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Someone once pointed out that every Smiths fan goes through a stage of feelings about Morrissey that reflects the order of the Facebook reaction icons
And now, Old Dominion University.
www.pilotonline.com/2026/03/12/o...
It’s horrible and wrong but also I wanna run Finnegans Wake through it and watch what happens.
Just in time to contribute to the discourse about anecdotal ledes, here is a story that Emma Brown has worked on for quite a while. Maybe give it a look?
www.dailypress.com/2026/03/06/v...
Lol just saw a post from someone who says they never read anecdotal ledes. It's like Bluesky knows I'm editing a long story about a man detained by ICE ... with an anecdotal lede.
If your attention span exceeds that of a hummingbird, you should give it a look when it posts later today.
Between this and my son explaining Clavicular to me, gotta say I’m happier about being out of touch than I thought I would be.
It’s going to take more than a former Pizza Hut, imho
(Looks at his feed)
Well, yeah you got a point there. It could be dysfunction at Twitter or the AP or both. Weirdly, the only site I don’t blame is the one whose name is on the post lol. #newspaperapologist
I'd be willing to bet a dollar that the paper didn't even know this had happened until they started catching hell. If they're anything like us, they put almost-zero resources into Twitter because Twitter generates almost-zero engagement.
It’s all true though.
“Pop culture” should get workers comp for all the weight it’s carrying in that headline
Fwiw, the chancellor of William & Mary is former defense secretary Robert Gates. Do with that what you will.
New HRT Express route just dropped
I would show you our slack discussion of it but you just had it virtually verbatim
This headline is underrated
Was gonna write something mean about the assumption that a hotel is our only landmark but it's not entirely wrong?
Beach Oceanfront Hotel?
Cracker/Camper van Beethoven - basically a David Lowery-a-thon and it was glorious
BB King
Body Count
Gibb Droll
Talking Heads
Charlie’s Seafood, on Shore Drive in Virginia Beach. The food was very good - the crab soup was very good - but I remember it so fondly because my grandparents took us there often when I was little. It hits hard when I think about it now.
Tbh, feeling pretty good about my career-long distrust/dislike of DC media.
This story was funny until I got to this sentence, then it became hilarious …
Investigators later found matching zip ties in her Maserati SUV.
You and I took very different paths to get to the same exact place.
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
Btw, she shot 82-75 and finished last. Better than I would do but I’m not trying to play pro tournaments.
The kind of story/headline you write when the top priority is not making someone mad.
It really wouldn’t be a bad place to live - the park is right there, 10 minutes to Oyster Point, 20 minutes to Williamsburg.
It’s kinda crazy that there is no interchange between Jefferson and Ft. Eustis. I hope they’re serious about building one at Denbigh Blvd, they’re going to need it.
To be fair, access to that site from 64 will be harder than it looks on the map.
There would be 15 cars in the bleachers.
