The Roots Runaround

Apparently, while the venerable ?uestlove practices deadpan rim shots for Jimmy Fallon’s new late night show, he and the rest of the Roots surround themselves with a dense web of management bureaucrats to prevent the scheduling of interviews with cute student-run publications. I don’t know how many uninformed people with telephones they need. I’ve never been transferred so many times in my life. I couldn’t even finish sentences. ROOTS, CONCERT, EUGENE, STUDENT-RUN, STUDENT, RUN! I just may have talked Jimmy Fallon.

Eventually, someone gave me an email and of course it didn’t work. Got another one and it did. They’ll see this when they’re vetting us, but oh well. I bet it’s not this hard to talk to Max Weinberg.

Anyway, The Roots 4/11/2009 McDonald Theatre


The Emerald Strikes Back

  • Posted by Scot
  • on March 4, 2009
  • Filed in: Campus

As a publication, the Oregon Voice stands behind its writers in print and online. Our blog post in response to the widely publicized and intellectually taxing Oregon Daily Emerald strike has apparently been a source of controversy for both the people involved and the one that wrote it. The fact that relationships between students [Get that? we're students] are being affected by this petty, bombastic strike is disheartening and doesn’t bode well for the future of journalism. Are these upset Emerald-ers that out of touch with what really matters? Have they already bought into the bickering journalism for journalists machine? At this age?

For shame.

Scot