August 28, 2012
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The Daily News
1 I love reading the newspaper.2 It's fast becoming a lost art.
3 I've read the newspaper for as long as I can remember, which isn't very long.
4 I climb into it like a hot bath.
5 I'm Old Skool.
6 Let me adjust for the other wicked newspaper readers out there.
7 I'm "Old School."
8 Is that better?
9 It's not that I like the news; I just like the whole journalism thing.
10 I like Spencer Tracy, for example.
11 I like the Merc News, even though it is probably controlled.
12 You still have good writers.
13 I particularly enjoy the sports' team at the Merc.
14 This morning, for example, the inimitable Mark Purdy put out a piece called "Money for Nothing."
15 It was about the Dodgers' recent purchase of boxes of candy.
16 It made the Dodgers look like desperate suckers.
17 Okay, so he called them the LAnkees, which is a bit corny.
18 But telling nonetheless.
19 Great piece. Here is the link:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mark-purdy/ci_21413488/mark-purdy-san-francisco-giants-have-nothing-worry
Okay, so it looks like you'll have to cut and paste. Online news, baby.
20 The trouble with online reporting is that you don't get the feel and smell of a newspaper.
21 Also, the headline was priceless, as was the montage of pictures, none of which were in the online piece.
22 The headline read "Money for nothing?" and featured a collage of Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett, Adrian Gonzalez, and Nick Punto.
23 Purdy is pretty on the money with this article, which naturally made my morning.
24 You should buy a newspaper and read the article. It'll either make your day, or piss you off. Either way, it's journalism at its best.
25 Moving on, Part the First: Whoever invented coffee was a genius.
26 Someday when I have time, I'll look up the history of coffee.
27 I just don't have the time this morning.
28 I tried to get a beat on today's DN when I got home yesterday, but everything that came to me was nonsense and whistles.
29 So I find myself once again with a clock ticking, and with decidedly poor editing.
30 So it goes, so it goes.
31 Moving on, Part the Second: I'm still dealing with the disaster of last week. Yesterday I got two new classes, even though we are in the third week of school.
32 It was like a blind date.
33 Fortunately, I had an artillery of lesson plans which I had worked on all weekend. The trouble was, I over-planned to the point of not being able to find the sixty-thousand handouts I typed up over the weekend.
34 I finally just picked up a chair, asked the students if I could sit down, and did just that.
35 It was perfect. I stopped trying to be a teacher and just sat down to get acquainted, as one does normally on the first day of school.
36 Everyone relaxed, and I just held a Q and A with them.
37 My new freshmen were particularly relieved.
38 I still managed to get a lesson off, more than I bargained for.
39 So here we are. Two new classes, now fairly settled in, and a three-day weekend ahead.
40 Things seem to be steadying.
41 At least for now.
42 Anyway, as I said, I started this new DN this morning, so I'm up against a bit of a deadline.
43 I'd love to stay and chat, but I have a saloon to run.
44 I'll catch you on the reebs.
45 Have a great day.
46 Peace.
~H~
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