O Tom Breihan vai sair do Village Voice. O Tom Breihan vai sair do Village Voice. São três anos a lê-lo, a discordar dele, a concordar com ele, a lê-lo a escrever sobre a namorada, o casamento, as Sleater-Kinney e as cenas gangsta todas. E isto:
“There’s one guy I’d like to single out, though. Nick Sylvester is the reason Status Ain’t Hood ever had a chance to exist. I moved from Baltimore to New York so that Bridget, my girlfriend at the time and now my wife, could go to grad school at NYU. I had to turn down a dream-job back home, and I had no idea what I’d end up doing; I figured I’d be lucky to be fact-checking at Entertainment Weekly or something. Nick talked me up and got my foot in the door. And during my first nine months or so here, I had to step my game up enormously because I was running opposite Riff Raff, the toughest competition imaginable. Nick is one of the two people to whom I’d like to dedicate this entire run. The other is my wife, for too many reasons to list here.”
Respeito pelo Nick Sylvester, herói de adolescência. Um dos grandes.