Public Service Announcement

After a refreshing / costly “vacation,” The Naked Loon will return on Wednesday with the latest important local, national, international, interplanetary, and trans-galactic news for discerning Puget Sound internet readers.

You might think it’s odd for a whole newspaper to go on vacation. You also might think that it’s a good idea to try to stick a platypus up your nose. To be honest, you’ve got some pretty strange ideas.

In any case, as the calendar turns over to a new month, digital presses at The Naked Loon will be turning over fresh new content for your ever-needy sensibilities.

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I’m happy to announce that The Naked Loon has partnered with local cartoonist Jeff Swenson to begin a new feature: Comics!

Jeff writes Stan ‘N’ Isaac and Frenetic Funnies, which are each updated weekly on their respective websites, and will be syndicated here on The Naked Loon’s new comic page, which is linked in the green navigation bar at the top of the site.

If you know a local cartoonist that might be interested in being syndicated on The Naked Loon, point them toward our contact page.  We’re always on the lookout for new talent.

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Don’t you hate it when you’re trying to run a consistent online newspaper business, and suddenly your entire staff just up and leaves on a road trip without giving you any notice, and they say they’re going to write stuff from the road, but they only send you a couple of stories, and then they give you some story about how they got a tank of bad gas in Oregon, and it cost them over $400 to fix their car, and they’re sorry but they just haven’t had the time to write you stories, and why don’t you just post a cute picture of a raccoon or something, and anyway we’ll be back Friday and we’ll get right to work, we promise.

I hate it when that happens. Stupid Oregon.

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For those of you that are reading The Naked Loon via an RSS reader (or would like to), I’d like to point you toward a useful new page: Naked Loon RSS Feeds.

If you’re currently subscribed to The Naked Loon’s RSS feed, you’re viewing the Full Site Feed. For your convenience, we have created fourteen new feeds—one for each section of the site.

If you like the news stories, but can’t stand the blog posts, sign up for the News Only Feed. Or, if you really just like stories in the “Community” section, you can sign up for the Community News Feed.  The possibilities are limitless.  Okay, that’s not true, but 20,922,789,888,000 (almost twenty-one trillion) combinations is nearly limitless, right?

Anyway, the point is, the power is in your hands.

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As you might expect, some of the other local papers also picked up on the story about city councilmembers using taxpayer money to pay for personal expenses. As I was checking out the stories in the Seattle Times (here) and the Seattle P-I (here), I noticed something interesting.

Check out the pictures the Times and the P-I used for their respective stories. Is it just me, or is the P-I’s picture the exact same photograph as what’s in the Times, but rotated slightly, cropped closer, and with the color balance tweaked?

According to the timestamps on the stories, the Times published theirs at 3:02 PM yesterday, while the P-I clocked in over six hours later at 9:46 PM. I’m thinking that the P-I editor realized that the only picture they had of McIver was the one the Times had already run with, so they decided to spice it up—make it a little more dramatic with the rotate / crop / color balance.

Little did they know that they were about to be totally one-upped by The Naked Loon in the battle for the most flashy McIver picture.

Booyah.

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