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Moscow Minidoka: I do my best reading in the bathroom. I don’t want to do it on a computer. My
wife does the crossword in bed before we go to sleep. She *also* has no desire to do puzzles on a machine when she could be nestled in bed. Some folks seem to be very reductionist in their evaluation of a newspaper as a simple news source… to MANY of us, it is far more than the information, it is the organic experience. Let me put this another, albeit somewhat crude way: Would you prefer to have intercourse with a machine or a human if the end result (a climax) was the same? I’ll take the human, thank you very much, and I’ll take the newspaper with my morning constitutional, not my computer.
Question: In the ‘80s, there was a businessman in town who said he liked to read print Huckleberries while sitting on a toilet b/c he said my writing proved to be a good laxative. None of you have ever read print Huckleberries on the pot, right? Right?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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brandxranch on February 28 at 10:42 a.m.
….. oh, on THE pot…… I initially read “on pot”; and figgered there would be a sizable show of hands. I think this has the potential for disaster, tho, if read while on LSD.
Escapee on March 01 at 2:43 p.m.
An advantage to reading the paper on ‘the pot’…a computer won’t come in handy should you run short of ‘tissue’. ;-p