THE LONDON YODELLER
ILLUSTRATION: MARTIN TIELLI
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PHOTOGRAPH: EMILY GOODDEN
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ILLUSTRATION: ANDREW LEWIS
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THOUGH CURRENTLY in a state of hibernation with hopes of returning soon to biweekly production, The London Yodeller, of which I am the founding editor, has been my primary and beloved journalistic home since November 2013. Saint Bruce Monck, the publisher, has given me free rein to develop this gorgeous and rambunctious arts and opinion journal as I see fit, which perhaps partially explains why we’ve temporarily run aground on the shoals of fiscal / commercial reality. An archive of all of our editions can be accessed here: http://londonyodeller.ca/london/
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My almost 35 year run of commentating in the London Free Press was only interrupted twice at the behest of Free Press editors-in-chief – in the mid ‘90s when I edited SCENE and now that I’m editing The London Yodeller. London’s big daily seems to construe these ditzy arts bi-weeklies (or monthlies as SCENE is now) as competition, which is rather small-hearted of them I must say. Even though my last column with the Free Press ran in December of 2013, there is still a partial archive of my stuff there which can be accessed at http://www.lfpress.com/author/herman-goodden. The Catholic Register also maintains a pretty good stash of my columns for them at: http://catholicregister.org/itemlist/search?searchword=Herman+Goodden&categories
A lot of the other publications where I’ve landed material over the last 40 years – Beetle magazine, Site / Sound, Challenge, The Voice of London, Q, Christian Life in London, The Canada Post, Catholic Insight – have folded and disappeared down the memory hole. Others carry on such as SCENE, Cottage Life and The Interim, or do so under a different name (such as Ontario Living and London magazine which merged and then got reshuffled and redubbed as London City Life) but don’t archive older material. All of which explains why I’m grateful to those publishers who every ten years or so, let me gather up the best of my journalism and issue it between the covers of a book. - Herman Goodden |