Winding down...

[SF_Express]

This is NOT a gloat, merely a fact. I did my wars with these sections for a lot of years -- but boy, I don't miss 'em at all.

 

[Angola!]

My editor is trying to wrap up the last four pages with just 30 minutes until it prints. Makes for fun times when the higher ups keep coming back and yelling at us to hurry up.
So close to pizza and beer.

 

[pressboxramblings07]

Must be nice to be done (or close). I've got until 4 p.m. Monday to finish a 44-page (full-color) broadsheet section. I had to warn my ME today about how much overtime I'm gonna have. His mouth dropped.

 

[spaceman]

rock on, colton. have one for me!

 

[Colton]

Pressboxramblings07: What is this "overtime" thing of which you speak?

Spaceman: Thanks, bud.

 

[Tom Petty]

My editor is trying to wrap up the last four pages with just 30 minutes until it prints. Makes for fun times when the higher ups keep coming back and yelling at us to hurry up.
So close to pizza and beer.

that hurry up **** still pisses me off just reading it.

i heard it used on other guys when i was a writer and told myself i'd never say that **** once i became an editor. i have, but only once ... and that ****er deserved it.

 

[Colton]

TP: Couldn't agree with you more. Good for you.

 

[212areacode]

After a project like that, I always go get a cheerleader or an ex-spice girl and wind down. Don't know about the rest of you.

 

[Pi]

My paper cut our football preview(s). Entirely. I'll miss that 40 hours of OT in my paycheck, but that's about it.

 

[audreyld]

The last football tab I did was 24 pages, half prep, half college.

How many high schools? One.

12 tab pages on one high school football team.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Our annual 160 page behemoth hit the streets today.
Kickoff is less than 48 hours away.

 

[Colton]

Evil: You should get in on our section swap.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Evil: You should get in on our section swap.

I would love to if I thought it would do any good.
I swapped last year and really liked a lot of the ideas in Shot's section. I also like the one someone had flagged on line from Tacoma?? or someplace in Washington.
Took it to the powers and they pulled a Dr. Evil on me:
"Well ****. Let's just do what we always do."

We have done the same format for the last 20 years and no one - besides me - has expressed any interest in changing it.
Of course, if the ad department can sell enough adds for a 160 page tab every year why change.

 

[Colton]

Evil: Well, your ideas would probably be helpful to the rest of us, especially those of us who are in search of fresh takes on a subject we all have to tackle yearly.

 

[pressboxramblings07]

Pressboxramblings07: What is this "overtime" thing of which you speak?

If you saw my normal paycheck, you'd be happy for me that I get overtime.

 

[Colton]

PB: That's pretty much universal in our industry, me thinks.

 

[Tom Petty]

The last football tab I did was 24 pages, half prep, half college.

How many high schools? One.

12 tab pages on one high school football team.

that seems about right, doesn't it?

 

[ltrain1127]

Interesting situation with my preview this year.
First time they have ever done something like this, so it was four tab pages run of press. The middle four pages, so it was all color.
I had a preview story, sidebars on their brutal early schedule and their history running the option, stats from 2006, a look at position battles, a look at the conference, driving directions, team picture and schedule.
First time it's ever been done here. Oops, someone forgot to tell our two-person ad staff to sell anything for it, so it's four pages with no ads.
I was pretty proud of how it turned out. However, when I get to work on the day it comes out, I have a nasty, vicious, annonymous, five-minute voice mail from a lady who was pissed I didn't preview the JV and freshman teams.
Gawd, I hate parents sometimes. Someday, my goal is to cover an orphanage's high school teams. That would be nice.

 

[Walter Burns]

Interesting situation with my preview this year.
First time they have ever done something like this, so it was four tab pages run of press. The middle four pages, so it was all color.
I had a preview story, sidebars on their brutal early schedule and their history running the option, stats from 2006, a look at position battles, a look at the conference, driving directions, team picture and schedule.
First time it's ever been done here. Oops, someone forgot to tell our two-person ad staff to sell anything for it, so it's four pages with no ads.
I was pretty proud of how it turned out. However, when I get to work on the day it comes out, I have a nasty, vicious, annonymous, five-minute voice mail from a lady who was pissed I didn't preview the JV and freshman teams.
Gawd, I hate parents sometimes. Someday, my goal is to cover an orphanage's high school teams. That would be nice.

Love the hate mail. Embrace the hate mail.
I got one today from a guy who said all I do is go to the games and eat, that the preview was the result of lazy coverage and that I don't deserve my job.
It was entertaining, and I never cease to be amazed that people who don't know me talk to me (or about me) like they do.

 

[TyWebb]

Finished our 20-page/18-team tab last night at around 2:30 a.m. Now I can breathe.

It turned out looking great though.