Daily Briefs: Two Presidents
By CHRIS PACKHAM
Still Alive: As a kind of stunt, I thought I might try making jokes about every story on the index page of The Kansas City Star website this morning. %{[ data-embed-type=”image” data-embed-id=”57150c4e89121ca96b96242a” data-embed-element=”aside” ]}%Unfortunately, they printed an unusually high number of stories about people who died, so I quickly Netscape-navigated away to inoccuous, unfunny list-generating node Cracked.com, a website so completely shitty that I will not provide them with a working link. Not only am I not allowed to make fun of freshly-dead people, the news stories themselves always inspire me to Max Von Sydow-like brooding about my own death, making me all sad and depressed, which I already wrote about several weeks ago.
Netflix is down, so in lieu of watching The Wire episodes that have been at the top of my queue for the last week, I’ve been catching up with my old friends, Smirnoff vodka and juice. We actually used to spend a lot of time together watching The Wire, but now we just hang out and call old girlfriends until we’re too drunk to press the flat little buttons on my Razr phone. After the jump, a brief analysis of a very special section of The Kansas City Star, and how it will save journalism. Plus: some other stuff. Click here, or, for our French-speaking readers, ici.
