The All-New STYLUS.

I shared a woozy cab ride with Tal. We discussed -- what, exactly?

My impending mid-twenties crisis and crippling self-esteem. This time around we'll discuss Tusk in something other than late-night drunken rambling.

Let me be clear: I hope I made things worse.

Ah. I'm guessing you showed up after I left to catch Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

(Who were kind of disappointing, but I probably would've passed out if I'd had another drink.)

The other Styluser you met, jaymc, was Gaerig.

Yes, I know.

You know you did Al.

Does this mean the ones Pitchfork don't scavenge will turn to blogging? Can we be spared this?

A lot of us write for other publications already.

I'm pretty sure that other people have outlets besides Stylus that they can fall back on, and plenty of the writers are talented enough to jump on elsewhere.

for example?

be good to hear where they'll pop up so appreciators can follow...

If anyone is interested, you can find my works in The R0ck, R0ck Bridge H1gh School's award-winning newspaper.

What publications are all the Stylus contributors going to be writing for now?

Oh, there's this one place.

A lot of us write for other publications already.

Alfred, Nick: Aside from your respective blogs, where else does your writing appear?

(I know Ned is at AMG and his blog)

Dammit, the singles jukebox used to be the first thing I read in the mornings. Will be missed :(

I loved this interview with Yamantanka Eye.

THIS SUCKS.

Daniel, email me and we'll talk.

Also, whatever you do, Nick Southall please keep writing. Your shit is half the reason Stylus is/was great.

RIP

Yeah, <3 Nick.

Give us more love, people. We deserve it. LOL @ our haikus.

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/pop_playground/the-final-ever-stylus-annual-haiku-marathon.htm

Maybe I deserved to be included in that "favorite teenpop poster" poll after all, since my final piece for Stylus (on the Jukebox) is about Lindsay Lohan.

These final features are just making me miss Stylus more. :(

But they are great.

I have no idea where I'll write about music next, but I do know no matter what I do I'll never have an opportunity as good as Stylus was. This is a widely-shared sentiment among Stylus staff, but there was/is simply nowhere else that gives you the freedom to write that Stylus did, and I probably would have been content writing there forever. I guess four years will have to be enough. Todd Burns is a hell of a guy, and honestly as much as I, too, had the "why not just hand off EiC to someone else?" reaction too for a second, I can't imagine the site without him.

And Alfred's right, we hated our readers commenters. Ha ha.

It's actually kind of bizarre to find out that so many people liked us, but better late than never.

this is why comments boxes on sites like that can be do misleading. there were pieces on stylus i thought of commenting on, and occasionally i did, but too many of the other commenters were complete dicks, so i couldn't be bothered, and i imagine others felt the same way (and I mean, they weren't even dicks in an entertaining way--there was just a lot of childish nonsense, from what i recall).

"can be so misleading," I mean.

I never commented because I figured guys like Morbius and Naive Teen Idol needed no encouragement.

I don't know if I phrased that exactly right.

Well, I'll be: Ian's posting on ILM. Hi!

If Miller turns up Ladbrokes owe me £10k.

Daniel, email me and we'll talk.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn

Email sent. Thanks.

I chatted with Derek last night. Told him about this thread. Don't think he'll be swinging by to check in.

The provinces aren't shedding many tears:
http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/465777.html

Presumably Stylus failed as a website by not making "Obligatory Breakdown Song" album of the year

Presumably Stylus failed as a website by not making "Obligatory Breakdown Song" album of the year

-- Dom Passantino, Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:42 AM

This is probably true.

woah, I totally forgot about Swyggart's UK Top 40 column back in the day. totally deserves a shoutout.

As someone who is in no way associated with Stylus, or the film section thereof, I would like to add that Stylus also had an excellent film section.

-From someone who is definitely not a film writer on Stylus.

Ahem.

Patrick, there's been some talk about the Top 10 Films of the Millennium here.

the comments section was a bad idea imo

How the hell...?

David Poland, Catch Me If You Can: the pieces weren't that hard to put together.

the comments section was a bad idea imo

-- omar little, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:36 (5 minutes ago) Link

Nah, most of us were pretty self-loathing

Wow.

P Mac stunned like a muh

Well, I thought the comments section was pretty great, but then I would, wouldn't I (I posted as grandbanks). Stylus really was great. Tried not to be a dick too often, but this isn't about me. Thanks for all of the hard work, and for keeping those comments sections rolling. Made for a lot of shit, but every once in a while really fucking worked. The site (and writing) was definitely better than the comments.

I couldn't keep up: were you the same as pabanks?

Nope, just grandbanks, though people got my name wrong a bunch.