LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

Is purse ban about security, or concession sales?

MSU, as you may have heard, will ban all bags — purses, diaper bags, camera cases, seat backs with pockets, etc. — from Spartan Stadium beginning with this fall’s first home game.

 

Tough-guy prosecutor has emotional meltdown on TV

Did you happen to catch Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III speaking  - or trying to, anyway  -  on the local news, about the Burks case, in which 27-year-old Yumar Antonio Burks has been charged in the death of his 6-month-old son?

And Flag Day isn’t until June 14 …

On Monday night, or early Tuesday morning, somebody planted a bunch of  carefully spaced American flags — 63, by my count — along the east side of Okemos Road, just south of I-96, across the road from the Jackson National Life compound.
The first person who can tell me why wins my sincere gratitude.

Sorry — there’s no pill to cure your unpopularity

You may have seen the billboards around town that ask, “Fluent in Klingon?” and urge you to try REACHEMOL.

 

Look  up REACHEMOL on the Internet and  you’ll learn it is the only prescription medicine clinically proven to treat Deficient Popularity Disorder (DPD).
The “Klingon” reference comes, of course, from those decidedly unpopular villains in Star Trek. But they can forget about REACHEMOL.   It’s a hoax — an advertisement for advertising. Somehow, the billboards are supposed to prove that billboards are effective.
And maybe the fact that I’m blogging about them proves the point.
They fooled reader Liz Harrow, who wrote: “This billboard really bugs me. It’s telling people that being different is a disease they should medicate.  I can imagine parents wondering if they should  ‘fix’ their geeky children with this tranquilizer.”

Angel with the blue truck

Jack Jameson and his ax weren’t having much of an effect on the apple tree stump he was trying to remove one recent day.
But, given the fact that Jameson is 86, and gets around with a walker, you have to give him credit for trying.

One more justification for erratic gas prices. Are you buying it?

Mark Griffin, president of the Michigan Petroleum Association/Michigan Association of Convenience Stores has an explanation  as to why the price of gas can jump as much as two bits in a single day, and it’s thoroughly counter-intuitive.

Please look at me when I speak to you

Among the many, many, many things I noticed while awash in a sea of young  folk for three days in Austin, Texas was this:
Even when they are face to face, they are often not face to face.

Getting my geek on

A while ago, as you may recall, I was agonizing over what to “geek” for a library promotion. Well, here’s what it came down to:  Library Billboard.pdf

I'm told the billboards for me and my fellow geeks will go up this week, but I don't know where.

   

It’s the thought that counts

I’ll be on furlough the week of March 14 (and, no, I don’t expect any of you to do for me what one of Joe Rexrode’s blog readers did for him).

Sandhill cranes — now you’re talking

As I wrote recently, robin sightings are no proof of winter’s demise — but those gangly birds with the ratchety squawk … well, that’s another story.