For the sake of blogging anything at all

These days I don't have much human interaction, but back in the day when I had a real reporter job I would observe all sorts of fun stuff walking down the hallways at work. People would say the most random, funny things.

Here's one of those convos (Sorry if you don't speak Spanish):


Guy #1: (Scoff) Hmm.
Como eres chistoso

Guy #2: ¡Tu mami, maricón!

Capucine strikes again ...

The cutest child in the world.


Tongue twister from Capucha on Vimeo.

David Simon keeps on doing all sorts of cool things!

On March 1, David Simon wrote this magical (jajaja) op-ed piece for the Washington Post about journalism/the crime beat in Baltimore. I read it a long time ago, but it barely dawned on me to post it here. Journalism is so necessary! I do not have the faintest idea what will happen after the demise of all these newspapers. I was shocked when I heard about the Rocky and the possible closing of the SF Chron.

Anyway!!

I love this man!

In Baltimore, No One Left to Press the Police

"Delays of even 24 hours? Nope, not acceptable. Requiring written notification from the newspaper? No, the judge would explain. Even ordinary citizens have a right to those reports. And woe to any fool who tried to suggest to His Honor that he would need a 30-day state Public Information Act request for something as basic as a face sheet or an arrest log.

"What do you need the thirty days for?" the judge once asked a police spokesman on speakerphone.

"We may need to redact sensitive information," the spokesman offered.

"You can't redact anything. Do you hear me? Everything in an initial incident report is public. If the report has been filed by the officer, then give it to the reporter tonight or face contempt charges tomorrow."

To be a police reporter in such a climate was to be a prince of the city, and to be a citizen of such a city was to know that you were not residing in a police state. But no longer -- not in Baltimore and, I am guessing, not in any city where print journalism spent the 1980s and '90s taking profits and then, in the decade that followed, impaling itself on the Internet."

Please read!

Marelynnism: The state of the nation

2:00 PM that totally blows

:(

america is ending

me: lol

it might be

2:02 PM marelynn: so what are you thoughts on the 2012 date of the world ending?

2:04 PM me: ben swears it's true

2:05 PM marelynn: hahahahaha

Deerhunter in Dallas

The Loft has really cool wooden floors. Dallas, I will miss you so.

Maddow is my hero

Dear Tony

I have no questions for you.

Promise!