Wednesday, October 12, 2005

By Semi-Popular Request OR "It's A Fucking Pumpkin!"

First off, here are the photos from A&M and my laps in a NASCAR ride.


Obviously, that's me in the middle flashing the Texas State sign and our illustrious design editor Matt to the right. The whole Kyle Field experience was fun, I only wish the damned hurricane could have not screwed up the scheduling so I could have gone to yell practice on Friday (the game itself was moved to Thursday from Saturday) and we could have stayed in College Station for the night after the game to party Aggie-style (without the sheep).

Next pic.



NASCAR held a Grand National race in Kyle a few weeks back. Their big marketing push is bringing in a younger audience, so they were very helpful and very interested in gaining coverage in The Star. I can't blame them, but neither can you when I got to do five laps at over 100 miles per hour around a short track.

As for the other part of the title, all I'll say is search the University Star Web site and look for a picture of a pumpkin in today's (12 Oct) news section. Well, just imagine that said picture of said pumpkin is said dominant image on said newspaper's first color front page in nearly a month. Also, said picture essentially killed said issue's chances of ever being selected for competition; which sucks even more because the rest of the issue was pretty killer.

I'm very peculiar about the issues I like to take to competition. There needs to be a very strong front page (stories and dominant art), a killer back page (which is usually sports) without a 'national' column (a column that one of our columnists writes about something national, which is essentially a rant about steroids or the playoffs or something...it's basically something that anybody can get elsewhere and it doesn't necessarily hit our audience), a strong opinions section that displays the leadership quality of a newspaper (local Staff Editorial and preferably local columns with editorial cartoons done in-house) and a graphically appealing newspaper overall.

Today's issue had most of that and would have been a legitimate contender for future competition...but there's a damn pumpkin running dominant.

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