Month: March 2004

The wrongness of the Martha conviction

Doug Clifton talks about the Plain Dealer pulling Martha Stewart’s column. The explanation is that they don’t run the work of convicted felons (which makes me wonder, when have they had the opportunity before?). Doug talks about his uneasiness with…

Here’s my plan for a Houston outing

I went to Pollstar.com to see if any cool bands are in town March 18-20. Turns out there’s a joint called The Continental Club that offers not one but two intriguing possibilities: Mojo Nixon on Thursday night, or Southern Culture…

The blind need not apply

A guy at the Chicago Sun-Times has created the Visual Editors Discussion Board. It’s odd that at this late date, somebody’s finally getting serious about creating a board for designers. Just about every other newsroom specialty has listservs or BBSs…

Are you coming to Houston?

One of my devoted readers asked if I’m planning a get-together for Prints the Chaff regulars in Houston. I’m up for the idea of doing something, perhaps with the Testy Copy Editors, either Thursday or Friday night. Please click on…

What Orkut is good for

I hadn’t been logged into Orkut in a couple days so I clicked a few minutes ago. Finally the damn thing has proved useful. I noticed that Nicole Stockdale has added new “friends” to her list, one of whom is…

‘Dear Abby’…

I’m a blue-haired housewife who will change my life forever according to whatever you say in your newspaper column. And by the way, my husband is Homer Simpson.

Will’s movie blog

Will of Stylin’ and Smilin’ fame has started a blog about the movies. He thought “Passion of the Christ” was a fine thing. The interesting thing about “The Passion of the Christ” is it’s exactly what Gibson billed it to…

Another ACES conference sneak-peek

So this presentation I’m doing at the ACES conference has something of a sountrack — 30-second bits of songs that set off certain sections of the talk. This is the playlist, in order: For What It’s Worth, Buffalo Springfield Loaded,…

Question of the day

Who on earth is interested enough in Jayson Blair’s excuses to actually buy his silly book?