It’s Our Fave Squeezeboxer: Check out this profile of Brigid Kaelin and you start to get an idea of how cool she is. And she lives in the neighborhood. We’re swooning. [ILIL]
Breakfast Anywhere But Especially Here: The new Esquire devotes 16 pages to the subject of the great morning meal. Included is the recipe for Jalapeno-and-Ancho Oatmeal from 610 Magnolia and a graph about Wagner’s ham and eggs. The C-J’s Katya Cengel gets in the credits. I’m jealous.
A Day Without Weather: Maybe the local TV stations should just give the weather guys the day off today. For those of you keeping score, Jay Cardosi stayed on the air longest with the big wind yesterday, going until almost 3. We’re giving Monty Webb a second place.
Logging Lincoln: Yep, lot of Lincoln-related remembrances reminders in the mailbox, and we know they’re releasing new pennies as part of his birthday celebration. But Jake’s got the best way to honor Abe on the Internets. [Page One]
Alert Webster’s: The new term is called “sexting.” Just heard Francene talking about this, and stories about teens sharing nude pics of themselves by text is all the rage. And they’re getting themselves arrested for it. [CBS]
Alcohol Tax Tiebreaker: Last chance for opponents of the revenue bill, which includes increased taxes on tobacco and alcohol, is in the full Senate tomorrow. A Senate panel barely approved moving it along this morning, 9-7. You can blame E-town’s Elizabeth Tori, who changed her vote from no to yes to break an 8-8 tie. [C-J]
Some Explaining To Do: New MC Prez David Tandy asked LG&E’s Vic Staffieri to come and talk at tonight’s Metro Council meeting. But Vic’s in Germany talking to the parent suits, so an LG&E VP will address the group.
Like We Care, But Still: They’re down to 36 American Idol finalists, and even though several auditioned here, no one still in it is even from Kentucky. So all those contestants, at least the good ones, were mainly people who travel the country to auditions. Don’t you feel cheated? [E!]
Octo-Photo: Strong stomach required to look at this. Really strong. [HuffPo]
4 responses so far ↓
1 Jake2 // Feb 12, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I think yesterday’s special reports were overkill for the most part. Giving credit to WLKY for staying on the air until 3:00 sends the wrong message – that over-hyped weather coverage is somehow a good thing.
This time I think WAVE actually practiced the right amount of restraint, staying on the air until the tornado warning in southern Indiana expired and then breaking in sporadically with updates after that. After all, nobody wants wall-to-wall coverage to pre-empt Judge Karen…. hah
2 wx4svr // Feb 12, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I completely, 100% agree with Jake2. WAVE, in my opinion, did the best job. They followed THEIR protocol, and got the information out that needed to be put out. So, from my view point, props to WAVE 3.
3 johnnyb // Feb 12, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I think WAVE always does the best job. I never could stand Jay Cardosi’s Ejacu-weather and have no use for WHAS since Ken Schulz was forced out. His replacement seems barely able to speak properly and is painful to watch.
4 Plsreplceurdivots // Feb 15, 2009 at 7:48 am
We all know that TV is driven by ratings, so it is going to take people to stop watching, for anything to change. But that didn’t happen this time. WLKYs ratings beat the rest by nearly 2 to 1. Expect much of the same from them next time, and likely more from the others.
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