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My Year With Adam Moss's New York Magazine

By Michael Musto, Friday, Dec. 19 2008 @ 3:30PM
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Categories: Musto on Musto

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They were doing a piece on people's interesting closets. They came to see mine, all excited. They canceled.

They asked for my input on the best NYC parties in the last 40 years. I gave it, saying they'd have to give me attribution. They didn't run it.

They asked me to fill out a cultural poll of the year in review and offer pithy comments. They didn't use them.

They gave me an assignment. The interview subject wouldn't do it.

Here's to another exciting collaboration with New York in '09!

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sanchez says:

Relax, mama. It's a pretty but empty vessel.

Posted On: Friday, Dec. 19 2008 @ 3:39PM
ladybug says:

No wonder magazines are going down.

Posted On: Friday, Dec. 19 2008 @ 3:40PM
nui says:

the only thing going down is Adam Moss, who loves to fire old men columnists and hire cute young ones, which would be okay if the twinks had any brains -- or indeed could even write -- his latest crush, a terrible theatre reviewer, has just jilted him and gone to work at Newsweek -- bad karma, Adam-Poo !! Don't treat Miss Musto like this or your mag will be cursed!!!!

Posted On: Friday, Dec. 19 2008 @ 5:18PM
Xenia Warrior Princess says:

Oh Sanchez, that's priceless. No wonder New York sells for $5 a year on discount magazine dot com.

Posted On: Friday, Dec. 19 2008 @ 6:37PM
F. Packer says:

Don't you know that superior writers are an intrinsic threat to the mediocre worms who managed to slither and slink into staff positions?

Posted On: Friday, Dec. 19 2008 @ 7:23PM
Anonymous says:

I miss Clay Felker. For that matter, I miss the old Village Voice. (But Mr Musto just improves with time!)

Posted On: Friday, Dec. 19 2008 @ 11:54PM
JonnyOneNote says:

I miss Clay Felker. For that matter, I miss the old Village Voice. (But Mr Musto just improves with time!)

Posted On: Friday, Dec. 19 2008 @ 11:55PM
scruffy says:

Does anybody remember the East Village Other? THAT! was a newspaper.

Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 6:32AM
The Late Tallulah Bankhead says:

I'm insulted that any magazine executive would treat Michael Musto in such a fashion. I've been following his star-studded career, devoutly, since he used to be the inspiration for the "Goofus & Gallant" cartoon strip for Highlights for Children magazine in the 1960s.

Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 7:56AM
Steve says:

I thought I liked that magazine until I read how they treated you...losers

Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 10:33AM
Miss Mitzi Gaynor, Norma Desmond, & Gwen Verdon says:

Michael Honey,

SCREW NEW YORK MAGAZINE! - They have NO talent or class. We ladies know first hand.

Michael Musto's talent rocks the Village Voice with true class!

Toodles,

Miss Mitzi Gaynor, Norma Desmond, & Gwen Verdon

Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 11:14AM
GiorgioNYC says:

Scruffy,
I have to admit I do remember the East Village Other, and very fondly. I started reading it when I was 12 and about a year later my parents found my back issues. After that I kept buying it but never brought it home again.I wish I had kept a few of the old issues. Would love to check them out now. But as I remember (vaguely) it was really outrageous, full of sex, drugs, rock n' roll and radical politics. There's nothing like it today. But back then there was real rebellious pop culture (and politics)to write about, not like the so-called "edgy" corporate pap today.

New York magazine? Please. It's glossy bullshit for yuppies.

Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 12:02PM
F. Packer says:

One thing we know is not in your closet is YOU.

Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 1:13PM
geo says:

All the good stuff goes to the bottom boy these days. Maybe you should switch over M.

Posted On: Saturday, Dec. 20 2008 @ 10:27PM
scruffy says:

Thanks GiorgioNYC. Just about the only solace for me having 70 yrs is that I was around for the Sixties. I hate it when old guys pine for the good ole days but that was a special time in the life. Living on the Lower East Side meant seeing Allen Ginsburg doing his shopping, Charles Mingus on his bike, concerts by The Fugs and Sun Ra in Tompkin Square, Abbie Hoffman and the Diggers Free store. We suddenly discovered that Jazz musicians wern't the only ones smoking dope. For a moment there was the feeling that the world was going to become enlightened and the freaks were not us but the uptights. What happened? IMHO people got scared by the prospect of real Freedom. They opted for Nixon and repression. They blew it.

Posted On: Sunday, Dec. 21 2008 @ 4:10AM
The Late Tallulah Bankhead says:


I agree with Scruffy. Only people "opted" for that paranoid, ugly, oily freak Richard Nixon because the conservatives were pulling the scare tactics ("Be afraid, be very afraid") even then that they have used, effectively, ever since: Be afraid of terrorists, Muslims, gay marriage, the homosexual agenda -- whatever the fuck THAT is -- drugs, sex, rock-and-roll, civil rights, civil unions, civility, and everything else in between. The world could have become enlightened, but everyone panicked.

Posted On: Sunday, Dec. 21 2008 @ 10:19AM
Thelma Adams says:

They're cads, darling. They should be treating you like the goddess you are!

Posted On: Sunday, Dec. 21 2008 @ 12:55PM
nostradavid says:

Don't let that mean editor tease you -ask for cash in advance for any submission. You're worth it!

Posted On: Monday, Dec. 22 2008 @ 3:10AM
Jonster says:

Uh, I'm sor-ry but you like totally revitalized their image with your Marilyn pictorial. It was genius and one of the funniest things they've done all year. We laughed and laughed. Fuck 'em.

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They asked for my input on the best NYC parties in the last 40 years. I gave it, saying they'd have to give me attribution. They didn't run it.

Posted On: Wednesday, Nov. 18 2009 @ 2:47AM
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Yap They asked for my input on the best NYC parties in the last 40 years. I gave it, saying they'd have to give me attribution. They didn't run it.

Posted On: Tuesday, Jan. 5 2010 @ 5:09PM
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