The whole “Your Daily Don” thing never really took off, did it?
Honestly, the less I think about Darth Cheeto and his new droid, Clockwork Orange, the happier I seem to be.
Speak of the devil and he appears, as the saying goes. So let’s not and hope he doesn’t.
There are other ways to pass the time. Jogging. Hiking. Cycling down to the bosque to gauge the color of the cottonwoods (not quite spectacular yet).
And reading about the newish editor and vice president of the Albuquerque Journal, who apparently is doing 10 days in the clink on a shoplifting rap.
Whatever is the world coming to? I’m old enough to remember when only reporters, photographers, and copy editors were so poorly paid that they had to steal to make ends meet.
The Journal may be so hard up it can’t even afford a poorly paid copy editor. My tribe goes unmentioned in the “Contact Us” section of the Journal‘s ghastly website, though I found a “design desk” with four people on it, or under it, depending on whether they’re still sharp enough to steal booze. And two assistant city editors but no actual city editor. Maybe s/he’s in jail too.
That the Journal apparently has no copy desk wasn’t news to me. Not after I saw the story refer to Patrick Ethridge as “editor in chief”, “executive editor,” and “Executive Editor” (in the “Contact Us” lineup, Ethridge is called, simply, “editor”) and report that he was serving “10 days” or “ten days” in the calaboose.
These are peccadillos that even the most poorly paid, knee-walking-drunk, one-eyed copy editor could catch on the first pass through the story from underneath the design desk between attempts to grope one or more of the designers. When one sees these tiny turds floating in the bowl one wonders what monstrosities lurk beneath.
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Good gravy! That dude’s mug shot gets him a conviction and solitary confinement everywhere but maybe Florida where they love them some crooks.
He looks like a photographer who just got a Christmas-bonus check for $15, with the tax taken out.
Yeah, I know one of those.
Ethridge should apply for Dainty Digit’s press secretary. He should fit right in that nest of thieves.
It would be fun to buy a couple of the newsies some beers and see what they have to say about the situation, eh?
I had a few real lulus for bosses when I was still in the game. I should write a novel. How’s this for a working title? “The Gang That Couldn’t Type Straight.”
Copy Desk Conundrum?
Been on the East Coast for the week. Just getting back to all this…..fine news. Good fucking lord.
East Coast? Catch any weather while you were out there? I hear they had some.
Was in Buffalo, N.Y. for a family reunion as the Old Man turned 90 this week. We all had a great time, except when we checked the news about the hurricane. Rained most of the week in Buffalo, so some of my younger brother’s plans we had went up in rain. Preferrable to smoke, I guess.
My brother from Asheville couldn’t get a flight home to Asheville so he is stuck in Greenville, SC as there is no way he can get home. Roads closed, airport shut down, massive damage. It’s pretty sad, although his wife got a text to him saying their home was OK but the street blocked by fallen trees. The realtor we have been dealing with in Asheville got a text out to us yesterday saying we should not even consider the places we were looking at. Either under trees or under water, or both. French Broad River crested at 30 feet. 19 feet is considered a major flood. The River Arts District looked like it was entirely submerged. Swannanoa R. also got pretty large.
Sigh.
Wowsah. Nature bats last, as the fella says. I’ve only been a spectator at natural disasters and would like to keep it that way if I can. The Rio would have to work real hard to get us up here. Fire, um, not so much.
Good news that the bro’s house is OK, though.
Just got a text that he got home today. No water or electricity but house is fine.
I don’t know where that 30 feet number came from that my ‘bro told me yesterday. But whatever it is, it is bad enough. Entire River Arts District was flooded up to the eves. I read that the emergency services folks said to consider all roads impassible. Saw a pic of I-40 covered with a landslide.
I recall my freshman year in college when a hurricane roared up through Appalachia and hit southern New York State hard. Parts of Corning and Elmira were under feet of water. My ROTC unit at Rochester was filling relief boxes.
Ma nature indeed bats last.
Just checked in with my pal Tim in South Carolina. He says he has no power, and is getting by with a generator. Has water, but gas is iffy. Plenty of food, but advises that “cold showers suck.”
Not Asheville I hope!
Terrible behavior, including what his kids did. But 10 days in jail? I guess Walmart wanted to set an example, knowing it would make the papers…
He’d have gotten off easier if he’d just tried to usurp the government and steal an election.
Yeah, I found the jail time excessive. Unnecessary, actually, unless he was being a real dick about getting caught, like deploying the fabled “Do you know who I am?” shtick. Ninety days, with 80 suspended? Shit, we got DUIs, B&E guys and killers who are back on the streets faster than that.
PO’G, I just left a comment, but it showed it as having been made by tenacioussuperbly etc. Dunno why.
-Eric J Pederswen
Eric, that’s slightly weird, even for WeirdPress. Is that a handle you’ve used elsewhere, or was it randomly generated?
I’m enjoying all manner of spasticity with this 10-year-old MacBook Pro lately as Apple strides boldly forward to wherever. Safari 14.1.2 (Mojave) is less and less functional in the Modern Era, and I can’t upgrade the OS to Big Sur because the “Geniuses” at our local Apple store FUBARed the MBP’s display while installing a new battery. No internal display, no OS upgrade, not without jumping through more hoops than a 10-year-old laptop is worth.
er, (or err), that’s Eric J Pedersen. Sorry.
I’d tend to believe the guy’s story about the kids driving him bonkers and he not realizing the auto-checkout was not going “beep”. I’ve seen some kids driving their parents nuts to the point where if I had done that, I’d have the tattoo of my Old Man’s belt on my hindside for a week.
Given that in NM we routinely let mother rapers. father stabbers, and father
rapers out on their own recognizance, I have a hard time believing this guy deserved ten days in the cooler. Weird.
Perhaps he gave the judge a ration of shit? If that was what happened, I hope that judge gets appointed to the federal bench in Florida.