Author: tom

‘Simpsons’ apologizes

… says Matt Groening was only kidding about Fox suing itself. I’m linking this in the interest of fair and balanced coverage of Fox News (pretend you can see me smirking).

Maud’s blog hailed …

… as one of the New York notables. Maud Newton, maudnewton.com For those exhausted by most media-centric blogs? obsession with either glossy stock or newsprint, there?s Maud Newton, a Brooklyn-based fiction writer whose eponymous blog obsesses over books. Last week,…

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.