What Can He Say? What to say about the Dontrelle Willis arrest? There’s a lot of mundane thoughts and questions that come to mind. Why, someone could write an entire column on the issue of why a multimillionaire athlete didn’t have a driver (oh, and they did). But I don’t…
Molly … thanks to this article by Wanda J. DeMarzo and Diana Moskovitz in the Miami Herald this morning. A tipster says Molly Selby, the mother of hospitalized baby Patrick, might be in Miami right now, but I emphasize the “might,” because it’s just one lead and it’s not substantiated…
Laid up this morning with a cold from the bowels of mordor (yeah I’m a geek like that sometimes, and I didn’t fail to see a little bit of the TNT hobbit-fest last weekend). Yesterday I was sneezing fistfuls of extremely watery snot all over the place. Last evening it…
A hundred-and-fifty years ago there probably would have been tar and feathers involved. Pitchforks and a greased rail would have likely also come into play. Looked at that way, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Mayor Oliver Parker can be thankful. He’s only facing a recall petition, an endless stream of insults, and the undying…
Molly’s Tattoo: “Sick Girl” Over Boxing Gloves I got some clarification on what, exactly, can be done if disappeared mother Molly Selby is found. There are warrants on her in Washington state for violating her probation, so any local law enforcement agency can pick her up on those and hold…
Molly Selby It looks like Cathy Winters is in for a heartbreaking Christmas. Her new grandson, Patrick, is in a hospital in Pembroke Pines, fighting for his tiny life after being born two months premature in a transient camp restroom near the Everglades. And her drug-addicted daughter, Patrick’s mother, has…
Here’s some true or false questions about soon-to-be Miami Herald editor Anders Gyllenhaal, who is leaving the Minneapolist Star Tribune to take the helm at SFla’s most widely circulated daily in a couple of months: 1. He is uncle to movie star siblings Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal. 2. During his…
The Palm Beach Post’s front page today is dominated by a huge Ipod advertisement. No, wait … it’s supposed to be an article. Under the heading, “Christmas Gift Ideas,” complete with a bow, was the giant headline “Accessorizing your Ipod.” Then a story by reporter Stephen Pounds about all the…
Couple of thoughts about two of the day’s biggest stories. First, hiking on a giant mountain in the middle of winter with the threat of blizzard, in terms of death risk, makes race car driving look like lacrosse. Why isn’t anybody in the media pointing that out? Climb a mountain…
Tiny Davis When I read the stories about the botched death by lethal injection of Angel Nieves Diaz on Death Row, I can’t help but recall the truly horrific state-sanctioned deaths that have occurred in Florida. You know, like the times that the electric chair, ghoulishly called ‘Old Sparky,’ set…
Cooke Is At Right Florida Keys Community College President Bill Seeker must have really thought he was sticking it to the town’s daily newspaper when he pulled all the school’s advertising from its pages. He may have had dreams of finally putting the Citizen in its place, of heeling it…
Miami Herald Editor Tom Fiedler just announced his retirement to the newsroom. Herald alum Anders Gyllenhaal, now editor and senior vice president of The Minneapolis Star Tribune, is replacing him at the end of February. The Herald already has the story leading its web site. It quotes Fiedler: ”It has…
Our Guy Off deadline and hopefully done with my battle with the Daily Business Review (a publication Pulp readers know I usually respect), so it’s time to post something. I mean I don’t believe that DBR should be suppressing its own stories, and I think Christensen’s decade-old story is a…
Allen Iverson to the Miami Heat? The idea is ridiculous, but leave it to Pat Riley — the king of supposed quick fixes — to slobber all over the idea, damn near literally. According to Israel Guttierez in today’s Miami Herald, the Heat coach and president said: ”I would be…
Barbara Roberts had just pulled in front of her house when the police siren blared behind her. The still-sprightly, 67-year-old, retired schoolteacher didn’t know who the police were looking for but she didn’t dare get out of her car. Then everything fell silent and she felt like it was safe…
Strange developments at the blog for the Justice Advocacy Association of Broward. Apparently the group of defense attorneys asked the Daily Business Review for permission to post a 1996 profile on Chief Judge Dale Ross. The newspaper obliged — and then suddenly rescinded, forcing the blog to take down the…
The Boca Raton News has taken a couple of friendly poundings in the Pulp these past few months. Check here, and here. Hey, it’s all in fun. I mean, we’re all family, right? But now, adding to its shame now is today’s announcement in Regret The Error that the little…
Rubin On Rubin The Sun-Sentinel’s front-page headline on the death of lawyer Ellis Rubin was so crazy that you might have thought Rubin wrote it himself: “A defender of the poor, defenseless.” That’s rich. I’m not saying that Rubin, who died of cancer in his home at 81, was a…
Kim Before the Fall Okay, I took a commenter’s advice from the post below and looked up Kim Raffo on Google. And just the second hit is an amazing story in the Star-Ledger about all four victims of the apparent serial killer stalking Atlantic City. In it, the real story…
Well, I sort of breezed by Jennifer Mooney Piedra’s story Sunday about a mother of two from Pembroke Pines who became a drug-addicted prostitute and was found murdered in a ditch near Atlantic City around Thanksgiving time. But it’s caused a bit of a ruckus amongst some of the boys…
Oosterhoudt (Seriously) The battle between the college and the newspaper down in the Florida Keys keeps deepening. Now a former politician and monied fellow named Tom Oosterhoudt has gotten into the act with his “photographic chronicle” rag which is called Conch Color. You might remember Oosterhoudt as the guy who…
