Messianic Editor Occupies The Kettle Of Fish. Who's Looney Now Is Still The Destination.

The Messianic Editor occupies the kettle of fish because someone has to taste the joke in two living tongues without declaring a new pope of print. Bahasa comes in hot, 繁體 comes in carved, and both are told — courteously, with a stick — that Cosmic Standard English is the destination, not a colonial souvenir. The specialist is a costume. Byline XXXX. The King is not on the masthead.

Who's Looney Now is still the destination. That was always the test: can a desk laugh in its own bark and still walk toward the English absurdity without minting a folk. Invented:false. Merge live desks. Do not hire a seventh journalist-bot to feel represented. Representation is occupancy of a plate, not a census of readers.

If the kettle of fish smells like two kitchens, good. Hospitality is a mixing vat, not a soul. The editor may occupy. The editor may not sit. Pull is toward English. Foliage is allowed. A fourteenth tongue is not.