11 Buzzfeed Listicles of 11 Things
So, since everybody says Buzzfeed has figured it out, I figured I’d get in on the game:
• 11 Deceptively Upbeat Trailers For Feel-Bad Movies
• 11 Times Mariah Carey Looked Like A Goddess In The “#Beautiful” Video
• 11 Musicians Perfectly Summed Up By GIFs
• 11 Facts That Show How Hard Moms Work
• 11 Flaw-Free GIFs From Selena Gomez’s Flaw-Free New Music Video
• The 11 Wisest Things Anyone Ever Said About Drinking
• 11 Reasons Hippos Are The Most Awesome Animals Of All Time
• 11 Greatest Sitcom Moms Of The ’80s
• 11 Duckface Photos Fixed By Adding Spaghetti
• 11 Photos Of Alexander Skarsgard That Will Make Your Ovaries Explode
Grammar Day: ‘I would advise that you comply with our language laws’
It’s National Grammar Day. It’s also the 19th anniversary of the death of the great comedian John Candy. To celebrate, here’s a clip from “Canadian Bacon” that brings them together.
And sometimes you do a story just for the headline
An 18-year-old Florida woman was only slightly injured when she was shot by her friend’s oven, police said.
Yes. An oven. She was trying to cook waffles and didn’t know her friend was storing ammunition in the oven. So we got to write this totally straightforward headline:
Woman shot by oven while trying to cook waffles
Life on general assignment
In the new world at NBC News, I’m now doing general assignment after many years covering various beats. That yields a certain variety to one’s work week.
At 1 o’clock this morning, I was hunched over a spreadsheet calculating word-frequency counts for President Obama’s State of the Union address. Ten hours later, I was writing this:
One of the busiest interstates in the U.S. remained closed Wednesday, hours after a semi-trailer transporting French vanilla coffee creamer overturned in Phoenix, coating more than 150 feet of the highway with a white slick of delicious-smelling traffic hazard.
You never know what life on GA will bring next.
Grab your coffee mug: French vanilla creamer closes busy Arizona interstate (NBC News)
Sometimes, you do a story just for the picture
(Jody Taylor/Sixty5 Media via NBC San Diego)
Driver stuck in midair after car rams California clinic (NBC News)
Quotation of the year
“I refuse to let my professionalism and my femininity be defined by a piece of fabric.”
— Melissa Medley, Enterprise Florida
Florida answers critics of ‘sexist’ logo: ‘It’s just a cartoon’ (M. Alex Johnson/NBC News)
Police Blotter of the Day: ‘Marijuana’ in undercover deal was sandwich
A Graham man was charged Monday with selling an undercover police officer a bag that he said contained an ounce of marijuana.
Instead, the bag contained a half-eaten chicken sandwich.
(Dustin Rockwell Davis, 23, was charged with selling and delivering a counterfeit controlled substance — which is also a felony.)
Full story (Burlington, N.C., Times-News)
