DA CAPO BEST MUSIC WRITING 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP8Pe8tp2TQ

position position really trying to make some major moves -- i see you

he'll be a regular in about 3 months

Position Position has been a regular poster for over a year

PositionPositionRocks

The sense of superiority coming from the rock crit circle jerk that forms when something like this happens is almost as repellent as the original article.

lollllllllllll

"what's almost as bad as this horrible human being is all these people who think they're better than him"

8 Pleasantly Trolly Listicles We'd Like To Circle Jerk To

As noted on Twitter by Whiney, fin:

Arielle Castillo ‏
@ariellec

The final update on Plumpgate is that Ric Delgado got canned as a contributor to New Times Broward-Palm Beach.

lol

Courtney E. Smith ‏
@courtneyesmith

@ariellec And the chorus of Hole's "Plump" plays when he walks out of the building?

Arielle Castillo
@ariellec

@courtneyesmith well.... He's a freelancer, so maybe it wafted in the air as he mourned behind his own laptop?

Also, true:

grayson currin ‏
@currincy

@SteveKandell @1000TimesYes @ariellec Ric Delgado is a punching bag. Fire the people who hired him and gave him a login.

8 Reasons We Need To Stop Slapping On A "-Gate" Every Time Two People Disagree With Each Other

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Yeah I'm so fkin sick of the -gate suffix.

Ric Delgado is a punching bag. Fire the people who hired him and gave him a login.

yeah this

"-Gate"gate

thirding the gatehate

gatehategate

tbh i dunno if my bloodlust has been so inaquately quenched that i think multiple people who didn't even write this thing but lacked the hands-on attention to detail or and/or moral compass to keep it from going online need to lose their jobs. especially since afaik the actual author is just losing some freelancing income, not a full-time job.

"We've had so many -gates the last few years: Nannygate, Filegate, Travelgate, Paulgate. When Bob Dole's elected he'll show'em what a door is!"

- Bob Dole

bob dole bringin the lols

he wrote sins not tragedies

i really should have said "loles"

sad i missed this entire ordeal

but also kind of happy about it

Agree re editors taking blame here. You don't have to publish everything that's submitted. And the idea must have been run past an editor to commission it in the first place.

"loles" would be rueful, almost glum lols IMO

Bob Lole

Bob Dololo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b28HqlCBYgs

i am the way into the lolorous city

Ric is a good friend of mine and I'll be the first to say he has an odd sense of humor. I've known him long enough to know that he really means no harm. He's not Louis CK or Lenny Bruce. If he was he would be touring the country with offensive humor. What bothers me though is how the editor is getting no crap for this. Ric is just a freelance writer. It's not like he runs the paper. Obviously the editor thought it was a decent article or he wouldn't of published it. But I get the politics behind it. And I know you were an editor and your still a freelance writer so you get it. You had to write this article and I understand. I also understand why people got offended. Ironically through out of all this destruction it has made Ric one of the most popular freelance writers in Miami. Everybody would say for the wrong reasons but the fame is there either way. I mean he has an editor from Spin writing about him. He can actually turn this into an obnoxious, personality that's completely sarcastic and people will listen just to get offended. Because when it comes down to it the majority of this country wants to hear fart and dick jokes. I personally don't dig it but I'm the minority. There's ignorance everywhere. That's just the world we live in. It doesn't make it okay but it's reality.

"Signed, Ric"

he's popular because Whiney mentioned him!

This dude has a bright future ahead of him as a regular guest-star on Bob & Tom

this dude has a bright future ahead of him as an occasionally revived thread

Hahaha

the Larry the Cable Guy of music critics

http://www.sickchirpse.com/2012/05/07/when-will-florence-welch-just-fuck-off/

Ah this now has its own thread: Music Criticism 2012, UK Division: "Instead of a review of this performer's concert, here are 50 insulting remarks about her appearance."

its on some UK fake-Vice site instead of a legit source so wgaf about some blogger imo

oh yes I was forgetting that the original article in this thread was published in that eminent music crit bible, the blogs section of the Broward Palm Beach New Times.

worth it to push the thread onto the first page or two of google results for his name imo

xp that is at least a newspaper of some description aiui?

hey great music journalism is great music journalism!

So

When are winners gonna be announced for this

As soon as Editor Ric Delgado publishes the winners' names.

it's really a question of which recent village voice articles are the most deserving

"winners"

sigh

i'm actually not referring to the scandal chronicled in this thread - more to "BEST NEW MUSIC 2012"

http://www.salon.com/2012/11/11/is_taylor_swift_being_taken_too_seriously/