Bob Stepno's Other Journalism Weblog

Friday, August 12, 2005

From South Knox to South Austin?

As a novice Knoxville newswatcher, one of the things I liked about South Knox Bubba's weblog (besides the "Friday Bird Blogging") was his series of timely alerts to hot topics turning up in more East Tennessee newspapers than I could find at the corner drugstore...

Heck, without him, I might could have missed the wave of cockfighting-arrest stories earlier this summer. SKB put his trusty copy of Photoshop to work and came up with a "cockfight alert" thermometer modeled after the terrorism alert color code system...

Enough old news. Earlier today an equally nostalgic colleague sent me the cockfighting picture from this blog in Texas and asked if there was a way to get it to Bubba... Hmm. Photoshop... cockfighting... a familiar level of affection for George W. Bush (expressed in words guaranteed to outrage a good chunk of the hometown folks)... and it's a picture of birds on a Friday! These are familiar characteristics.

So here's my new theory: Maybe SKB has moved in South Austin, and is blogging in drag as "Twisty Faster"... Check it out: I blame the patriarchy: Cockfight!

(Nah... SKB's Photoshop mashups were smoother, but I still think he'll get a chuckle out of the picture, the site in general, and my "theory." OK, then?)

7:00:25 PM