“I know you want it. I see the way you’re staring, baby. You want this little pig, Come and get it.” Male caller: “What is your job at the AJC?” Sexy Pig Reporter: “I’m trying to find the big bad wolf.” “I’m a sexy pig and you are never gonna get it, wolf.” “I’m the reporter” “I know you want [...]
November 30th, 2005
Read...the dream i had last night … The clerk handed back the $5 bill accusingly. It was wrinkled, too small, and had a slight smudge under Jackson’s nose that made him look like Hitler. It was not real money. Distractedly, I began my tale … “Look, it wasn’t me, I’m no counterfeiter! You see, we were [...]
November 29th, 2005
Read...Oh, what a tricky question … How to get users to visit newspaper.com “extras” … your chats, blogs, podcasts and online exclusives. My boss asked me the question, here is my (longwinded) answer. Concepts Leisuremedia projects OK, it’s a hokey word — I’m open to a better one. But I think it captures the essence of most of [...]
November 28th, 2005
Read...“You know I’m notgona diss you on the Internet …” A) Sweet Javaology and the playing of Destiny’s Child’s “Survivor.” Sweet. I’m thinking outhouses and pages of the 1971 Sears Roebuck catalogue B) I passed a truck today with the logo “Classic Country Plumbing.” What is that? Who wants classic country plumbing … wouldn’t we all prefer modern [...]
November 28th, 2005
Read...I was digging through some boxes today when I found an old, old clip — the first article I was quoted in. This piece appeared in the Paradise Valley Independent, a community newspaper in Arizona, on December 23-29, 1998. In addition to chronicling my (dubiously newsworthy) PSAT scores, this piece features some fatuous, fatheaded quotes from [...]
November 25th, 2005
Read...… what are newspapers supposed to do? And more importantly, what happens to journalism? Ellen Degeneres is a bad dancer. It’s the trademark schtick on her talk show, “Ellen,” and it’s the subject of her American Express commercials. The business relationship between the credit card giant and the comedianne is obvious in the commercials themselves: [...]
November 20th, 2005
Read...… has something to tell the world about his masculinity.
November 18th, 2005
Read...Baseball is … kinda boring but the $3 margaritas aren’t bad. Hockey is … SO much better than baseball! You get noisemakers! They make sports more fun. * They play better much music & show Anchorman clips! Sweet! * They fight! * Everyone in the crowd actually cares. Or is just really wasted. Basketball is … pretty freaking [...]
November 9th, 2005
Read...A comment that Barry Hollander made at last week’s SPJ Cyberethics seminar (see post) has stuck in my craw: “Most blogs are teenage girls writing really bad poetry.” To wit — that’s true. But teenage girls — and boys, to a lesser extent — grow up. Dismissing the current incarnation of a medium seems a bit like [...]
November 8th, 2005
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