Okay, It's Up

New announcement coming soon. But you can find it here.

Shhhh...

T-minus 10 days and counting...Relaunch TK TK TK....

Hmmm

Keep checking. SAGA may be live once again in '06. Keep the faith and all that.

Look, I Lied

In Vegas right now, but had to give props to Reese Dunklin, the fine reporter at the DMN for this deserved award.

Now, back to sin.

Shutting It Down

There are four stories that I could have posted this morning. One was a very intriguing internal analysis of a story at The Dallas Morning News that bugged many people. One was something snarky about a local media blog. One was about a huge problem with sourcing at the DMN. And one was about a developer who is important to this city and his opinion of certain high-placed folks within the Dallas city government.

Every one of these I couldn't post because I'm either friends of or professionally involved with the participants. So, I came to a realization tonight. Although I'm a pretty well-connected guy, my desire to keep my friends and not post stuff just to prove I'm well-connected, well, these things pretty much take the teeth out of this blog. I no longer have a need to ingnore these things, as I did when my paycheck was dependent on separating myself, so I'm just not going to to do it.

So I'm shuttin' it down. It'll be gone by tomorrow night. Thanks, all.

"That's Alternative to Alternative"--Todd Snider

Now that someone has finally printed something about this, I can link to the rumor I've been hearing for a few weeks: That my former employer -- sigh, I miss those paychecks; but, hey, traveling with the family is fun, right? -- is looking to buy Village Voice Media to create a superawesomegoodalternative chain.

Typically, the San Fran paper casts this as a gloom-and-doom scenario for the venerable NY tab. That's absurd. Has anyone read the Village Voice in the past few years? Like the investment group that runs it has brought great changes to the paper? Please. No, the best paper in the VVM chain is the L.A. Weekly -- by miles, mate. By miles.

Look, Gays Don't Drive Cars. It's a Fact.

Don't see that it made the Morning News, but it seems that today, for the seventh consecutive year, Dallas-based Exxon Mobil Chairman/CEO Lee R. "The Gobbler" Raymond proves he hates gay people. At least that's how I read it.

According to the Human Rights Campaign:

Exxon Mobil ... is the only company in the Fortune 50 that doesn't explicitly protect its employees from discrimination due to sexual orientation, as Mobil Corp did prior to its merger with Exxon Corp in 1999. Exxon Mobil is the only company to remove these protections and suspend enrollment in its domestic partner benefits program. At the 2000 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Exxon Mobil CEO Lee Raymond brushed aside discussion on changing his company's written Equal Employment Opportunity policy, stating that interested parties should "go pass a federal law instead."

My superawesomegoodanalysis: "We're here! We're queer! And we won't ... uh, buy your gas! Ohmigod!"

UPDATE: The greatness that is Sudeep Reddy does have details from the shareholders' meeting, including other gripes against the company.