It’s sort of old news by now that Blender magazine shut its doors earlier this week; its April 2009 issue being the very last to see print. I just went through this very same situation with Metal Edge closing-up shop – and god knows I’ve seen it happen with every other print outlet and paying website I’ve ever written for in the past ten years save for Modern Drummer – so I have a moderate degree of empathy for the writing staff and freelancers who will now have to scramble even harder for work in a field that thinks it shouldn’t have to pay writers. But not many tears will be shed for the management of Blender, because they never let me write for them anyway. Goodbye, Blender magazine, I won’t miss you.
Honestly, I’m not that sad about it either. It was never my idea of a good time on Saturday night. 🙂
I’ll miss it, my mom got me a subscription to it. While it wasn’t my favorite mag I ‘m just sorry to see any of them bite the dust.
Damn! Now we’ll NEVER get that Laurie Partridge cover story we’ve been waiting for.