Prep Writer, Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal

My favorite Wilco song. Awesomeness.

 

Sounds like the ad should specify: Single guys with no prospects of getting a girlfriend and/or married and having kids will be given priority.

 

Time for me to start packing then

 

The best way I can put things is this:
The staff has been through a tough period with changes at the top, but now there's a consistency and trust that wasn't there this time last year. The economics of the newspaper industry don't allow paradise at any job, but it's better than trolling out 40 pages a week for a group of weeklies, or working for a 18,000 circulation that has no commitment to sports. It's a good gig, especially for the prep writer who sees some of the best prep talent in the country in every sport.

 

JMB,

Along with Wilco, Sheryl Crow and Jimmy Buffett, can you name any other bands that have name dropped Pensacola in a song?

The theme to "Pensacola Wings of Gold" doesn't count.

Thanks

 

Hell, I live here and I didn't even know any of those songs. I guess I have to expand my iPod beyond REO Speedwagon and Hannah Montana.

 

Not JMB, but I can think of a couple ...

George Strait, "If You Can Do Anything Else"
Would you like to live in Houston
Where the cowboys come to town
Or maybe Pensacola
Where the sun shines all year 'round

Run D.M.C., "Take the Money and Run"
Butter said promise me I won't see jail
Spoonie want a watch and a brand new cell
Butter and Gina moved to Pensacola
Spoonie got a Roley and a Motorola

 

fingers in the dike are fingers in the dike.

 

Pensacola, Joan Osborne
"Well, I found him in Pensacola in a trailer in the sand,
the man from the picture, creased and yellow in my hand,
creased and yellow in my hand.
He was squinting and stubbled and standing in the door.
He said, 'If you've come to take the car away,
I don't have it anymore, I don't have it anymore'

 

One interesting fact about Pensacola that I've discovered during some fiddling around on the Internets: Pensacola is almost exactly the same distance from New Orleans as it is from Tallahassee. That'll give you an idea how long the panhandle is and how far west Pensacola is along it.

 

I never watched "Pensacola Wings" except the part my wife pointed out that showed mountains in the background. As a native of that area (about 30 miles east), I can absolutely assure everyone that there are NO mountains in the Panhandle, except in Jason Blair and Sheryl Crow's versions.
Aside from that, I don't know squat about the paper, but I can vouch for the high-caliber athletes and enthusiastic following that a prep writer at this place would cover.
*An earlier post mentioned athletes from P'cola and left out the great Roy Jones.

 

the publisher there is one of the best I've ever worked for. Though i think he still has a couple of dvds i loaned him. bastard!