Car Crashes I have Seen (Part 2)

Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:47 PM EDT

By Scott (Scoop) Butki

After graduating from college in 1991 I worked as a newspaper reporter in Southern California. Often the newspaper's sole reporter I covered a variety of beats. Looking back on the work, though, the stories I remember the best are the ones I covered as a police reporter.

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history, crashes, death, lvs0407, dad, sbutki-memoir

Part Two of an Interview With Larry Gonick, Author of The Cartoon History of the Modern World

Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:10 PM EDT

By Scott (Scoop) Butki

This is the second part of a two part interview with Larry Gonick about his book The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution. The first part was here

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history, gonick, larry-gonick, lvs0407, sbutki-interview

The Typing Life: How Writers Used to Write

Seeded on Thu Apr 5, 2007 9:08 AM EDT (New Yorker)

Seeded by Joshua Deacon

Many of the early inventors of the typewriter thought that what they were inventing was a prosthetic device for the blind. Why would ordinary writers need a writing machine? They had pens.

history, writing, type-writer, remington, twain, nietzsche, henry-james

Journalism 100 Years Ago Versus Today

Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:56 AM EDT

By Scott (Scoop) Butki

Whether a reporter now or 100 years ago, this writer thinks he would fit journalist Pete Hamill's description of what a journalist must be: someone willing to explore what is in the back of the cave.

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