Monthly Archives: September 2003

Travel days: Working in our nation’s capital today and tomorrow (top secret stuff) so the blogging will be light and mostly early and late.

Tennessee pride: Forget the Titans beating the Steelers. Here’s a middle-Tennessee victory really worth noting: Taylor Marie Ware, a nine-year-old from Franklin, has won the Yahoo Yodel Contest. Of course, this won’t help our efforts to dissuade the rest of … Continue reading →

Magazine Quote of the Day: “It’s not Fortune magazine or Playgirl, but it’s the best I could do,” Crystal River Police officer Corey Sharpe tells the St. Petersburg Times.

Boffo PR: Hey, it’s the oldest PR trick in the book, but AARP the magazine is going to score big with this “research” finding it is releasing today. Revealing that older women are dating younger guys does two things: 1. … Continue reading →

Stat of the week: 3-1 Titans stats: Regular rexblog visitors know I consistently complain about statistical-based stories written by reporters who display they know little about stats, even less about how to apply them to meaningful analysis. Today’s Titans vs. … Continue reading →

Hand biting: Blender Magazine gave a ho-hum review of a CD produced by the magazine’s owner, Felix Dennis. He tells (jokes with?) the NY Times’ David Carr, “Those (year-end) bonuses are not earned, they are dispensed entirely at my whim … Continue reading →

Vote #4 Vote for Tookie’s lillies: My mother-in-law’s close friend, Tookie (all her friends have names like that), is a finalist in the national competition to determine which lily paintings will appear on next year’s Easter Seals. My mother-in-law asked … Continue reading →

All kinds: This dude needs a weblog. He’s a (or should that be “an”?) habitual letter to the editor writer and claims to have had over 1,000 such letters published. I can recall writing four letters to the editor: two … Continue reading →

Hometown hero: Tom Wylly announced the formation of the Nashville Capital Network, an effort to match angel investors with early-stage start-ups. Tom is a special person in so many ways. Believe me, I know.

Natalie, I take it all back: If Natalie Maines can write like this then she’s my kind of chick. It’s even funnier in german.

Urbane & witty: George Plimpton, the New York aristocrat and literary journalist, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan (NY Times, registration required). He was the unpaid editor of The Paris Review for 50 years. Anyone who grew up in … Continue reading →

Vaporzine Hall of Fame: The first inductee to the forthcoming (?) Vaporzine Hall of Fame has to be Stu: For the Adequate Man. Canadian humorist Jesse Brown announced he was working on launching, what else, a Maxim for good ol’ … Continue reading →

Weird: Astonishingly strange news about a person I once knew a long time ago, former Nashville Banner managing editor Bracey Campbell. When this story first broke I hoped it was some type of misunderstanding. In reality, it appears to be … Continue reading →

Banned at Wal-mart? I wonder if Wal-mart will make its stores place the current Business Week cover behind those “blinders” it uses to hide the covers of women’s magazines.

Does advertising work? A “new ad industry model for validating the effects of advertising” should, I believe, help validate the relative (to other media) effectiveness of magazine advertising. (via mediapost.com)