Inside Huckleberries (2/7/05)
APhoto: Above, the famous Clydesdales face off in another beer commercial for Anheiser-Busch. Below, tell Huckleberries readers which were best and least favorite Super Bowl commercials.
5:44 p.m. Dunno if you guys were hung over today. Or I was (even though the stiffest stuff I drank yesterday was some kind of Sprite with berry flavoring). Slow day on the "comments" front. Mebbe the topics weren't that good, although Super Bowl ads and mud-wrestling soldiers aren't bad. Oh well, we'll try again tomorrow. Could have been a Monday thing.
4:32 p.m. NIC instructor Tad Leach called to say he's planning a rebuttal to our Sunday editorial: "Shooting justified; policies unclear" Sunday. In the editorial, we called for an independent investigation of sheriff's department policies involved in the fatal Hayden shooting Dec. 28 here. Are you satisified with the findings of Prosecutor Bill Douglas' report and want to move on?
12:05 p.m. "It's not often you get a chance to talk with a legendary programmer from top 40s heyday, but John is all of that and more" -- words used by Rollye James, a national talk show host, to describe Big John Rook of Coeur d'Alene, who appeared on her show over the weekend (1 to 4 a.m. delayed on KGA).
11:59 a.m. In the Bay Area, $1 million'll buy you a rancher in a new Navato subdivision. In Kootenai County? Tom Torgerson of Century 21 told the S.F. Chronicle what 1M'll buy in the Coeur d'Alene area here.
11:20 a.m. For those keeping score at home, my favorite Super Bowl commercial was the Ameriquest Mortgage ad about a cell phone user's message being misunderstood to be a stickup demand here. Least favorite: GoDaddy.com's ad of a wardrobe malfunction while a buxom woman is testifying before a censorship committee. All the ads are rated here. What were your best and least favorites?
10:30 a.m. The blog hit two more days of 2000 pageviews last week -- 2,613 on Wednesday and 2,051 on Thursday. For the week, 12,700 -- or 1814 daily. Nice start for February. BTW, I'll be celebrating the first anniversary of the blog Feb. 16.
