Monthly Archives: October 2006
Call for Change with MoveOn
How to fix a newspaper
Jim Romenesko over at Poynter forums explains how to “reenergize readers” — that is, how to fix your newspaper, including: Go out in street, see news, write it up. Yank all columnists who write with the word “I” or cutesy variation thereof; run no column that contains not an ounce of new reporting; hold public …
Banana bread
Ingredients 1/4 cup butter 1.5 cups sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp. baking soda 1/4 cup sour milk (3/4 tsp. lemon juice in a 1/4 cup measuring cup and add regular milk to fill it to top) 1.5 cups flour 1 tsp. baking powder 1 cup mashed ripe bananas Directions Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease …
Like a fish needs a bicycle
You may have heard the old phrase “…like a fish needs a bicycle to describe something ridiculous. I’m proposing a new meme — write it on your blog or LJ and link back here: come up with the best simile you can for something, well, completely ridiculous. Totally implausible. Not gonna happen. Here’s mine: …like …