<![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender" - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender" - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:33:49 EST Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:33:49 EST http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3896562 I'm right here, Jim. Hope you're well. I wish Joe the best. He's been at it a long time now.

mkemp

]]> 33:343193:c3896562 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:33:49 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3675712 stop shoting at me!

VanillaXtraDry

]]> 33:343193:c3675712 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:19:07 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3660969 @VanillaXtraDry: Or simply boring.

Cheap Shot

]]> 33:343193:c3660969 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:36:55 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3659175 joe's a solid dude! i def. learned a lot when i wrote for him (which wasn't that much but i was young and ummm, in need of editing!) -- but even when i'm at the dentist i can't read 'rolling stone,' so i'm personally glad he'll be at 'blender.'

i never personally got along with craig, going back to when he was #2 dude at homestead. but so what? he published a shit-ton of good / funny writing and i hope he gets big bucks for his screenplay or whatever he has planned...

yetimike

]]> 33:343193:c3659175 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:36:01 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3656537 @robtannenbaum: THIS IS SIMPLY AMAZING.

VanillaXtraDry

]]> 33:343193:c3656537 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:48:39 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3656161 oh .. and levy is totally groovey and just may be having an early midlife crisis and wants to dip into the male media world where female flesh still rocks... and jsut where is Mark Kemp anyway .. Jann sure does have a hostory of picking them young, smart and straight doesn't he?

sexbeat

]]> 33:343193:c3656161 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:18:45 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3656057 MARKS has always been the geek snob of the critgua lit litter. Rumor to be hung even more the krumper it is always said it's his intelligence that kept all the grrls atwitter from courtney to LA Powers..go figure. But even more than what's his name, the fired NYTimes crit and self-bragging ladies man, Marks could crib with the stars from Em to Cat and make his all male bowling team, nicknamed Eric's Seattle Bombers, glow in his shadow. RS I don't think so ... He is going to reinvent SPIKE or something equally post-modern multi-media male… supposedly he wants to be the white Cornel West.

sexbeat

]]> 33:343193:c3656057 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:12:38 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3652804 hahaha well I WRITE FOR THIS SITE, I'd imagine so.

Michaelangelo Matos

]]> 33:343193:c3652804 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:22:37 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3652783 There's no grudge, I know what I heard.

SlimShadenfruede

]]> 33:343193:c3652783 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:21:30 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3652732 @robtannenbaum: go back to writing awful plays about being jewish. I'll see you in your neighborhood very soon.

SlimShadenfruede

]]> 33:343193:c3652732 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:18:48 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3652719 @Matos: I know who you are! ahhh! it's all coming together now.

SlimShadenfruede

]]> 33:343193:c3652719 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:17:47 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3652668 Go back to designing print ads for condo launches, Gary.

robtannenbaum

]]> 33:343193:c3652668 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:14:45 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3652524 @SlimShadenfruede: testy, aren't we?

Michaelangelo Matos

]]> 33:343193:c3652524 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:05:55 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3652386 Face of a douche: [www.robtannenbaum.com]

SlimShadenfruede

]]> 33:343193:c3652386 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:58:24 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3651966 Klosterman and Joel Stein are both awesome, why do you all say "self-satisfied" like it's a bad thing?

HUGE_Hefner

]]> 33:343193:c3651966 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:38:18 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3651919 i always thought marks was a bit of a jerk personally. levy can be affable, at least on the surface, and his knowledge of music is vaster than marks'. blender rode the wave of lad mags: marks did some good things, but he's not supremely talented in any way.

owlish

]]> 33:343193:c3651919 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:36:09 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3651867 @robtannenbaum: Rob is wrong yet again!

SlimShadenfruede

]]> 33:343193:c3651867 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:33:25 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3651818 ssssssNAP

Michaelangelo Matos

]]> 33:343193:c3651818 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:31:15 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3651374 Anonymity is the Dutch courage of bloggers, so it's relevant to point out here that SlimShadenfruede's real name is Gary French.

Here's a bio he posted online in 2004 when he was creative director of Drill magazine:

A veteran of the men's magazine scene, French's design background includes stints at a range of men's magazines including Blender, Stuff, Maxim, Maxim Fashion, and FHM. He has also worked at USA Network and Mirabella. In addition, French's pop-star illustrations appeared regularly in Blender.

He now works for AtticWitt.com, where his bio reads:

Gary French (The Art Guy) has over 10 years of experience overseeing creative design teams in editorial and advertising.

Gary's most recent position was at the New York City headquarters of the U.K. based custom publishing house, John Brown Publishing. At John Brown, Gary developed and was Art Director of their first original title, Drill, a competitor to Maxim.

Gary began his design career at Hachette Filipacchi, eventually becoming Art Director of Popular Photography. He then moved to Dennis Publishing. At Dennis, Gary oversaw layout and illustration for the marketing and advertising materials of Stuff, Maxim and Blender.

Gary's minor role at Blender would not have put him in close contact with Craig Marks, who was the editor of the magazine. And apparently, AtticWitt's work schedule allows plenty of time for its staffers to pursue ancient grudges.

Oh, and apologies to any of you who are Dutch.

robtannenbaum

]]> 33:343193:c3651374 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:11:45 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3649239 Kloster-who? Please. Grow up. Put the needle on the record. Anono-Critic? Best media/rock reporting I've read in eons. You should helm PASTE. They're looking.

Xpensivewino

]]> 33:343193:c3649239 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:58:14 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3647044 @J DTZR: What?
Klosterman rules!

SlimShadenfruede

]]> 33:343193:c3647044 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:46:51 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3646904 Andy Pemberton AND Craig Marks started Blender. It was originally 90% Q mag material and then they had to become more original.

If talent means sucking up to record companies and to report whatever makes the Top 40 charts than Craig Marks is mucho talented.

Also it seems that music journalists are 99% white men.

SlimShadenfruede

]]> 33:343193:c3646904 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:42:18 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3645920 @PrinceHal: Most writers working today seem insufferably smug and self-satisfied, and not just the music hacks (e.g., Chuck Klosterman, Joel Stein, anybody who writes for Esquire).

I always like Ira Robbins.

J DTZR

]]> 33:343193:c3645920 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:08:26 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3645555 Andy Pemberton, formerly of Q and who also spent plenty of time as a talking head on VH-1, was the editor when Blender launched back in the early naughts. Marks came on when Pemberton was booted.

I Don't Get It

]]> 33:343193:c3645555 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:56:13 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3644964 Is there anyone else here who finds Xgau to be an insufferably self-satisfied writer and critic with erratic taste?

PrinceHal

]]> 33:343193:c3644964 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:37:49 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3644916 I'm sorry, but is there anyone else here who finds Xgau to be a insufferably self-satisfied writer and critic?

PrinceHal

]]> 33:343193:c3644916 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:36:13 EST <![CDATA[Peering Through The Revolving Door At "Blender"]]> http://idolator.com/343193/peering-through-the-revolving-door-at-blender#c3644304 "It's the Krusty Komedy Klassic! Hey, hey! It's great to be back at the Apollo Theater, and… K-K-K? Ohhh, that's not good."

Al Shipley

]]> 33:343193:c3644304 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:13:24 EST