times did on Jay Babcock, Arthur Magazine founder:
Jay Babcock talks Arthur magazine’s Brooklyn move, L.A. as a ‘psychic death hole’
I’m on the Arthur bulletin email list, and last week Babcock sent a lengthy email explaining how misquoted he was by the LA Times in this piece, the real reasons he moved Arthur headquarters to NYC, how much he still really does like LA, and yada, yada, yada. He said he was also going to request that the LA Times print a formal retraction concerning his interview and alleged misquotations. Now I’ve met Jay a couple of times and he seems like a nice enough guy (although he does wear Birkenstocks). However my sources tell me that this latest rant is in true form for Babcock, who supposedly has a history of popping off at the mouth and being a tad elitist. I love Arthur, really I do, but Babcock sounds ever-so-douchey in his LA-bashing interview. Last time I checked, Brooklyn (Williamsburg), was all about commidifiable dissent wrapped up in an every-so-hip package. And Manhattan hasn’t been “edgy” in years. Here’s the Gawker article about the Jay Babcock NYC vs. LA rant, with some funny comments:
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