In the case of relating the sordid tale of Young Martin Cizmar™ and the Mysteriously Disappearing Blog Post Intemperately Attacking His Former Intern, we noted that the deleted post wasn’t even coming up on the Google cache.

After some furious programming/hacking/maneuvering and then a sheer accident, we found it.

It comes exactly as billed, complete with utter humorlessness and Jayson Blair reference.

Note that Ventre is all of 24, and that she wrote the piece saying she hadn’t yet given Pet Sounds the attention it deserved, and was thereupon listening to it.

She hadn’t pretended to have heard it, and she wasn’t caught out, so to speak, by Cizmar. She’s written the article, in public, about it.


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Rebuttal

Former New Times Music Intern Cops to Never Having Heard Pet Sounds on NPR Blog


By Martin Cizmar

Tue., Oct. 12 2010 @ 12:44PM

?Sarah Ventre seemed like a great intern.

She was hard-working, talented and friendly. Many of us at Phoenix New Times were quite fond of her. The team of bloggers that brings you Up On The Sun was all incredibly happy for Sarah when she was offered a coveted internship at NPR’s All Songs Considered. We were proud, even.

We were fooled.

Today, Sarah penned a blog post for NPR admitting that until very recently she’d never listened to The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds all the way through. That’s right, during the entire time she worked (note the past tense) at Phoenix New Times writing about music she’d never bothered to listen to the greatest album of all time. I am personally ashamed and would like to take this opportunity to publicly rebuke Sarah and distance myself and this blog from Sarah’s work.

As music editor, I must now apologize for having provided Sarah with this forum. She betrayed our trust and made fools of us all. That’s not an excuse, only a pathetic attempt at an apology.

I’m so sorry, readers.

I know you expect better from us and you’ll get it in the future. Up On The Sun’s staff realizes the importance and spectacularity (existent adjectives fail me) of Pet Sounds and I will personally see to it that everyone who writes for this blog in the future listens to it at least once, in my office while I witness it if need be. Know that I am myself a dedicated Beach Boys fan who has interviewed both Brian Wilson and Al Jardine within the last six months and recently used Pet Sounds in an only half-joking argument for Brian Wilson’s sainthood. I have the album cover hanging on the wall of my office. Sarah sat facing it many times; I can only imagine what was going through her head as she gazed at it blankly.

Please, readers, do not let Sarah’s shameful admission tar us all. To fans of Xtra Ticket, the Grateful Dead cover band Sarah famously lambasted, I offer a special apology. We’ll send out this semester’s intern, Lenni Rosenblum, who, incidentally, loves jam bands, to give the guys another listen.

Seriously, everyone, I’m ashamed and filled with sorrow.

I imagine I feel somewhat like Jayson Blair’s editor must have felt.

Except Jayson Blair had probably listened to Pet Sounds all the way through at least once.


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