by Urizenus Sklar, reporting from the Zac Efron party tent at the Pulitzer awards.
The Herald is pleased to report that Jim Schaefer and some of his colleagues at the Detroit Free Press have received a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Kwame Kilpatrick affair. What we media insiders know is that while Schaefer *got* the prize for the Patrick story, he *earned* it for his 2004 reportage about the Alphaville Herald.
In this vein, Schaefer follows in the footsteps of New York Times writer Amy Harmon who just last year got a Pulitzer for writing something about DNA, but really truly she earned it with her front page Times story about the Alphaville Herald.
Who will be next? Codec perhaps?
would you guys please sober up
Posted by: alcan | April 22, 2009 at 01:22 AM
I got me a pullet-surprise from Miz Pixeleen, after my first blob I dun writ here.
That pullet weighed in at seven pounds. Too big to fry, so I roasted it up rite nice.
Good eatin!
alcan--Soberin' up am WAY overrated. Too much work gittin' drunk agin, so STAY DRUNK.
Posted by: Pappy Enoch | April 22, 2009 at 07:18 AM
>Who will be next? Codec perhaps?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Never in a million years. Don't get me wrong, I AM proud of my work. I had to work super hard to get where I am with basically no formal education to speak of. My life has transformed so much over the last year (mostly for the better, except for the AIDS diagnosis) that it is barely recognizable. The physical discomfort that comes with being sick does not even compare to the existential anxiety that I once felt. In the beginning of 2008 I was a security guard searching trucks at the Proctor & Gamble in Augusta, GA. I've come quite a ways but I'm not deluding myself thinking that I can compare to the likes of the most talented and famous journalists alive.
>would you guys please sober up
I like this comment. It's incredulous without really being insulting. Too funny.
Posted by: deadlycodec | April 22, 2009 at 08:47 AM
First, what does existential mean? Come on dude. You are never going to write for anyone (and not to be blunt - but you need to do this in decent time bro) unless we all get you.
Second, if you took this article seriously - find a new gig cause witting ain't for you.
I admit I took the the first few stories here 100 sober and I didn't get it, but after about two bottles of Boone's Farm Peach Flavor --- WOW! It's like the oracle baby. I am so LOL ROTFL OMG.
And the plug for P&G ? Like they need it? I will never stop needing Head & Shoulders until I eliminate black from my shirt collection and I can't be alone.
Posted by: Adric Antfarm | April 22, 2009 at 07:37 PM
hurr i don't understand basic english vocabulary this is your fault
Posted by: mootykips | April 23, 2009 at 08:22 PM
Griefers are now Authors and English Teachers? Surely this is a sign of the apocalypse. :P
Posted by: Darien Caldwell | April 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM
The only thing better than being sarcastic is watching it soar over someone's head.
Posted by: Adric Antfarm | April 24, 2009 at 07:02 PM
@Adric
Like when mootykips lol'd about you not knowing what existential means? Stupid much?
Posted by: lol | April 24, 2009 at 09:42 PM
sarcasm isn't a CYA for stupidity, hope this helps
Posted by: mootykips | April 25, 2009 at 12:42 AM