A word I just created: Schadenflood It means taking a perverse pleasure in somebody else’s water-related damage. There’s a little of that in our story today about the collapsed culvert on Knollwood Street, near PB’s Takeout. It’s hard to laugh at what happened in NOLA with Katrina, but there’s something slightly—or very—amusing about a jury-rigged culvert that comes crashing down in a storm (providing nobody gets hurt).
Newspapers are a serious business and sometimes journalists are too serious and we take ourselves too seriously. The culvert isn’t going to win the Pulitzer Prize, but as entertainment, it can’t be beat. It’s easy for us to forget about the importance of entertaining people as a way of capturing their attention.
Our travel piece on Foamhenge reminded me of the other American henge, Carhenge, which is in western Nebraska. Here’s the link. Never been there, but my guess is it would be an epic road trip, and with gas at only $2.70 a gallon, this may be your last, best chance.
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There’s also a mini-Stonehenge on the Washington side of the Columbia Gorge. You can check out photos of it here, and read some history of the Maryhill site (where the henge is located) here.
-Joe
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Ken, reminds me of the Cadillac ranch in Amarillo, TX. HAHAHA Oh, and that story on the culvert, none of us blew that one out too much, huh?
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