www.poynter.org Great Zeus! Poynter’s Romesnesko finds the word “Repugnant,” repugnant. So Friday, I check Journalism God Jim Romenesko’s linkathon at the Poynter Institute Web site and I discover that he’s posted a link to a Phoenix Business Journal article from the same day reporting the news that Jon Talton’s bidding…
OutNow By order of the almighty Gannett and its faithful servant John Zidich, journalism as you know it will now cease to exist! Below is the makeup of the Arizona Republic’s new Information Center, the Orwellian Gannett construct which merges the newsroom with online, makes redundant a print paper, and…
http://www.philgordon.org/ Stick ’em up, pardner: Goober Gordon shootin’ air bullets, as usual. As if the murder report on the local nightly news wasn’t enough to convince you that you live in one of the most dangerous states in the nation, here comes a new study showing that — golly, gee…
Ain’t no cake walk for Flake’s new bill, but it does offer hope. At first glance, Rep. Jeff Flake’s new immigration reform bill seems to offer hope of a compromise on the issue between the pro and anti camps. It presents a pathway to legal residency for the 12 to…
Paris Troy Hotter than a Georgia firecracker; so hot you could bake bread on her back, or maybe a frozen pizza…uh, you get the picture. For some reason Thump Day Honey sounds a lot cooler than Hump Day Honey, and it also gives me an extra day to snag a…
http://www.almaweb.org/about/richard.htm Rep. columnist Ruelas is all smiles, despite the killing of his column. Following on the heels of the news of Jon Talton’s imminent departure at the Arizona Repugnant, I now learn that my other favorite columnist at the Rep, Richard Ruelas, has also had his column cut. Unlike Talton,…
WikimediaCommons Rosie the Rotund takes a hit off the 9/11 troofer crackpipe. Proving true the adage that even a cracked clock is right twice a day, Mexican immigrant-basher Darrell Ankkkarlo of KTAR 92.3 FM dumped on roly-poly bigmouth Rosie O’Donnell this Tuesday morn re: her support for 9/11 conspiracy theories…
http://www.jontalton.com/ Someone crank up the Dion: “Anybody here seen my old friend Jon? Can you tell me where he’s gone?” Sadly, it seems the Arizona Republic’s massive reorganization, which I wrote about back in January, into an online Information Center that also happens to put out a daily paper, has…
A Royal pain: Tabloid talking head Royal Oakes Check this Friday, March 16 post from The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) concerning the Anna Nicole spoof and the somewhat preachy piece from the TV show that birthed Bill O’Reilly, Inside Edition: Phoenix New Times’ Anna Nicole Story is — Gasp!…
Jim Moret & moi: As you can see, Jimbo’s dreading that drive to Sells. Now that the word’s out that our wildly successful Anna Nicole Smith spoof was, um, a spoof, I can reveal the events of this Monday that resulted in Thursday’s Inside Edition segment on yours truly and…
Be afraid, be very afraid: Mandal season is upon us. You know it’s Spring in the Zona when they appear — the dreaded mandals, or man sandals, which signal the advent of warmer weather. I regard it as being on par with such Biblical plagues as locusts, frogs, water turned…
http://www.myspace.com/ankarlo Ankkkarlo loves the misery of others, especially if they’re illegals… KTAR saliva jockey Darrell Ankarlo was practically beating off on the radio this morning in ecstasy over the news of three teenagers being deported to Mexico after being stopped by a Gilbert police officer for drag racing. Sure, if…
Eve and the apple: Temptress Tondra says fruit does a body good. Common wisdom holds that booful women are bitchy because they can be. But fortunately that doesn’t apply in the case of the captivating PHX club-hopper known as Tondra. A habitue of nightspots like The Rogue, GLAM, Tranzylvania, and…
www.lastgasp.com The official coloring book in gangsta’s paradise. If you’re KTAR’s Darrell Ankarlo, the poor man’s Sean Hannity, that means you’ve got to fill three-and-a-half hours each day with spleen, even if it means exaggerating the topic a bit. Case in point was a segment on today’s show about San…
Ignignokt and Err flip Phoenix the bird at the Lost Leaf gallery… The highlight of my First Friday artwalk last week was not scopin’ all the drunken art babes, but checking out Ignignokt and Err, those Mooninite characters from Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force , whom I found hanging…
photo by Giulio Sciorio The pulchritudinous Pyra Sutra, now with breasts to match that gorgeous bod. Hump day came and went so fast this week that I’m introducing a Thump Day Honey, none other than Mizz Pyra Sutra, co-founder of the Phoenix burlesque troupe Scandalesque, which is sort of a…
Hey, would you guys be interested in learning about 9/11 conspiracy theories? Thought so… Christ, here we go again! ScrewLooseChange’s James Bennett has just reported on the upcoming “2007 Justice and Freedom Conference” to be held in Irvine, CA, March 9-12. This kook confab, part deux, is being hosted by…
Allegedly, the one on Williams’ ‘puter had no red line through it, natch. So, get this, the latest scuttlebutt about Eric “Holocaust-denier” Williams’ participation in the Chandler 9/11 Accountability Conference is that he allegedly had a freakin’ ginormous swastika screensaver on his laptop while set up in his vendor booth…
Does this place have nine lives, or what? In the eleventh hour, Chez Nous gets a new lease on life… I’m not the first journo to have written an obit for Chez Nous, and seeing how things go with the tres cool nightspot, I probably won’t be the last. Now…
Hey, I love Kool-Aid. I just don’t wanna drink the 9/11 batch. I don’t want to start asserting that there’s a conspiracy on the part of the 9/11 conspiracy theorists to get me. You’ll figure I drank the Kool-Aid, or went native. Or maybe that they left the pod beside…
Uh, sorry troofers, I don’t look like the guy from Mass. This is me in da club gettin’ smooched by a babe. Eat yer hearts out! This is what the Mass. sex offender looks like… I’ve been noting a few blog comments come over the transom today accusing me of…
The Manchurian Candidate? Do you really want this wacko’s finger on the button? Now that Arizona Senator John McCain has announced his candidacy for Prez on David Letterman, the question remains, does the dood have a popsicle’s chance in Hades of ever occupying the Oval Office? Personally, I don’t think…
