[Masthead] Mostly Cloudy ~ 72°F  
High: 84°F ~ Low: 61°F
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Once an alum, always an alum
Posted Friday, July 25, at 3:15 PM
Writers, by definition, tend to be aware of, and annoyed by, various grammar offenses and misuse of words. I was as amused as any writer at "Weird Al" Yankovic's very funny "Blurred Lines" parody, "Word Crimes," which came out last week: But I try, with varying degrees of success, not to be too much of a jerk in the way I point things out, if I point them out at all...

Read more   Browse comments (1)  Post comment


'John: Pardon my dumb ass.'
Posted Friday, July 11, at 1:16 PM

The news today about the passing of former Tennessean publisher John Seigenthaler sent me scrambling for the laminated printout of the e-mail I received from Mr. Seigenthaler in 1998. It's a cherished possession. Mr. Seigenthaler had already retired from the Tennessean at that point, and was working at the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center. ...

Read more   Browse comments (2)  Post comment


Watch this, you hockey puck!
Posted Thursday, May 29, at 11:47 AM

If you missed it (and I almost did), the tribute to Don Rickles that aired Wednesday night on Spike TV will be rerun Friday and Monday on Spike, and I believe it will also be run on TV Land and Comedy Central in the near future. (A couple of the presenters took jabs at Spike, and I wonder if those will be left in when it airs on the sister channels.)...

Read more   Browse comments (1)  Post comment


The Quiet Man
Posted Friday, March 14, at 3:19 PM

I was disappointed to see that Turner Classic Movies is not going to be showing "The Quiet Man" on Monday, St. Patrick's Day, as they often do. The next scheduled showing is going to be in April. I have the movie on DVD, so I can actually watch it any time I like, but my DVD player isn't hooked up at the moment and I'd have to watch it on my computer screen, which means I'd have to sit in my desk chair. Even so, I might have to do it Monday night...

Read more   Browse comments (4)  Post comment


Carneys, but not related
Posted Tuesday, February 25, at 2:13 PM

Both I and my father have received expressions of concern today about Josh Carney and his son Mason, who were injured in a car accident last night. I'm sure that Josh appreciates the good thoughts, and I think I speak for my Dad in saying we share them completely and hope for a swift recovery for everyone involved. But -- just for the record -- we're no relation at all to Josh...

Read more   Browse comments (1)  Post comment


Teachers
Posted Thursday, January 23, at 7:09 AM

Someone used the anonymous send-comment-to-editor feature on our web site to react to a story about education policy. They called teaching a "gravy train" and claimed teachers work only 35 hours a week, 9 months a year. School may be in session 35 hours a week, but anyone who thinks teachers only work 35 hours a week doesn't know any teachers...

Read more   Browse comments (12)  Post comment


Storms are brewing for DirecTV and the Weather Channel
Posted Monday, January 13, at 3:33 PM

Every so often, the companies that own TV channels get into disputes with the major cable and satellite providers, with the upshot being that a channel is taken off of a particular provider's lineup. Sometimes, this just gets to the threat stage and the takedown never happens. Sometimes, the takedown happens but is then resolved fairly quickly. Sometimes, it lingers or turns out to be permanent...

Read more   Browse comments (1)  Post comment


Note drop in Nashville
Posted Monday, December 30, at 2:45 PM

One of my big pet peeves with the Nashville TV stations is how they handle New Year's Eve. Nashville's New Year's Eve celebration has become a big thing in recent years, and I've seen it covered live by CNN. But it isn't covered live by any of the Nashville TV stations, who instead run the New York City Times Square ball drop -- tape-delayed by an hour, so that it seems to take place at midnight Central time when it actually happened an hour earlier, at midnight Eastern time...

Read more   Browse comments (3)  Post comment


A no-win situation
Posted Tuesday, December 10, at 8:06 AM

I had to laugh -- and feel grateful that I'm not a school administrator -- at the Facebook comments this morning related to the announcement of schools running two hours' late. Here's one: "Totally stupid! The road in front of my house is a sheet of ice!!! Close the d--n schools!!"...

Read more   Browse comments (4)  Post comment


Changing the past
Posted Thursday, November 21, at 3:50 PM

I wrote a column earlier this year in which I referenced having just read Stephen King's incredible novel "11/22/63." But the column wasn't a straight-up review of the novel, so I thought I'd pop in here and say that if this week's coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination intrigues you, you really ought to read "11/22/63."...

Read more   Browse comments (3)  Post comment


Noodling around
Posted Wednesday, November 6, at 11:52 AM

This is really Mark Woods' turf, but I felt like sharing anyway, so hopefully he won't mind. Channel 8 re-ran the episode of "America's Test Kitchen" last weekend with the recipe for fresh pasta without the need for a pasta machine. I loved this recipe and made it several times after they first ran the episode, and I was reminded last weekend that I hadn't made it in a while...

Read more   Browse comments (6)  Post comment


It's the 31st
Posted Monday, October 28, at 3:48 PM

It always amazes me that, without fail, we start to get calls and e-mails this time of year asking "What day is Halloween?" and even "What time does trick-or-treating start?" Halloween is not an official government holiday. It's a tradition. It falls on October 31, the night before the religious holiday All Saints Day...

Read more   Browse comments (1)  Post comment


Kenya
Posted Monday, September 30, at 2:38 PM

I've been to Kenya five times, and my heart was broken by this month's siege of the Westgate shopping mall. When I first heard about the tragedy, I recalled one shopping mall we visited in Nairobi in 2009, but after seeing photos I realized that the Westgate mall was nicer than the one I recalled visiting. I don't think I'd ever been to the Westgate mall...

Read more   Browse comments (1)  Post comment


Dancing With The Stars
Posted Wednesday, September 4, at 2:13 PM

If you'd told me a few years back I'd ever watch a TV dance competition, I'd have laughed in your face. But I've grown to enjoy "Dancing With The Stars," even though I'm no expert, either on my feet or watching others. I think I enjoy the personalities sometimes more than the dancing. ...

Read more   Post comment


A virtue of necessity
Posted Friday, August 23, at 9:15 PM

This year, as a cost-saving measure, the Celebration didn't rent the two large video screens it's been using for several years. Instead, there's one screen, which is more of a graphic marquee, displaying judges' cards and the like. I know there are some people who miss being able to see the video, but there's actually one thing I don't miss. ...

Read more   Browse comments (5)  Post comment


Fire at Jomo Kenyatta
Posted Wednesday, August 7, at 9:38 AM

I was stunned this morning to hear of the huge fire that has shut down Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. I flew into and out of JKIA for all five of my mission trips to Kenya. There's speculation that the fire may be terrorism-related, since it fell on the anniversary of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi...

Read more   Browse comments (3)  Post comment


The Alton Browncast
Posted Wednesday, July 24, at 2:31 PM

If you were a fan of Alton Brown's Food Network series "Good Eats" (now in reruns on Cooking Channel), you need to listen to his new podcast, The Alton Browncast (he says he doesn't like the name and may change it at some point). You can listen directly from the podcast's web page, http://www.nerdist.com/podcast/the-browncast/ , or, if you're a little more tech-minded, you can use podcast software to seek out and download each new episode to your computer, MP3 player or smartphone...

Read more   Browse comments (2)  Post comment


'Whose Line' is back!
Posted Wednesday, July 17, at 9:35 AM

Did anyone else catch the return of "Whose Line Is It Anyway" Tuesday night? I've been a big fan of this show ever since Comedy Central ran the original British version, hosted by Clive Anderson. The Drew Carey-hosted American version ran on ABC, and was then rerun for years on ABC Family. Now, there's a new version on The CW (WNAB-TV, Channel 58 in Nashville) hosted by Aisha Tyler but with the same three regulars -- Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie and Wayne Brady -- as the Drew Carey version...

Read more   Post comment


Yankee Doodle, do or die
Posted Wednesday, July 3, at 9:38 AM

I wrote a story, which ran last week while I was out of town, about Independence Day-related movies. You can find it here: http://www.t-g.com/story/1981187.html Anyway, two of the three movies I wrote about will run on Turner Classic Movies, but both are in odd time slots and may be more suited for the DVR than watching live. ...

Read more   Browse comments (2)  Post comment


Summer tips
Posted Wednesday, June 12, at 2:39 PM

We had a reader ask us to put a question to the community: Do you have any special tips for dealing with the summer heat -- especially as it relates to families, small children, and so on? Leave your answers in the comments below.

Read more   Browse comments (2)  Post comment


View all blog posts (269)

Notes from the Newsroom
John I. Carney
Archives
Blog RSS feed [Feed icon]
Comments RSS feed [Feed icon]
Login
John I. Carney is city editor of the Times-Gazette.
Hot topics
Once an alum, always an alum
(1 ~ 9:25 AM, Jul 26)

'John: Pardon my dumb ass.'
(2 ~ 8:58 AM, Jul 14)

Watch this, you hockey puck!
(1 ~ 12:22 PM, May 29)

The Quiet Man
(4 ~ 6:18 PM, Mar 19)

Carneys, but not related
(1 ~ 10:15 AM, Feb 27)
http://www.t-g.com/blogs/johncarney/
www.t-g.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2014-23
34400
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:6XZCMHDLPDXBXWOLOCREOU3DLYIWEOMY
<urn:uuid:426261e8-e854-499e-9ed1-e8f681923647>
2014-07-31T03:20:03Z
64.123.246.64
sha1:2SQF6VOP3F36LUIOMFABPDP77K7HB7JF
<urn:uuid:487e2cd0-ef4f-464e-ae1f-be2140a1a742>
http://www.t-g.com/blogs/johncarney/
length
response
<urn:uuid:01380635-1a04-4947-ba11-65890c1f2805>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-23
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for July 2014
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf