Someone just called in, quite upset, to complain that we ran “a picture of the inside of a human skull” on our back cover.
He said he was going to complain about us to the City Council and the Board of Supes, as well as on Channel 12.
Turns out he was talking about an ad for some counseling service or something, on our back page, that included a drawing of a brain.
Just thought y’all would like to know that.
This article appears in Dec 13-19, 2007.
There are rumors that HSA is considering extending the Emergency Alert System (you know, the irritating klaxonish sound and disclaimer radio and tv are required to broadcast periodically) to brain-damaging online media and cell phones. This may have been a readiness probe by Chertoff.
Noted, Red Star.
Perhaps it is time for him to dial that very counseling service.
was the name King Marlowe?
Haha, that is one of my clients. Maybe he ran such an offensive ad with “a picture of the inside of a human skull” to keep up with the shock value of American Apparel ads.
They’re fantastic by the way (Brain State Technologies). The owner put me in his chair for half an hour, put headphones and electrodes on my head and I walked away more relaxed than I’ve ever been in my life. Almost like a post-hypnotized Peter in Office Space. I came back to work and almost unscrewed all the partitions on my cubicle. Coming from a part-time yoga instructor who’s not new to meditation and relaxation, it was that good.
Full disclosure, just to make things clear: Mike (comment No. 5) is an ad rep here, and he’s touting a client of his. So, um, yeah.
Cubicles? You make them work in cubicles! Doesn’t seem very Weekly to Red Star! Do they even get window time?
Yep, we’re in cubicles, at an airport-area business park! It’s … bleargh. I do, however, have an office. Downside: My window looks out onto more cubicles, meaning I get to look at the back of Nintzel’s head. Sigh.
They’re fairly open cubicles, to be fair.
Interesting question: What did you think the Weekly offices looked like?
Indeed. So you probably don’t know the bad boy went and grew some semblance of a beard. As did Ernesto. We know this because we swung it over to Arizona Illustrated last Friday.
Portillo and Nintzel often coordinate their grooming.
The out-takes must be fascinating for some!
Does Brain State Technologies put electrodes “down there” for a happy ending?
I remember when we used to work in an old two-story house and carriage house in downtown back in the 90s.
No cubes….
Did you still have to look at the back of Nintzel’s head, First stafffer?
I remember when the Tucson Weekly was covered in pennies by the Penny Man.
I loved the penny-covered building! Too bad the neighborhood association made us take them down. Wonder why Penny Man didn’t sign up with Project White House?
The Penny Man never missed and opportunity to fit his penny-bikini on a willing señorita. Wonder if there’s a collection Polaroids out there of the various Penny Vixens. Now that’s an art show!
I’m surprised any of you remember the old Weekly days. It was so much cooler and fun (aesthetically and politically) I suspect there was a lot drug use in those de-cubicled rooms of the Granada office. All a hazy memory now.
Now now, don’t get pissed, you clowns are rad in you own ways. Like this Project Whitehouse thing, it’s got potential. Just the imagining who might run had me giggling.
Feliz Navidad TW!
And speaking of clowns. What’s up with that Andy Mosier comic this week? That clown strip was weird. Are too many clowns roaming downtown streets?
While I was not around in the Weekly old days (only the last five years), I love hearing about the offices in the Weekly old days. I am not a big fan of our current office, but, hey, ya gotta do what ya gotta do. Back when I was with the alt-weekly in Reno, we occupied the second floor of a beautiful, old house (converted into an office building, obviously) that was honest-to-god haunted. (The Reno News & Review is still there, but moving soon.)
Note. I didn’t say the content was better back then, just crazy fun. Sometimes the funniest or entertaining pieces were the fuck-ups!
When did Nintzel start getting groomed?
Happy Holidays Jimmy!
He started grooming, sometimes, when he became a big TV star. It would be embarrassing for Kimble and Portillo to out-stud him. Happy holidays to you as well, Tortillas!
Well, pity the illegal alien that has to shave that chest before each show.
I just spit out my coffee reading that, Tortillas — haha
No disrespect to Nintzel, mind you — the comment just was so crazy.