Thanks for the kind words, guys. Even though I wasn't there for the magazine's last call, I really appreciate it. This morning it dawned on me, in a kind of bittersweet way, that the last editorial page of the last issue of T+LG carried my byline. It was just a casual little interview with the actor Billy Crudup, a Bayonne member and really nice guy, who I have to imagine will catch no small amount of hell at the club for his role in "Watchmen", as a 100-foot tall naked blue guy who can bend time and space to his will. Thinking about everything that came before it, all the wonderful writers who contributed to those pages over the years...well, it just struck me (and perhaps only me) as funny that it ended on that note. If only Dr. Manhattan could bend our economy back into shape...
On a personal note, I have to thank Ran Morrissett for creating this community. GCA has pulled together so many talented people over the years and I'm sure I would not have encountered, much less worked with, some of you otherwise: Tom Doak, Mark Rowlinson, Jeff Silverman, Rob Thompson, Ian Andrew, Derek Duncan, Tom Ferrell, Lloyd Cole, Scott Macpherson. Rich Goodale even managed to sneak a "charticle" into the very last issue. And there are so many more members of this site who provided amazing insider tips behind the scenes. I know all this sounds sentimental, but working for a magazine gives you such a buzz--creatively, intellectually, socially-- that it leaves a real void when it's gone.
But we move on!
I'm sure my former colleagues--everyone from John Atwood on down the line--would want to join me in saying thanks to all of you who supported the magazine over the years.
Thanks.