Greetings from Yuma
Howdy, this is Neil checking in from the Wild, Wild West. Yee-haw!
I am now a copy editor/page designer for The Yuma Sun here in Yuma, Ariz. I can confirm for you that it's hot. No one has died in Yuma from the heat. In fact, I would rather feel 110 degrees than 90 degrees in Kansas
However, Yumans like to shoot each other. There is an unsolved six-person murder in the 'burbs, an unresolved double-homicide by the Colorado River, a missing homeless man called the Navigator and yesterday there was a carjacking that started a high-speed chase on Interstate 8 that ended with the Arizona Department of Public Safety shooting the guy in the leg. About a month before I moved a Marine jet crashed in a neighborhood here carrying four bombs which, somehow, didn't explode.
The great thing about Yuma is there's a burrito king on every corner, pigeons live in the palm trees and a minor league baseball team. Sportos take note: Rickey Henderson plays minor league baseball for the San Diego Surf Dawgs. He has a horrible batting average, leads the Golden Baseball League in walks and looks like he's been on a five-day coke binge.
Yuma is a weird place — PBR can only be found in two liquor stores, pigeons nest in palm trees and Mary (my girlfriend) calls "Los Angelas, Jr" because you have to drive to get anywhere. Half the population is Hispanic and in the winter time about 80,000 "I'm rich, bitch" Canadians move here.
The Sun is a decent place to work. I show about 1ish and work until the baby is put to bed four days a week. Two nights I copy edit, everything from 1A local copy to obits and on two nights I design. There's copy kids, an AM designer and a PM designer and a sports guy every night on the "desk."
Fellow design ninjas take warning: Beware the program PageSpeed. It's the bastard child of Quark and Dreamweaver — but with all of the reatarded elements of both. It has no stylesheets and in order to create a design element, say, a screened box, you have to type in a code like in Dreamweaver. Needless to day, we're making a slow migration to InDesign ... but not soon enough. Smaller papers tend to use it and the entire Cox chain uses it.
That's all folks ... for now ... Here's a snippit from a Sun obit. I wish I met this guy.
Elmer ‘Duke’ ‘Dukieburger’ R. Juul
Elmer "Duke" "Dukieburger" R. Juul, 77, of Yuma, died July 18, 2005, at Yuma Regional Medical Center.
He was born July 29, 1927, in Astoria, Ore., and was a retired international labor representative.
Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Elks Lodge No. 476.
Kammann Mortuary is handling arrangements and a private cremation.
TOODLES AND POODLES SWIMMING IN RAMEN NOODLES,
Neil Mulka
I am now a copy editor/page designer for The Yuma Sun here in Yuma, Ariz. I can confirm for you that it's hot. No one has died in Yuma from the heat. In fact, I would rather feel 110 degrees than 90 degrees in Kansas
However, Yumans like to shoot each other. There is an unsolved six-person murder in the 'burbs, an unresolved double-homicide by the Colorado River, a missing homeless man called the Navigator and yesterday there was a carjacking that started a high-speed chase on Interstate 8 that ended with the Arizona Department of Public Safety shooting the guy in the leg. About a month before I moved a Marine jet crashed in a neighborhood here carrying four bombs which, somehow, didn't explode.
The great thing about Yuma is there's a burrito king on every corner, pigeons live in the palm trees and a minor league baseball team. Sportos take note: Rickey Henderson plays minor league baseball for the San Diego Surf Dawgs. He has a horrible batting average, leads the Golden Baseball League in walks and looks like he's been on a five-day coke binge.
Yuma is a weird place — PBR can only be found in two liquor stores, pigeons nest in palm trees and Mary (my girlfriend) calls "Los Angelas, Jr" because you have to drive to get anywhere. Half the population is Hispanic and in the winter time about 80,000 "I'm rich, bitch" Canadians move here.
The Sun is a decent place to work. I show about 1ish and work until the baby is put to bed four days a week. Two nights I copy edit, everything from 1A local copy to obits and on two nights I design. There's copy kids, an AM designer and a PM designer and a sports guy every night on the "desk."
Fellow design ninjas take warning: Beware the program PageSpeed. It's the bastard child of Quark and Dreamweaver — but with all of the reatarded elements of both. It has no stylesheets and in order to create a design element, say, a screened box, you have to type in a code like in Dreamweaver. Needless to day, we're making a slow migration to InDesign ... but not soon enough. Smaller papers tend to use it and the entire Cox chain uses it.
That's all folks ... for now ... Here's a snippit from a Sun obit. I wish I met this guy.
Elmer ‘Duke’ ‘Dukieburger’ R. Juul
Elmer "Duke" "Dukieburger" R. Juul, 77, of Yuma, died July 18, 2005, at Yuma Regional Medical Center.
He was born July 29, 1927, in Astoria, Ore., and was a retired international labor representative.
Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Elks Lodge No. 476.
Kammann Mortuary is handling arrangements and a private cremation.
TOODLES AND POODLES SWIMMING IN RAMEN NOODLES,
Neil Mulka
posted by The University Daily Kansan at 3:58 PM
1 Comments:
Ricky Henderson looks like he's on a five-day coke binge because he probably has been on a five-day coke binge.
Vockrodt has spoken.
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