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Category Archives: Day in the Life
Same Old Story?
Everyone in my newsroom knows when I get excited about a story, stand back because the show is about to begin. The Adult In TheRoom tapped the send button on her email and watched from behind her computer monitor. I … Continue reading
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Tradition!
A blur of colors swirled before me, almost as if Walt Disney had vomited in my lens. “You begged for this,” I muttered to myself. It was barely 7am. We were two hours from home, and a liquored up Cajun … Continue reading
Hobo Video
Where did you edit your story yesterday? I won’t bore you with the details of how I came to be squatting under a bridge with my best Troll impersonation. (Dead bodies in the median of a heavily-travelled interstate will to … Continue reading
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I’m Too Old For This Shit
Yeah, it’s a cheesy cliche, but Roger Murtaugh knew what he was talking about. I turned 50 this week, and while, with the help of modern medicine, that may be no great accomplishment, it did cause me to stop and think. … Continue reading
The Price of Fame
As a journalist, it’s good to be approachable. After all, we talk to people for a living, and all that face-to-face time creates for us a modicum of pesudo-celebrity that we learn to live with. Folks feel obliged to introduce themselves … Continue reading
Philosophy 101
I was sitting there. Waiting on a perp. . . . Okay, I was standing. . . . Alone. No intern to chat up. No misanthrope from the competition to kvetch with. Not even a Public Information Officer to eyeball … Continue reading
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Snow Day!
Far be it for me to complain about the news business — that social institution that brings such merriment and goodwill into homes each evening. If you think the steady dose of blood, guts, crime, corruption, lies, and smut (and … Continue reading
Craptastic!
Have you ever contorted you body through a stair railing in order to hang your lens (and your nose) inches above a roiling vat of feces? Me neither. As I stare down the half-century mark, that’s like 350 in photog … Continue reading
Just Shoot Me
I don’t know whether I should thank The Advocate photographer, Adam Lau, for this picture, or smear his grinning mug all over the metro in gleaming hi-definition. See, Adam and I are kindred spirits — turds of a feather — … Continue reading
Capitol Punishment
My first week of self-imposed Capitol Punishment is in the books. It’s been more than seven years since I’ve covered an entire session, and this week has been a re-education. I say “re-education” because nothing within Huey’s concrete erection ever … Continue reading
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