The man behind The Marthometer speaks: Since when does Martha Stewart live in Katonah?
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What’s The Marthometer? you ask. It’s the satirical newsletter put out by Katonah resident and professional wine scribe, Bill Tisherman. Tisherman, the former vice president of the Katonah Village Improvement Society (KVIS), which voted last week to challenge Martha Stewart’s copyright claim to the name Katonah, stepped down from his role with the group in order to put out the newsletter without having it reflect poorly on the KVIS, he told me yesterday.
What was the motivation behind the newsletter? “It’s very frustrating to have been part of a process trying to get Martha Stewart’s people to engage in a dialogue and they simply shut down. This was my way to try to keep it in the public eye in an entertaining way.�
“Katonah people do care about this, but not that many people have the time to devote to it,� he went on. “Unfortunate for her a guy with too much free time is also a satirist.�
Tisherman was at the meeting last month when Stewart addressed residents (armed with freshly baked chocolate chip cookies; when I asked Tisherman whether he liked them, he would only allow: “I ate one. It was totally edible.�) The bigger concern, he said, was that the meeting was completely one-sided. Stewart talked and, he says, had no interest in listening to their concerns.
The writer said he finds it curious that Martha all of a sudden considers herself a resident of Katonah. “I find it absolutely amusing that she suddenly lives here. On the back flap of her book, it says she lives in Bedford, NY and she’s always told people she lives in Bedford. Originally, she wanted to trademark Bedford. When they met with our group, they flat out said they wanted to name [the home line] Bedford.�
Tisherman insisted The Marthometer isn’t meant to be mean-spirited. “This was pretty restrained,� he said. “It’s not mean. There’s only one prison joke.�
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)
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