Sunday, September 01, 2013
Yesterday's Top Story: It Was Hot
Well, not quite. The top story in the Quincy Herald Whig was actually "We Could Really Use Some Rain." And yes, it was in quotes. I hope they had two sources for that -- it's the sort of wild accusation you really shouldn't print without careful attribution.
Other top stories? Rotary Club Set to Revive Strassenfest. Handwriting Camp Helps Kids with Learning Difficulties. Airport Nominee Remains in Limbo. In fairness, Libya did manage to climb its way to the top story for today, but it was NOT getting any pull quotes or a picture.
Of course, my main interest was the comics, where I was finally able to catch up on Sally Forth's adventures. Turns out she still hasn't murdered her entire family, which is too bad. Dilbert hates his job (stop the presses!) and Hagar the Horrible has a complicated family life (women be nagging, yo). I really long for the good old days of Mary Worth and Rex Morgan, MD, when comic strips didn't feel the need to entertain so much as to represent the viewpoints of hectoring old white people. And Brenda Starr, Reporter, the comic strip where they had to remind you that Brenda Starr was a reporter in the title, because mainly she seemed to have weird romances in the strip. Great hair, though.
Parade Magazine has apparently whittled it down to a lean eight pages now. None of them exactly scintillating. If I have questions about Debra Messing's next project that I'd like to write in to a nationally-syndicated paper written on a third grade reading level, though, I'll know exactly where to turn.
I did do other things besides reading the paper today, of course. But how could they ever compare?
Well, not quite. The top story in the Quincy Herald Whig was actually "We Could Really Use Some Rain." And yes, it was in quotes. I hope they had two sources for that -- it's the sort of wild accusation you really shouldn't print without careful attribution.
Other top stories? Rotary Club Set to Revive Strassenfest. Handwriting Camp Helps Kids with Learning Difficulties. Airport Nominee Remains in Limbo. In fairness, Libya did manage to climb its way to the top story for today, but it was NOT getting any pull quotes or a picture.
Of course, my main interest was the comics, where I was finally able to catch up on Sally Forth's adventures. Turns out she still hasn't murdered her entire family, which is too bad. Dilbert hates his job (stop the presses!) and Hagar the Horrible has a complicated family life (women be nagging, yo). I really long for the good old days of Mary Worth and Rex Morgan, MD, when comic strips didn't feel the need to entertain so much as to represent the viewpoints of hectoring old white people. And Brenda Starr, Reporter, the comic strip where they had to remind you that Brenda Starr was a reporter in the title, because mainly she seemed to have weird romances in the strip. Great hair, though.
Parade Magazine has apparently whittled it down to a lean eight pages now. None of them exactly scintillating. If I have questions about Debra Messing's next project that I'd like to write in to a nationally-syndicated paper written on a third grade reading level, though, I'll know exactly where to turn.
I did do other things besides reading the paper today, of course. But how could they ever compare?
