Young Martin Cizmar™ notices us!

PHXated has another life as a writer on various pop-culture issues.

Last Friday, I published a review of the new autobiography of Rolling Stone Keith Richards in the online magazine Slate.

I was grateful it got a little attention.

But readers here know can imagine there’s nothing better than catching the eye of New Times' Young Martin Cizmar™—and this we succeeded in doing the other day.

Indeed, Young Martin displayed a puckishness that we, frankly, didn’t think he had in him:

Our own Mr. Wyman […] recently wrote a book review for Slate, a well-respected online publication. In what can only be described as a brilliant bit of subversive humor, he wrote the piece in the voice of Mick Jagger, the band’s well-known singer. The man who is possibly Phoenix’s most cherished and respected blogger wrote an editor’s note at the top of the piece saying that the piece was pulled from a note delivered to him as a “UPS package containing a typed manuscript.”

Martin, displaying reporting chops he doesn’t always use, also digs up one of the few commenters in the world who didn’t like it!:

“I won’t quote the rest of the article, nor will I post a link to it, because it’s silly nonsense that reeks of a juvenile prank.