And You Think I'm Wierd?!
Its got to be pretty damn strange to make the Weird News. Merely odd or just a trifle kooky isn't enough. Unless you've got video.
You see as George W. would say, I am the Decider when it comes to what makes the grade as strange enough to be the weird news of the day, yet benign enough for me to make fun of without getting in trouble with somebody's support group somewhere.
For example, anyone remember the story of the five inch leg hair going for the Guinness Book record? That was the perfect combination of the bizarre and the slightly gross. We even had a picture. Yes!
Maybe its just the 12-year-old boy in me, but I say gross-is-good when it comes to the weird news. Today, for example, its a choice between hundreds of century-old bottles of Jack Daniels that may have to be poured down the drain. And tiny robot cockroaches.
That's not really any decision at all, is it? Plus, we've got video of the robo-roaches. But this isn't it.
And that's the other thing. Even stuff that's only mildly bizarre can pass muster--if you've got video to go with it. You think I'd be doing all those 'Cows gone wild,' and more recently 'Kangaroo on the loose' stories if we couldn't actually show you those animals gallivanting through somebody's neighborhood?
That and the fact that I always get to do my classic "He was deeeelicious!" line at the end. Tracey used to make a yuk face every time I said that. Made the whole thing worthwhile.
Now though, (I'm told it was corporate edict) we have traded the Weird News for the 'Watercooler News' or something like that. The big bosses probably remember this water cooler:
Whose gonna tell 'em that's from 1967? Here's all the gossip action at the WUSA water cooler today.
Exactly. Its a little slow. That's why I wouldn't have changed the Weird News for anything. But what do I know? I'm the guy who really liked the story about the barber who'd collected a 5 foot ball of old hair he'd been cutting for like, decades. After all, he was going for a Guinness record.
posted by Derek McGinty @ 4:24 PM
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Ah yes I've noticed the face lift on Wusa's homepage. Changes, not always easy to digest, but inevitable.
So instead of weird news, it's water cooler now? I guess that's appropriate enough, it really doesn't matter what you call it. I mean it's just stuff people talk about when there is nothing else interesting going on.
I noticed something else though that concerns me. Your picture is no longer there, as it was very prominent previously... I see Topper and Bret, Tracey and I think that's Todd? I'm looking but you are not in the group hug at all!
I like you man, you are relatively new to 9 when you consider how long I've been tuned in (4 decades), but I feel you and Topper are the hub to the news on 9. You both connect well with your audience, and all the other personalities just augment or enhance the broadcast. (good chemistry from where I sit)
I think your picture should be up, maybe not as prominent as it once was, but it should be there!
Forget about weird news... that's not the issue here.
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