Why Mondo Winkie’s family is probably not like yours: We all had been making merry (drinking a lot) and my granddad, dad and I decide to go walk on the beach. Yes, the mid-Atlantic beach is cold during Christmastime, but…
Category: Editors’ blogs
Worry of the day
Will SideSalad run out of disturbing Santas before Christmas gets here?
Warm, fresh blogroll
Scads of swell posts have cropped up at my fellow editors’ blogs to start off December. The highlights: Copy Massage on gays in the newsroom, dictionaries that defy us and writing 50,000 words in November. Nonsense Verse on who can…
More Side Salad stuff
And it’s as twisted as ever.
Poison Kitchen…
… must’ve had the day off yesterday, because there was a post-a-thon over there.
Back in the U.S.A.
Tequila Mockingbird returns from visits to London and Paris. And she took some swell pictures. Tim Porter is back from Oaxaca with a post about finding younger readers. Newspapers need younger people writing and editing them, just as they’ve learned…
Another editor’s blog
Travis Smith, editor of variety.com, chronicles his writings via his blog. Like anybody who matters in web newsdom, Travis was at the Online News Association’s confab over the weekend (notice yours truly was blogging from home as usual). For more…
Willcopy meet-up report
I spent yesterday afternoon watching the Packers’-Bucs game with Willcopy of Stylin’ & Smilin’ fame. Two things you need to know about Will: he’s a Bucs’ fanatic, and a lifetime of disappointment countered by a single Super Bowl victory has…
Willcopy’s back
The guy behind Stylin’ and Smilin’ has a fresh post — he’s been away for a month getting himself moved from Orlando to his new job on the features desk at the Fresno Bee — and wants to know what…
Nonsense verse …
… on the PR industry trafficking in nonsense. Americans also really, really, really want to trust their authority figures. They’re willing to look the other way, as long as the dude on TV–be he pundit or president–can be persuasive enough…