January 23, 2004
Are Details Dumb?
Man, does this issue look good!
I'm planning on sending a mass email to our email list early next week, announcing the readers' poll winners before any media outlets get it (kind of a perk for our list folks, which they deserve).
The layouts David did for this issue are stellar. Wait til you see the Blindside cover story, or the Project 86, or the Tooth & Nail story, or try reading the wacked-out Live Report (As I Lay Dying concert review). The Readers' Poll center spread layout is trippy, too. And the front cover. Wait 'til you see it. Different.
No sleep for either of us last night. At 4am I had to go home, cuz my wife got called in for a nursing job (helping at a birthing center for someone who just delivered in the middle of the night), and David left not too long after to go hop on one of those ungodly early morning flights. Now he's hanging out with Underoath, who are playing a show tonight in Birmingham, AL. I bet they're all going to have a blast (I feel sorry for David, cuz he's probably a walking zombie. Maybe a good rest tomorrow will catch him up).
I've got to coach a "Little Dribbler's" basketball game tomorrow morning way too early. I'm just putting the finishing touches on the magazine, making corrections from mistakes found during the proofreading process. I really enjoyed a couple of High Energy drinks last night. There's not any espresso/coffee bars open around the office area after 11pm... which is crazy! So I opted for the energy stuff. Nice.
Well, gotta get back to it. Pulling double duty with making sure all the ads are in and ready to go and the articles, too. The Hard News is being assembled tonight as well.
Having been laughing it up to the new Apologetix album. One of their songs is "Listening After Midnight" (a parody of the Judas Priest hit), which talks about the kid who fell asleep during a late night sermon, falling out of the window and dying...only to be raised from the dead. That's such a crazy and fun story. If I was writing the Bible or making up a sacred text, I would definitely leave out incidentals like that.
