My name is Ken Gordon, and I’m a Boston-based freelancer. I’ve written for Boston Magazine, The Forward, Salon, Tikkun, and a whole slew of other pubs, and I have no ideas–not a single freakin’ one–for The Rake.
So why am I writing? Well, I had to. Between your witty editorial guidelines, Steve Perry’s column on Lisa Beamer, and Nathan Rabin walking out of the David Copperfield show, I think you guys are onto something. So much so that I spent a good 10 minutes thinking, “What the hell do I know about Minnesota? Um, Garrison Keillor? Prince? Ice fishing?” In the end, all my “ideas” sounded pretty damned unpublishable. And unless you want, say, “A Northeasterner’s Media-Fed Perception of Minnesota,” I thought it would be best for me to toss my pitches in a different direction.
Guess I just wanted to say that I admire you for launching a new publication in our Godzilla-eats-dog economy. I hope The Rake rakes it in–and that, a year from now, you won’t be writing to editors: “My name is Tom Bartel, and I’m a Minnesota-based freelancer.”
Best of luck.
Ken Gordon
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