Irritated at (big surprise) City Paper.

http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=17733

Should I be irritated that this review of Awesomefest doesn't even mention me? I can't help it.

The Parochialist

The Culmination of my week-long blog campaign against the Baltimore City Paper is my new blog called The Parochialist, which you can find here. http://theparochialist.blogspot.com/
I will try to update it every week, most likely on Thursday. Read it, comment on it, please offer suggestions, especially of interesting columns and blogs and places to find out about what’s happening in and around Baltimore. Anyone who can find a decent movie review site or book review site would be especially appreciated.
Help me in my campaign to provide an alternative to City Paper.
From now on, my gripes about CP will be on the pages of The Parochialist, as the Davey G blog will get back to Davey G things.

Thanks for reading!

www.daveygandthekeyboard.com

The Future of the *uck *ity *aper campaign

I may take this Anti-City Paper Project and put it on a separate blog, as I’m pretty much doing it for my own benefit and for the benefit of likeminded people who are sick of the declining quality of the Baltimore City Paper. I don’t want to detract from the usual Davey G related subjects that normally fill my blog by ranting endlessly about the same subject.
It’s still a germ of a project, I don’t know how far I will go with it. For all I know, I could be putting my tail between my legs in a month and deciding that boycotting them is just too much of a hassle (as a local music artist, it feels like biting the hand that feeds me to speak ill of the only weekly alternative paper in town. But really, what have they ever done for me?). But for now, I just want to put links to the syndicated columns that appear in CP and allow you to avoid ever having to deal with them.
I am content to do my own thing my own way, but it’s really frustrating to see how badly this paper panders to their friends, and makes half-assed sarcastic comments about others (honestly, if I were the Talking Head owner, I would have sued them for libel--but I have probably beaten this issue to death). In short--I just want to stay positive, and if I have an axe to grind with anyone, I prefer to take my revenge through satire (see the Low Level Bureaucrats series). It’s not very Zen of me to let someone make me angry. But the last time I looked, my name was not Buddha. Or even Siddhartha. Or even Herman Hesse. Or Yoda. Or…

So if I get this going, I will link to it here. And if not…there will be several missing days in the Davey G Blog as I try desperately to cover up my involvement in bad-mouthing the City Paper.

Enter to win tickets to the next Davey G and the Keyboard show here!
www.daveygandthekeyboard.com

This week, instead of the local rag we call *ity *aper…

A music site.
http://www.bmorelive.com/

Another music site:
http://www.musicmonthly.com/

Political Animal http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/10393
Savage Love, new!
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove

This Modern World
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2007/10/08/tomo/

The Maakies http://www.maakies.com/

Straight Dope. http://www.straightdope.com/

Stuff to do!
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/custom/live/




Win tickets to the next Davey G and the Keyboard show! Enter here!
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See you next week for the next edition of *uck *he *ity *aper!