Reason Magazine and Reason.tv Announce New Editors

Nick Gillespie moves to Reason.tv, Matt Welch takes over Reason magazine

Los Angeles (November 27, 2007) – After seven years as editor-in-chief of Reason magazine, Nick Gillespie is shifting his focus to Reason’s Internet content. Gillespie will direct Reason.com and Reason.tv, which debuted in October featuring short documentaries hosted by The Price Is Right and Power of 10 host Drew Carey.

Matt Welch, a former Reason editor and author of the new book McCain: The Myth of a Maverick, leaves his post as assistant editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times to take over as editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.

“Reason.tv is the most exciting platform we’ve created yet in terms of demonstrating the ability of ‘free minds and free markets’ to create a world that routes around politics as usual and lets people pursue happiness in any way that’s peaceful. Between Drew Carey’s immense contributions and the other original content we are developing, Reason.tv is a great stage for showing all that is right – and wrong – in American politics and culture,” said Gillespie. “I’m absolutely thrilled that Matt Welch will be leading the print magazine into its next 40 years. There’s no better person to head up one of the few magazines that’s still dedicated to long-form journalism and that takes the world as its subject.”

Welch will be joining Gillespie in Reason Foundation’s Washington, DC, offices in January. The April 2008 issue of Reason magazine will be Welch’s first full issue as editor-in-chief.

“I’m excited to be handed the baton at a time when the future of the magazine and Reason Foundation has never looked brighter or more dynamic,” declared Welch. “Nick Gillespie and his staff – and their predecessors – have helped create a rare bird in publishing – a magazine about politics that’s actually interesting and unpredictable. At a time when Americans despise their elected leaders in record numbers, when party membership is declining all around and the only dark-horse presidential candidate generating anything resembling enthusiasm is a guy nicknamed ‘Dr. No,’ there’s never been a better time for Reason’s message of choice versus control, free thinking versus partisan water-carrying.”

“This is an unprecedented and pivotal moment for Reason Foundation, our supporters and our ideas,” said Reason Foundation President David Nott. “Drew Carey is hosting a video journalism series for us and has just joined Reason’s board of trustees. Nick Gillespie’s relentless pursuit of quality, thought-provoking journalism will take our websites to new heights. And as Reason magazine heads into its 40th year, Matt Welch brings a fresh perspective that will expand Reason’s status as a must-read for anyone interested in the political and cultural landscape of this country. This prepares us better than ever to help bring about change based on individual liberty, limited government and choice.”

– Reason Press Release 11/27/07 hyperlinks mine

U2 made a cool video

yes i remember it well.

matt suhey ran for the only touchdown.

dont let college girls over who arent drunk dont drink are just in town for the holidays and arent sure if they love their boyfriends WHO DONT EVEN GO TO THE SAME SCHOOL AS THEY DO

they might look super cute in their sweat shirts and sassy barrettes, they might kiss great and smell great and be super gentle when you least expect it

but they will keep you up till 5:39am playing the game of

letsadjourntothebedroom

no

comeonwhathappensintherestaysinthere

ha

youknowhedoesntwantyou

Yes He DOES! OMG!

thenwhyisnthehere?

etc

ladies. rule number one of college is break up with Everyone – your high school true love your college true love your future ex husband EVERYONE

college is to learn three things

how to drink, how to fuck, and how to deal with red tape.

art history and essay writing can be taught in a week. everything else really does need years to develop so quit fucking around with your juvenile concepts of “love”.

genius poets, philosophers, bob dylan, sculpters, even Dr Phil have agonized for most of their lives trying to master the essence of love and you – without one single wrinkle on you – think you have found THE ONE at 20 yrs old – or even know what love is?

love?

you dont even know the physics of a curveball and you think you can talk about love?

take off your shirt for pete sake and turn on the christmas lights.

just because somebody gets your thong wet when you think of him doesnt mean its love baby, trust me. i minored in wet thongs in college.

have a boyfriend in high school, have one when youre in grad school. college is the absolute WORST time to be attached.

plus why are you making out with tony pierce if you wanna talk about your bf all night? clearly your man is no tony pierce.

sometimes i wonder if the Devil sends his sexy demonettes up here to keep me from blogging.

well jokes on you fucker cuz lookie here, ITS A POST!

photo via Turkey Day 2000 when chickie was still in junior high. HA!

turkey day 2001 if youre cool with nsfw shit.

what would it be?

it would be the sloppiest rendition of “kiss me on the bus” you could find.

The Replacements
“Kiss Me On The Bus”
(Westerberg)
Tim, 1985
Sire/Warner Bros.

On the bus, that’s where we’re ridin’
On the bus, O.K., don’t say hi, then
Your tongue, your transfer,
your hand, your answer

On the bus, everyone’s lookin’ forward
On the bus, I aint lookin’ forward
And everything ain’t O.K.
I might die before Monday
They’re all watchin’ us

Kiss me on the bus
Kiss me on the bus
If you knew how I felt now
You wouldn’t act so adult now
Hurry, hurry, here comes my stop

On the bus, watch out reflection
On the bus, I can’t stand no rejection
C’mon, let’s make a scene
Oh, baby, don’t be so mean
They’re all watchin’ us
Kiss me on the bus
Kiss me on the bus
If you knew how I felt now
You wouldn’t act so adult now
Hurry, hurry, here comes my stop

If you knew how I felt now
You wouldn’t act so adult now
They’re all watchin’ us
Kiss me on the bus
Kiss me on the bus
Kiss me on the butt
Kiss me on the butt

not everyone has a mom who lives within driving distance.
not everyone wants to fly across country for a few days especially when youre just gonna do the same damn thing 3 weeks later.
and not everyone has awesome friends that you’ve known for decades
and not everyone sees those awesome friends all the time, thanks to children, babies, jobs, and life

so thankfully charlie and bonnie invented Friendsgiving where all the friends come over and bring food and wine and babies and gays and we all eat and laugh and reminisce.

mr. dave ladelfa, because california is so anti-meat, created, instead of a Turducken, this pumpkin rice dish stuffed inside a pumpkin, surrounded by more rice and corn and beans, stuffed inside another pumpkin.
he calls it a Pumppumpkin

because i play the role of the eccentric uncle perfectly i lost the directions i had JUST written down to get to bonnie and charlie’s rental home (theyre renovating their real house) but apparently in their swanky neighborhood, when a black man is walking down the street on thanksgiving with two bottles of wine, two loaves of bread, and a House of Pies dutch apple pie, looking into windows, he can be expected to be greeted by nosey (and very nice) neighbors who ask “where are you trying to go”?

and every house is pointed out and finally bon and charlies are found thanks to the painting of Greg Vaine sticking his tongue out “oh there are my friends! thanks for your help nice asian man!”

many more pics from last nights fest here.

thanks bonnie and charlie!!!!!

yep. the one youre probably bored to tears of me talking about.

like a proud parent lemme tell you a quickie lil story before i head off to Friendsgiving.

yesterday i sent out an email saying everyone write something about Thanksgiving, i dont care if you havent written in a while, i dont care if youre tired, i dont care if youre “busy”, i dont care if youre in jail. write it, put a pic on top, and post it.

i was a little afraid theyd blow me off and be insulted that i was being demanding – ok very afraid – they are volunteers after all and it was last minute and they might very well be busy and in jail and thus very tired.

but they came through in a bigger way than probably any web site in america.

so go ye and check out all the things LAist is thankful fer.

and know that on top of all the things i mentioned below, im extremely grateful to have you here on the busblog. i know you probably feel like an estranged mistress, but you’ll always be my baby.

I’m thankful for so much this Thanksgiving that I don’t even know where to begin, so let’s start with the basics: I’m thankful of you, my family, my friends, loose women, cheap vices, Guitar Hero, and the Good Lord.

I’m thankful for something that you probably don’t have, the greatest bosses alive and the coolest gig. For example can you say fuck to tens of thousands of people today? Fuck.

I’m thankful to live in America where even now in our darkest days I can say things like fuck the president, fuck the vice president and fuck everyone who voted for them, especially the second time.

I’m thankful for my staff, the finest group of volunteer writers, artists, photographers, and editors of any city blog ever. I so don’t deserve them. But I will take ’em because they’ve taken me to the top.

I’m thankful to live in Los Angeles, greatest city in the world. Everything you could ever ask for is here and most of it’s legal. We have the most awesome record store ever, the best food, the coolest cars, the sweetest houses, the prettiest girls, and the lamest dudes that make us normal guys look better than we actually are. Likewise I’m thankful for the smog, the traffic, and the real estate prices which scare away the fakers who don’t have what it takes to stick it out here. Have fun in Florida, fuckers.

… read the rest here

if you dont know thats fine, cuz i always forget.

some things make me feel young, like when i can keep up with a college girl who laughs and yells and dances and then wants to bang well into the wee hours.

some things make me feel old, like when i see that today, 30 years ago, walter payton ran for 275 yards against the minnesota vikings.

what makes me feel old about that lil tidbit was i was at that fucking game.

seriously.

up in the endzone. in sorta crappy seats. and the bears sucked, but because bears fans have always been real fans, the place was packed, thus the bad seats.

the bears sucked so badly that year/decade that, because i was there, i clearly remember the fact that despite the fact that sweetness ran for 275 (100 is a great game) and broke the nfl record for most yards in one game, payton didnt even score one touchdown

in fact the bears sucked so much that they almost lost the damn thing

they won 10-7

the only touchdown was a fake to walter and a pitch to Matt Suhey, good old number 26

yes thats how old i am, i remember all of that.

all the sex drugs rock in my life and that day, thirty years ago, is riveted in my brain, no matter how much pressure or consequence or blonde girls try to fuck it out of me.

so since we are remembering walter, let me tell you one more story about good old #34, of which there are many

but one day i was at the arcade. it was the early 80s. space invaders had just come out. the first real coin op video game to hit our town. before that everything was pinball.

we had several arcades, but the best one was at Green Valley Driving Range on Lake Street. walter was there for two reasons. first he was there to hit balls, but he was also there because he knew we had Space Invaders.

which i was playing when one of my friends said jesus christ tony walter fucking payton is hitting golf balls!

i was all shut up youre just trying to distract me. he was all no shit dude hes right fucking there man.

and after my quarter was done, i looked and there he was, huge calves, white tube socks, shorts, and he was creaming golf balls. putting dents in the horizon.

i ran to the golf lady and said can i please borrow a pen so i can get walters autograph? she said no, we dont want you to scare him away.

so i fucking Booked all through the tree forest to my house and grabbed a pen and ran back to the arcade as fast as i could and back then i was fast. but when i got to the parking lot i saw walters Jeep pulling out of the parking lot. apparently he was as shitty at space invaders as i was.

i ran after the jeep. walter wasnt driving. but they saw me waving and running and i saw the brake lights and they stopped! huffing and puffing i said walter youre the best ever i saw you run against minnesota for 275 youre the best can i please please have an autograph and he said sure

and when people say that Sweetness was the greatest they dont even know the meaning of the word.

but i do.

my favorite street in LA

and made a little photo essay that you can see here

but before that I stood in the photo pit while Alicia Keys sang two songs, you can see one of those here

yes, i know i rule, its all part of the job.

i kiss you

but i sorta love this one of me this afternoon at the WGA strike on hollywood blvd

thanks Dave!