In 2001 , robertchristgau.com — an online archive of Christgau 's " Consumer Guide " reviews and other writings from his career — was set up as a co-operative project between Christgau and longtime friend Tom Hull ; the two had met in 1975 shortly after Hull queried Christgau as '' The Village Voice '' s regional editor for St. Louis . The website was created after the September 11 , 2001 attacks when Hull was stuck in New York while visiting from his native Wichita . While Christgau spent many nights preparing past '' Village Voice '' writings for the website , by 2002 much of the older " Consumer Guide " columns had been inputted by Hull and a small coterie of fans . According to Christgau , Hull is " a computer genius as well as an excellent and very knowledgeable music critic , but he ’d never done much web site work . The design of the web site , especially its high searchability and small interest in graphics , are his idea of what a useful music site should be "
September 11 , 2001 attacks
September 11 attacks
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