Common Sense

I’ve got some good news and some bad news.
The good news is that after much lobbying, cajoling, pleading and selling… I’ve finally gotten a blog from the Trib. In the next week, I’ll be starting it up, moving my Movie Blog archives over to it and writing my own little niche film blog where I […]

The centerpiece art for tomorrow’s sports section was supposed to be local little leaguers. But the game has been rained out because of a massive downpour and the sports desk is scrambling to find something to replace it with.
I suggested we take all that Evan Almighty art that we ran in the features section not […]

NBC has canceled its post-jail interview with Paris Hilton.
NBC has canceled their $1 million interview with Paris Hilton, most likely from the pressure of the entire world calling them ass clowns. No official reason was given, but NBC is backtracking and saying they never sealed the deal on the interview to begin with, so there […]

(Ed note: I knew adding a whole category category tag for Gina Parker would come in handy.)
My local harpie, Gina Parker, is circulating a piece around the capitol crowd (pdf) accusing Paul Burka and the others at Texas Monthly or being racist, sexist and “wine and brie Democrats.”
Obviously I can’t let this stand. […]

Like that protest this morning at Chet’s office. An enterprising reporter would have been there, camera in hand ready to take some quotes. I stayed up all night watching the Jaws-athon on Encore and didn’t get to work until after 8 p.m.
Training on the Texas Democratic Party’s Online Voter File System
If you are interested in […]

As no doubt you’ve heard already, Molly Ivins died Wednesday. She was one of the few columnists that I read frequently and I’m going to miss her greatly. One big regret in my life is that now I don’t havee the chance to meet her.

It’s a dated story, but the copyrighted coverage of the Waco Tribune Herald on Downtown Waco, Inc.’s recent fiduciary challenges deserves mention here.
Crux: The organization’s board initiated an internal investigation that has grown to a criminal investigation by the Waco Police Department after the potential of misappropriations surfaced this year. All this followed the retirement […]

Apart from being the setting for Angel, LA is also where a lot of porn gets made and where brunette bombshell Sasha Grey makes her living. Oh, I’ll just let her tell it:
Los Angeles Magazine
Current mood:  annoyed
So the Nov. issue of LA Magazine is out and I am one of the feature stories. Some of […]

The buzz today is over the Foley scandal… still. This morning’s Washington Times editorial page led with an editorial titled “Resign, Mr. Speaker.” The fury is coming from the social conservatives who smell something like a cover up from the GOP House leadership. It’s looking like Speaker Hastert, Majority Leader Tom Boehner (who I don’t […]

The past two mornings on CNN I’ve seen stories that just made me question why I watch that channel… ever.
Thursday on CNN Newsroom there was a three-minute segment on the non-relationship between Condi Rice and the foreign minister of Canada. Literally the first half was how they seem to be cozy, cozy; then they admitted […]