February 14th, 2010 
joel Your media checklist:
- check out the new anchor team at 11:00 on WSEE
- follow the play-by-play of Gannon University’s undefeated woman’s basketball team on WJET-AM
- enjoy the amazing images from the Vancouver Winter Olympics, including the incredible super slo-mo
- scan the want ads in the Erie Times-News for the non-existent new media jobs
- leave a comment at Press and Tower
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So I am scrolling down Erie Blogs today, the 17th of February. What should I read?
Here is a partial on the list:
HighEdWebTech: It May be Time to Brush Up On Your Campus Emergency Plan
Brooke and Freeland: 35 weeks
What If?: Third District Congressional Seat
fever: Untitled
So anyway…: Veoh’s stake in the heart
Silly Swedish Skier: Wednesday Weirdos: This is too **edit** up not to post
Arsenicnet: My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010
Oh there is more to choose.
Erie Blogs always posted they were a “family friendly” site. And for the most part, EB was.
Then some alcoholic, embarrasing her sons in high school, posted on being “Colder Than a Witches Tit” and things began to change.
“YourBoro” was made Blog of the Week once, but a peruse there, requires a dictionary of foul words. Expression of such is the main form of communication there.
“Fever” is alway :Untitled. It is also from Philadelphia, so I am not sure why EB even carries this writer.
Then came a gal out of North East, eager to pose local women in their underwear, or two Band-Aids and a Cork, whichever covered less.
“Family Friendly” took on a new meaning, but I haven’t seen that gal in a while. Pictures were “colorful”.
But that “Silly Swedish Skier”???
This babe should be “Untitled”….for the “F” word is among her many headlines, scrolling the Family Friendly airwaves. Does the FCC cover this too?
C’mon Erie. Read today’s Swedish Skier and the link within as well, on her prior post….how she peed her name in the snow of a car hood. Someone’s spouse sleeps with everyone, and for the top, er…over the top, she cut the hair of a 30 something guy long ago, and he just killed his lover of age 18 now. THAT earned the F word for us.
It ain’t Silly.
It ain’t Swedish.
It should Skier right off the board along with that Kodera of days of yore.
Consider it Mike. Same with all the Blogs that need F in their title to make a statement.
Time for some standards to carry your blog on EB.
Thanks for the feedback.
I agree with you and wasn’t happy when that word showed up on the site. In the old days, I had a curse word filter that I haven’t had time yet to restart in our new design and code layout (anyone wanting to help with that would be great). I’ll move this up the priority chain to make sure stuff like this doesn’t happen in the future.
FYI – Fever writer is a friend and Erie native who does talk abotu some Erie stuff in there and asked to be in the list.
Harrisburg BlogWatch,
Just a little information about Erie Blogs. Mike has several writers who contribute to Erie Blogs. I am honored to be one of them. Please do not confuse Erie Blogs’ daily entries and features with those blogs found on the blog roll or its update list. Hopefully, you will never see that level of profanity or content, unless you venture off the main page.
I’m sure Mike will do whatever he can to stop the problem!
I agree such content has no place on a “family-friendly” site!
By the way, I also write the “What If?” blog listed in your post. Clean as a whistle, no?
I was listening to the 24′s morning show today and Tom D. made a reference to doing a classroom visit “Today, I mean yesterday” was that just a flub or is this program taped also? I hope it was just a flub.
Thanks.
How does Tom Divecchio keep his job? He is without question **edit**. It is incredibly painful to watch him stumble through the forecasts, trivia questions and other daily routines. Some of my favorite “divecchioisms” are: And the like….by and large…be wary….not to mention saying things like “If you are planning on flying by air out of Erie”…is there another way of flying? “Let’s check out the outdoor weather”…..outdoor weather? Is there a cold front moving down the hallway? He has no ability to banter with Cassandra Garrison and is just content to not stray from the middle of the road in a forecast. “It will be generally mostly to partly cloudy”. **edit**
Tom DiVecchio was on the cover of Erie Life Magazine.
I had watched him do weather for many a year, but it is NOT until you glimpse a personal life behind the scenes that a star shines bright.
Here is the publisher blurb on Tom:
http://somewhatreasonableperson.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
This mini paragrapgh concludes with Tom’s focal point in life…..being a great father. I respect that immensely these days.
Big deal you say! Anyone can be a great father if they put their mind to it.
Once, I thought my daughter’s son needed a good whack on the butt at Glenwood one day, for simple discipline. Soon, I found he was diagnosed autistic, and I was greatful forever I remained silent that day.
I had my chance to raise children.
This is my daughter’s chance and she is doing grand at her effort. Therapy has disgused all autism in the lad, who lives normal life today.
Now comes new insight into Tom DiVecchio.
Another blurb from Erie Life Magazine shows why:
” In this issue you will meet Tom DiVecchio and his family and see how he and his wife, Rose, keep their family unit strong while juggling careers and two children with special needs….”
Autism. I already know the dread of this dilemma.
Other commentors here, at P&T apparently do not.
That blurb above is from here:
http://somewhatreasonableperson.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
When you have walked a mile in Tom’s shoes, critique away. I have not walked a DAY in my daughter’s shoes, and still remain silent that she is doing an awesome job with the special needs of one of her children.
Tom DiVecchio has TWO such children.
In the course of a day of being a dad to these kids, I find it would be impossible to not adopt some of these mannerisms in trying to relate to your children.
YOU take an autistic child for only ONE day, not a lifetime….simultaneously holding a public speaking job.
My hat is off to Tom DiVecchio for the kind of person he is, though we have never personally met.
My heart goes out to his life, his wife, his children, his career, and his putting up with public detractors while running each day of life, with the class of a person he obviously is.
An apology for misinformed comment would be in order by the misinformed commentor above. That would rise to the level of class Tom DiVecchio has in his small finger.
While were on the subject of performance critiques: Why must Tom Atkins begin each weather segment by saying “Welcome to weather on a (insert day of the week here) at(insert time of newscast here) on JET?
Tom, we know what day it is and we know what time it is and we certainly know which station we are watching. You could save 25 valuable second if you just gave us the weather.
I had a consultant many years ago tell me to get right to it. No thanking the audience for joining you and certainly no…”Good evening ladies and gentlemen, I certainly hope that you had a good day, if you’ll indulge me for just a moment, my oldest boy Joey Jr. has a birthday today. Joey, daddy loves you very much.” Alright then, lakeshore weather ….”
Further more yet, why does WJET-TV have to be called JET-TV? Whats wrong with TV24 or Channel24 or ABC24? They use no references to a “jet” in their graphics or their moniker. So why?
When I lived in Erie, I didn’t listen to much local radio. I preferred Satellite Radio, CD’s or my MP3 player hooked into my deck’s jack. My commute was less than 5 miles so I didn’t have a lot of car time.
And while I still have a short commute in Florida, I listen to radio again when I am in the car because there are great CHOICES for me in Jacksonville. I prefer rock and alternative and there are 3-4 stations to choose from that play either modern rock, alternative or classic rock.
I’m so happy to have choices now
I got rid of satellite radio.