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For you web troglodytes who don’t generally troll online or visit our 3-year-old blog Pith in the Wind, I want to catch you up. I won’t go into the history of Pith, where I once posted an absurd bit about how lobsters suffer. (Maybe I’m digging a hole here, but I would argue that it’s not absurd to note their studied sentience, though I do concede that the venue for this random rambling was thoroughly wrong.) The point is, we’ve refocused the site (pithinthewind.com)—reinvented it really—and have now created a place for all politics and media all the time. Consider it Nashville’s half-assed version of Politico.
Illustrations: Richard Clark
In
fact, you can go to Pith now and vote on who uttered the Whopper of the
Month, which will be a recurring feature. A taste: “Heaven forbid that
I should put out something that is incorrect. Thank you for pointing it
out.” That was state Rep. Dolores Gresham, a Somerville Republican,
after Commercial Appeal reporter Rick Locker informed her that
her first state Senate campaign press release incorrectly said she
sponsored and passed the largest tax cut in Tennessee history. Gresham,
who was referring to last year’s half-cent sales tax cut in grocery
food, was neither a sponsor nor co-sponsor of the bill.
Pith’s authors are the Scene’s most senior political and news scribes—senior writer Jeff Woods, managing editor Matt Pulle, yours truly, plus Scene
contributor Bruce Barry, whose irreverence and endless fascination with
the most nuanced and intricate details of public policy we’re lucky to
tap. On infrequent occasions, other bylines will appear—special guest
Roger Abramson, for example—but Pulligan Woodbarry is what you can
generally expect.
The
long and the short of it is that you’ll be getting a lot more content,
which generally will be written with the voice, humor and point of view
readers have come to expect from their city’s alt-weekly.
We’re
also working on some design elements that will be joining the blog mix
soon, two of which are reprinted here as teasers. Yes, Jeff Woods
really does look like a transsexual Asian ex-con, and Matt Pulle bears
a likeness to a very happy Sri Lankan terrorist. The sketch of me
doesn’t come close to capturing my innate sex appeal, so it is still in
production being retouched.
We hope you’ll visit us at Pith.
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