Lagniappe Mobile Blog

While the editors kindly rejected ( with snickers , I heard) the above headline for my latest “County View” in the hard copy of the paper, their efforts to control free-roaming spirit of my creativity in the online version, my blog, have miserably failed. Rob sent some guy who sleeps on his roof over to my house to kindly remind me that as far as Lagniappe was concerned I was still as green as a vined tomato and there were “limits” to expression even in the world of something extra. Ashley was quoted as saying “Preston, it just doesn’t make sense. Sure, it’s cute and vogue and shows that you are trying to be different, but the world is now full of people clamoring to shine with off the wall expressionism. We write the headlines, you try and see if you can eek out 950 words of readable copy, okey-dokey?”

As you can read, my freedom of expressionism prevailed. I got my headline. That 950 words of copy I eeked out contains such Nobelish literature as these:

Naturally I commandeered the proceedings and argued the county should write me a check for only $5K and I would camp out in NoMo and produce a 200-page study called: “Community Assessment Needs and Recommendations for North Mobile County, Alabama.”

* More Americans were killed in motorcycle accidents in one year, than total American military personnel killed in Iraq in five years.

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Seafood, not Peefood
Sophisticated urbanites give little or no thought to sewer or septic, but people living outside the city limits, in Mobile County, do. Two passionate women made their case against the location of a new sewer treatment plant in Bayou la Batre.
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Dope to un-trepreneurs who prefer to operate meth labs and other non-traditional biz and activities under the cover of dark:

And 800 more words here . .