A word from the editor:
Beginning this Monday, June 1 — the very same day that I-65-Mageddon is unleashed in Louisville — Food & Dining Magazine’s website and social media portals are going on a diet; F&D Lite, if you will (heavens, I can’t even recognize myself in the mirror).
I’m cutting my part-time gig to an even-lesser-time position, and lowering engagement to a simmer, because there’s nothing quite as surreal as continuing to perform a job that no longer exists.
Please examine the rationale, as available at my web site; here’s a link and an excerpt.
What’s done is done, and new adventures await
F&D no longer exists in any substantive form except for memories, back issues, the web site and social media pages, and my daily, ongoing, pro bono efforts to keep a few balls in the air, which I’m doing because I came to dearly love this amazing project of John Carlos White’s, and still wish we had a few more years left in us, and as yet hope someone or something might happen to make it possible to keep going.
Except that I know this is highly unlikely, if not impossible.
Consequently, bearing in mind that the future of the print publication lies entirely outside my control, beginning on June 1 you’ll begin seeing fewer daily posts at the website and social media. That’s because cold turkey isn’t my style. My Wednesday and Sunday columns likely will remain a constant, because I enjoy writing them. But eventually they, too, will migrate to my web site.
Maybe I’ll settle into a Sunday – Wednesday – Friday F&D schedule, or some such, as I begin weaning myself from the portal, with other days included here and there as merited.
Admittedly, this is a purely unilateral decision on my part. It isn’t possible to “answer to management” when there is none. For the past three months, I’ve been making it up as I go along.
I understand; the resolution of anyone’s estate takes time, but I’ve received no communications of any sort, from anyone, since early March, and I’m interpreting this as meaning definitively that when John departed this planet, he took F&D with him. It’s sad, though also eloquent, given the inseparability of magazine from publisher.
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