When I moved to Larryville for college, I wrote a list of things I liked about Wichita.
But now I’m moving back in a week, so it’s time to write a similar list for Lawrence.
Things that I will not miss about Lawrence
- Frat guys
- “That guy” in the newsroom, the only person in the world that everyone hates (coincidentally, he used to be a frat guy)
- Loud parties when I’m trying to sleep
- The overly self-righteous liberal nutjobs who make the rest of us liberals look bad
- Homework, term papers and group projects
- Johnson County SUVs taking all the good parking spots
Things I will miss about Lawrence
- All the great restaurants (favorites: India Palace, La Parrilla, Mad Greek, Pizza Shuttle, Vermont St. BBQ, Yello Sub, Zen Zero)
- The hippies
- Working on campus
- The hippies
- The nutty commercials for local businesses (”Dr. Lenahan. Dr. Lenahan! Dr. Lenahan!!!,” auto shop employees dressed up as Austin Powers characters for no apparent reason, Broadband Man being generally odd)
- Flirty cashiers at World Market
- Perkins Restaurant, for being open all night and for getting much better waitresses this year (the old ones were crap)
- The smoking ban
- The smoking ban
- The smoking ban
- The hippies
- All the other awesome people who are not hippies
Posted: 12:54 pm ·
Category: Lawrence, Lists ·
Tags: kansas, Lawrence · Comments: 5
Today I accepted a job as Web Content Programmer at the Wichita Eagle. I get to make Kansas.com totally rock, starting in a couple weeks.
So to my Wichita homies: email me your complaints, ideas, suggestions and comments about Kansas.com. I’m compiling a big wishlist.
Posted: 7:51 pm ·
Category: Work ·
Tags: get a job, kansas, wichita eagle · Comments: 3
Down in the Multimedia Newsroom, we do our best to stay on top of the latest news.
So to summarize for non-locals: this week, a controversial professor who recently pissed off the “fundies” reported that a couple of guys beat him up somewhere vaguely south of town early one morning. If you’re interested in the Professor Mirecki saga, J.D.’s been discussing new developments as they arise.
I don’t know that KUJH-TV reported any parts of the story before everyone else, but I suspect our resident conspiracy theorists — and we have many — were the first to question Mirecki’s confusing, if not completely contradictory, report of the incident.
My favorite “what really happened” theory (just a theory!) — by merit of simultaneous silliness and plausibility — came from Jayhawk Sports Talk producer Scott Winer. His explanation? Mirecki was indeed beat up, but not for political reasons. It was a gay rendezvous gone wrong.
Possible? Uh, I guess. Likely? Well, I’m not sold on it. Better than the idea of hateful conservative thugs roaming the only liberal stronghold in Kansas? Heck yes.
Posted: 4:52 pm ·
Category: Lawrence, Media ·
Tags: kansas, mirecki, Politics · Comments: None
