Category: Madness

The Jazzfest cubes were posted on Nola.com today and I was puzzled by the way the site tried to pair-up some of the offerings. Not sure how Kermit and Tony Bennett go together. Jakob Dylan and Emmylou make more sense and Marcia Ball and Bonnie Raitt is perfect. The big head scratcher is Dr. John…

It’s not a puzzle why the lunatics flock to Nola.com’s message boards. Take at look at these awful heds… This one is just full of lunacy! They are using “horse sense because they are on horses! And the drunk tourists they are wrangling are party “animals.” Hey, horses are animals! Planes land at airports and…

Huey P. Long Bridge widening project sending drivers over the edge There’s a 50/50 chance an editor will see this and change it. I am wondering if the Times-Picayune version of the story has the same hed but I’m guessing no. I can only guess they are going for folks who click the link thinking,…

From this story… New Orleans mother is arrested seeking to avenge son’s killing Shawntrell Hills didn’t trust police, had little faith in the criminal justice system and wanted an immediate resolution to her son’s slaying, relatives said. Her son, after all, was a known Central City cocaine and heroin peddler, the kind of victim they…

Just a note to Nola.com, tell your interns and temps to never, ever…ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever put exclamation points in your display text. Especially when, you know, it concerns the end of someone’s career and such.

Y’all may recall this post back in June when the questionable slang term of “weed” was used in a Nola.com headline. Well, here it is mid-August and the weed is back! Higgins student booked with having gun, weed on campus Perhaps a better headline would have been, “Higgins fool busted with gat, reefer.” I know,…

This is the story Nola.com has been waiting for! Fiery crash on The Causeway! Oh Lawd! After months of coming up with new and creative ways to say “The Causeway is clear” in headlines sometimes stretching into the dead of night, they have finally got some genuine bad news! Car crash! Five cars! Fire! Involving…

Below is a list of several Nola.com front pages. Each reporting on the condition of Causeway traffic each morning. Note that never is the traffic bad and sometimes the morning report lasts well into the day. The worst case being the last in which the traffic was reported as clear at 7:24 a.m. and the…

…it wasn’t AP style to use slang in headlines: Weed found in Covington elementary school worker’s car, police say But since Nola.com is fond of slang, I went ahead and slanged the rest of the story for them: The PoPo jacked up a lunch-room worker at Lyon Elementary School after reefer was found in her…

Following the link below are short summations of Nola.com article comments. For instance, if the comment is a long rant against black folks it will be abbreviated to “racist rant.” If the comment is how the subject of the story is a sure sign that New Orleans is Hell on Earth, it will be abbreviated…