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i. "the heels are alive" for manolo blahnik
ii. "from bauhaus to your mouse" for a history of 20th century design
iii. "greyfriars dobbie" abt an edinburgh weaver

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Is this meant to be a cry against artistic censorship or a prayer of thanks that an editor was watching over?

― Skottie, Wednesday, 26 March 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

the hed for my buffy piece in the v.voice is grebt: Slay Miserables

(but i didn't think it up)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a headline lust summer read: "Crank it or spank it!"
which was the best quote I've ever had in 6 yrs of rock-write.
Mind you, this was sweeter because it was in a fairly conservative daily.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Same paper also didn't use my suggested headline of Rhymes With Rocker for a Joe Cocker piece.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

mark your em-dashes are fuX0red in Mozilla for Windows for some reason but they look fine on IE, i suspect the VV content-management system is to blame

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah they're always fuxored in every browser i use

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

My Ja Rule & Gramsci piece was going to be headlined (hilariously I thought, but totally obscure to everyone else) "The Ruling Idea".

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

My friend Ben's: (For a yoga piece in In Style)

Bend it like bikram.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

i never ever get the title choses for my voice pieces (except the sugababes one which was actually mine)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm crap at headines.

Ladytron in M!xmag: We're not electroclash, synth you ask.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

i want to do a 50 cent one called 'sad boy for life' but noone will take it

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Titles and subheads are a pain in the arse.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)

what bugs me abt work is that i am required to contribute and come up with much hilarious genius which everyone larfs at non-stop, then they pick something non-funny

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

hence this thread, as a protest

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:46 (twenty-three years ago)

photo captions are the worst

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

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