This is another Facebook meme, brought to you by my friend Jacob, who asked for an almost stream-of-consciousness list of ten books that have stuck with me over the years. Without much thought, here you go: Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut: Sort of ties together nearly everything else Vonnegut wrote. And I’ve read them all.… Read More book ’em.
It’s one of the reasons I’ve always known I chose the right profession: I love working on election night. It doesn’t matter if it’s a municipal election — as is the case tomorrow — or a presidential race. It doesn’t matter if I’m updating the site with the latest results and stories — as is… Read More 4. i’m a freak.
Given that it was never supposed to happen, I guess I can’t be too unhappy that it’s over. I wasn’t ever supposed to be the host of Newsbreak, the daily webcast we’ve produced at my paper for nearly as long as I’ve worked there; I was just going to fill in on occasion. And I… Read More that’s the news.
For the first time in something like eight years, my Sundays are free. Back in the middle of the last decade, the editors at my paper asked me to start a Sunday through Thursday work week. Having Fridays off was awesome, but it was kind of a drag on Sundays to haul myself out of… Read More sunday funday.
Although we have three televisions in the newsroom, I wasn’t watching any of them at 10 a.m. on June 28. We knew the Supreme Court was set to announce its ruling on President Obama’s health care law around 10, and I was reading through the rapid posts at the SCOTUSBlog and refreshing the Associated Press… Read More unforgivable.
Let it never be said that my colleagues in the media business in Pittsburgh fail to understand the gravity and responsibility our jobs carry.
Uncle Crappy 