Politics, Politics, Politics and Party Tips courtesy of Alex and Adrew W.K.

Politics. John Stewart makes fun of it very well and so does Stephen Colbert. Lou Dobbs lost his job to media politics and here I am discussing the politics of having a meeting with El Camino Public Relations person, Ann Garten (and shortly by the party tips of one Andrew W.K).

The entire semester this I have been hounded, hunted, and wanted to be spoken to by this lady and it finally happened... luckily for me I had my "ready for a meeting button-up" when the time arose. Production day makes for a great day to discuss future issues and business pertaining to the media.

Garten believes to help enable our writers to get better interviews with the right people that we should "filter" between her to set-up meetings and such like they do in the "outer" media sources. She would basically be what Robert Duvall was in the Godfather Part II, or something like that, basically just make sure meetings happen when they are suppose to. She's a smart woman, her rhetoric make sense because if writers need to see the right person, Garten is the person to point us in the right direction so, so far I liked what I was hearing.

I loved the feeling that I was playing politician: we talked, laughed, voiced concerns and we walked out in smile and giggles, it seems even in the middle we have to be politicians sometimes. Kate asked me after the meeting that I seemed so well liked by them and by everyone if I ever feel the pressure to have to be well liked: well to answer that I relate that to Alex introdcuing me to Andrew W.K.'s party tips of the day

Past formalities and politics, Alex Curran, news editor, decided that we needed a party tip from funny man and musician Andrew W.K, unfortuantly Mr. W.K. had no party tip of the day so I leave you with todays tip:

"PARTY TIP: Don't ever worry about being yourself. You can't NOT be yourself. You're always you, no matter what! SO JUST PARTY!"-

I like to think that is what I do already, not NOT be myself because I am just me, Miles the EIC.

He's Just Not That Into Halloween?

Michael Jackson's "This Is It"made $20 million and that is not the scary part, other than the loads of kids out trick or treating and young woman living up to the adage "less is more," I spent my Halloween night hanging out with my news editor Maria and my Features editor Danielle. Other than that my staff gets to celebrate a week off from production before entering our final two weeks of of production.

But back to Halloween. We had all an entire Opinion page dedicated to halloween and if it has become an adult holiday. So just because a girl dresses up in her skimpiest cop outfit or sexy nurse outfit doesn't make it an adult holiday? Ok so it does. As you get older the holiday changes. It goes from wanting candy to wanting eye candy.

So maybe we should consider that Halloween is the one Holiday that adults can let their inner child come out, just replace the candy with booze and its the same type of holiday.