April Fools' Last Glimmer
There have been some -- ahem -- erroneous bits of information circulating today, primarily on Facebook. Time to set the record straight:
*First off, let's start with the plausible lie: Tony Brown does NOT have his first-ever published work of fiction appearing in The New Yorker next week. I thought the fact that Tony steadfastly doesn't write fiction would be enough to lend this one an air of falseness to this one, never mind that it's the New Yorker, and almost no one gets published there from an unsolicited submission, but I was evidently mistaken. I actually felt the need to confess to this one early, as people were buying it way too quickly. Mitigating Circumstances: I actually do have a short story at The New Yorker. It's been there for nearly a year. Part of me was praying it would get accepted today, so I could announce it and no one would believe me. Obviously, this didn't happen. Nor do I expect it to ...
*The Pixies did not play a hush-hush reunion show at the underground Distant Castle concert series here in Worcester. I got a couple people on this one, but really, I can't blame people for hoping. This is the best kind of April Fools' joke: As the concert series is widely known to exist, but is underground and thus, not publicly broadcasting its gigs, it was difficult to check if you weren't already in the loop. Mitigating Circumstances: I'd totally go to that show if it happened. For real.
*While it is indeed true that WoMag has had a strange fixation with public health stories lately, including actual cover stories on the proliferation of heroin, the silent epidemic of head trauma, and the ever-sexy topic of Lyme disease, they are not, indeed, changing their name to The Worcester Journal of Public Health. Mitigating Circumstances: Jeremy Shulkin's upcoming expose on rickets and gout is going to ROCK!
*Bill Macmillan's assertion that I am going to be the new editor-in-chief of The InCity Times is a bald-faced lie. Mitigating Circumstances: The real new editor is Shaun Sutner.
Happy April Fools' Day, everyone! Hope you had some fune!
*First off, let's start with the plausible lie: Tony Brown does NOT have his first-ever published work of fiction appearing in The New Yorker next week. I thought the fact that Tony steadfastly doesn't write fiction would be enough to lend this one an air of falseness to this one, never mind that it's the New Yorker, and almost no one gets published there from an unsolicited submission, but I was evidently mistaken. I actually felt the need to confess to this one early, as people were buying it way too quickly. Mitigating Circumstances: I actually do have a short story at The New Yorker. It's been there for nearly a year. Part of me was praying it would get accepted today, so I could announce it and no one would believe me. Obviously, this didn't happen. Nor do I expect it to ...
*The Pixies did not play a hush-hush reunion show at the underground Distant Castle concert series here in Worcester. I got a couple people on this one, but really, I can't blame people for hoping. This is the best kind of April Fools' joke: As the concert series is widely known to exist, but is underground and thus, not publicly broadcasting its gigs, it was difficult to check if you weren't already in the loop. Mitigating Circumstances: I'd totally go to that show if it happened. For real.
*While it is indeed true that WoMag has had a strange fixation with public health stories lately, including actual cover stories on the proliferation of heroin, the silent epidemic of head trauma, and the ever-sexy topic of Lyme disease, they are not, indeed, changing their name to The Worcester Journal of Public Health. Mitigating Circumstances: Jeremy Shulkin's upcoming expose on rickets and gout is going to ROCK!
*Bill Macmillan's assertion that I am going to be the new editor-in-chief of The InCity Times is a bald-faced lie. Mitigating Circumstances: The real new editor is Shaun Sutner.
Happy April Fools' Day, everyone! Hope you had some fune!
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