![]() I accepted, but on the condition that I could work from my home office in Radford, Virginia. ![]() For a while the magazine drifted along without an editor, but I kept being given more responsibility, and in 1991 I was offered the job of Editor. Eventually he got bored with the job and quit. Jack was independently wealthy from a major auto parts manufacturing business with factories worldwide, and so he took the job out of love of photography. Jack lived in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and had no interest in moving to Titusville, Florida, where Shutterbug was based, so he flew down one week a month to put the book together (in the magazine business magazines are called books). The next Editor was Jack Naylor, prominent photo historian and owner of the largest camera collection in private hands in the world. It was published under that name for a year or so, but circulation declined, George left, and the magazine was renamed Shutterbug, still in tabloid newspaper format. But he hated the Shutterbug Ads name and got it changed to Photographic News. Glenn asked me to find one, and I called my old friend Norman Rothschild, who recommended George Berkowitz, former Editor of Popular Photography magazine, then retired. But the magazine needed an editor, and I didn’t have the time to do that job and run my studio. At some point, once editorial content became more important, I was hired as Technical Editor, to bring the accuracy of the adticles up to a higher standard to compete with the major photo magazines. Editorial content came later, and originally wasn’t of very high quality. The magazine was founded by Glenn Patch as Shutterbug Ads, and was originally a tabloid printed on yellow paper (although the very first issue, which I still have, was printed on white paper), and was a buy/sell newspaper made up of classified ads for photo equipment and supplies. ![]() I don’t even remember exactly when I wrote my first article for them. Bug juice as a slang name for drink is from 1869, originally "bad whiskey." The 1811 slang dictionary has bug-hunter "an upholsterer." Bug-word "word or words meant to irritate and vex" is from 1560s.My history with Shutterbug began in the mid-70s. The colloquial sense of "microbe, germ" is from 1919.īugs "crazy" is from c. In compounds, the meaning "person obsessed by an idea" (as in firebug "arsonist") is from 1841, perhaps from notion of persistence. ![]() 1878 by Thomas Edison (perhaps with the notion of an insect getting into the works). The meaning "defect in a machine" (1889) may have been coined c. A similar application of the word signifying an object dread to creeping things is very common. The name of bug is given in a secondary sense to insects considered as an object of disgust and horror, and in modern English is appropriated to the noisome inhabitants of our beds, but in America is used as the general appellation of the beetle tribe. Middle English Compendium compares Low German bögge, böggel-mann "goblin." The sense shift perhaps was by influence of Old English -budda, used in compounds for "beetle" (compare Low German budde "louse, grub," Middle Low German buddech "thick, swollen"). Some speculate that these words are from a root meaning "goat" (see buck (n.1)) and represent originally a goat-like specter. The Middle English word probably is connected with Scottish bogill "goblin, bugbear," or obsolete Welsh bwg "ghost, goblin" (compare Welsh bwgwl "threat," earlier "fear," Middle Irish bocanách "supernatural being"). "insect, beetle," 1620s (earliest reference is to bedbugs), of unknown origin, probably (but not certainly) from or influenced by Middle English bugge "something frightening, scarecrow" (late 14c.), a word or meaning that has become obsolete since the "insect" sense arose, except in bugbear (1570s) and bugaboo (q.v.). ![]()
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