August 30, 2004
Diver down ...
My friend Ken sent me the following link featuring photos of a dive trip he took to Saba Island in the Caribbean. The photography is really spectacular and is worth checking out ...
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August 25, 2004
Iron City goes aluminum
Current and recovering Pittsburghers will appreciate this one. Iron City, that swillish brew from the Steel City, has come out with an "aluminum beer bottle." Looks pretty strange and allegedly keeps beer cold longer.
Not sure if I'm ready for the aluminum bottle. I'm still recovering from their disco phase. ("Hey, give me an IC Light ..."). and those 16-ounce returnable bottles from my youth. I think we affectionately referred to it as "Old Homicide."
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August 21, 2004
Stuever on NPR ...
NPR's Weekend Edition had a feature this morning on Hank's book, which I wrote about a few weeks ago. It's worth checking out.
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August 6, 2004
Spam from Jesus
Now I've seen it all. I'm getting spam from Jesus. Maybe it is time to change my ways. Oddly, he's using a Yahoo e-mail account. You'd think he could come up with something more appropriate than aryeh41@yahoo.com. Perhaps jesus@heaven.org or something like that.
Here's what Jesus had to say, under the subject line: The Rapture of the Church
It's Time To Go.
Come to www.katha-donpublishing.com to find out now just why, but how.
When you go to the site, you'll realize Jesus is still pissed at Bill Clinton, and Our Savior is not much of a grammarian. I'm not surprised by the former, but I really thought Jesus would be a stickler for spelling and punctuation.
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August 1, 2004
End of an era ...
I had a meeting with the Associated Press in New York on Friday, and it turned out to be the last meeting held in their space at 50 Rockefeller Center. Kinda cool to be there at the close of a 66-year run. When we arrived and told the guard we were there for a meeting with AP, he looked at us like were were nuts.
"They moved. Are you certain it's here?"
"I'm positive," I told him. He called the person we were meeting with and we were ushered up, but not before they went through my suitcase at security.
50 Rock is a very cool, art deco building. It's also right there in the thick of things near Times Square. It would be sort of a drag to move somewhere else.
The AP office had the look of a space in transition. Barren walls. Piles of boxes. Electrical cords that connect nothing. Hard to believe this was the brain center for coverage of major events during the past six decades.
The meeting came and went and an era ended.
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