Posting from work, and not much is going on. I have to move over to the other side of the newsroom in a few minutes to watch all three local 11 p.m. newscasts to see if we’ve missed anything that I’ll have to scramble for before the paper is done. I’ve been reading other blogs for a while tonight after finishing a story about Pennsylvania’s new cigarette tax (if I can figure out how to link to an earlier post about that, I will…). Found one titled Hot Abercrombie Chick, which will be very disappointing to guys who see that listed on Google and expect to see some hot lesbo action — the girl, a college freshman who says she will likely major in philosophy, seems to be pretty sharp. She’s taken some heat about the title of her blog and handled it pretty deftly. That’s one I’ll check back with.

I also started toying around with the sex piece for my zine-publishing friend, although I’m sure I’ve missed her February deadline while trying to keep up with the deadlines at work. The idea — some kind of commentary about the proliferation of drugs/remedies/supplements geared toward enhancing male sexual performance — kind of crystallized during the Super Bowl, when I saw ads for a new, Viagra-kind-of-thing that apparently can work too well. If you check the fine print, you see a warning that if your shiny new erection persists for more than four hours, you should call your doctor.

I’m not sure who I’m calling at that point, but it ain’t my doctor…

OK. Watching the news.