Everything You Need to Know About My Hometown

I don’t write all that much about the place I grew up, but this headline sums it up fairly neatly.

Yes, it’s an actual headline, just reproduced on a foam stand for an airshow, and yes, I was at an airshow. But that’s not important now. What you should be focusing on is how it’s all here: the ambition, the inability to see that ambition through to the desired end and downfall as a result of farm animal intervention.

Home.

High Art, Local News — Part Two

A headline I just wrote:

Fence to Deter Pooping in Creek, City Hopes

Where was that grad school application, again?

High on Power Pills, No Doubt

This headline, which appeared atop my Gmail inbox this morning, seemed hilarious until I found out who Adam "Pacman" Jones was.

This is what I get for not paying attention to football. Here's the actual story, for those feeling the need to read further.

Neon Yellow Journalism

Reminding me of the world of difference between British, one-step-above-Weekly World News tabloid journalism and its American counterpart, the headline for the story containing the photos of the assuredly dead Uday and Qudsay Hussein: "REST IN PIECES"