It’s a journalism tradition: typing “-30-” to signify the end of a piece of copy. I’m using it here to signify the completion of this edition of National Blog Posting Month. The tradition, as far as journalism is concerned, is well past its shelf life, although you still see it once in a while at… Read More 30. -30-.
I found bad haiku to be a good way to sum up a weekend last May. Since I’ve been absent for a couple of weeks, I hope this new round of bad haiku will make it up to you: October starts soon Leaves change, Halloween, birthdays Best month of the year — Chad Hermann quits… Read More summary II.
You may recall that I tried my hand at a Friday Five entry back in July, when that week’s theme matched with the NaBloPoMo theme for the month. Since then, my Friday Five participation has been, uh, a bit lax — as in, I haven’t done any. Whoops. But my friend Dawn has challenged the… Read More friday five (minus two): podcamp pittsburgh 3
With the season opener just under three days away, I would expect a fair amount of hype surrounding Terrelle Pryor’s debut at the University of Ohio State. Or wherever it is he’s going to be playing college football on Saturday. At his weekly news conference Tuesday, Jim Tressel got the expected questions about Pryor and… Read More hysteria in the headline.
As hockey season winds to a close and baseball … well, the Indians can’t hit and the Pirates are just being the Pirates … it’s getting close to the time when I have to find something else to occupy my time until college football starts. Yes. That would be around mid-July. The Wife makes a… Read More something else.
Despite my previous whining about my persistent inability to win a Pulitzer, I have to admit: That’s not the journalistic prize I covet over all others. That honor, boys and girls, goes to the Golden Quill, the annual awards presented by the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania. They’re not the most prestigious award I’m eligible… Read More and the winner is…
Uncle Crappy 