Posts Tagged ‘Diversions’

Daily Diversion: Trash Day — a Craigslist personal ad come to life

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

“Trash Day,” a hilarious video by Sam Lerma at KSAT, was featured on Vimeo this week. It’s the story of a woman’s obsession with her garbage man, based on an actual Craigslist ad, which says: “You are the hottest garbage man I have ever seen.”

It only gets better from there …

Daily Diversion: Wedding time lapse

Monday, July 19th, 2010

I snapped a picture every few seconds at my cousin John’s awesome wedding at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. Here’s a time lapse of more than 2,800 photos.

Daily Diversion: Awareness test

Monday, June 21st, 2010

There’s a lesson for journalists somewhere in this video …

Daily Diversion: Vespa Rally in San Antonio

Friday, May 28th, 2010
I was working at the office this morning when I heard some weird Roadrunner-style “beep beeps” outside. I went to my editor’s window, which has a clear view of the street facing the Alamo, and I saw a huge group of people on scooters.

It was a Vespa rally. And where there are Vespas, you’ll probably find my friends Thovas and Tina Brown. I went outside and sure enough, I got to see Thovas and Tina at the front of the pack. Here they are in the front row:

Thovas and Tina Brown at Vespa scooter rally in downtown San Antonio

Here’s a video of the massive scooter gang heading out:

Update: Express-News photographer Bob Owen shot some cool photos of the rally, which was part of the AmeriVespa Conference in San Antonio.

Daily Diversion: World Cup Madness

Friday, May 21st, 2010

This Nike ad is epic — and I don’t even follow soccer.

Daily Diversion: Adios, Texas Stadium

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Daily Diversion: Bambi in the news

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Deer on the Loose – watch more funny videos

How should we deal with the media’s bizarre obsession with deer? Sing a funny song, naturally.

Daily Diversion: Bizarre political ad

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Crazy? Or sheer genius?

Daily Diversion: Urban cattle drive

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

When you work a weekend shift at a newspaper, you never know what kind of story you’re going to cover. Some are kind of lame, but I liked this annual cattle drive on Houston Street in downtown San Antonio. I covered this event a few years ago and Abe Levy wrote the most recent story about the cattle drive, which kicks off the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo. I took this video of it last year when Jen and I were downtown on my day off. Good times.

Daily Diversion: How to report the news

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Brilliant.