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an interview. Salamon might be a target in the future.
You should, because Jeff's an interesting guy.
And one of these days we'll do the all-Jewish issue.
I've noticed your affection for Jews.
Well, Jennifer is Jewish and she wanted to do a section in this one but we
couldn't get it together in time. We'd have to have the Jewish sports section,
Jewish rock bands. Well, this is the point in our interviews where we like to have
everyone run down our lsit of writers and comment on them, but I didn't prepare
my list this time because I didn't know if - not being a practicing rock critic -
you'd have the same view.
Oh, I know the rock critics.
Well, we've go Raoul. What's your opinion of him as a writer?
Raoul is a man of genuine integrity. I respect that. He's very serious-minded,
he's professional. At times I wish he would loosen up a little bit. If you're going
to be a rock critic, you should have fun with it, too, and I don't have the sense
that he's having as much fun with it as he should. On the other hand, it's a little
bit like asking a horse to be a giraffe. He's good at being a horse.
Chris Gray.
Chris has a lot more fun, obviously. I'd like to see Chris have a wider audience. I
think that he - early on, he was geeky that I had of course a great degree of
affection for his geekiness and at the same time because I recognized so much of
myself in him, and also said, "He'll grow out of it." He's grown out of it and
he's become a much better writer and I'd like to think that Chris could have a
bigger audience. He's got good insights and he works hard. And like I said, I
identified with Chris the first time I saw Chris because he was paying a lot of
attention, and standing in a corner kind of quietly, but paying a lot of attention.
Greg Beets, who's spoadic at the Chronicle -
And Greg is terrific writer and he's a really grat humor writer. He's really
great at being funny. But writing for him is just one of those things that he does.
It's just a creative outlet, i think that if 's what he decided he wanted to do all
of the things that he does.
Ken Lieck.
Ken's kind of really impossible for me to comment on in any objective way
because Ken's been my friend for so long. Ken at his best is really really funny
and he does this job that is a hard thing to do and it's sure hard to do week after
week after week. Yet he manages to do it most of the time with at least several
good pieces of news and a couple of good jokes and at times, it's better than
that. But Ken's the same way as my old friends who are in bands, Ken's com-
fortable. He might not like that thought, but the fact that Ken's voice is there all
the time, I like.
What's with the hair?
Oh, God. Ken's satorial sense is - has he never had anybody in his life teach
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