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We recently put up a quote board for various things heard around the office, and so far the posts have been pretty out there.
Like this one from last week.
“Its funny what you find when looking for toilet paper on the internet” -Scott
I found a blog quote that I think deserves to make it up on the board.
Whenever someone brings up Sacramento Magazine, I cringe a little. I really believe the title should be in quotes because the magazine’s key demographic isn’t really Sacramento’s multicultural pizza, it’s the chewy, tasteless, white crust that surrounds the City.
Taken from Uneasy Rhetoric’s latest post on Sacramento Magazine and their write up about grocery stores.
Levi
3 responses so far ↓
1 uneasy rhetoric // Jul 4, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Kewl! I can’t take credit for the Sacramento as pizza metaphor — a radio traffic reporter back in the early 1980s (I think, I can’t remember his name - maybe for KFBK?) said that from the sky Sac looks like a pizza with anchovies. I’ll take credit for giving it a cultural slant, though.
2 Jason // Jul 4, 2007 at 6:03 pm
So, time for a little humble pie for us. Levi put this post up forgetting that next month, Sacramento magazine is doing a little feature on us about the car we’re driving around. Ouch! People who read this post and then see the magazine are bound to see some hypocrisy (and with good reason). So, I think a simple explanation (ahem, damage control) is due.
For the same reasons Uneasy articulated, we have never pursued a story with them. But they contacted us and wanted to do a little piece about our car for their “urbanity” section. Honestly, when they called, I was pretty surprised at the interest, especially when I started railing about suburban sprawl mid-interview. The woman who wrote the story was actually a pretty solid eco-urbanist, and the guy who photographed the car lives in the urban core and was pretty stoked about our three-wheeler. Maybe they are having a good influence at the magazine.
Perhaps the tasteless white crust is getting a little cracked black pepper…I hope that’s true. Its how change begins to transfer from the “early adaptors” to the mainstream (which has its own inherent issues, but that’s a separate post).
3 Levi // Jul 4, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Oh Dear, Yes Jason is right that I am eating my words here. After considering removing the post alltogether I saw Jason’s comment and agree with what he is saying. I thing the part in the Uneasy Rhetoric comment that I am agreeing with is that Sacramento Magazine seems to focus on the “mainstreem” American consumers in the area and not much is said about the cultural creatives who are working hard to make Sacramento into the diverse gem that it is becoming. I Truly do not mean any ill will in highlighting the quote.
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