Dancing With O'Toole

Hey,

I found something interesting. I didn't ask my campus editor compatriot if I could post it here, but I figured it was already on the Internet, so what the hey?

Enjoy:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/entertainment/16751376.htm

Also, I've moved to The Kansas City Star six months ago in their community news program, for those who care.

Andy

Dear Vaupel,

I'm hungry.

Love,
Bill

Back from the dark side...

I think my curiosity causes me to check the blog once in a while.

I would like to announce that I've crossed back over from the dark side! Like Neil, I have a new job!

In fact, today was my first day. I'm now an online editor at American Banker, a weekday newspaper covering the banking industry.

I hope everyone else is well. And if you drop by and see our new posts, take a few minutes to let us know how you're doing.

Later,
Andrew

From one border state to another

As if anyone checks thing anymore ...

I got a new job! I am going to be a page designer for The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead in Fargo, N.D. YIPPEE! It's a bigger daily (55,000 daily, 61,000 Sunday) and a better town, so I'm excited.

C-ya,

Neil

I don’t tea bag, I potato sack.

For anyone who thought that the Free for All was printing comments that were completely inappropriate or were a complete affront to journalistic integrity, here is the Advance-Titan's* version of the Free for All. They call it the Gripe Line and apparently they do not edit its content.

Enjoy:

Does anyone know of a good barber in Oshkosh? I don'’t want a metrosexual called a "hairstylist."” I want a male barber who could shave a balloon if needed. They can be a little racist, but they know how to handle my gorgeous brown hair.

The Advance-Titan has too many ads in it. I appreciate 10% off a penis pump'’s cost as much as the next guy, but that space could be better used.

I read someone ejaculates cottage cheese! I ejaculate peaches! I have met my soul mate.

To my knowledge some of the finest writers contribute gripes. If Ernest Hemmingway was still alive I bet he could conjure up one sweet titty joke.

Some people consider Sept. 11, Hurricane Katrina or Pearl Harbor as the most devastating moments in American history. I am still recovering from when Hulk Hogan joined the NWO.

Girls aren'’t funny.

According to the service desk at the student registration office everything can be done on Titan Web. Can I log on and tell everyone at Dempsey to suck on my lopsided balls?

With October coming soon I would like to be the first to tell Jesus to take a backseat while the nation celebrates Satan. It is time for Dick Cheney to be honored with pumpkins, black and orange M&Ms and hellfire.

One of the perks of balding is that you can still grow a ponytail in back. The Ben Franklin look is HOT, am I wrong ladies?

Statistics show that non-traditional students are 800% more likley to grumble miserably at a computer screen in the Radford basement.

I don't tea bag, I potato sack.

*The Advance-Titan is the student newspaper of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. It publishes twice a week.

Tejas!

Hello Friends and Acquaintances,

I have accepted another newspaper position for the third time in 15 months. Starting Aug. 28 I will be the newest member of a three-person military reporting staff at the Killeen Daily Herald (www.kdhnews.com) in Killeen, Texas. I flew down several weeks ago for interviews.

Killeen is next to Fort Hood, the biggest military installation (in population) in the world. Fort Hood is the only post home to two Army Divisions (1st Cavalry and 4th Infantry) and III Corps. To give you an idea of size, Fort Riley has one division (1st Infantry, as of Aug. 1) and its population is about 28,000. Junction City has about 19,000 citizens. Fort Hood's population sits at nearly 65,000 and Killeen is at almost 100,000. I'll cover the 1st Cav Division and III Corps. The military editor is amazing and promised if I gave her two years, I've have the clips to get any job I wanted.

Killeen and Fort Hood are halfway between Austin and Waco (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=US&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&addtohistory=&cat=&address=&city=killeen&state=tx&zipcode=v). They're about an hour away from Austin, two hours from Dallas and from Houston.

The Killeen Daily Herald is a 20,000 daily and 26,000 Sunday publication. It also publishes the Fort Hood Herald, a weekly
competitor to the on-post, military newspaper. The Herald prints and distributes 30,000 free issues of its military edition a week. Most of my stories (primarily features) will go in the weekly. The issue-oriented stories will go in the daily so I'll work for a daily and a weekly. The Herald was named the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Class AA Newspaper of the Year for 2006.

So for all of you who don't know or care about all the above journalism and military jargon, I could've summed it up for you at the beginning of this email but I didn't. Here it is now: Job in Texas. Leaving in two weeks. Army. Big.

For those of you who like interesting trivia, Killeen was the site of the 1991 Luby's massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby%27s_massacre).

I'm in the process of hiring a moving truck (All expenses paid!) and finding an apartment that accepts the cutest kittens … EVER! I'll let y'all (I'm going to have to start practicing this one.) know when I get a mailing address. Also, if you're interested in a 10-hour U-Haul drive with a free flight back to Kansas, let me know. If you're at Fort Hood, look me up.

Thank goodness I won't have to capitalize "soldier" anymore,

AKS

book, Book, OMG BOOK!

*hyperventilates, falls over*

How To: A Mental_Floss Guide to Just About Everything
Coming Summer 2007

By Maggie Koerth

ho-ly-shit. I cannot make coherent sentences.

P.S. Someday when I am old and rich I will donate a trust to KU that can only be used for Kansan barn parties.