Only a few more hours to come up with your New Year’s resolutions. Jamie Kelly has been collecting and shared some in a Gazette article today.
Most people’s resolutions involve losing weight, exercising and drinking less alcohol — especially timely goals after the gauntlet of holiday parties from Thanksgiving to Jan. 1. I’ve always wondered how resolutions [...]
Archive for December, 2008
You say you want a resolution…
Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2008 | Comments Off
Fear monger
Posted in Uncategorized on December 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Making the rounds of holiday parties over the past week, I learned we’re not actually in a recession or financial crisis. It’s just that darned media that’s got everyone so scared.
One financial adviser apparently played “the Media” card because her clients were worried about their tanking long-term investments. A Chamber of Commerce exec from another [...]
No, it’s not the “Jewish Christmas”
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Happy Hanukkah!
It’s a celebration of religious freedom, of the triumph of light over darkness — literally and spiritually. It honors two miracles: The few-but-mighty Maccabees giving oppressors what for and the single cruse of oil which fueled the Menorah for eight days after they’d liberated the Temple.
The Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center calls it the only Jewish holiday with a public relations angle:
The Passover [...]
Translation: The perfect tree
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a treat for you puzzlers and fans of poorly translated instruction manuals. These tips on choosing the perfect Christmas Tree from an Austrian PR website were either translated into English by computer, the guys who wrote the manual for your iPod alarm clock, or someone who should l0se their thesaurus privileges.
An excerpt and tip: Christmas hierarchy means tree.
The [...]
Scared of Santa
Posted in Uncategorized on December 11, 2008 | Comments Off
I am cracking up this morning over the Chicago Tribune’s Scared of Santa project. I don’t know who to feel the most sorry for — the kids, their parents or poor Santa himself.
Another reason I live here
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Working in a newsroom you learn to tune out the constant traffic from police scanners. But sometimes an update catches your ear.
After this morning’s white noise of police and rescue calls to icy-road collisions (they ran out of ambulances to dispatch at one point), we heard this gem from the city:
A woman’s voice, asking a garbage truck driver if he’d go back [...]
Raise a glass
Posted in Uncategorized on December 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The folks at Templeton Rye are celebrating the 75th anniversary of Prohibition’s demise today by holding Prohibition repeal parties at bars and restaurants throughout The Corridor, including CJ’s Bar and Grill and Beckett’s Public House in Cedar Rapids, and Short’s Burgers & Shine and Vito’s Bistro in Iowa City.
It’s big of them to celebrate the [...]
Cleanliness/Godliness link established?
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2008 | Comments Off
Scratch another hash mark into the “Mom Was Right” column. Some psychologists think that people who feel cleaner are less judgmental.
According to a news release from the Association for Psychological Science:
New research in Psychological Science,a journal of the Association for Psychological Science has found that the physical notion of cleanliness significantly reduces the severity of [...]
