Randy Johnson, the skyscraping pitcher who once threw a baseball so hard that it killed a passing bird, stopped by this magazine's office the other day for a deskside appointment.
And on Wednesday, with an entourage, the current Lassie, a tenth-generation descendant of the original, visited the magazine's offices at 4 Times Square for a deskside appointment.
Unlike the phoneside, e-mailside, or even fireside chat, a deskside is a face-to-face briefing during which a publicist (or his or her client) pitches a story to a journalist in an intimate setting.
This week the current Lassie, a tenth-generation descendant of the original, visited the magazine's offices at 4 Times Square for a deskside appointment.
The proprietors of Jimmy Au's were in town recently for their first East Coast trunk show, and they approached this magazine to request a "deskside" chat.
The objective is to prepare students for entry-level technology jobs paying around $40,000 a year, like software specialists who answer questions from I.B.M.'s business customers or "deskside support" workers who answer calls from PC users, with opportunities for advancement.
Photo Anna Gordon/Guardian And when Carvin was about to miss a deskside performance by the folk musician Vic Chestnutt, he persuaded a colleague to switch on a laptop's webcam and streamed live using the broadcast tool Mogulus.
To save them time and energy, press reps have developed a technique called the "deskside," in which products and story ideas are brought directly to the editors' offices for review.
By Reeves Wiedeman Randy (the Big Unit) Johnson Randy Johnson, the skyscraping pitcher who once threw a baseball so hard that it killed a passing bird, stopped by this magazine's office the other day for a deskside appointment.
The likening, as by Brooks Barnes in the Times, of Andrew Stanton's movie to "Ishtar" is merely the opening of an old wound inflicted by critical sucker punchers who, instead of considering Elaine May's film on its merits, reviewed its budget and its rumors and took aim from deskside at the perceived excesses and absurdities of Hollywood filmmaking.
