Now on Twitter: "Faux Mike Lacey"!

Lacey, top editor of New Times, investigative reporter extraordinaire and motherfucker about town (as the mug shot above attests), has an alter-ego on Twitter who attempts, with intermittent sucess, to capture his outsize personal in 140-character bursts.

Here are a few:

FauxMikeLacey: WHEN I SEE A BULLET WOUND I THINK PAY RAISE THAT’S HOW IT WORKS IN THIS COMPANY

FauxMikeLacey: GONNA TELL MY REPORTERS TO STOP DICKING AROUND WITH THE TWITTER IF NOBODY WILL ARREST THEM FOR IT THEN IT’S NOT JOURNALISM

FauxMikeLacey: HEY DOLL IS THAT A CACTUS BETWEEN MY THIGHS OR AM I JUST REAL HAPPY TO SEE YOU?

FauxMikeLacey: TWO MORE SHOTS THEN I’M GONNA RIP OFF @BOSSY_BRUGMANN’S DICK AND SERVE IT TO HIM ON A DUTCH CRUNCH ROLL

The first three are fairly self-explanatory; the last one is a reference to Bruce Brugmann, the owner of the Bay Guardian, a weekly that New Times' SF Weekly has been engaged in a death match with for some 15 years.

“Bossy_Brugmann” is a fake Twitter account that spoofs Brugmann similarly.

FauxMikeLacey can be read here.

(N.B.: PHXated worked for New Times in SF, many years ago.)

Gangplank continues to hate-blog, er, politely ask Martin Cizmar what in the heck he was talking about

More plaintive questions from a Gangplank member, after Young Martin Cizmar™ tweeted yesterday that the place was full of “hate bloggers"—and later expanded on the contention by explaining he was talking about people in "leadership positions.”

As PHXated explained at the time, we’ve had some passing experience with the group, a digital business incubator based in downtown Chandler, and have generally found the place to be a bit wholesome—anything but a nest of haters.

Various Gangplank members pressed Young Martin for details yesterday.

Below is an interesting exchange from last night.

For those not familiar with the arcana of Twitter nomenclature and orthography, the “@” name in bold is the person making the tweet; the “@” name that comes up in the tweet proper is a reference to other tweeters. When it’s at the beginning of the tweet, it generally means that the tweet is directed at that person.

For connoisseurs of Young Martin’s rhetorical dog-fighting, the following is pure catnip:

@willbradley @phxmusicdotcom I dont think you realize how many awesome people are “at” Gangplank and subsequently offended by your original tweet…

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley I would assume their first thought would be ‘well, he’s not talking about me, I’m an awesome person…’

@willbradley @PHXmusicdotcom really? Not “who is this guy and why is he talking smack about some of the coolest friends I know?”

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley I think the people I was talking about didn’t wonder too much about who I meant… I also don’t think you think I meant you.

@PHXmusicdotcom @PHXmusicdotcom I think you meant “everyone affiliated with @gangplank” when you said it. Either that, or: http://is.gd/fyTH

@willbradley @PHXmusicdotcom then you clarified that you meant leaders, which narrows it down to ~4 and is still vague and insulting to 100s of ppl.

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley Dude, I said “or is that just an image some members are cultivating?” in the first tweet.

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley I was hoping someone would tell me “no, what those people are up to is not what we’re about!” or maybe “Hellz yeah we are!”

@willbradley @PHXmusicdotcom dude if you hate @tdhurst just say so, no need to be all vague about it.

PHXated thinks that Bradley here has put his finger on something. Tyler Hurst, who tweets under the name tdhurst, is a frequent target of Cizmarian invective.

PHXated’s hunch is that Young Martin thinks Hurst has something to do with Gangplank, which he doesn’t.

@willbradley @PHXmusicdotcom I’m telling you now, I still have no idea which one of my friends (or me) you’re hating on, and I take offense.

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley If I wanted to say that I would have said that. I didn’t bc that’s not my point.

Here, however, Martin seems to be dismissing the Hurst theory, albeit in unconvincing fashion.

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley My question is whether people like that who are repping the group hardcore and inviting people to speak, are what it’s about?

Another interesting Cizmaranian undertone. PHXated, another perennial nettle in Young Martin’s journalistic sock, was recently “invited to speak” at Gangplank. Could it be that Martin, bedeviled by Hurst and PHXated, is conflating them, wholly unfairly, with Gangplank, and taking it out on the wholesome Chandlerites?

@willbradley @PHXmusicdotcom @gangplank is people going to a place and working on things together. That’s pretty much it. No hateblog required.

@PHXmusicdotcom @willbradley Well then that’s great. I’ve had some bad experiences with affiliates but keep hearing this positive stuff. So I wondered aloud

@willbradley @PHXmusicdotcom way to wonder aloud. Try hanging out at GP before you trash us. Or, after you trash us. Door’s always open.

Young Martin Cizmar™ slurs Gangplank, gets nose burned

The tweet this a.m. came out of nowhere:

@PHXMusicdotcom Is everyone affiliated with @gangplank a creepy hateblogger or is that just an image some members are cultivating?

@PHXMusicdotcom is the nom de tweet of PHXated covergirl Young Martin Cizmar™, whose every deed we find interesting.

Gangplank is an digital business incubator. It’s based in downtown Chandler.

To say that the people who work there or who are putting together business startups at the space are “creepy hatebloggers is … odd.

PHXated has been down there two or three times and found everyone casually supportive and upbeat. (PHXated was even invited to speak recently, and had a great and interactive time discussing the growing influence of Scruffy McPoochie at the Arizona Republic and the future of online journalism, among other things.)

Anyway, it’s kind of—what’s the word—oh yeah, insane to use a phrase like “creepy hatebloggers” in association with this unfailingly positive and wholesome outfit.

As might be expected, Gangplank members responded with… well, restraint:

@hepnova: @PHXmusicdotcom : I think I speak for the majority of @Gangplank associates when I say that hate blogging has zero to do with the GP ethos.

@BrandonFranklin @PHXmusicdotcom I don’t know why you’d even think that. @dneighbors is far from a “hate blogger”, as am I.

@BrandonFraklin @PHXmusicdotcom and neither is @GRTaylor2 , nor a large slew of other @Gangplank -affiliated folks.

@Conrey @PHXmusicdotcom human nature to guess the ideals of a large community based off of one or two people? Also who hateblogs from GP?

@Conrey followed up this display of hate-blogging with the following intemperate tweet to Cizmar:

@PHXmusicdotcom also if you’d rather discuss not in public – feel free to email me directly

… and pressed the point home with this jeremiad:

@Conrey @PHXmusicdotcom I haven’t seen where you share your experiences is the thing. As someone passionate about GP-I’d like to effort to resolve

Of course, to silence those questioners, all Martin had to do was cite just one or two instances of Gangplank-affiliated “hate-blogging.”

This he did not do. Instead, incredibly, he pressed his point:

@PHXmusicdotcom Well @GRTaylor2 is certainly a good guy… Maybe you, @BrandonFranklin, and @dneighbors are too. Hate to judge based on a few folks, but…

And then followed that up with:

@PHXmusicdotcom @BrandonFranklin also let me say I am talking about people with leadership positions, not just randoms

Notice that Our Martin has as yet not substantiated his claim of “hate bloggers” bivouacked at Gangplank, but has widened his initial claim to include people in “leadership positions.”

What we like about Martin are these qualities: He’s got thin skin and a glass jaw, and he keeps coming back for more.

We nodded in familiarity at Martin’s next tweet:

@PHXmusicdotcom @conrey I’m done discussing.

It is a sentiment he has expressed to use at PHXated as well, and has always been, as here, merely a preamble to more discussing:

@PHXmusicdotcom @conrey I shared my experience. I’m content to believe it’s just a few bad apples and try to reserve judgement. Hope others do as well.

(Note he has still not revealed who the “bad apples” are.)

A few minutes later, he begins to beat a retreat:

@PHXmusicdotcom @jamesarcher I asked a question – a loaded one, but a question – I got an answer & will refrain from judging the org based on my experience

(You’ll remember Martin’s original question wasn’t so much loaded as rhetorical: “Is everyone affiliated with @gangplank a creepy hateblogger or is that just an image some members are cultivating?”)

By mid-afternoon his tweets tapered off, after claiming he’d sent explanatory emails to the parties involved. PHXated will share his explanation if he gets one.

"Family news," Arizona style

Here’s some recent local family news, courtesy of Channel 3’s “AZ Family” Twitter feed in the last 24 hours:

azfamily Phoenix police investigating discovery of body in neighborhood of 71st Avenue and Osborn Road. More on http://www.azfamily.com

azfamily Search on for missing 11-year-old El Mirage girl – http://az3.tv/dwEwez

azfamily Tempe police looking into missing Arizona State student – http://bit.ly/9JQTsU

azfamily 2 brothers arrested after police officers assaulted in Scottsdale – http://az3.tv/aY9uNi

azfamily Mesa mom leaves kids in car while she goes into bar – http://bit.ly/ai9sD9

azfamily Police: Phoenix man shoots, kills neighbor in garage – http://az3.tv/cTgOy4

azfamily Candle possibly to blame for first-alarm house fire in Anthem – http://az3.tv/dw7nCc