Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Bruthas From Another Mutha
British "American Idol" winner Paul Potts....
and Pol Pot, deceased ruler of the Khmer Rouge
Monday, July 30, 2007
Juvenile Humor Hour
Sign seen on the highway:
Underpass Under Construction
Same sign, two weeks later, as lights in the first "A" started to fail:
Underpuss Under Construction (YEA...a new cartoon character!)
Same sign, another week after that:
Underpiss Under Construction (Where's a Flomax commercial when you need one?)
Now THAT is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Monday, July 23, 2007
The National Pastime
Wait, how many T's in pastime?
I ran across this web site and cracked up looking at all these old baseball cards, some of which I remember owning before I lost them in a colossal card-flipping throw-down on the front porch of my parents' house when I was 10 years old. The rest met their maker on the front spokes of my Huffy one-speed.
Anyway, this guy is great with the one-liners for each card, part of his "Worthless Card Collection."
A sample....
| Three weeks after this picture was taken, Jerry Don set a Tigers team record when he took the field on August 3, 1990 with his pants just 9 inches below his chin. |
Check out the rest of the collection here.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Shock! Horror!
Scripps to shutter Cincinnati Post, Kentucky Post on Dec. 31
The decision by Scripps to cease the Post newspapers' publication comes three years after the company was notified by Gannett -- owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer -- that the joint operating agreement wouldn't be renewed. Scripps COO Rich Boehne says: "The investment that would be needed to continue publishing a daily newspaper that could successfully compete in a marketplace with so many media alternatives would be prohibitive."
Comments from the Post editor are here.
I awoke this morning with the news that half of my hometown newspapers will be shutting down at the end of the year. This is not a surprise; the Post was always said to be dead meat when the Joint Operating Agreement between it and The Cincinnati Enquirer -- in which the two papers shared production facilities and advertising staff -- expired in 2007. I guess inside I always wondered if it really would happen.
This is a bittersweet post for me. My first job in newspapers was taking Friday night football scores in the Covington, Ky., office of The Kentucky Post in 1985. I left the next year, but returned as an obituary clerk in 1989. After a couple months, I managed to land a full-time job as a library aide across the river at The Cincinnati Enquirer, where I worked until 1994.
I can tell you that there will be much hand-wringing in Northern Kentucky about the post-Post era (tee-hee). Though the Enquirer beefed up its Kentucky presence a few years ago, there is still some mistrust about their commitment and a longstanding feeling that they're not in it for the long haul. That, plus the fact that I'll bet that The Ky. Post still writes more about Ky. than the Enquirer. It will be interesting to see what happens now. My cousin, who got me that football job and still writes sports for The Ky. Post, will be out of a job come December. I wonder if The Enquirer will swoop in and snatch up some of The Post's people in a credibility grab.