He is putting the coin tray on the counter.
I am examining the coin tray while David Laurent looks for the parody issues.
He asks about buying them all and I take one for myself.
Dave Metz looks at a copy while we look for more.
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I was in the NY Times!
By Alexander Laurence
I dreamed of seeing my name in the New York Times one day for hitting a home run in a crucial game or for some great book review. But this article about the parody issue of the Wall Street Journal will do. I have worked part-time at a newsstand in Los Angeles for a year. It has enabled me to meet all sorts of people. I have had some contact with many people who live in that neighborhood in Fairfax Village.
Kosher News is a newsstand that has been there since the 1940s. It is across the street from Canter's Deli which has been in Los Angeles for almost a century. Axl Rose has been rumored to have worked at the newsstand when he first moved to Los Angeles. One day I had just started and was tired. I was talking to a friend Dave Metz.
We were talking about some things that had happened that week. It was a sunny comfortable day. This guy from the Wall Street Journal walks up and installs a new coin tray on the counter. I asked him if he has any WSJ bags. He says that he doesn't. Then he picks up some copies of this newspaper called "My Wall Street Journal." Since I hadn't worked there for a few days I didn't notice it, and wasn't aware of it. Me and Dave Metz talked to him about what it was. It was found out that it was a parody issue of the newspaper.
I thought to myself if he is buying all these I need to have one for myself. Just like a few months ago when everyone was buying copies of New York Magazine with Lindsay Lohan on the cover. I needed to have one for future Ebay sales.The guy gave me an American Express card and paid for some issues. He was going around to all the newsstands and buying up copies if they had them.
Dave Metz and I looked at each other and wondered if that really happened. Why was this guy buying up all the copies? Metz went home and called someone from the New York Times. The next thing I know I get a call the next day from a writer asking me about what happened. By this time I had read the newspaper and found out it was done by Tony Hendra, famous for his association with the National Lampoon, and being the manager of Spinal Tap. I told Richard Perez-Pena the facts of the inccident. A few days later the article came out.It has caused quite a buzz on the internet. It has been popular with bloggers and has even been on the Huffington Post. It is days later and it is still getting mentioned in many publications. We ended up getting five more copies and someone promised to send us a bunch more. There was a crazy video on youtube about this. It continues to baffle and bewilder.
