Unforgiveably off-topic

But hilarious: The legend of Johnny Highwaycone. (well, kinda on topic because I found the link at the blog of that Dallas Morning News guy I mentioned the other day.)

Workin’ on the P.M.

A bunch of the people I work with used to produce the afternoon edition of the Mercury News. Their stories always start, “back when we were on the P.M….” Turns out the paper in Pittsburgh has done the unthinkable: brought…

Quinn’s in Chicago

Here’s what she says: Chicago is the Star Trek slide of doors, the voices of train angels, the racket of distant thunder (every four to ten minutes). Chicago goes from underground to street to sky to train to train to…