Queenkv’s Brainpickings

Unwinding after another long day in the news room. My dad sent me a picture of blue skies in Diamond Bar. Looks like my hometown dodged a bullet for this round of the wildfire season.
I need another drink.
Last weekend, we checked out a wine festival in Lodi. On Veterans Day, we did more wine tasting [...]

Watching live reports from KNBC in LA. The 57 Freeway is closed from Lambert up to the 60

[from the Huffington Post]
I stumbled on this brilliant video of all 3 Presidential Debates from laughingsquid.com.

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I heart the Office!
I dig what Angela Kinsey said about her gig at Dundler-Mifflin. She’s happy and grateful to be working as an actress.

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I can only imagine how [...]

Oh my gosh!!! Cute puppy web cam!!!!
And turn up your computer speakers ’cause there’s cute puppy noises!!!
Cute Cute Cute!!!!

Now Daisy wants to know, are these precious puppies cuter than her? Are they?

Of course not!

11 Days until the Presidential Election.

[from the Harvard University Gazette]
I was tickled to see Will Ferrell back on SNL as the Commander in Chief. This opening skit for “Weekend Update Thursday” had me laughing my butt off today.

Ferrell’s impersonation will live beyond President Bush’s term. In January He’s opening a one-man act on Broadway: [...]

The Waiter offers up advice on what to do and say during a business dinner. He makes some good points on how to interact with other waiters during a job interview. I also liked how he dishes out revenge on business people misbehaving.

The Waiter Rant is a funny, snarky and thoughtful blog on the [...]

When I worked on the Noon Show on Monday, I saw Andrea Mitchell’s weekend wrap on the political news. She played a clip from a SNL parody on last week’s CBS Interview with Governor Palin. And she played it side-by-side, with the real interview by Katie Couric.

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Bottom Line: Tina Fey and [...]

I finished up a short, 2-day week, inside the newsroom.
Our weekend morning show features some interesting guests. We interviewed folks from the State Fair last month. One of them folded up dollar bills and made these cute origami pigs for us.
My anchor and meteorologist were tickled by the pigs. I said I could [...]

The Race for the White House is on!
We are less than a month away from the first Presidential debate. In the control booth, I had fun working with all our live reports from the DNC in Denver and the RNC in St. Paul…Keeping up with all the juicy sound bites and timing out my morning [...]