Month: October 2003

When your house burns down

Tequila Mockingbird tells about when it happened to her. Another thing about this post: it’s a fist to the face of anybody who says there’s no good writing in blogs.

What about Western?

The ACES folks want to know: upper or lower case, particulary in regards to music?

Happy Halloween

… and in keeping with my tradition of ripping on everything good and traditional, I offer this link to a Canadian newspaper which says the Martian Invasion Hoax of 1938 was the subject of an even greater hoax: the notion…

Job update

Wichita Eagle needs a copy editor on the sports desk (I know this because the Mercury News just hired someone away from the Eagle’s sports desk.). Houston Chronicle needs a senior copy editor. Sarasota Herald Tribune needs a copy editor.…

Link payback

Mike Lawson is quitting his day job to be a fulltime freelance newsie. He links to me so I’m returning the fave, and pointing to this swell quote on his blog: Did you hear that the Republican National Committee is…

On corrections

Florida J-student Heather Leslie ponders what ought to be corrected, and what oughtn’t.