0163 — The Philippe Times, Suspicious Activities Edition (Patreon)

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I launched The Sentinel, Summerville Union High School's first student newspaper, in 1991. These were my upstart years, and the thrill of forcing my way into other people's minds through the power of media was irresistible. The paper was ugly, the stories didn't matter, and it didn't snag me any Hot Forkulatin' Nights, but it may have helped get me into college. (At college I published both The Stanford Chaparral and The Stanford Directory, proving that I was hell-bent on missing the Internet boom.)

It didn't occur to me until just now, some thirty-three years after graduating, to see if anyone took over The Sentinel. Google returns no record of any "Summerville Sentinel," and a deeper dive shows that at some point some student there started something called Beyond The Cave, which...drum roll...goes to a dead URL. We can only infer the paper died because they gave it such a remarkably stupid name that nobody knew it was a newspaper.

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