Tuesday, January 31, 2006

And I now get the print for free!

Still brilliant at 18. Like I said.

In fact, the absence of solid Midwestern comfort food has posed a challenge for the paper's art department, which requires a certain girthiness of many of the people who pose for the fake news photos.

"Some of our writers, who we would use as body doubles of older Congress people, have started losing weight since we've been here," Chad Nackers, the associate graphics editor, said one afternoon. "That killed us. We used to be able to do Dennis Hastert if we wanted." And Mike Loew, the graphics editor, chimed in, "Oh, yeah, we had all the options, before everyone started eating sushi and getting all svelte."

Posted by princess kanomanom @ 10:48 PM