Monday, July 7, 2008
Inside CL Abbott and Costello on Creative Loafing
Posted by Ken Edelstein on Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:05 PM
I don't think Abbott and Costello were Creative Loafing employees back in the day. But at least they understood the confusion that our name can create:
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In my time here, CL's been mistaken for a bakers' magazine and furniture periodical. When I was a reporter, I had a hard time explaining the name to, say, serious business or political sources in New York or Washington; they'd start cracking up and wouldn't take me seriously. But Roger Brown, a former writer here who started the Blotter, used to tell the best story of anyone: He swears that a farmer he was interviewing heard the name and translated it in his mind to "the Casual Relaxer."
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