tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56582242024-03-14T00:03:03.276-05:00Blogojevich-the blog of me, for you.Quality words, quality links.
Contact me at drew_reynolds_tnATyahoo.comReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comBlogger327125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-42715812622212991232008-03-23T16:43:00.000-05:002008-03-23T16:45:15.614-05:00I'm wrapping it up here at Blagojevich and, as befits a late adopter, moved to LiveJournal. You can find me at nerdypapi60625See you there.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-46500498860314027852007-08-19T22:07:00.000-05:002007-08-19T22:16:10.697-05:00I'm beginning to check out options for planning a trip to Nashville, TN and then to Kentucky. My dad lives in Benton, about 30 minutes from Paducah. Alex has convinced himself that it will be charming, like cottage country in Ontario.Paducah manages to be both rural and charmless, like a little hunk of Northern New York State. I went looking around You Tube and discovered the apparent Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-14965710529868420072007-08-01T23:44:00.000-05:002007-08-02T00:04:36.396-05:00I'm not doing such a good job of the posting to the blog of late. New job, long hours, family health crisis, etc.But you know who is totally blogging? Jimmie "J.J." Walker. You know, the "Dy-no-mite!" guy from Good Times. Check it out. Ellipsis up, paragraphing down! From JJ Facts:The term "maximizing one's potential" could have been coined to describe the life of Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-76844189294496028482007-07-21T22:30:00.000-05:002007-07-21T22:34:15.841-05:00I'm sad that Tammye Faye Bakker/Messner has died although I'm grateful for the news for two reasons:1) There is a different, non-Iraq story that isn't about dog fighting and intense cruelty to animals2) Tammye Faye's death from colon cancer comes on the same day that Bush had some polyps removed from HIS colon so perhaps the two will end up linked photographically for a new cycle or two and I'm Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-65421778780760554662007-07-04T10:03:00.000-05:002007-07-04T10:07:28.620-05:00In my mind, Bush is almost gone. But of course he still has heaps of time, plenty of opportunity to do enormous, terrible things.If I was a White House advisor looking to shore up the Bush legacy, I might suggest that the president steal an idea from Bob Barker and push for a national program to spay and neuter pets.Of course the way this would play out would be that the administration would Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-90692918070376312322007-06-10T08:07:00.000-05:002007-06-10T08:43:59.838-05:00I'm newly fascinated/horrified by the story of Tennesseean Georgia Tann.Tann, who died in 1950, was something of a pioneer in the field of adoption. One of her innovations was to create entirely fictional biographies of the children. According to Tann, all of the birth fathers were accomplished professionals, all the birth mothers were college graduates. These were lies but it helped her to Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-47186014767425935722007-05-25T06:24:00.000-05:002007-05-25T06:31:48.843-05:00I'm into this artist's work. Chris Jordan uses photo illustration to convey large, abstract statistical numbers.For instance, Americans use 2 million plastic beverage bottles every five minutes. So there is one big-ass photograph that shows 2 million bottles. Another shows 426,000 cell phones (the number discarded every day in the U.S.) another shows 29,569 handguns (the number of gun-related Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-52645029458684412722007-05-11T07:05:00.000-05:002007-05-11T07:09:01.095-05:00Two things:1) Last night I took the last class of my undergraduate career. After I pay the school that outstanding $0.75, I should be receiving my degree in journalism.2) So, a degree in journalism...from today's Los Angeles Times:James Macpherson, editor and publisher of the Pasadena Now website, hired two reporters last weekend to cover the Pasadena City Council. One lives in Mumbai and will Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-74118557982520634062007-04-21T19:34:00.000-05:002007-04-21T19:55:17.979-05:00One of the ideas that they really hammer in journalism school is the evil of PR. I have heard relatively little about public officials or corporate executives who may mislead reporters but I've heard a lot about the inherent wickedness of the press kit.The press kit, for those who don't know, is to journalism what Lunchables are to a meal. A press kit has some pictures, video or sound if that'sReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-89057559921255573172007-04-13T14:58:00.000-05:002007-04-13T15:26:02.436-05:00I realize that the world does not need yet one more blogger weighing in on Don Imus but these two things are on my mind so I'm putting them down here:1)I am fully aware that one can turn on the radio and find any number of ineptly-bleeped mentions of hoes, nappy headedness, etc. in contemporary popular music. This, to me, is an unconvincing line of argument.If you make fun of your mother, that'sReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-36903701203565432222007-03-27T12:03:00.000-05:002007-03-27T12:04:37.820-05:00Last week was spring break so I should have been a blogging fiend but no such luck. Seven weeks until I am a degreed bachelor and until then, here's a handy quote:"You must sleep some time between lunch and dinner, and no half-way measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do. Don't think you will be doing less work because you sleep during the day. That's a foolish Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-70460376539241620962007-02-17T09:23:00.000-06:002007-02-17T09:34:19.564-06:00Alex is in town and we spent a good chunk of last night discussing the upcoming Chicago mayoral election. Alex's question was, if Daley's administration is so corrupt, why is he such a shoo-in for re-election?I guess I've gone native because 1)The question seemed strange to me-corruption? Yeah, so what's your point? and 2)I compared it to Clinton/Lewinsky where part of the country was outraged Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-74132506148370176862007-02-13T18:40:00.000-06:002007-02-13T11:31:15.413-06:00Okay, they closed down Lakeshore Drive because of the snow and sent us home from school. If not a snowpacalypse then perhaps a major snowfu.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-75814816755626836752007-02-13T11:27:00.000-06:002007-02-09T11:18:27.017-06:00Snow! Yes, to the apparent shock of everyone with a media job in Chicago, it snows here! Sometimes quite a lot! Or, as the Daily Southtown put it:Snowmageddon has arrived!Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-36402111791284542282007-02-09T11:15:00.000-06:002007-02-07T14:36:48.447-06:00Goodbye Anna Nicole. It seems to me you lived your life like a candle being urinated on by a drunken frat boy.I hope things work out better for you in the next world. This one seemed pretty rough.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-73885778699277604882007-02-07T14:35:00.000-06:002007-02-07T14:36:49.329-06:00Find your own pose!Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-66878761255801532812007-02-03T08:22:00.000-06:002007-02-03T08:37:58.551-06:00I suck at predicting the future. For instance, there was a period last spring where I went on and on to my dad and brother about how I thought Joe Biden really seemed plausible as a candidate for president. Although while on the presidential timeline, I'm going to say that McCain will exit the race because of his role in the S&L crisis of the late 80's, not because of Iraq or being Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1168669991822618042007-01-13T00:17:00.000-06:002007-01-13T00:33:13.116-06:00I saw the play Fat Pig last weekend and it's taken me a while to process it. It 's by Neil LaBute and it turns out he's one of those artists that people have a definite opinion about. This opinion is very often, "Ugh, no." I can understand why someone would think that although I find him entertaining although I don't wish he and I could hang out or anything.The play is about a guy who falls inReynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1168522465732360022007-01-11T07:34:00.000-06:002007-01-11T07:36:48.946-06:00Tom Shales, television critic of the Washington Post, thinks W's necktie was blue. So perhaps my theory is all fucked up. Anyway he has this note:CBS viewers, especially those who are always suspecting the network of tilting left, may have been jolted by the recorded announcement played during the closing credits of "Armed & Famous," the show that preceded the president's speech on the Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1168484687704246162007-01-10T20:57:00.000-06:002007-01-10T21:04:48.803-06:00I haven't heard this in a long time, but when I was a teenager, I remember hearing conservatives complain that the word "gay" had been unfairly appropriated by homosexuals and that there was now one less adjective available for use by ordinary, non-sodomites. "They took a perfectly good word and hijacked it."I thought of this while looking at pictures of W's speech on the web (I listened on the Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1167229467249007652006-12-27T08:20:00.000-06:002006-12-27T08:24:27.786-06:00The press can hardly say enough good things about James Brown and rightly so. As for poor Gerald Ford, well the NY Times does a classic job of damning with faint praise:He might have been the nice guy down the street suddenly put in charge of the nation, and if he seemed a bit predictable, he was also safe, reliable and reassuring. He placed no intolerable intellectual or psychological burdens Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1166545045212401352006-12-19T10:08:00.000-06:002006-12-19T10:17:26.070-06:0060 MINUTES did a story this past Sunday about a find of documents created by the Nazis during the holocaust. I'm assuming that the timing of this story had more to do with refuting the recent Iranian holocaust-denial-palooza than with bringing up lousy memories for the tribe at Hanukkah. I mean, it's different to imagine 60 MINUTES doing an expose on The Crusades, say, at Christmas.That's not Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1165100141127987882006-12-02T16:54:00.000-06:002006-12-02T16:55:41.396-06:00The best part about having one's superpowers be cuddles is that you get to wear cut off sweats and tube socks instead of a lycra caped thingy.Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1165099926875347582006-12-02T16:51:00.000-06:002006-12-02T16:52:07.110-06:00Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658224.post-1164942916744142562006-11-30T21:07:00.000-06:002006-12-01T06:51:46.883-06:00It's going to snow tonight. The temperature has dropped about 35 degrees since yesterday afternoon and the sky is milky.Of course the rule of television news is that you have to send a camera crew out to the airport (because flights are delayed due to snow--this is, you know, news) and WGN has, indeed, sent someone out to O'Hare to determine that, even though there is no actual snow yet, there Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10632451533120643577noreply@blogger.com