Frank Kogan

As far as I know this piece (a long comment, really, that when excerpted became an "essay") is no longer up on the Voice site. I can't find it, anyway, and haven't been able to for years. If you can, let me know, and I'll have to apologize for what I'm about to say. But sometime after the New Times jerks took over the Voice (they took over in late 2005 but took a while to institute their cost-cutting and stunted taste, and certainly not all of them were jerks and maybe none were full-time jerks and they had their reasons and keeping magazines viable was getting harder, but...)... sometime after New Times took over the Voice, a lot* from the old Pazz & Jop sections disappeared from the Website; maybe this was stupidity, maybe it was malice, maybe it was incompetence, maybe there was some reason I don't know. Maybe someone just pushed the wrong button. Feels like vandalism to me.

*A couple years ago, with New Times long gone, the Voice re-upped Xgau's essay for P&J 2000. Don't know who's maintaining the Voice site now or how they get paid – if they get paid.