Landen sends back photos

After finally getting some decent Internet access, Landen has posted some photos from Afghanistan. I don’t have much context for any of them, but he seemed in high spirits this morning.
Enjoy:

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‘Three Flat Hats’ at the pub

That’s what Bill Gibbons, the owner of the Galway Bay, dubbed the three of us when Jeremy joined us on stage this past weekend for an amazing couple of shows. The crowds were incredible. We kicked up a little noise. Made and lost a few memories. And sold a few CDs. Thanks to Star for [...]

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Court quotes return

After several unfunny weeks of court, I finallly got an interesting day with plenty of random and out-of-context quotes from the Grays Harbor County Courthouse. Enjoy.
“You can wear blue or orange. Pick your color.” – Judge on jail jumpsuits.
“I’m sorry for laughing.” – Defense attorney.
“What’s the point of having a gun that doesn’t have [...]

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Parking lot family photos

So there’s the family, posed on the trunk of my Tempest in the parking lot of a Denny’s south of Tacoma. Krista deserves photo credit for this one. I took the others.

A few more below:

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One more time with feeling

I spent most of today working with the editors and Martin, our IT guy, to get our new public safety “On the Scanner” blog up and running online.
We tried this last summer and it went down in flames.
So we’re going to give it another shot. It seems to be doing well so far, but Martin [...]

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Contests: my worst enemy

So the Society of Professional Journalists is collecting submissions again for its annual contest. We’re all supposed to pick out a couple stories from 2008 to send in for the paper.
And I suck at picking stories for contests.
I end up liking stories for very different reasons than everybody else, so my judgment is less than [...]

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New gear and duties

So things are changing rapidly on the Harbor with plenty of big ideas, small budgets and bad news. The Daily World is having to make some changes too.
The paper recently lost one reporter to one of our weeklies and soon legendary Harbor photog Kathy Quigg will be retiring.
We will only replace one. So my job [...]

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Keeping up with the rising water

Macleod Pappidas/The Daily World
Meet Mae Turner, 82, of Water Street in South Bend.
First of all, this is one of my favorite news photos ever. Most of yesterday and today has been a race to keep up with the flood breaking news. From 7 a.m. to about 10:30 a.m. today was a sprint for deadline.
The fun [...]

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2008: A year of the strange and random

Hello, everyone. Good bye, 2008. If you’ve picked up a newspaper basically anywhere today, you’ve seen countless Top-10 stories. So, initially I planned to do a top 10 of my stories for the year. But that seemed boring
So I spent some time today scouring all of your blogs from the past year to find what [...]

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Yes, Virginia, reporters still love Christmas

So as the bright, clean snow turns to muddy slush turns to black ice, and Christmas Day approaches, we are starting to run our holiday stories in the paper.
We love holiday stories. They are heart-warming and a little sappy. It’s a nice change of pace.
Every year on Christmas, we also run this 1897 editorial. A [...]

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