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Effective today, I am working at the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Blogging may be intermittent/sporadic as I get settled in and make sure my Internet works. This is a timed post.

Detouring again… I have toyed with creating a “Things That Make Me Feel Old” category for the blog, and this fits right in along with that: Cumulus has changed multiple stations including KJJY into “Nash Icon,” which “favors country music released … Continue reading →

So, for reasons as yet unexplained, I haven’t had Internet service for two days. (Yesterday’s blog post was a timed one. My connection cut out in mid-draft of tomorrow’s post.) Kids, this is why us oldthinkers DO NOT TRUST THE … Continue reading →

Morrisons celebrate 40th anniversary What, you thought I was talking about Richard Nixon?

(Detouring from highways and Iowa coverage because this is important, darn it.) Michael Bay’s latest salvo in his war on 1980s-early ’90s childhoods hits theaters this weekend. I am old and not in the target demographic anymore, I get that. … Continue reading →

October 3, 2013: Painting at the Neil Armstrong Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Again, 45 years ago to the minute. More than 60 percent of Americans alive today were born after the moon landing. (That’s age 44 and under, 2010 census, … Continue reading →

“The Eagle Has Landed.” Forty-five years ago to the minute. Related, from 2009: ISU alumnus was honored for role in Apollo 11

For the next week-ish there will be no blog updates unless something particularly strikes me because I am on vacation. Between my Manilla school column that ran in the Register Saturday (see link below), and the long Big Ten/population writeup, … Continue reading →

Pot-infused food’s safety becomes a joint effort (Iowa City Press-Citizen) (Might be intentional, might not, still amusing.)

Morrison’s Law of Supermarket Packaging: A label or container redesign is often, perhaps even usually, done to conceal a decrease in the amount of product being sold. (A blog dedicated to cataloging these changes is at mouseprint.org.) Recently, in the … Continue reading →