Happy birthday, Reid Brown
The happiest of VizEds birthday wishes go out today to Reid Brown of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Reid has been with The Plain Dealer for more than five years. Previously, he spent more than ten years at The San Jose Mercury News. Reid also spent about a year working with the late, great failed experiment, The National sports daily — where, I presume, he would have worked with Karl Gude. I suspect Reid has some great stories from that era.
Reid’s colleague at The Plain Dealer, William Neff, says this about him:
Reid Brown is a man who awakes each morning with the bright ray of hope that the tooth fairy will have left a one-way ticket out of Cleveland under his pillow.
This strategy hasn’t paid off for him yet. But Reid’s got a fresh bottle of gin, a good set of pliers, and plenty of teeth left
A few samples of Reid’s lush, lush work:
See more, of course, in Reid’s NewsPageDesigner portfolio.
Reid shares a birthday with Brian Cragin of the San Diego Union Tribune, Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, TV personalities Jaclyn Smith and Pat Sajak and actors Cary Elwes and Bob Hoskins.
Plus, today is Mule Day. Seriously.
Best wishes, Reid! Have a good one!
October 26th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Happy birthday, O. You rock. Way to go. You’ve lived another year.
To paraphrase the Great Emancipator, for those who like Reid’s sort of graphics, Reid does just the sort of graphics you’re going to like.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Thanks, guys.
Charles, thanks as always for the kind words.
Bill? L’il Stevie? Thanks for the, uh, words. Yes, Stephen, I have always been proud of my ability to wake up at least once each and every day. Like Woody Allen said, 90 percent of life is showing up. And speaking of teeth, Bill, today while you’re home “parentingâ€, please try to remember that only the baby teeth (or as bill likes to call them, the “training teethâ€) grow back …
October 28th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Reid, if you need extra teeth, let me know, but Cleveland’s not that bad! Happy birthday.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Hey old man, when are you coming out to SF?
Bob Olszewski