Not that anybody but me gives a rat's patootie, but to set the record straight somewhere, for once: Annie Fisher was the Village Voice's Riffs column lead writer for about a year after I conceived that column in 1968, named it, and concocted a logo using a photocopied image of myself that was at the same time an image of Annie Fisher. A fragment of that image survives in my Substack avatar. Annie was the name I—Diane Fisher—used when I wrote about music while moonlighting from my fulltime job as Voice associate editor, my sole title; my job description was back of the book editor. Voice arts sections in toto or individually had no designated editors. Among other tasks, I edited each and all except theater and books. Writing Riffs was Annie Fisher's sole function. After an ownership change in mid-'74, when I was fired in a #metoo situation before nice people talked about those things, 11 people—at last count—were hired to replace me. —Diane Fisher
Not that anybody but me gives a rat's patootie, but to set the record straight somewhere, for once: Annie Fisher was the Village Voice's Riffs column lead writer for about a year after I conceived that column in 1968, named it, and concocted a logo using a photocopied image of myself that was at the same time an image of Annie Fisher. A fragment of that image survives in my Substack avatar. Annie was the name I—Diane Fisher—used when I wrote about music while moonlighting from my fulltime job as Voice associate editor, my sole title; my job description was back of the book editor. Voice arts sections in toto or individually had no designated editors. Among other tasks, I edited each and all except theater and books. Writing Riffs was Annie Fisher's sole function. After an ownership change in mid-'74, when I was fired in a #metoo situation before nice people talked about those things, 11 people—at last count—were hired to replace me. —Diane Fisher
Those who received the original email version should know that Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye left Motown in 1981. Talk about "dopey critics."
Those were indeed the days.