Sex & Money by Mark Dapin

Author:Mark Dapin
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781741151626
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
Published: 2010-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

EIGHT In which Anthony Mundine chases

Solomon Haumono who chases the Pleasure

Machine, Mimi Macpherson suffers back

problems and the Doner eats its own shit

Editing a magazine is a fantastic, frustrating, exhilarating, all-consuming, intoxicating, terrifying, fascinating, soul-destroying, addictive, magnificent waste of time. A morning lasts a minute; a week is over before you have had time to go out for lunch; a year telescopes into a month. You’re on a continual emotional bender, filling and draining yourself, congratulating and flagellating yourself, falling in and out of love.

The next day begins before the last one has ended, as you try to figure out what can be done tomorrow that was not done today, and if you will get to the printer on time even though the art department has twenty pages left to design, and one of the designers is sick, and the art director has to put together an urgent promo for the marketing department, and the advertising salespeople have lied about the number of pages they have sold, and suddenly you have to find a new story and pictures to fill the spread that was reserved for an imaginary motoring client. When you get into the office you can’t open the door because for the first time this month you have come in without your keys and for the first time this month security have come around and locked everything, and you log into a journalist’s PC and there are emails from the readers complaining that their last-month’s subscriber’s copy was squeezed through their letterbox a week after it reached their local newsagency, and your staff arrive, and security arrives, and your phone rings and it’s Trixie from a PR company wanting to know if you received the fax about the Big Day Out, and a sub-editor comes in and says she can’t take it anymore, you have to do something about the production editor, and it’s 9.50 am and the art director hands you a dozen proofs that have to be read before ten o’clock. You glance at them quickly, and the one page you didn’t look at on the screen – the only design you did not veto in the whole magazine – is horribly wrong, an abortion of your idea, and the headline is misspelled and the photo caption incorrectly identifies a good friend of the proprietor as a convicted sex murderer, and the fashion editor wants to talk about the clothes for next month, and you know you have to because she has to begin shooting tomorrow. But the phone rings and it’s Kylie from a PR company wanting to know if you received the fax about men’s face creams, and your boss comes in and folds his arms and legs and he wants a chat, because it is not deadline day for him, because he does not have any deadlines anymore, and he asks how was last night, and you struggle to remember, because it doesn’t feel like you have ever left the office, and the art

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