Hail, hail CBGB

By PHILLIPE & JORGE  |  October 18, 2006

Jim Bishop told this to me when we worked together at the Journal-American. The Daily Mirror was on East Forty-Fifth. Bishop was doing rewrite on the night shift. The elevator opened right in the city room. This young fellow walks off the elevator. He has a gun in his hand, blood all over his shirt. The first desk he comes to is Jim Hurley’s. Hurley was the hunting-and-fishing editor. The guy says to him, “I came home and found my wife in bed with another guy. So I shot her. I want to turn myself in.” And Hurley says, “This is outdoor sports. Indoor sports is over there.”

Yes, we have rung the bad taste bell, big time. Domestic violence is a real and enduring problem that we take very seriously. At the same time, this is such an incredible story that we couldn’t help ourselves. 

Email the author
Phillipe & Jorge:p&j@phx.com

< prev  1  |  2  |  3  | 
  Topics: Phillipe And Jorge , Entertainment, Music, Elvis Sinatra,  More more >
| More

Most Popular
Blogs
 More: Phlog  |  Music  |  Film  |  Books  |  Politics  |  Media  |  Election '08  |  Free Speech  |  All Blogs
ARTICLES BY PHILLIPE & JORGE
Share this entry with Delicious
  •   ONWARD, CHRISTIAN GOVERNOR!  |  September 02, 2009
    It's nice to see Governor Don "Laughing Boy" Carcieri loosening up by sharing the real Donnie Boy with the people of Vo Dilun. Initially (certainly in his first campaign for governor in 2002) Don tried to come across as a moderate conservative, not unlike his immediate predecessor, Linc Almond.
  •   UNITED WE STAND  |  August 26, 2009
    With the local AFL-CIO elections coming up, Phillipe and Jorge would like to make a rare union endorsement by saying that nothing would please us more than to have George Nee, current secretary-treasurer of the organization, win his bid to take over departing Frank Montanaro's position as the organization's president.  
  •   RISD'S HOPE-LESS SITUATION  |  August 12, 2009
    On August 3 it was announced by the Rhode Island School of Design that Hope Alswang had resigned as the director of the RISD Museum. Those who have followed the coverage of this story may be somewhat confused by the revelation that absolutely everyone acknowledged that Alswang was a superlative museum director and that absolutely no one involved in the arts scene at RISD or in the state of Vo Dilun thinks that she voluntarily "resigned." It was said that she loved the job, and the vague announcement that Alswang left to "pursue other opportunities" sounds as suspicious as elected officials dropping out of election campaigns to "spend more time with their families."
  •   GUBERNATORIAL AGONISTES  |  August 05, 2009
    On Tuesday, WRNI political reporter and former Phoenix news editor and master of the Casa Diablo elbow bend, Ian Donnis, broke the news that veteran political communications specialist, Bill Fischer, head ramrod at True North Communications, had signed on as spokesman for the State Treasurer Frank Caprio's gubernatorial campaign committee.
  •   THE IQUITAROD  |  July 08, 2009
    Phillipe and Jorge wish they could claim to have coined that headline about professional loony Sarah Palin's resignation as governor of Alaska prior to her first term being completed, but full points go to Geoffrey Dunn of The Huffington Post .

 See all articles by: PHILLIPE & JORGE

LATEST SLIDESHOWS

All Slideshows