I’m the one to blame for this mess. If you’re a newspaper editor or anybody else in the news biz you’re apt to find interesting stuff. If you’re a media critic you might glean insight into the thought processes of…
Category: Mangan’s memoirs
Concert account
We saw Ramsey Lewis and Nancy Wilson. Summed up here.
Another concert review
I went to Neil Young’s annual benefit concert for the Bridge School, which does good deeds for disabled kids. Check it out if you’re easily amused.
A new look
Scott Shepler, the guy who drew the signature image on my homepage, came through with perhaps the world’s only illustration of an editor printing the chaff. Naturally I had to redesign the whole page to make the visual work ……
Let’s play movie reviewer
I saw “School of Rock.” It’s reviewed here.
A flashback
I mentioned getting flashbacks in the post below, so here’s my recounting of the worst correction I ever caused. It was a Friday on the Tampa Tribune’s County Desk, where we put out six zoned sections a day. Normally a…
How I tried to be a music writer for a day
… or maybe just a music blogger. If you’ve got some time to kill, check out my account of a day spent at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.
Back under the radar
Wasn’t that some fun we had yesterday? Got a bit of notice from the Romenesko link … visitor count quadrupled but the numbers are still a dribble: 160 visits Wednesday, 640 on Thursday. My gut feeling is people are sick…
Tampa Trib bloggers saying bye-bye
All three Tampa Trib bloggers are closing up shop: Daily Dave, Clay and Side Salad. 11 a.m. PST UPDATE: Click on comments for updates that clear up most of this and go two-thirds of the way toward exculpating Trib bosses.…
What I did for fun yesterday
Took lots of pictures of appealing (and appalling) stuff done to cars.