LBY3
The continuing adventures of Beau Yarbrough

Danni wins Survivor: Guatemala

Monday, December 12, 2005, 8:20
Section: Arts & Entertainment

Well, another Survivor is in the can and it’s hard to argue with its winner, Danni Boatwright, who played as smart as anyone could who didn’t tell everyone up-front he was a used car salesman and win anyway.

But seriously, if we ever see Jeff Probst superheroing his way to the reunion show again, whether it’s waterskiing in, parachuting, digging his way up through the earth after being buried alive, or whatever, I’m killing him with a shovel, as well as any CBS execs I can find.



The most wonderful time of the year

Friday, December 9, 2005, 16:54
Section: Life

Snow has settled on the mountains west of Hesperia, framing the Cajon Pass. This despite the snow-free mountains to the east of Hesperia, which are only a little shorter, relatively speaking. The snow on the western mountains — I can never remember which San ________ Mountains they are — will last until late spring. They were still on the mountaintops when I first began working at the Hesperia Star back in April 2004.

I’ll try and shoot some pictures of the mountains in the next few weeks. Maybe if we get lucky, we’ll have another perfect weekend of snow like we had last year.



Kofi Annan is a fan!

Friday, December 9, 2005, 10:56
Section: Miscellany

Wow, I got a letter from Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations!

I Dr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, would like to ask for your partnership in reprofilling funds over $250m in excess, the funds would be coming via a string of selected banks in Europe and Asia.

The Funds in question were generated by me during the Oil For Food Programme in Iraq. I have been getting scandals/ controversy in this regards, you can read more on the links below-

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/apr2005/anna-a05.shtml
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2003/main042803.htm

You would be paid 10% as your management fee. Please do not write back directly to me via my official email address. All further correspondence should be sent to my private mail box (kofiannan4un@o2.pl ). As soon as you indicate your interest I will give further details.

Remember to treat this mail and transaction as strictly confidential. I will await your urgent correspondence via my private mail box-

Dr.Kofi Annan.
SECRETARY- GENERAL
kofiannan@un.org
www.un.org

Strangely, he uses three different e-mail addresses (the original one was sent from kofiannan4un@walla.com). That must be how important he is!

I feel very honored by this. I sure hope the spambots who visit this URL don’t harvest those, because that would be a shame.



Free the gnomes!

Thursday, December 8, 2005, 19:17
Section: Miscellany

Give them liberty, or give them a shady spot where dogs won’t piddle on them.

(And if they have to stay oppressed, would it kill someone to put a Virginia Tech outfit on them?)



Honeycutt named mayor of Hesperia

Thursday, December 8, 2005, 15:41
Section: Journalism

When Tracie Troha started work at the Daily Press, I thought I would give her some advice about covering Hesperia. I let her know who the players were, how they related to each other (officially and otherwise), gave her a bunch of important phone numbers and took her around to meet some folks. I also gave her some advice about the various government meetings in the city:

News happens places other than just at meetings, but it also happens at meetings. Sometimes, the biggest news stories aren’t on the agenda, and you won’t know about them unless you attend even a meeting where “nothing is going to happen.”

Well, unfortunately, she actually listened to me, and is kicking butt up and down Main Street. So she does stories like this one in today’s Daily Press, meaning I have to figure out a second day approach to the same news for next Tuesday’s edition of the the Hesperia Star.

How dare this new reporter actually make me work harder, smarter and better?


 








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