Eric Celeste Shoots a Middle Finger to Dallas

Posted on September 22nd, 2011 1:06pm by Tim Rogers
Filed under Local News

I wish I’d known about this earlier so I could have had the time to workshop my jokes. But our old buddy Eric Celeste has been named the editor in chief of Atlanta’s Creative Loafing. You can read how “incredibly excited” he is about the new gig on their blog. Feel free, those of you who know Eric, to use our comments section to tell the CL staff what they need to know about their new boss.

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24 comments

  1. Eric Celeste once called me a bad word and then laughed.

    @ 1:19 pm on September 22, 2011

  2. HUGE Hawks fan.

    @ 1:28 pm on September 22, 2011

  3. I didn’t know Eric knew anything about baking bread. Good for you old chum.

    @ 1:31 pm on September 22, 2011

  4. Here’s another favorite:

    @ 1:36 pm on September 22, 2011

  5. Eggroll?

    @ 1:50 pm on September 22, 2011

  6. my favorite is still the one with the compact and french cuffs

    all the best, Eric

    @ 2:02 pm on September 22, 2011

  7. Eric, we barely knew ye…or I barely knew ye. But I am confident you will have a shirt for every occasion in Atlanta. All the best.

    @ 2:03 pm on September 22, 2011

  8. Whenever a young, eager journalist calls and asks to meet with me, I think of Eric. He took that call and had a meeting with me four years ago, which led to my first job at the papers and then my job at D. Thanks, Eric! Good luck.

    @ 2:13 pm on September 22, 2011

  9. Profits at the Old Monk will plummet.

    @ 3:35 pm on September 22, 2011

  10. Good riddance

    @ 4:24 pm on September 22, 2011

  11. First order of business should be doing something about the layout of their website.

    http://clatl.com/

    Oy. My head hurts.

    @ 4:26 pm on September 22, 2011

  12. Wondered when he would run out of places in DFW that would hire him.

    @ 4:39 pm on September 22, 2011

  13. Oh no, what about his awesome special lady friend? Hoping she isn’t leaving too, but also hopiong they aren’t breaking it off. Dilemma.

    @ 5:04 pm on September 22, 2011

  14. @Mark: If you had the over, you win. Took him longer than any of us figured to get run out of town.

    @Ohno: I could make about seven awesome jokes here. I love the guy, though. So I won’t. For now.

    @ 7:26 pm on September 22, 2011

  15. Hide your pitbulls. Never tell him you have one. Talk non-stop about how he has lost more weight than Marie Osmond.

    @ 8:00 pm on September 22, 2011

  16. “Creative Loafing”? Sounds like the title to Eric’s memoirs.

    @ 9:33 am on September 23, 2011

  17. @RAB: Is that the best you got? Jeeze.

    @ 9:38 am on September 23, 2011

  18. Of course not — but I thought that the whole theme of Eric’s career was mediocrity. I was merely following suit.

    @ 10:03 am on September 23, 2011

  19. I’m just glad TBR can play in our poker games now.

    @ 10:08 am on September 23, 2011

  20. Eric Celeste ate a baby once and then stiff the waiter on the tip.

    @ 11:37 am on September 23, 2011

  21. sorry to see Eric leave Dallas, but Creative Loafing is lucky to get him. favoriting their site now

    @ 5:57 pm on September 23, 2011

  22. That’s too bad. He was the second best editor in dallas behind Pitluk

    @ 6:48 pm on September 23, 2011

  23. @Shane: Unmittigated brilliance.

    @ 9:48 pm on September 23, 2011

  24. not sure i can legally discuss the kind of boss I found eric to be many moons ago at the met. ;) good luck old friend.

    @ 11:40 am on October 14, 2011