Covering the governor’s town hall forum last night represented my 500th published news story.
I’ve been looking over my progression and writing style lately. I’ve come a long way, but I still have a ton to learn about enterprise reporting and making the most out of long-term stories. Spot news — breaking news that’s usually dramatic and makes me work on a deadline of minutes instead of days — has come naturally to me, though.
Today’s props go to Tom Chambers, who released a plugin for WordPress that puts dates and times into Associated Press style.
Kudos! Blast Magazine is using it now!
Although it’s obviously not anywhere near the actually reported story, Law and Order SVU aired an episode Saturday that talked about a pregnancy pact among teen girls in Little Italy. Death and adventure ensue.
Update: By far one of the best SVU episodes I’ve seen in a long, long time.
New BEST COMMENT EVER on the anti-Twilight story:
kirsten on November 19th, 2008 4:37 pmwhy dont you goddamn feminists go shave your legs.
if you dont like the idea of women needing help, then DONT read the books or go out into the real world, because women should just stay in the kitchen and clean. Im a girl, and i think women usually do need a man to help them with things, and thats why we arent all lesbians.
its a good book, and a good love story. most love stories girls are helpless to a man anyway.
seriously, no man wants a girl whos all about womens right, so shut up and be happy you can vote.
… it was a new episode.
Everyone got mad at Homer for doing something obviously stupid and wrong. It involved alcohol and money. One family member tried to cut him off. Then he did something amazing and made everyone love him again. All along, there were pithy remarks about the economy.
hrm … that’s basically a summation of the past two seasons.
PSA Blog’s “Twilight Sucks” article is up to 1,700 comments.
Here is my favorite:
Cassi on November 14th, 2008 9:24 pmIf you all hate twilight so much how come you seem to know whats in all four books
If you hated it so much why didn’t you stop after the first one
I love twilight and am listening to the Soundtrack right now as i right this
I would like to know why you all hate it so much
Its a love story and vampire story all in one what could be better
Stephanie Meyer is a genius !!!
Oh dear lord.
Yes, because if you hate something, the best thing to do is stop reading and pretend it doesn’t exist.
Future of America?
Blast is releasing a Twilight Extra Edition Monday.
We are testing WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 on PRrag.com to test it out.
So far so decent.
It is definitely a better visual interface than 2.6, but it’s a whole nother thing to get used to.
I like John McCain.
I liked him in 2000, and I think many can agree that the world would be a much different place under McCain for the past eight years.
But Sarah Palin scares me. I mean, she actually makes me cringe with real fear. This is not funny “Blair Witch” fear, but “Arachnaphobia” fear; “The Shining” fear. I can feel her coming at me with an ax saying “Hereeeeeee’s Alaska!”
People criticized Matt Damon for his remarks about Palin.
But listen to what he’s saying. I’m not saying I agree with him 100 percent, but he makes a valid point.
I’m a registered independant, and not a partisan member of any party or paid subscriber of any ideology.
What in the world was John McCain thinking when he picked a seeming obscure governor or the most obscure state in the country? With a record of corruption? Who can’t name an American newspaper? Who thinks the media exists to play “gotcha games” and trick people?
I don’t care that she’s a woman. I don’t care about that at all.
What I saw on Saturday Night Live last night, and indeed what we’ve all seen for the last eight years is a real man, a good man who all Americans can respect if not always agree with. We are missing that in this country. Really, we’ve been missing that for more than 50 years.
When did it become unpatriotic to disagree? When did it become foolish to respect your enemies? When did it become stupid to like a president you can disagree with? My God did Edward R. Murrow accomplish nothing?
What did I see on SNL last night? I saw a man who can take a joke. I saw a man who can play along and laugh while still looking you in the eye.
I saw a candidate who actually took part in a SNL skit, as opposed to his running mate a few weeks ago who basically just stood there and twirlled her hair.
We can’t overlook the running mate situation any longer. John McCain is going to lose on Tuesday in large part because of Sarah Palin. John Kerry lost in 2004 in large part because John Edwards couldn’t carry either Carolina. If he picked Dick Gephardt, he would have carred Ohio and won. Al Gore lost because Joe Lieberman couldn’t bring in a single state that the Democrats weren’t already going to win. One of George H. W. Bush’s downfalls was his unpopular a vice president.
America needs a strong leader, a maverick, and a man (or woman) with balls. We need a real energy plan that will ween us off foreign oil and create countless thousands of good, quality jobs in the wind, solar and other environmentally friendly, domestic sources.
We don’t need “drill baby drill.” You’re wrong on that too, Senator McCain.
But mainly, we don’t need a vice president who actually scares us more than Dick Cheney.
Oh, and Ben Affleck is da bomb.
Two weeks ago I was asking the professor I work for if it was possible that the Dow might go below 10,000.
Now that it’s at about 8,500, I wonder how low it can possibly go before we hit bottom.
