I know, it's been a while. Blah blah blah.
Check out the headlines on this Google archive search of James Taranto's "Bottom Story of the Day:"
Some of my favorites:
"Construction Leaves Parts of Downtown Raleigh Dusty"--headline, WRAL-TV Web site (Raleigh, N.C.), Jan. 17, 2006
"Argentina Advances Partial Opening of Squid Season"--headline, Mercopress (Montevideo, Uruguay), Jan. 13, 2006
"Mira Sorvino Made Honorary Pa. Deputy"--headline, Associated Press, Dec. 28, 2005
"(Hillary) Duff's Rockin' New Year"--headline, E! Online, Nov. 30, 2005
"Three Laid-Off Americans Struggle to Find Work"--front-page headline, USA Today, Feb. 16, 2005
"Nike Corporate Jet Makes Safe Landing"--headline, Associated Press, Nov. 21, 2005
"Lynndie England Burned in Prison Kitchen; Soldier jailed for Abu Ghraib abuse suffered grease burn"--headline and subheadline, MSNBC.com, Dec. 30, 2005
"Air Force, Rockers Use Same Earplugs"--headline, Associated Press, Jan. 11, 2005
"Pet Snake Survives Fire"--headline, Journal Times (Racine, Wis.), Jan. 5, 2006
About Me
- Steven
- Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
- Steve Revare has written jokes for a CD-ROM (if you remember those) featuring Dennis Miller, ran camera for NFL broadcasts, wrote award-winning television promotion spots, co-founded and sold a web-development firm, and, due to an unfortunate lack of pre-freelance-gig research, operated a TV camera during a three-day Amway convention. Steve earned a B.A. in English from Indiana University and an M.A. in English: Creative Writing at The University of Missouri - Kansas City. UMKC recognized his fiction-writing with the Gary William Barger Memorial Scholarship and the Stanley H. Durwood Fellowship Award. Steve’s in a band and lives in a suburb of Kansas City with his wife and five, that’s right five, children.