Hello Heyamoto

If you’ve missed the Herb Caen-like musings of “Aloha Bob” Graswich in the Bee, you can now rejoice.  The folks over at 21st and Q have given the job over to Lisa Heyamoto, Sacramento’s most laid-back columnist.   Heyamoto has casually catalogued the eccentricities of the city for a week now, and seems to already have the feel for the ironic, charming, and trivial content necessary for a successful three-dot column.  When you think about it, the three-dotter is really the true precursor to the blog.  Sure, some people say that the diary format truly fathered the modern blog, but unless you’re Samuel Pepys, odds are you didn’t intend your daily musings to be public content.  The three-dot column is just a blog…on paper.

I, for one, am happy that Heyamoto got the job.  She’s been on my “someone-to-root-for” list ever since she wrote an odd piece last year about “Google doppelgangers” for which she was lambasted by Bee online commenters.  They poo-poo’d the piece’s triviality and newsworthiness, going on to personally insult Heyamoto in a most unprofessional manner.  I sometimes wonder what types of pieces these people want to see in the “Scene” section–severed heads, Afghan poppy fields, racial injustice–lighten the eff up here people, it’s the “Scene” section for chrissakes.  After that, Heyamoto went on an extended bender, but, in her defense, that was her job as the Bee’s “Nightlife” writer.

Anyway, bully to the Bee for giving Heyamoto the job.  I wish her luck as the region’s most prominent non-online blogger and hope that she doesn’t need to hit the “Nightlife” beat too hard anymore. 

7 thoughts on “Hello Heyamoto”

  1. I’m glad, too, that they got someone to take over the three-dotter. The tech folks at the Bee need to assign LH an RSS feed, though.

    Like

  3. I have so far enjoyed the three-dotter as well. I think Lisa will develop a style that will have a decidedly different flavor than Breton or Graswich and I wish her luck.

    Like

  4. You guys have got to be kidding me. That column is a hot mess! It doesn’t read smoothly and feels terribly forced. It’s another ridiculous attempt by the Bee to try to be “hip.” It’s not working for me. And if you read the user comments at sacbee, I’m not the only one who’s less than pleased.

    Like

  5. I’m kind of on the fence regarding Lisa Heyamoto. While I do like the fact that her writing feels like a much needed jolt of vibrancy for the Bee, sometimes her hipness has felt a bit forced. But she’s only had, what, 3 or 4 columns three-dot columns so far? We should give her a chance to get a good feel for it before judging the column. Check back in after a month or so and let’s see how she’s doing then… (ellipsis pun intentional)

    Like

Comments are closed.