« Wooster collective! | Main | Common Content » Rag Mama Rag!Ragstaffers from Austin's late, great first "underground" or alternative newspaper, The Rag, will have a reunion September 3-4, including an art show and a "Rag Mama Rag" concert. (Rag Mama Rag , a song from The Band's second album, was adopted by Rag vendors on the drag, who would probably be controversial if not imprisonedif they reappeared today – quoting without a license.) I wrote a few record reviews for the Rag and went to the meetings, which I recall were in the basement of the University YMCA, which was where the Scientology building now sents, if I remember correctly (this was the hazy past). Everybody who showed up voted on each piece submitted for the week's issue. At the time I t hought I was destined to be a rock critic, so I wrote record reviews, but when my review of the Dylan bootleg known as the Great White Wonder was voted down for length, I lost interest (and later changed majors from Journalism to English after a particularly intense short story course... though I still assumed I would write about media someday...actually a longer story connected to my high school and college newspaper columns under the header "Media Man,") Heh... I'm lapsing into reverie here... but I plan to attend the Rag Reunion, and if you want a taste of the rag, several issues are posted online, along with some photos. There's also a piece about the reunion in the Austin Chronicle. jon posted this at 7:57 AM |
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