I fully expect a community columnist to serve light fare, but I also expect her columns to focus on, I dunno, the community. Enter Winona (Minn.) Daily News columnist Katie Buck, house cleaner:
I think I have a genetic disorder. I know my family thinks so. Every January I get the urge to clean closets and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Bosie’
September 12, 2008
“Curtains are a piece of cake now compared with my childhood.”
August 15, 2008
Leona Helmsley, Terra Haute and A Big Waste of Time
In her will, the late Leona Helmsley left a few million dollars to her dog and a few billion dollars for dog welfare in general, or some such nonsense. Reasonable minds may think this daft. But the thought passes, rather quickly. Not so, for Liz Ciancone. The Tribune-Star gave column inches to its retired reporter [...]
August 8, 2008
There is no Dana, only Zule
If you’re looking for hard-hitting analysis of local political issues, then you’re out of luck. If you want ghosts, UFOs, disappearing woodland arches and mysterious black forest beasts, then Cumberland Times-News (Md.) columnist Jim Goldsworthy is your man:
So many things that have no apparent explanation have happened to me, while I was wide awake and [...]
July 7, 2008
Big Love
Columnist Greg Miller of The Elizabethton Star (Tenn.) devoted 401 words to a short story about eating lunch on July 4th:
“Tomorrow will be Independence Day,” SallieJo reminded her mother, SollieJa. “That means we’re going to have a cookout, right?”
“That’s right, Dear,” SollieJa said. “Hamburgers, hotdogs, homemade potato salad, potato chips and plenty of ice cold [...]
June 29, 2008
Dear Diary
For some reason The Daily Sentinel (Ala.) thinks it’s ok to publish Candi Atkinson’s diary. These are from her last few columns:
Saturday I went with my best friend for her bridal session at a local portrait studio.
Last week I had to opportunity to teach Vacation Bible School at my church, Trinity Baptist.
All I can think [...]
June 27, 2008
Incidentally…
I don’t mean to pick on the Gainesville (Ga.) Times, I really don’t. (Editor’s note: Yes, you do. Now I’m fisking myself). But, it is “Georgia’s Best Newspaper Site,” so let’s have at it.
Ted Oglesby: retired opinion page editor, columnist, bow tie wearer and shameless self promoter.
I’ll cut to the chase. Ted just wrote a [...]
June 25, 2008
Fisking a Priest, or If a Secular Storm is Brewing, Pour Me a Cup
I’m just going to sit back and let you absorb the following (pretend Don LaFontaine is reading it — it adds to the tension.):
This past week, tornadoes dominated the domestic news. With hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed, and at least 110 people dead so far, 2008 is pushing the limits. There have been worse [...]
June 23, 2008
Gray’s Anatomy
Hacks love conflicts of interest. We understand. Here at Small Time Hacks, our publisher, Colonel Thadeus T. Beauregard (Spanish-American War veteran and hand sanitizer baron), is an old hand at squeezing ad dollars out of his chamber of commerce buddies in exchange for puff pieces. I once wrote a four-part series on a chimney sweep’s [...]
