After a few years, one might be tempted to romanticize the newspaper life, and miss all that scintillating intellectual stimulation, yadda-yadda…
But then, one runs across this random shot of colleague Mike Fitts, during some interminable editorial board interview in January 2007, and one realizes: It wasn’t all fun.
Sometimes, one sat there and endured loads of nonsense, and thought with dread about all the work that wasn’t getting done back at one’s desk. And one would start to plot how to get even with the world for this torment — perhaps by writing a piece in which one referred to oneself as “one,” over and over and over…
Anyway, the picture cracked me up when I ran across it yesterday…
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Mike’s reaction:
That’s like when Robert sang,does anybody remember laughter?
That looks like a guy who wishes he would have majored in the exciting field of Accounting.