Stephen Mejias

At the show, there were&#151no kidding(!)&#151<i>five</i> people who came over and complimented me on this here blog. I was flattered. One was <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/101805asynth/">Josh Gladstone</a> who said he was surprised to learn that he was the first to buy Todd’s At Work CD. And, patting his pant pocket, he added: “I’ve already got it in my <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/mediaservers/934/index.html">iPod</a&gt;.” Another was Mike C., of <a href="http://www.hobokenrockcity.com/">Hoboken Rock City</a>, who keeps a blog of his own and frequently sends out fun <a href="http://www.hobokenrockcity.com/playlists.asp">podcasts</a&gt;.

<a href="http://www.ericswanson.com/">Eric Swanson</a>, the man who makes our covers look so awesome, is visiting from Santa Fe, New Mexico. He’s in NYC to attend the <a href="http://www.photoplusexpo.com">PhotoPlus Expo</a> at the Javits Center, but was able to drop by our office today and treat me to lunch. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Eric for about four years, but had never met him in person. We’d only communicated via e-mail and over the phone. I always thought, by the sound of his voice, that he’d be a kind and thoughtful person. I was right.

“Are these things on?”

Hi Mr. Andrews. You left <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/101405nosweeping/">this comment</a>:<br>

I stood in my kitchen, looking around, dumbly: “What am I forgetting?”

On Tuesday, September 20th (four days after my 28th birthday), Wes Phillips sent me an e-mail:

We spent the day proofing copy for the December issue, which ships tomorrow and Friday (and maybe a little on Monday, if we're not good). Despite how simple that may seem, it's not exactly easy to just read and read and read, drawing red circles around silly apostrophes and bad italics.