Sunday, May 11, 2003

Recently I was contacted by a magazine covering the circuit-party scene and I agreed to do some work for them, so last night I went to interview a friend of mine who is also a popular DJ. It was his last night at Timberline, a venerable Seattle institution that I like for it's exposed wood beams and bouncy wooden dancefloor. I sat with Brian and asked him a myriad of questions about the scene, how he got into DJing, what he wants to do with it etc... Then I spent an hour in the DJ booth with him, watching him mix and seeing him pick different selections. Brian and I are friends and he knows I'm much more of a trance/hard house kinda homo, I really am not a fan of that type of frou-frou circuit music. But it was so enjoyable watching him bounce on the soles of his feet as the boom-boom of the music echoed through T-Line's cavernous space. Looking down at the boys on the floor with their hands in the air brought back to me my own times when the dancefloor was my ultimate refuge. Those times when I looked forward to the weekend with such a passion, my friends and I always together, arms around each other as the last beats faded into the warm summer nights... 4:30:22 PM    Gimme your feedback! []

Liar, Liar Pants On Fire Affirmative Action Nightmare Todays NY Times has a 10-page article on the scandalous career of it's former 'reporter', Jayson Blair. It seems Mr. Blair made a career out of deceit and numerous and blatant violations of journalistic ethics. The Times article goes into great detail covering the myriad ways he went around covering his tracks and then eventually being caught because the volume of deceit became too large to ignore. An undercurrent of the whole article is that Blair was not hired because of his race. But then it says that when he was first hired as an intern on a program to "diversify the Times newsroom'; sounds like being hired because of your race to me. I guess that's beside the point, I've personally known white reporters who have lost their jobs because of ethics violations like plaigarism. I give the Times credit for being forthright in an honest understanding of where they went wrong and an attempt to make sure it doesn't happen again. 10:36:27 AM    Gimme your feedback! []

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