Tube City Almanac

October 13, 2008

Slow News Day

Category: Commentary/Editorial, General Nonsense || By

I'd like to publicly thank Jen Vertullo of the Daily News for writing a very nice story about the Founder's Day Address at the McKeesport Heritage Center, but who's the bald weirdo in all of the pictures?

Seriously, Jen, you probably want to make sure your camera is OK. It's making people's foreheads look freakishly large and bare.

Says Alert Reader Mike, "The stock market is moving like Kennywood's Racer and you're on the front page of the Daily News. Wow!"

Yeah, but we'll have years to read about the collapse of the American economy. The speech was only going to be news for 24 hours or so.

They put me right above a headline about "deaths linked to tainted milk." That somehow seems appropriate.

By the way, if you didn't attend, you missed out on a free gift. All visitors received a pencil labeled "PROPERTY OF G.C. MURPHY CO. STORE USE."


They weren't stolen from the Home Office. Instead, they were duplicated from an original Murphy pencil with the help of JoAnn Kylander of Frank Sinatra Advertising in Glassport. And they were American-made pencils, from the Aakron Pencil Co. of Akron, N.Y.

I wouldn't hesitate at all to recommend Sinatra Advertising (which was named for the real Frank Sinatra of Elizabeth Township, not that other guy).

Mention my name and ask for one of the fuzzy-headed "thank you" pens. It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys, and it smells nicer, too.

Since we're all going to be selling pencils soon, order yours now and avoid the rush.

Meanwhile, I just found out that a cartoon I did a few years ago for a chain of Maine newspapers made the rounds of the state legislature, and that the governor of Maine was not amused.

Well, there's yet another place where I've worn out my welcome: Maine. This is the first time I've ever ticked off an entire state without ever visiting it. Usually I need to work somewhere for at least a couple of weeks before they're mad at me.






Your Comments are Welcome!

The Daily News sure knows how to make money…truncate the article! That was a very nice article – what I read – and I’m sure I’ll get to read the rest someday.
Eric - October 15, 2008



If you plunk down 50 cents at The Daily News business office, you can read the entire article. Or subscribe and you can see an entire newspaper on-line, not just what the Webmaster thinks should be released for free. (And does anyone really think an entire newspaper is offered free on-line by any publisher, even if far more stuff is put on the Web site for general consumption?)
Does it matter? - October 16, 2008



Well, I prescribe to the Daily News.

I don’t think Eric is from the immediate area, so he doesn’t have access to 409 Walnut St.

It’s a shame he can’t just pay like 50 cents online for one day of access, or to download one story. It seems to me that with PayPal, something like that would be manageable, but what do I know?

Personally, I wish the Daily News’ archives were online. I pay $70-something a year for NewspaperArchive.com, and I’d gladly pony that up for access to the Daily News’ back issues, too. (The P-G archives can be accessed, too, for $2.95 per story.)
Webmaster - October 16, 2008



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