Quitting Time Booster Shot

Welcome to the Booster, where we’re giving the divine Ms. A a hat tip for this tweet: “Yay, holidays. Time for jewelry ads about bribing your unpleasant wife to fuck your stupid ass.” Here’s the ad we at the QTBS would like to see to codify that idea…

 

- Sadness this week for the loss of several gay/lesbian newspapers, which closed amid a series of issues. Apparently, the alleged gay/straight divide isn’t as great as we all think. Newspapers closing due to greed and mismanagement simply knows no bounds.

- The Cleveland/Detroit game is being blacked out due to a lack of a sellout. Two 1-8 teams facing off in a battle of ineptitude. Shocking, that people didn’t want to fork out hundreds of dollars to show up and see this. We need a special trophy for something like this. Like a set of crutches or a perhaps a golden Port-o-John.

- The phrase “$5 million award in beef jerky dispute” makes this worth reading just on general principle. 

- From the “I’m telling mom” file: The social media editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ratted out a poster for posting a vulgarity by calling up the school from where the post originated. Two things: 1) It’s stupid that you decide to be a traffic cop for comments to that level. 2) The dumber thing is that it wasn’t a kid who posted it, but rather a school employee. Good grief…

- When you stand too close to certain people, sometimes it’s tough not to paint you all with the same brush…

- From the “Do we really want to know?” department: We’re looking at more and more detailed E.Coli testing on our meat. I think this is a great idea in one way, but not so great in others. I remember a story on a local TV news station where they had a high school kid come in and do a set of swabs on their coffee cups and kitchen area as part of a sweeps week story. The kid found enough germs in there to kill half the planet. I swear the monkey from “Outbreak” had taken a shit in their coffee. Watching the anchor react to these findings was priceless. It was like someone jut called him up and told him that his last one-night stand just died of about six forms of VD.

Thanks for letting me share your air. Be back next week.

Doc

Comments

[Athenae]

I remember a story on a local TV news station where they had a high school kid come in and do a set of swabs on their coffee cups and kitchen area as part of a sweeps week story.

I would like to build a time machine and go back in time and find the person who approved that story and KICK HIM IN THE BALLS.

The Internet, killing journalism every day.

A.

[pansypoo]

diamonds for stuid guys who are will to pay instead of think. i hate diamonds. always, i don't like fur or flowers either. the trio of death for women. i'd rather have a PLANT.

[Lex]

CLE/DET actually had an entertaining (I won't say "great") finish. Go figure.