Why yes, I do love Lindsey Thomas, thanks for asking. She's not only patient about deadlines (cough, cough), she finally did what seemed to be impossible by writing a really good piece about "the Pitchfork effect" that neither read as "I am a bemused New Yorker who just cannot believe that a website in--where's this?--Chicago has any traction" nor "I'm going to lose my job because of these guys and therefore I hate them" nor "They won't publish me and therefore I hate them" nor some combination of the above.