Monday, April 30, 2007
Hee hee...
Here's Scott interviewing presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on his campaign stop in Augusta, Ga. Again, I wasn't there, but I still keep tabs on my husband! My spies are everywhere. He can never rest! AAaaaaahahahahahaaaaa!Is anyone surprised that...
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Talking Head
So I had to give a speech at the Student Media Awards at Augusta State tonight. Until about 3 p.m., I had no freaking idea what I was going to say. Somewhere about 4:30 p.m., I thought, "eh, who cares?" and started jotting down things that... well,...
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Is this me?
Okay, Rhian. You suckered me into this one, and I was certain that I'd be either a magpie or a three-toed sloth. But this quiz tells me I'm a mouse. Of course, my Meyers-Briggs tests always told me that I'm a librarian at heart, so maybe there's some...
Friday, April 27, 2007
Convocation
"How long do you think graduation will last?" A.W. asks me."Two hours.""Really? That's it?""Yep.""What if it goes longer?""Get up and leave.""I'm in it. Won't that be rude?""Tell them your house is on fire. What are they gonna do? Stop you?""This is...
Thursday, April 26, 2007
We are the champions!
A.C. and I go to cut our radio spot. Let's compare:With J.W.: no script, five people, 45 minutes and countless takes.Without J.W.: formatted script, two people, 5 minutes and 2 takes.Except I sound like that Corky kid from "Life Goes On...
UPDATE! Family Feud!
An e-mail exchange about my crazy aunt:J.W.: "Please can I engage her? I’ll pay you."Me: "I’m sure an unmarried woman in her 60s would be happy to entertain your proposal. But have you checked with the gypsy matchmaker? She’ll have to do your star...
Commercial Degradiation
We're recording a commercial today at 2 p.m., and J.W. waits until I'm walking out the door to an interview to ask me about the scripts. In fact, I'm already out the door and on the sidewalk when he..."Wait, Stacey, come here!"(sigh)"Yeah?""You're recording...
The Usual Suspects
E.B. was laughing about one guy in town who is not a journalist, but tries to give her lessons in journalism. It's always for stories that are self-serving for him or his relatives. Smart guy, so he can't possibly think he's fooling us."He was like,...
The Return
Man, I thought this was over. But it seems that my aunt was on my e-mail list twice. And she apparently does not want to win tickets to "Jesus Christ Superstar."From: Smugly Self-SatisfiedTo: Incompetent NieceStacey:I'm still on your list. Please take...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Okay, fine. I'm an idiot.
I was just interviewing Ted Neeley, who plays the lead role in "Jesus Christ Superstar." The show is coming through the area on May 16 at the Bell Auditorium. He has three other projects in the works, including a national tour of "Rasputin," and was...
Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Us Into
Photos of the fallout from Austin Rhodes' big mouth. Thanks, Austin. Although I don't agree with his comments, or the publicity-seeking and boundary-testing that most likely inspired it, I am so far not impressed with the other side. They've called...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Look!
This little smoochy-poo is the 5-month-old son of Aubrey and Will Bryant. Isn't he the cutest?! I want to cuddle him for hour...
Monday, April 23, 2007
Ain't Right
I know I'm a good year behind, but I watched "Borat" this weekend. Um... was anyone else a little disturbed by parts of it, or was it just me? Except the scene where he sings the national anthem. "All other countries have inferior potassium" = Hila...
Friday, April 20, 2007
Loft Tour
Remember to take the loft tour, a benefit for Historic Augusta! Join us! Maybe I'll be your tour guide! You can stuff money in my G-string. I swear it will go to a good cause. Like my ren...
Thursday, April 19, 2007
It's just me...
So right now I was just entering yet another venue into the painfully mind-numbing exercise in torture that is my publication's calendar of events when I got to the part where it asks for the venue phone number. Does "Downtown North Augusta" need a...
Decay
I know you can't see it, but the sign says - or, at one time said - Augusta Ornamental Ironworks. Not so ornamental now, is it? And where is the iron? All I see is a rubber tir...
Argh!
This is never a good light to see when you're stuck at one of downtown Augusta's notorious train crossings. I made it to the gas station, but I was cutting it pretty close. Thanks, CSX. It's really important to run empty flatbed cars through the middle...
Virginia Tech Shooting
Ryan Clark, one of the victims of Monday’s shootings, is a native of the Augusta, GA area. The elementary school where Ryan Clark’s mother works is collecting donations to assist her with traveling to Virginia and making arrangements for her son’s body....
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Art Show
This is the Metro Spirit's wonderful former intern, Allegra Yealy, in her first art showing at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art. She did some beautiful photos of New Mexico in a silver gelatin print. We're hoping that she'll do some stuff for us...
Monday, April 16, 2007
Day of the Dead - Masters 2007
C.P. took this photo - for locals, probably the most descriptive Masters Week photo ever taken. It's like legions of polo-clad, shopping bag totin' zombies take over the city for a week. ...
Friday, April 13, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
What rewards?
I don't know if anyone else does this, but I'm entered into all kinds of rewards systems. There's the VISA Rewards, the My Points system, the Zoom Panel surveys, the Buzz Agent membership. They're useful. They've bought gifts for loved ones, the crib...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
You Were Pretty Until You Opened Your Mouth
"Isn't he the most handsome man? I mean, I'm not gay or nothin' but..." He gestures to a co-worker.I appraise him. "I guess I've just never been attracted to him because he talks...
Not a Food Review
A local artist is in the office talking to an employee I shall name "Neckbeard the Pirate.""Man, I'm hung over," artist man says."I know. Your eyes are so red you're making me stoned. What did you do last night?""I just drank a lot of brown liquor.""Brown...
Saturday, April 07, 2007
No More Mr. Anonymous
I am moonlighting on masters week to make a few extra bucks for us and to also fund my tank project out at Pendleton King Park. At first, I thought, all the locals will be gone and since I am on radio, no one knows what I look like anyway, so it won't...
Friday, April 06, 2007
No.
A.C. is reading my last blog entry."You're really mad at me, aren't you?" she asks."No. No... a little."She laughs."You're sending a heathen to talk to a church crowd," I whine."I know! Isn't that funny?!"N...
Growly
I just agreed to speak to a church crowd of 250 about the media."You'll be fine," A.C. says. "And you get a free lunch.""What?! Who's ordering lunch?" C.P. perks up from his hole in the corner. A.W. chuckles."No one. It's only 10 a.m., C.P...
Golfers Gone... Mild?
"So you didn't get arrested?" B.H. asks C.P."No. Things changed.""What changed?""I fucked up... again and again and again.""So you didn't play the..." hums circus song and I chime in: "doo-doo-doodahdoodahdoo-doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doodahdoodahdoo-doo-doo-doo...""It...
A Lesson in Customer Service
We have fielded more phone calls about the revamped calendar and movie listings than any else in the redesigned newspaper. It's fine - we don't mind. We understand that change is hard for people. They develop habits of information gathering, and they...
Thursday, April 05, 2007
The Great Disappointment
Don't you hate it when you get all excited about your lunch and it turns out sucky? Here is a list of things that sucked about our lunch:1. "Salad" composed of one (1) slice of iceburg lettuce, and three cherry tomato halves.2. "Sweet Potato Fries"...
Thinking Out Loud
C.P.: "I'm just going to start announcing everything I'm doing at that exact second."Me: "Yay! And I'll blog along. It'll be like "A Day in the Life of Intrepid Reporter Corey Pein Who is, at This Very Minute, Typing an E-mail to His Mom, and Now He...
Monday, April 02, 2007
Travelocitous
I've never been to Europe - heck, I've never been out of the country. But traveling is a really big deal to me. I was born with a wanderlust that has never died, and when Emerson is older we'll be dragging her all over the place, I'm sure. We're starting...
