Obligatory "Tablet's Dead" Announcement
We happened on the most recent Tablet last night and we were halfway through the editor's letter announcing the demise of the magazine when it occured to us that we hadn't heard about this being the final issue from any other source. Then we realized the damn thing just came out. It's been expressed elsewhere, though, that Tablet just didn't get talked about enough, and as a media outlet of sorts we're partly to blame. We talk about The Stranger from time to time and we've mentioned The Seattle Weekly and actually we used to pit them against each other in the squared circle once a week. While we tried to think of ways to get Tablet into that fight, Tablet was a monthly publication and it just didn't make sense. Still, we feel bad about nearly never mentioning it because we really enjoyed reading it.
A search of Seattlest for the term "Tablet" brings up precisely one result. We mentioned it one time. Even that post indicates that we'd been neglectfull - The title is "You Forgot Tablet." Sorry, folks, we killed Tablet Magazine. Well, either it was our fault or it was the fact that Tablet could never assemble the gravy train classifieds section that the alt weeklies ride to fame and fortune.
Five years is a long time for a volunteer-driven arts publication to exist, and we'd like to congratulate Tablet on a job done over a long period of time. And well. The effects of Tablet will be felt for some time to come and we're looking forward to the Next Projects of all the people involved. Until you guys get back in business the Seattle media is poorer. R.I.P.
