A coming-of-age story that turns into a Newspaper story

I just finished this novel and can give it a hearty endorsement. It starts out as a coming-of-age story and morphs, sort of, into a Newspaper story.

Here’s the Amazon blurb:

Eli Bell’s life is complicated. His father is lost, his mother is in jail, and his stepdad is a heroin dealer. The most steadfast adult in Eli’s life is Slim—a notorious felon and national record-holder for successful prison escapes—who watches over Eli and August, his silent genius of an older brother.
Exiled far from the rest of the world in Darra, a neglected suburb populated by Polish and Vietnamese refugees, this twelve-year-old boy with an old soul and an adult mind is just trying to follow his heart, learn what it takes to be a good man, and train for a glamorous career in journalism. Life, however, insists on throwing obstacles in Eli’s path—most notably Tytus Broz, Brisbane’s legendary drug dealer.
But the real trouble lies ahead. Eli is about to fall in love, face off against truly bad guys, and fight to save his mother from a certain doom—all before starting high school.
Powerful and kinetic, Trent Dalton’s debut is sure to be one of the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novels you will experience.

Amazon

It’s a semi-autobiographical novel by Trent Dalton a died in the wool Newspaperman, having worked at The Courier-Mail an Australian Newspaper in Brisbane.

The Boy Swallows the Universe is now a Netflix series.

You can make it permanent, or maybe not

I was surfing around the interwebs and came across Uplift a tattoo parlor in New York City. The image above is a sample of one of the tattoos they offer. Can you imagine?

Also, we all know that The New York Times is not a tabloid, but I guess that a tab makes for a better design since you can show off the dudes ripped abs!

Lights, camera … history!

The Mass Communications students over at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction Colorado put together this documentary about The Daily Sentinel.

Interesting perspective from outside of the Newspaper and Newspaper business.

Good to see some of the folks that I used to work for: Denny Herzog; Bob Silbernagel, Editorial Page Editor; George Orbanek, Editor & Publisher; Laurena Davis who was a reporter when I was there, but I believe, eventually moved up to City Editor.

Also nice to see that the Newspaper heavily promoted the premier of the doc… shown at the Avalon Theatre.

Slow Morning — With Newspaper in bed

Ran across this poster the other day… I don’t know where this Newspaper is from, other than it’s in the UK. Anyone know?

Interestingly, in the UK and US think of Newspapers on a Sunday morning as a time to kick back and relax.

What about Clark?

The Nazis stole their voices …

… But they would not be silenced.

Saw this pop up in one of my feeds.. A WWII thriller about rogue journalists and underground newspapers!

Brussels, 1943.

Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda.

Helene’s world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers.

The Nazis track down Aubrion’s team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed.

Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis’ bidding, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin—daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors.

The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it.

The Ventriloquists: A Novel
by E. R. Ramzipoor

Songs about newspapers

The good folks over at The Guardian and their readers have already done the heavy lifting for me! Here’s the Spotify playlist, but I have not listened to them all, so who knows?

SPOTIFY

Here are the songs:

Song	Artist	Album
I Wanna Be Me	Sex Pistols	Sexy or What?? – [The Dave Cash Collection]
Terror Couple Kill Colonel	Bauhaus	Bauhaus – 1979-1983 Volume One
It Says Here	Billy Bragg	Billy Bragg, Vol. 1
Field Day For The Sundays	Wire	Pink Flag
A Day in the Life	The Beatles	LOVE
Chant	Public Image Ltd.	Metal Box
Nothing Has Been Proved	Dusty Springfield	Reputation & Rarities
Welcome to Glenrodent	Jackie Balfour	Chip Pan Fire
First Day at Work	Jackie Balfour	Chip Pan Fire
Whoever Invented the Fishfinger	Leon Rosselson	RosselSonGs
Slender Threads	Peter Hammill	Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night
Moronland	Robb Johnson	All That Way For This
IPC Sub-Editors Dictate Our Youth	Clinic	3EPs
The Daily Planet	Mark Hollis	Mark Hollis
Dr Dupree	Wilko Johnson	Solid Senders
Jimmie Brown The Newsboy	A. P. Carter, Sara Carter, Maybelle Carter	The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 Disc B
New York Herald Tribune	Martial Solal	The Dreamers [Original Soundtrack]
Trappings	Peter Hammill	The Future Now
Nobody’s Business	Peter Hammill	Nadir’s Big Chance
The Liquidator	Van Der Graaf Generator	The Masters
The Editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine	Leon Rosselson, Robb Johnson	The Liberty Tree: A Celebration of the Life and Writings of Thomas Paine
Song Of The Free Press	Leon Rosselson	Turning Silence Into Song
News Of The World	The Jam	Gold (International Version)
Fish ’N’ Chip Paper	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Trust
Gota a gota	Miguel Bosé	Bajo El Signo De Caín
The Baltimore Sun	The Jayhawks	Blue Earth
Frail Grasp On The Big Picture	Eagles	Long Road Out Of Eden
Los periódicos de mañana	M-Clan	Sin Enchufe
Dancing Choose	TV On The Radio	Dancing Choose
The Big Beat (Theme From ‘Front Page Story’)	Eric Delaney’s Big Beat Six (UK)	Thunderbirds & Other Top Sixties TV Themes Volume 2
I’m a Journalist	The Lovely Eggs	Cob Dominos
Smokers In Love	The Lucksmiths	Staring At The Sky
I Could Build You a Tower	Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly	Searching For The Hows And Whys
Morning Paper	John Yoko	A Number Of Small Things (A Collection Of Morr Music Singles From 2001 – 2007)
Milk Thistle	Conor Oberst	Conor Oberst
Mansion Song	Kate Nash	My Best Friend Is You
Morning Paper (Headlines)	Granite State	The Breaking Point
Pop Tunes, Morning Paper	Kan Kick	Beautiful: Opus of Love Deeper Than Flesh
Morning Paper – Vocal Mix	Spieltape, Shamil	Morning Paper
Riding On The Equator	Felt	Poem Of The River
The Dog-end of a Day Gone By	Love and Rockets	Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
Sheriff Fatman	Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine	Straw Donkey: The Singles
Bobby, King of Boys Town	Cass McCombs	A
Gloomy Planets	The Notwist	You, The Devil & Me
Ball And Biscuit	The White Stripes	Elephant
80’s Dance Parties Most Of All	Joan Of Arc	Joan Of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain
Black & White	Terraplane	Black And White
Controversy	Prince	The Hits 2
Private Investigations	Dire Straits	The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler – Private Investigations (Limited Edition)
Did You See His Name	The Kinks	The Village Green Preservation Society (Deluxe Edition)
Celebrity Interview	The Jigsaw Seen	Zenith
Classified	Pete Townshend	Glastonbury Fayre Festival
Ask Johnny Dee	The Chesterfields	Electric Guitars In Their Hearts. The Best Of The Chesterfields
Pills & Soap	Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Punch The Clock
How I Wrote Elastic Man	The Fall	Grotesque (After The Gramme) [Expanded Deluxe Edition]
Headlines	Goldie	The Immediate Mod Box Set
Jools And Jim	Pete Townshend	Anthology
Letter To The Editor	The Jigsaw Seen	Zenith
Fugue For Tinhorns	Stubby Kaye, Frank Sinatra	Guys And Dolls
In The Middle Of The Night	Madness	A Guided Tour Of Madness
News of the World	The Wildhearts	Earth Versus The Wildhearts
Boy on Top of the News	Diesel Park West	Decency
Saw Your Name in the Paper	Loudon Wainwright III	Album II
The Man In the Santa Suit	Fountains of Wayne	Out-Of-State Plates
Titti	Joakim Åhlund & Jockum Nordström	Paddan Och Hunden
The Legend of Zelda Rap	Smosh	If Music Were Real
Charlie Brown	Coldplay	Mylo Xyloto

“EXTRA EXTRA”

“Paper Stand” created by 72-year old Paul Cruz in Grand Junction, Colo.

The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Colo., recently ran a profile about neon artist Paul Cruz, and I saw this in one of their photo galleries.

I suspect that a lot of old Newspaper boxes ended by headed to the recycler as sales have dropped.

I’ve seen some old boxes turned into Little Free Libraries and years ago, the museum at Cox Enterprises has one decked out with a printer inside it and visitors could print a front page of one of the Cox-owned Newspapers.