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It's about a book
subtitled
An Editors Notes
About Writing and Writers
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20220923Books.HP.txt
previous ones
TheShortBus
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Terry McDonell
Sports Illustrated
swim suit edition
publisher
technology comes into it
an app
meeting Apple Steve Jobs
but not getting customer information
he keeps that
before bowties
then black mock sweaters turtlenecks
appliance
not Apple
Time Magazine
went to Google
web browser
HTML5
raised in the area
someone already did a changed into Silicon Valley book
as it was before
boy scout
to stealing cars
keys pretty much the same
immigration
mother taught school
out west
people he knew / met
writers
and writing
most of which i've never heard of
but some i have
Hunter Stockton (?) Thompson
Gonzo journalism
George Plimpton
mostly dead now
older
not mention wife much
boundaries?
money
private corporate owned planes/ jets
Rolling Stone
Jann S. Wenner
sp?
he's a good father
changing jobs every few years
a long string at Time
different companies/ publications
Editor in Chief
Startup
magazines
competition
notes to self
and look up
Lede
lead/ overview and summary
what you are going to say
and an interesting story
perspective
fucked up places
SI!
Editors Notes
end of the publication
wrapping it all up
on deadline(s)
bring food around to desks
shoe shining
$50 Million dollar ( /year budget)
expense account
Elaine's
tavern/ restaurant
pub?
starting new
difficult assignment
what you should do
fix
your job
defined by other(s)
underlings
into magazines
usually monthly?
changing periodicals
OutSide magazine
Smart
Men's magazines
Esquire
Woman's
Cosmo(politon)
author
sex and the single girl? / woman?
later TV like
sex in the city
take over Cosmo
from a family magazine
literary
SI literary
perspective comes later?
with experience
and side lines
word count
put in the chapter name
back around to cast of characters/ writers
Hunter Thompson
secretary?
admin assistant
sued estate
wasn't paying her
owed her hundreds of thousands
went to court against estate
and lost
but she deserved it
withheld?
sex?
drugs?
booze
lots of drinking
what he remembers about things
losing jobs
industry changing
giving money back
so others could work
Dear Boss
ESPN negotiating
nasty sore loser?
didn't mention him
and later better sportsman ship?
how he started in it
going to Beirut?
(sp? ei ie?)
instead of VietNam
losing Lennon
publisher knew him
what to put with?
9/11
special editions
buying a copy of history
like news papers
Dewey Won!
have one of those?
old papers
like my grandfather's uniform
chest
gave it back
never knew him
couldn't care for it
like moths eating wool
but bed bugs
instead
moth ball?
storage
ending the book
fired
have to be
saying thanks
giving credit
some dumb things he did
contributing editor
masthead
sometimes make room
and leave out/off
hierarchy
corporate
performance evaluation
patience?
have more?
or be Gonzo?
letters of rejection
like Southern book recently
TinyLoveByLarryBrownADULT2022
articles
stringer?
to novelist
fiction/ non fiction
creative writing programs
out west
Livingston Montana?
Wyoming?
Dakota?
actors
movie deals
inside information
and what he'd tell his kids
Jann was a good father
went out of the closet?
with a Calvin Klein model?
and they adopted?
the business
his wife/ 1st?
Kids
synopsis
resume at the front
dates
flips around story line
editing people he admires
knew and brought in
deciding to leave
Jann: you can't have Hunter
moving on
taking what with?
old woman after decades
desk moved
dumped contents
his company credit card didn't work
HST
ho ho ho
jolly
drugs
drinking
New Journalism
the olden days
his mentors
and other things
lists
up in the night
and write about that
the mix
techniques
and history
personal and others
getting older
his mentor
never have to drive
let the writer's do that
going to a surf shop
suggest he become an editor
a (the first) paintball guy
ended up taking his mentor's idea?
for a title for his
spreading the credit/ blame
working backwards
to put something to press/ bed/ out the door
how long does that take?
how many plants/ printing
and hold the presses
cost / day
overtime in doing things
worth being late
a size budget/ diet?
fitting something in
web not unlimited
lose readers interest
writing memoirs
thinking about the paper
homelessness
studied journalism
butchering others
how many others i did that to
when gave part of it away
didn't do it every week
time off/
other things to do
it's not a democracy
editing other's stuff
fact check
liability in writing
lawyers
ad department
sales
and money flow
takes a million to be on the app on
first time innovators
Machiavellian club
Special ID
called a kid something
his name sake
finally found it
but i've not looked it up
TyperTexting things
from an electronic
reading in / on paper
digital subscriptions
throw in a (crappy) jacket
value the journalism
pirating
in parallel
looking up Epstein
gangsters in HollyWood
mentioned people
Don Johnson
Jerry Bruckner?
a tech guy
and what he reads/ does
an addict
drinkers
functional alcoholics
meetings
tell all books
getting permission
researching and became his own
in a rush?
retiring?
unlike executives/ publisher who got
got a golden parachute?
one side of it
just notes
and techniques for those
one side of the page
use the other
hand written
fax
get back
typewriter
manual
IBM Selectric
moving to Mac
having them shown/ given
a YouTube mock up demo of SI app
stupid
Mac
Paris ReView
environmental
West Coast
East Coast
NYC
photography
EXacto (tm elsewhere) knives
on drugs
slide deck
the Lounge
West Coast and
East Coast
nearby restaurants
drinking places
places thrown out of
tagging along with some famous writer
bringing to some place
show new writers
favorite book?
giving the answer?
like favorite child
dumb question(s)
frequent questions
SwimSuit edition
listening to demo(graphics)
reader comments
responding
sick kid(s)
what giving to advertisers
swag
but not
number of comments
letters to the editor
so what did i learn?
don't remember
LD and DysLexic remember?
Jimmy Buffett
Warren and DNA test if related
some things in common
working for him?
with him?
and gifts from people
employers
engraved
with what
and why
knife blade
Jan
what a long strange trip it's been
cutting ties?
40 year
50 year
anniversaries
mostly death at the end
media people who have committed
suicide
market turns
and how
Hunter S Thompson (HST)
could he have been Saved?
Prevented?
was looking up J Belushi
John
then Jim
brothers
similar but different
drugs
women
sex drugs and rock and roll
from people at
Rolling Stone
writing for
and interviewing
VietNam means to people
others
terror
ISIS
Middle East
not into that much
inflating numbers with less costly subscriptions
and carrying that over to more advertising money
larger base
market share?
competition
other publications i've maybe never even read
women's
not that i've never seen Cosmo
started hiding it
and covers like pornography?
and who they choose for the photo
NBA BasketBall
middle of the winter/
seasons for sports
and a warm place to be
where?
what?
and freckles
models
photography
art skills / studied
and went back to it
a lope/ lupe?
like a jeweler
to see
KodaChrome
FujiChrome
etc
and colors
black and white
developing time
and cost
digital cameras coming up
and then desk top publishing
~25MegaPixel
time it takes to get paid
want it immediately
after submitting like holding a check
for them to finish
fishing
for stories/ ledes
assignments
not ones they would want
search and web
cleans up after itself
ranking by others
and not found
like looking up chasing benefits
and other phrases not even shown
ages out
cleans it's own closet(s)
WebArchive
WayBack Machine
but time frame different
for people born before 1990
and explain what something is
like Before Computers/ Christ (/dog)
B 4 Computers Existed
LoL
Cats
and endings
how to do that?
just keep going
a Mohammad Ali fight?
egos of writers
publishers
and teaching?
i ain't never been to no creative writing program
MFAs
language
punishing assignments
funerals
lots of quotes
by people i didn't know much about
and would i buy a book/
take the trouble to look things up?
easier if an eBook
but how would they get their money?
the library copies?
and requires a device
lit screen
reading in the dark?
USBLEDStrip
or Lantern/ FlashLight
like as a kid
reading in bed/ in the dark
when supposed to be sleeping
doing homework,
something else
and eventually just go down/
sleep
turn off light
eyes hurt
tired
have to pee
or fed up with things
Modified Text
anything in (full) sentences?
What's Missing?
What Can Be Found?
What Can Not Be Found?
How To Analyze?
Lenses
Kids
Writers
Editors
Contributing Editors
NonContributing Editors
Critics
Publishers
Readers
Dis/Diss/DysAbled
LD
what you forgot the s?
Blind
well screen readers,
eBooks, and others reading to ya
like audio books
Deaf
What?
Sign
but music so loud you have to feel it
Others
Movie People
General Public/Population
Assumptions
Time Limits
Book Data
ISBN (look it up)
HardBound
CopyRight 2017?
369 Pages
No Index
Links
TheAccidentalLifeByTerryMcDonell2022
Books2022
20220923Books2022.HP.txt
https://lccn.loc.gov/2015046066
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
Idk still processing it
and maybe never have much (more)
to say about it...
Title not Tourist
actually working,
and Tourist is a good book, iirc...
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
What part of Rolling Stone do you like?
Anything?
Ever actually read parts of it?
Why?
Why Not?
What of his other publications?
Did you know of the authors he writes about?
Ever read them?
Like which ones?
and?
What of editing?
Writing?
Publishing?
Going Digital?
Anything else?
License
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