If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about that “carnival” you started in an empty old warehouse; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you pissed somebody off, and you better figure out how to fix things, quick.
We apply those same tenets here, every week.
CHEERS to the Los Angeles Times for their piece on what …

If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about all that priceless art you stole and ate; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you pissed somebody off, and you better figure out how to fix things, quick.
We apply those same tenets here, every week.
CHEERS to CNN for responding to concerns that a poll on their web-page, asking if gay …

If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about the rhinos who escaped from your basement; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you …

If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about your belief that you’re the white reincarnation of Martin Luther King Jr.; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you …

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If you ever get an e-mail from a journalist, there’s one portion of it you should pay attention to more than any other. No, it’s not the part where they’re asking you about your dead-people voter registration drive; it’s the sign-off.
If it’s “Cheers,” you’re cool. You did OK. If it’s “Regards,” you …

In recent weeks, I have become quite fond of comedian Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast, which is essentially a show in which comedians talk about comedy, their hang-ups, doing stand-up, the somewhat insular community of comedians and whatever else they want to crack jokes about.
I’ve always been fascinated by stand-up comedy, and I even tried amateur stand-up myself for a short period in my late teens. My record was two successes and one terrible bomb, which was so devastating that I basically swore the enterprise off. That is, until I started …