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Get Macromedia Flash. If you have Flash installed click to view gallery . Image of Click for more Blackwater s foot vessel MacArthur underway. The ship is based in Norfolk with a person crew and is ready to deploy with small rigid hull boats and helicopters to provide escort. Blackwater photo Questions or comments about this ad Please click here By Louis Hansen The Virginian Pilot October VIRGINIA BEACH Blackbeard meet Blackwater. Worldwide. The Moyock N.C. company has a ship in Hampton Roads ready to begin patrolling the Gulf of Aden to protect merchant vessels against pirates. The company has spoken to about shipping firms but as yet has no takers said Bill Mathews Blackwater Worldwide executive vice president. There s definitely a need and a desire Mathews said during a tour of the foot vessel named McArthur on Friday. It s moored at a commercial pier at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base. Somali pirates in late September seized a Ukrainian ship loaded with military vehicles in the Gulf of Aden and still hold the ship while demanding a multimillion dollar ransom. The standoff is being monitored by the U.S. Navy. In the first half of this year pirates launched two dozen attacks off the Somali coast including in the Gulf of Aden Said the International Maritime Bureau. At least eight vessels reported attacks by grenade launchers and automatic weapons the organization said. The ton McArthur was built about years ago for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a research vessel. The ship spent much of its government career in the Arctic and other far flung seas said Blackwater s Tom Ridenour the ship s captain. The ship is named for William Pope McArthur a th century naval officer and Coast Survey hydrographer. Blackwater bought the vessel about two years ago and repaired and upgraded the craft in a Seattle shipyard. Mathews declined to reveal the purchase price but said the overhauled ship has a value of at least million. It went into commercial use last September said spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell. The company has contracts with the Coast Guard and Navy among others to train service members on maritime security operations Mathews said. A typical training mission could have the McArthur acting as a target vessel that U.S. forces need to board in open waters. The ship has several upgrades including a helicopter pad and storage shed capable of keeping two small MD aircraft. It can carry passengers including crew. For anti piracy operations the sailor crew would be supplemented with Blackwater security guards four rigid hull inflatable boats and helicopters Mathews said. Security teams could follow a merchant vessel by air and land. Mathews said the crew and guards are qualified to provide maritime security noting that the security teams would consist of former Navy SEALs. The force is highly trained in handling vehicle boardings and anti terrorism missions. The ship could be overseas within days pending approval from the State Department and roughly a month long transit across the Atlantic. The use of private companies to protect merchant ships has a long history said Claude Berube a former congressional staffer and professor who has written on the topic. The East India Co. employed private convoys about a century ago along the coast of Africa he said. Even today the area remains at risk. As piracy threats have grown near the Horn of Africa insurance premiums on ships have risen ten fold Berube said. The U.S. Navy and its allies cannot cover all the seas and a private force could help fill the security gap he said. It would be feasible he said. I think we have to be open to all options. Louis Hansen louis.hansenpilotonline.com Login or register to post comments Stopped by legalities Submitted by markk on Sun at pm. The U.S. Navy and those of other nations are limited by legalities. Pirates from the South China Sea and the waters off Indonesia to the Horn of Africa Somalia are using the sovereign rights of territorial waters to hide their illegal activities. They can and do pop in and out as they please to attack ships and our forces can t pursue them. This law of the sea and territorial sovereignty is WRONG. If a government will not do anything about the problem of piracy in their waters other governments should be able to. Organizations such as Blackwater could skirt this law just as easily as the pirates do and go after them. THAT is why Blackwater is needed in this case. report violation Perfect Submitted by runmatt on Sun at am. No these guys have a perfect record of protecting people and doing a job flawlessly. If they can protect ships half as well as they protect State Dept. officials they would be a fantastic solution. The situation in the waters off the coast of Somalia has become ridiculous with the pirates becoming more and more successful at capturing ships. report violation Use the money for our military they will do the job right. Submitted by Kira on Sat at pm. I don t know about this. These guys have a history of shoot first ask questions later . If they make a mistake or error in judgment they could cause an international crisis for the United States. The last thing we need is that. This is something our military should be doing. These people make money off conflict they have no incentive for peace. Use the money for our military they will do the job right. report violation D Doc Submitted by Craig Paskewic on Sat at pm. Stop it. We both know many in Congress have a working knowledge in the Constitution. If more did we woudln t have many of the problems we now are facing as a country. report violation Blackwater. Submitted by sw on Sat at pm. The Right People with the Right Stuff that are Right for the Job Blackwater the non PC cure report violation Where Do I Sign Up Submitted by dr on Sat at pm. Great job for a former sailor. report violation That is great news Submitted by Carolyn R on Sat at pm. Leave it to Blackwater to venture out into protecting the good people from the bad guys once again. Maybe this time they will be allowed to accomplish their good works. Now you guys at Blackwater can t you get involved on the USA s border problem Thank you for all you do. report violation Government sanctioned pirates Submitted by richardm on Sat at am. Seems to me that the government of Somalia should be held accountable for the actions of vessels and personell in the waters that it governs. You can bet that if our country had a bunch of pirates working off our coast the whole world would be after our necks. Cut off any and all monitary aide to this country if nothing else. How else can we afford to pay for irresponsible mortgage owners that are going to get a free ride. report violation Use the money for our military they will do the job right. Submitted by Kira on Sat at am. I don t know about this. These guys have a history of shoot first ask questions later . If they make a mistake or error in judgment they could cause an international crisis for the United States. The last thing we need is that. This is something our military should be doing. These people make money off conflict they have no incentive for peace. Use the money for our military they will do the job right. report violation everyone has a tool box Submitted by norml on Sat at am. The leadership courses I ve taken over the past years always emphasized the importance of using all of the available tools in your tool box whenever there was a task to be completed. Where one tool may not work there is always another tool better suited to the job. Unfortunately every tool box also contains some pristine tools that are never used and are eventually forgotten or discarded. In some cases it s because the owner is afraid to sully their hands. Blackwater with its various divisions and abilities provides an excellent set of multi purpose tools that have been made available to the US and friendly governments. Some of the tools have been well used but others languish. This maritime ability of Blackwater seems to be the right tool at the appropriate time so why won t the Government use it What a waste. report violation Again with the killing . Submitted by VaChef on Sat at am. Why is it America s solution to everything is kill those in our way I m perplexed that would be a Doctor s solution. Maybe we need to work on why there are pirates poverty starvation etc . how many mouths could have been fed with the money that Blackwater spent on their new toy Blackwater is nothing but boys that like to play GIJoe and never grew up like most us. Thanks for reminding me why I m voting for Obama. report violation I am always surprised Submitted by CaraT on Sat at am. by the criticism of Blackwater. It seems to me that it is a group made up of ex elite military men trained by our government to do what they do. Are there bad apples amongst them I am sure there are. Do they sometimes do the wrong thing probably. But it seems they are also pretty good at what they do overall and I think this might be a good idea. Fight terrorism with strength where ever it comes from. report violation Letter of Marque and Reprisal Submitted by Wm D Tabor DDS on Sat at am. As authorized by the Constitution Congress should grant Blackwater a Letter of Marque and Reprisal against the Somali pirates and pay an appropriate bounty for their destruction. The war on terror could certainly benefit from the efficiencies of the private sector. Aarrrrr. report violation A good job for Blackwater Submitted by markk on Sat at am. About time SOMEONE actually did SOMETHING about the piracy problem. It seems a week doesn t go by without another report of another ship being seized by Somalia based pirates. Maybe Blackwater could stage commando type raids to recover some of the captured ships too. No government seems to have enough guts to do it. report violation More Stories Like This Oak Hill returns after service in Persian Gulf Mediterranean It s OK to be politically blue military wives say Va. 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By Mindy Farabee Los Angeles Times Staff Writer October The Thing is not your garden variety periodical. Putting a spin on the idea of text messaging the Thing is by turns a window shade a baseball cap a set of coasters and a hunk of rubber. That last issue puts the lie to those glossy fall fashion magazines that could double as doorstops. It is a doorstop. Bay Area co editors Will Rogan and Jonn Herschend a pair of established visual artists have concocted nothing less than an honest to goodness quarterly magazine albeit an unorthodox one with the mission of marrying text to household objects. It s about giving words a different vehicle Rogan said. Like all magazine subscribers the constituency for the Thing never knows the exact contents of a given issue until it arrives. Unlike most readers might come to find a window treatment silk screened with a rueful line written by filmmaker author Miranda July . The issue by July the coasters by Tucker Nichols the baseball cap by the German born artist Kota Ezawa and the doorstop by artist Anne Walsh have already shipped. In coming months the editors say critically acclaimed novelist Jonathan Lethem will chime in with a Thing directly playing off his upcoming novel. In a really nerdy way that s so magical Rogan said. We were giddy. The Thing was conceived by the pair a couple of years ago when Herschend and Rogan were studying for MFAs at UC Berkeley. They kicked around several ideas for a magazine and soon realized they are both suckers for the anachronistically tactile. We re both fans of McSweeney s Herschend said referencing the literary pranksters who disguised a recent issue of their journal as junk mail. Likewise they say the Thing owes a debt to Aspen the fanciful mid s publication in a box that incorporated flexi discs occasional movie reels posters fliers and flip books. We both appreciate old artist ephemera and the way it accumulates history said Rogan a former librarian. I love the physicality of words in print. That physicality extends to the shipping process. This summer for the fourth time in the journal s inaugural year and for the first time in Los Angeles the Thing hosted a wrapping party. Under a climate curdling heat wave some two dozen Angelenos fueled by cold pizza gratis beer and a rousing impromptu rendition of the Police s Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic toiled assembly line style in the Outpost for Contemporary Art s spartan Highland Park headquarters packaging Walsh s much delayed wildly out of order issue No. . It s like a barn raising said Herschend who hails from Missouri. It would be cheaper to pay a shipper to do everything or to do it ourselves. We want people s hands on it Rogan said. As Ezawa s crisp white baseball caps made their way out into the world as Issue No. a little pizza stain got recorded on one for posterity. Its recipient wasn t exactly amused but he was very cool about it Herschend said. As editors Hogan and Herschend let contributors dictate both what form their issue will take and its content whether the Thing is art or literature is a question the pair haven t entirely settled. It depends on when you ask Rogan said. Looking at each object individually some would be more literature and some would be more . . . object y. For Walsh her doorstop was definitely a creative writing exercise. She re created a thank you note that she sent to tennis legend Billie Jean King after her Battle of the Sexes triumph over Bobby Riggs with a little Wiki help incorporating facts and context as in My family and I watched you play on tv tonight. We saw you beat Bobby Riggs in sets. WOW. A lot of my students didn t know who Billie Jean King was said Walsh an associate professor of electronic media at UC Berkeley. A year into their venture the entrepreneurs have just more than subscribers subscriptions run a year . L.A. s Museum of Contemporary Art will begin stocking back issues in the museum s gift shop after issue No. comes out this month. It is perfect for the MOCA stores since we specialize in artist produced items and this is a real artwork that is highly collectible and unique said Grant Breding the museum s director of retail operations. Wiki help We have a lot of subscribers in the Midwest in small towns Herschend said. Well probably not a lot but enough that it s cool Rogan said. And when those subscribers write in the Thing serves its larger purpose of art as social lubricant. I love checking the e mail. Sometimes I have amazing conversations with people. Maybe someone doesn t understand and thinks it s a joke on them. That s a conversation I d never have otherwise with someone in Nebraska Herschend said. We take this really seriously. Sometimes I spend days thinking about how to write back. Big ambitions like connecting such far flung dots is one of the reasons Rogan and Herschend s only dictate for the Thing is that it takes the form of household artifacts. It was key they say that their art be not only affordable but also well useful. With the doorstop they joke that they ve created the world s first truly functional metaphor. Billie Jean King opened the door and held it open for other women Walsh said. The first thing we thought of is We want people to live with this stuff in a practical way Rogan said. We want to collapse the distance between the artists and the subscribers between art and life. Whatever else the Thing is it s more art than business. The Thing came modestly into being after San Francisco gallery Southern Exposure provided the pair with a start up space and some funds. 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Get Macromedia Flash. If you have Flash installed click to view gallery . Image of Click for more Blackwater s foot vessel MacArthur underway. The ship is based in Norfolk with a person crew and is ready to deploy with small rigid hull boats and helicopters to provide escort. Blackwater photo Questions or comments about this ad Please click here By Louis Hansen The Virginian Pilot October VIRGINIA BEACH Blackbeard meet Blackwater. Worldwide. The Moyock N.C. company has a ship in Hampton Roads ready to begin patrolling the Gulf of Aden to protect merchant vessels against pirates. The company has spoken to about shipping firms but as yet has no takers said Bill Mathews Blackwater Worldwide executive vice president. There s definitely a need and a desire Mathews said during a tour of the foot vessel named McArthur on Friday. It s moored at a commercial pier at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base. Somali pirates in late September seized a Ukrainian ship loaded with military vehicles in the Gulf of Aden and still hold the ship while demanding a multimillion dollar ransom. The standoff is being monitored by the U.S. Navy. In the first half of this year pirates launched two dozen attacks off the Somali coast including in the Gulf of Aden Said the International Maritime Bureau. At least eight vessels reported attacks by grenade launchers and automatic weapons the organization said. The ton McArthur was built about years ago for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a research vessel. The ship spent much of its government career in the Arctic and other far flung seas said Blackwater s Tom Ridenour the ship s captain. The ship is named for William Pope McArthur a th century naval officer and Coast Survey hydrographer. Blackwater bought the vessel about two years ago and repaired and upgraded the craft in a Seattle shipyard. Mathews declined to reveal the purchase price but said the overhauled ship has a value of at least million. It went into commercial use last September said spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell. The company has contracts with the Coast Guard and Navy among others to train service members on maritime security operations Mathews said. A typical training mission could have the McArthur acting as a target vessel that U.S. forces need to board in open waters. The ship has several upgrades including a helicopter pad and storage shed capable of keeping two small MD aircraft. It can carry passengers including crew. For anti piracy operations the sailor crew would be supplemented with Blackwater security guards four rigid hull inflatable boats and helicopters Mathews said. Security teams could follow a merchant vessel by air and land. Mathews said the crew and guards are qualified to provide maritime security noting that the security teams would consist of former Navy SEALs. The force is highly trained in handling vehicle boardings and anti terrorism missions. The ship could be overseas within days pending approval from the State Department and roughly a month long transit across the Atlantic. The use of private companies to protect merchant ships has a long history said Claude Berube a former congressional staffer and professor who has written on the topic. The East India Co. employed private convoys about a century ago along the coast of Africa he said. Even today the area remains at risk. As piracy threats have grown near the Horn of Africa insurance premiums on ships have risen ten fold Berube said. The U.S. Navy and its allies cannot cover all the seas and a private force could help fill the security gap he said. It would be feasible he said. I think we have to be open to all options. Louis Hansen louis.hansenpilotonline.com Login or register to post comments Stopped by legalities Submitted by markk on Sun at pm. The U.S. Navy and those of other nations are limited by legalities. Pirates from the South China Sea and the waters off Indonesia to the Horn of Africa Somalia are using the sovereign rights of territorial waters to hide their illegal activities. They can and do pop in and out as they please to attack ships and our forces can t pursue them. This law of the sea and territorial sovereignty is WRONG. If a government will not do anything about the problem of piracy in their waters other governments should be able to. Organizations such as Blackwater could skirt this law just as easily as the pirates do and go after them. THAT is why Blackwater is needed in this case. report violation Perfect Submitted by runmatt on Sun at am. No these guys have a perfect record of protecting people and doing a job flawlessly. If they can protect ships half as well as they protect State Dept. officials they would be a fantastic solution. The situation in the waters off the coast of Somalia has become ridiculous with the pirates becoming more and more successful at capturing ships. report violation Use the money for our military they will do the job right. Submitted by Kira on Sat at pm. I don t know about this. These guys have a history of shoot first ask questions later . If they make a mistake or error in judgment they could cause an international crisis for the United States. The last thing we need is that. This is something our military should be doing. These people make money off conflict they have no incentive for peace. Use the money for our military they will do the job right. report violation D Doc Submitted by Craig Paskewic on Sat at pm. Stop it. We both know many in Congress have a working knowledge in the Constitution. If more did we woudln t have many of the problems we now are facing as a country. report violation Blackwater. Submitted by sw on Sat at pm. The Right People with the Right Stuff that are Right for the Job Blackwater the non PC cure report violation Where Do I Sign Up Submitted by dr on Sat at pm. Great job for a former sailor. report violation That is great news Submitted by Carolyn R on Sat at pm. Leave it to Blackwater to venture out into protecting the good people from the bad guys once again. Maybe this time they will be allowed to accomplish their good works. Now you guys at Blackwater can t you get involved on the USA s border problem Thank you for all you do. report violation Government sanctioned pirates Submitted by richardm on Sat at am. Seems to me that the government of Somalia should be held accountable for the actions of vessels and personell in the waters that it governs. You can bet that if our country had a bunch of pirates working off our coast the whole world would be after our necks. Cut off any and all monitary aide to this country if nothing else. How else can we afford to pay for irresponsible mortgage owners that are going to get a free ride. report violation Use the money for our military they will do the job right. Submitted by Kira on Sat at am. I don t know about this. These guys have a history of shoot first ask questions later . If they make a mistake or error in judgment they could cause an international crisis for the United States. The last thing we need is that. This is something our military should be doing. These people make money off conflict they have no incentive for peace. Use the money for our military they will do the job right. report violation everyone has a tool box Submitted by norml on Sat at am. The leadership courses I ve taken over the past years always emphasized the importance of using all of the available tools in your tool box whenever there was a task to be completed. Where one tool may not work there is always another tool better suited to the job. Unfortunately every tool box also contains some pristine tools that are never used and are eventually forgotten or discarded. In some cases it s because the owner is afraid to sully their hands. Blackwater with its various divisions and abilities provides an excellent set of multi purpose tools that have been made available to the US and friendly governments. Some of the tools have been well used but others languish. This maritime ability of Blackwater seems to be the right tool at the appropriate time so why won t the Government use it What a waste. report violation Again with the killing . Submitted by VaChef on Sat at am. Why is it America s solution to everything is kill those in our way I m perplexed that would be a Doctor s solution. Maybe we need to work on why there are pirates poverty starvation etc . how many mouths could have been fed with the money that Blackwater spent on their new toy Blackwater is nothing but boys that like to play GIJoe and never grew up like most us. Thanks for reminding me why I m voting for Obama. report violation I am always surprised Submitted by CaraT on Sat at am. by the criticism of Blackwater. It seems to me that it is a group made up of ex elite military men trained by our government to do what they do. Are there bad apples amongst them I am sure there are. Do they sometimes do the wrong thing probably. But it seems they are also pretty good at what they do overall and I think this might be a good idea. Fight terrorism with strength where ever it comes from. report violation Letter of Marque and Reprisal Submitted by Wm D Tabor DDS on Sat at am. As authorized by the Constitution Congress should grant Blackwater a Letter of Marque and Reprisal against the Somali pirates and pay an appropriate bounty for their destruction. The war on terror could certainly benefit from the efficiencies of the private sector. Aarrrrr. report violation A good job for Blackwater Submitted by markk on Sat at am. About time SOMEONE actually did SOMETHING about the piracy problem. It seems a week doesn t go by without another report of another ship being seized by Somalia based pirates. Maybe Blackwater could stage commando type raids to recover some of the captured ships too. No government seems to have enough guts to do it. report violation More Stories Like This Oak Hill returns after service in Persian Gulf Mediterranean It s OK to be politically blue military wives say Va. Army and Air National Guard headquarters to consolidate McCoy and Pitt prove too much for Navy s Midshipmen More articles from Military Toolbox Print Email Save Share Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook Google Yahoo Video Great Chesapeake Schooner Race arrives in Portsmouth Live Surgery Webcast Breast Cancer Surgery Homearama wedding Kellam golf team shooting for first state title Look Alive Project brings art and music together A bunch of fly ash covers Indiana town Do a workout from behind the wheel Great Bridge turns to Little sister to fill role of injured setter Big Issue Opting Out of Health Care AP Top Stories Biden Defends Obama Tax cut Plan in Wash. 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By Mindy Farabee Los Angeles Times Staff Writer October The Thing is not your garden variety periodical. Putting a spin on the idea of text messaging the Thing is by turns a window shade a baseball cap a set of coasters and a hunk of rubber. That last issue puts the lie to those glossy fall fashion magazines that could double as doorstops. It is a doorstop. Bay Area co editors Will Rogan and Jonn Herschend a pair of established visual artists have concocted nothing less than an honest to goodness quarterly magazine albeit an unorthodox one with the mission of marrying text to household objects. It s about giving words a different vehicle Rogan said. Like all magazine subscribers the constituency for the Thing never knows the exact contents of a given issue until it arrives. Unlike most readers might come to find a window treatment silk screened with a rueful line written by filmmaker author Miranda July . The issue by July the coasters by Tucker Nichols the baseball cap by the German born artist Kota Ezawa and the doorstop by artist Anne Walsh have already shipped. In coming months the editors say critically acclaimed novelist Jonathan Lethem will chime in with a Thing directly playing off his upcoming novel. In a really nerdy way that s so magical Rogan said. We were giddy. The Thing was conceived by the pair a couple of years ago when Herschend and Rogan were studying for MFAs at UC Berkeley. They kicked around several ideas for a magazine and soon realized they are both suckers for the anachronistically tactile. We re both fans of McSweeney s Herschend said referencing the literary pranksters who disguised a recent issue of their journal as junk mail. Likewise they say the Thing owes a debt to Aspen the fanciful mid s publication in a box that incorporated flexi discs occasional movie reels posters fliers and flip books. We both appreciate old artist ephemera and the way it accumulates history said Rogan a former librarian. I love the physicality of words in print. That physicality extends to the shipping process. This summer for the fourth time in the journal s inaugural year and for the first time in Los Angeles the Thing hosted a wrapping party. Under a climate curdling heat wave some two dozen Angelenos fueled by cold pizza gratis beer and a rousing impromptu rendition of the Police s Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic toiled assembly line style in the Outpost for Contemporary Art s spartan Highland Park headquarters packaging Walsh s much delayed wildly out of order issue No. . It s like a barn raising said Herschend who hails from Missouri. It would be cheaper to pay a shipper to do everything or to do it ourselves. We want people s hands on it Rogan said. As Ezawa s crisp white baseball caps made their way out into the world as Issue No. a little pizza stain got recorded on one for posterity. Its recipient wasn t exactly amused but he was very cool about it Herschend said. As editors Hogan and Herschend let contributors dictate both what form their issue will take and its content whether the Thing is art or literature is a question the pair haven t entirely settled. It depends on when you ask Rogan said. Looking at each object individually some would be more literature and some would be more . . . object y. For Walsh her doorstop was definitely a creative writing exercise. She re created a thank you note that she sent to tennis legend Billie Jean King after her Battle of the Sexes triumph over Bobby Riggs with a little Wiki help incorporating facts and context as in My family and I watched you play on tv tonight. We saw you beat Bobby Riggs in sets. WOW. A lot of my students didn t know who Billie Jean King was said Walsh an associate professor of electronic media at UC Berkeley. A year into their venture the entrepreneurs have just more than subscribers subscriptions run a year . L.A. s Museum of Contemporary Art will begin stocking back issues in the museum s gift shop after issue No. comes out this month. It is perfect for the MOCA stores since we specialize in artist produced items and this is a real artwork that is highly collectible and unique said Grant Breding the museum s director of retail operations. Wiki help We have a lot of subscribers in the Midwest in small towns Herschend said. Well probably not a lot but enough that it s cool Rogan said. And when those subscribers write in the Thing serves its larger purpose of art as social lubricant. I love checking the e mail. Sometimes I have amazing conversations with people. Maybe someone doesn t understand and thinks it s a joke on them. That s a conversation I d never have otherwise with someone in Nebraska Herschend said. We take this really seriously. Sometimes I spend days thinking about how to write back. Big ambitions like connecting such far flung dots is one of the reasons Rogan and Herschend s only dictate for the Thing is that it takes the form of household artifacts. It was key they say that their art be not only affordable but also well useful. With the doorstop they joke that they ve created the world s first truly functional metaphor. Billie Jean King opened the door and held it open for other women Walsh said. The first thing we thought of is We want people to live with this stuff in a practical way Rogan said. We want to collapse the distance between the artists and the subscribers between art and life. Whatever else the Thing is it s more art than business. The Thing came modestly into being after San Francisco gallery Southern Exposure provided the pair with a start up space and some funds. Their next bit of venture capital arrived unexpectedly when they won a distinguished alumni award of a couple thousand dollars from Berkeley. Now the editors say the Thing pretty much holds its own but nobody s quitting his day job. My brother s a CEO and at one point he was like This is going to totally fail Herschend said. He s a subscriber. Basically we had no strategy Rogan said. They do now. We want to keep working with cool people how s that for a business model he asked. mindy.farabeelatimes.com Late night politics A crazy week in review Jon Stewart Stephen Colbert David Letterman and more on politics Palin and Joe the plumber. Hollywood splits telltale signs Madonna and Guy. David and Tea. Can you spot a crumbling marriage Worst celebrity fan disses Following Ringo Starr s declaration against his fans we ve compiled some instances where other stars didn t shine so bright. Save over off the newsstand price. Click here to subscribe to The Times . 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