Comments on: Return?

By: Steve Swartz

Steve Swartz — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:07:38 +0000

Rooting for you from the other coast, Tim!

By: Andrew Patner

Andrew Patner — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:43:21 +0000

Pulling for you with brain waves from Chicago, Tim!

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:00:12 +0000

It would be nice to see the Register become a serious paper, rather than the joke it is now. Good luck, Tim, I hope they put you back on your beat.

By: kitsunebi

kitsunebi — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:10:11 +0000

Here’s another vote in favor of convincing the new management to see the light, right a wrong, and show the world that the OCR is a serious paper in an important market …

By: tmangan

tmangan — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:41:21 +0000

Thanks to all of you for your kind words and support, as always. My mother always told me, “Be careful what you wish for.” I’m not holding my breath about this, nor am I overly hopeful. I do think it would be for the best. I can’t do it without the full support of my employer and colleagues at the paper, however. They have to convinced that me being their music critic is for the best. They have to want it.

By: MarK

MarK — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:44:51 +0000

Allow me please to join your other loyal readers and fans to wish the best for you and to express my personal hope that what happens is exactly what you would like to happen. And that is not because we “need another music critic to go with” others but because you are better than most of them, in some cases much better. You are a real deal and it’s a real shame to waste such talent by exploiting it for anything other than the full-time classical music criticism.

By: Lisa Hirsch

Lisa Hirsch — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:24:10 +0000

Best of luck from here, too. California needs a third full-time classical music critic (again) to go with Mark Swed and Joshua Kosman.

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:22:44 +0000

I’d love to have you back full-time as a music critic, Tim! But at this point in time, I guess we should be grateful to have you part-time, there are so few of you left in the country. Newspaper owners and editors don’t realize that for some of us, reading about the arts and arts reviews are one of the main reasons we still subscribe to the paper.

By: CK Dexter Haven

CK Dexter Haven — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:45:46 +0000

Thoughts, prayers, and best of luck, good sir.

As much as I can appreciate your amusingly caustic take on the celebrity scene, The OC — and, really, the entire California music scene — would be much better off if you could be a full-time music critic again.

Let’s hope the new management sees the light.