Comments on: V. 2.0.

By: Your Uncle Ben

Your Uncle Ben — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:13:00 +0000

Wait a fuckin’ minute !
I’m 70 yrs. old and I was tired of listening to this tired shit when I was 20. Get some enthusiasm ; Find the positive vibe ; move forward.
All I heard in your first paragraphs was the negative. That has been done. So done . So 40’s . 50’s. 60’s. .….….…70’s …etc.
Do you get it ? What is new to you .…. ain’t New !
Why do you think that the owner put blinders on race horses. ???
ANS: So they don’t see and care about what is around them !
Do your thing without regard . WITHOUT REGARD !!!

your Uncle Ben

By: ejohnson

ejohnson — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:54:58 +0000

I’ll be watching the evolution of GPT with great interest. I’m two years in to my own hyperlocal blogging experiment and have yet to figure out the design challengers or even to find someone who can help poor techno-feeble me. (My husband tries but it’s not his first line, either.)

Looking forward to more on this topic. I’ve got enough for a book, let me tell you.

By: Connie

Connie — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:50:24 +0000

Wish my byline were Northport. Of course one of these days I am going to inherit a little cottage some miles south of there, for which I will probably not be able to afford the property tax bill. Mario Batali and family live in Northport in the summer.

Hey Sue, looks like last week in July for us. And you?

By: Jolene

Jolene — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:32:21 +0000

There’s a right paren missing in Ben Burns’s bio.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:23:49 +0000

I have decided — she reports

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:16:12 +0000

She’s fair and balanced, you’ll have to concede that.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:08:18 +0000

Jeff’s Fox reference intrigued me, so I clicked on the GP2day site, and immediately got a chuckle! — and indeed — quite a lovely site; crisp and clean, pleasing to the eye and and inviting.

Makes me wish I was one of the elect

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:25:51 +0000

What a night — Purdue loses and they toss the smiling oil rig worker from Idol, then Cat Cora lost on the replayed Iron Chef from Sunday, which i already knew, but i only saw the end of “Battle Coffee” Sunday, so it was a trifecta of failure. Coffee braised fennel? Wonder what that makes one’s excreta smell like … which was the defense Purdue used against UConn.

By the way, i just went and looked at the front page of Nancy’s GPT website, and was somewhat startled to find she’s an outlet of FoxNews. Who would have known? Never, never judge too hastily, i have to keep reminding myself. It must be kind of like a Juan Williams thing. Looking forward to reading Karl Rove’s take on Pointe-d Disputes.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:17:22 +0000

Talkin’ sports: Who in the h-e-double hockey sticks ever thought Mizzou would take out Memphis? And Duke really sucked, and Philly’s got a winner in ‘Nova.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:05:25 +0000

http://susanager.com/index.html

The above link is to Susan Ager’s homepage. She wrote a column in the Freep for years , taking a buyout last August. The past years her dateline was her Northport, Michigan home.
I had gotten a bit nostalgic for the old days at the Freep when we could read Fitz, Talbert, Ager, Watson, Neil Shine, and good old Mitch, the scourge of NN.C. Fitz still lives as far as I know, Bob Talbert and Neil Shine left us, Mr. Shine just last year. Another great writer was News sports writer Shelby Strother, dead way too young of liver cancer.
Eighteen years ago he had a collection of his columns published:
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL1759676M/Saddlebags