Comments on: Brick Weekly: Thirty Days Dead and Gone http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586 Sometimes, I get a good feeling. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:56:04 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Happy birthday, RVANews! | RVANews http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-5434 Happy birthday, RVANews! | RVANews Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:01:33 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-5434 [...] world, Pete Humes was bidding Brick a great big PEACE OUT. He gave us the 30-day post-exit lowdown here. And then we swooped in and convinced him to write for us for essentially no money. That, my [...] [...] world, Pete Humes was bidding Brick a great big PEACE OUT. He gave us the 30-day post-exit lowdown here. And then we swooped in and convinced him to write for us for essentially no money. That, my [...]

]]> By: Victoria Marinelli http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-1675 Victoria Marinelli Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:57:19 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-1675 That was curiously beautiful. Thank you for sharing it. That was curiously beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.

]]> By: How the Times-Dispatch done me dirty | RVANews http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-973 How the Times-Dispatch done me dirty | RVANews Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:09:03 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-973 [...] now I’m back off the wagon. Since I have the added emotional baggage of feeling like a woman scorned, I can really feel the hate flowing through me. I can feel it flowing from all the other haters [...] [...] now I’m back off the wagon. Since I have the added emotional baggage of feeling like a woman scorned, I can really feel the hate flowing through me. I can feel it flowing from all the other haters [...]

]]> By: Chef Salad http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-490 Chef Salad Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:16:26 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-490 Pete, I never believed you were working for the RTD anyway. At some point you will let us all know about your covert operations creating pro-democracy cartoons for infiltration into terror cells around the world. Can we finally eat some grilled foods and catch up on the finer points of giving up on battling the bulge? Drop me an email. c Pete,

I never believed you were working for the RTD anyway. At some point you will let us all know about your covert operations creating pro-democracy cartoons for infiltration into terror cells around the world.

Can we finally eat some grilled foods and catch up on the finer points of giving up on battling the bulge? Drop me an email.

c

]]> By: Annie Tobey http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-473 Annie Tobey Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:22:27 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-473 Pete, I'd love to chat with you sometime about your experiences and philosophies and plans for the future! Drop me an e-mail when your house-husbandry and freelance wordsmithery schedule allow, at atobey@vmagazineforwomen.com. Pete, I’d love to chat with you sometime about your experiences and philosophies and plans for the future! Drop me an e-mail when your house-husbandry and freelance wordsmithery schedule allow, at atobey@vmagazineforwomen.com.

]]> By: Dobey http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-469 Dobey Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:17:35 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-469 <I> Fixed your post, dear.

Fixed your post, dear.

]]> By: current MG employee http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-380 current MG employee Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:19:16 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-380 damn Pete, If I had known that you were leaving I would have given you heads-up about how the last two weeks are dealt with at MG. You are out at lunch or taking a smoke break and ... BAM!, next thing you know you are unable to log into your workstation and your escorts arrive for your exit. hate to see ya go 12+ year MG employee damn Pete, If I had known that you were leaving I would have given you heads-up about how the last two weeks are dealt with at MG. You are out at lunch or taking a smoke break and … BAM!, next thing you know you are unable to log into your workstation and your escorts arrive for your exit.

hate to see ya go

12+ year MG employee

]]> By: Pauline Hood http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-375 Pauline Hood Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:51:34 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-375 This doesn't really tell us much at all. What stories did Humes try to do that were stopped by Media General? What's an example of something they spiked? If there had been no evil corporate interference, what would a free to be Pete and Pete Brick look like? What stories would it have told? And don't say something vague and unreal like "better ones." There's a big difference between a journal of what you're thinking and what you're laughing about with your friends and a newspaper. Newspapers by their very nature have to have a broader appeal to readers and yes, those evil advertisers. What efforts did you make to produce an alt-newspaper and how did Media General stop it? That's the story. Otherwise, this does sound like a whinefest of someone who went in without a vision. Crowned king despite yourself and reigned without vision over a soon defeated kingdom. And you're shocked? I'd love to read a better story about what really happened if you have one. Do you? Or is this it? Because if this is it, you wasted a year of our time and struck another nail in the coffin of niche journalism. This doesn’t really tell us much at all. What stories did Humes try to do that were stopped by Media General? What’s an example of something they spiked? If there had been no evil corporate interference, what would a free to be Pete and Pete Brick look like? What stories would it have told? And don’t say something vague and unreal like “better ones.” There’s a big difference between a journal of what you’re thinking and what you’re laughing about with your friends and a newspaper. Newspapers by their very nature have to have a broader appeal to readers and yes, those evil advertisers. What efforts did you make to produce an alt-newspaper and how did Media General stop it? That’s the story. Otherwise, this does sound like a whinefest of someone who went in without a vision. Crowned king despite yourself and reigned without vision over a soon defeated kingdom. And you’re shocked? I’d love to read a better story about what really happened if you have one. Do you? Or is this it? Because if this is it, you wasted a year of our time and struck another nail in the coffin of niche journalism.

]]> By: Mopsa http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-289 Mopsa Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:45:40 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-289 Cool, smart people can't stay at Media General for long. I'm glad you're outta there! You're much too talented for that big, square box. Now you can go on to bigger and better opportunities. Your fans await Cool, smart people can’t stay at Media General for long. I’m glad you’re outta there! You’re much too talented for that big, square box. Now you can go on to bigger and better opportunities. Your fans await

]]> By: Colin Bailey http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-286 Colin Bailey Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:09:15 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-286 Ehh, you just bravely crossed the bridge to which every person who's art has to pay the bills will one day inexorably come. You made it out alive and you're wiser for it. it's just too bad you don't have an issue with Calvin pissing on the media general's logo framed on your wall. Ehh, you just bravely crossed the bridge to which every person who’s art has to pay the bills will one day inexorably come. You made it out alive and you’re wiser for it. it’s just too bad you don’t have an issue with Calvin pissing on the media general’s logo framed on your wall.

]]> By: Tyler Bass http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-252 Tyler Bass Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:00:12 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-252 Sad. I will pay for anything this man writes. Ever again. Sad. I will pay for anything this man writes. Ever again.

]]> By: Mary Ellin http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-245 Mary Ellin Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:59:48 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-245 Welcome to the I-used-to-work-for-Media-General club, Pete. Sorry it had to end that way for you. Welcome to the I-used-to-work-for-Media-General club, Pete. Sorry it had to end that way for you.

]]> By: J’s Notes » Blog Archive http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-164 J’s Notes » Blog Archive Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:20:04 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-164 [...] Pete Hume reflects on his departure from Brick Weekly a month ago. Am I bitter? Not really. I’m disappointed. But not by my sudden lack of employment or the eerie feeling that the paper has gone on without me. I’m disappointed by the lost opportunities. I’m disappointed that my time inside the corporate belly of Media General left me feeling like “The Office” and “Office Space” work much better as documentaries. I’m disappointed that things worked out exactly the way the cynical pessimist inside me thought they would turn out. [...] [...] Pete Hume reflects on his departure from Brick Weekly a month ago. Am I bitter? Not really. I’m disappointed. But not by my sudden lack of employment or the eerie feeling that the paper has gone on without me. I’m disappointed by the lost opportunities. I’m disappointed that my time inside the corporate belly of Media General left me feeling like “The Office” and “Office Space” work much better as documentaries. I’m disappointed that things worked out exactly the way the cynical pessimist inside me thought they would turn out. [...]

]]> By: The Fan District Hub » Blog Archive » Humes on last days at Brick http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-143 The Fan District Hub » Blog Archive » Humes on last days at Brick Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:06:02 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-143 [...] here to read the rest of Humes’ humorous and classy piece at [...] [...] here to read the rest of Humes’ humorous and classy piece at [...]

]]> By: F.T. Rea http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-139 F.T. Rea Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:49:32 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-139 Pete, Thanks for the glimpse inside the beast's belly. -- Terry Pete,

Thanks for the glimpse inside the beast’s belly.

– Terry

]]> By: Christian Detres http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-138 Christian Detres Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:53:44 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-138 I once had the honor of working with Pete on the last, greatest and most fondly remembered alt-weekly this city can claim - Punchline. I was as excited as anyone can be when I heard he was starting a new weekly (even if Dick Cheney, I mean, Media General was funding it.) Even though I work for what some would consider a competing outfit, I've never wanted anything more than Brick to be what Punchline once was, a full, fleshy moon taunting the blazer and bowtie set Richmond calls it cultural wardens. I consider my time at Punchline to be the beginning of my independent pursuits in publishing. Pete was my role model and is still an inspiration. Walking into that office Wednesday mornings to see him and Jon Goldberg stumbling about like autistic zombies (pulling a 24-hour deadline workday) was a testament to dedication I'll never forget. He taught me that complaining about there being nothing cool in Richmond is the lazy mans' mantra. If you want it to happen, work your ass off and make it happen. I've learned a lot from this man. It's shameful that this city can't support a talent like Pete Humes. I wish Pete the best in everything and God willing, one day we'll be able to afford to print his words in RVA. Christian Detres RVA Magazine I once had the honor of working with Pete on the last, greatest and most fondly remembered alt-weekly this city can claim – Punchline. I was as excited as anyone can be when I heard he was starting a new weekly (even if Dick Cheney, I mean, Media General was funding it.) Even though I work for what some would consider a competing outfit, I’ve never wanted anything more than Brick to be what Punchline once was, a full, fleshy moon taunting the blazer and bowtie set Richmond calls it cultural wardens.

I consider my time at Punchline to be the beginning of my independent pursuits in publishing. Pete was my role model and is still an inspiration. Walking into that office Wednesday mornings to see him and Jon Goldberg stumbling about like autistic zombies (pulling a 24-hour deadline workday) was a testament to dedication I’ll never forget. He taught me that complaining about there being nothing cool in Richmond is the lazy mans’ mantra. If you want it to happen, work your ass off and make it happen. I’ve learned a lot from this man.

It’s shameful that this city can’t support a talent like Pete Humes. I wish Pete the best in everything and God willing, one day we’ll be able to afford to print his words in RVA.

Christian Detres
RVA Magazine

]]> By: Malfred http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-136 Malfred Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:08:33 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-136 As satisfying as a "they-killed-kenny-those-bastards" story would be, it's actually nice to hear that things were so communicative and voluntary. We grow older, mellower, and alphabet blocks become fun again. Bonus. Meanwhile, if you ever publish something that costs cash money, I'll buy it. As satisfying as a “they-killed-kenny-those-bastards” story would be, it’s actually nice to hear that things were so communicative and voluntary. We grow older, mellower, and alphabet blocks become fun again. Bonus. Meanwhile, if you ever publish something that costs cash money, I’ll buy it.

]]> By: John http://rvanews.com/entertainment/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/1586#comment-128 John Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:00:02 +0000 http://rvanews.com/2007/11/brick-weekly-thirty-days-dead-and-gone/#comment-128 Thanks for the closure, Pete (and RVANews). We needed it, too. Hopefully, there were moments ensconced in your basement office on East Grace Street when you set down the can of Redi-Whip, realized you were wearing your flesh-colored body suit to work again and had a good laugh. Thanks for the closure, Pete (and RVANews). We needed it, too. Hopefully, there were moments ensconced in your basement office on East Grace Street when you set down the can of Redi-Whip, realized you were wearing your flesh-colored body suit to work again and had a good laugh.

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