LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

Pass the salt and pepper

I’m getting a bad feeling about those gift cards for the defunct All Seasons Bistro gift cards.

A foreign concept

The story about a strike in India crippling GM’s Delta Township plant fit nicely with a recent e-mail in which Fred Greene of Dansville questions the whole concept of domestic versus foreign:

Why won’t Izzo shave his head?

The facts, as presented to  me by certain MSU basketball fans, are as follows:
- Coach Tom Izzo promised the Izzone faithful that if the basketball team won the Big Ten title outright last spring, he would shave his head.
- They won.
- Izzo still has hair.

When financial worlds collide …

Are you a member of the institution formerly known as Capital Community Credit Union — now a lump in the gullet of DFCU financial?

How do you like these apples?

Rachael Hilliker of Owosso was indignant — “outraged,” actually — to discover over the weekend that an area cider mill was using perfectly good apples as projectiles in a target-practice game.

The lottery and the schools

To the 5,000 or so people who have asked me in the past few weeks why lottery revenues aren’t plugging the gaping holes in the state school budget: Be sure to check out Kathleen Lavey’s story in Sunday’s LSJ.
Meanwhile, the condensed version …

‘Pulp Fiction’ — Lansing style

Remember the mysterious brief case scenes in the movie “Pulp  Fiction?
That’s what I think of as I follow the story of the bizarre home invasion and robbery on Cogswell Drive Sunday night.

As in ‘global neighborhood’?

The Sears appliance-repair ad in the phone book  says “In your neighborhood,”  but the guy on the phone clearly wasn’t in my neighborhood — and probably not even in my hemisphere.

Is a troll who moves to Escanaba a ‘trooper,’ or a ‘yoll’?

My recent column about former “Onlooker” Jim Hough’s imminent relocation beneath the bridge raised the perennial question: Are yoopers and trolls born, or made?

Bill and Fred: Take it outside

Outside this blog, that is.
I welcome your comments on the subject at hand — even when they go off on reasonable, or amusing, tangents — but your back-and-forth bickering is becoming tedious to all of us.