Ode to Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco

I first heard about Taco Bell's plan for a taco shell dusted with Dorito cheese about a year ago. I dreamed about it! Seriously. Then when I finally tasted it later this month, it inspired some poetic expression.

ODE TO DORITOS LOCOS TACO

It hit me like a sabre.

Just as the blunt force leads to searing pain,

Taco’s crunch leads to flavor.

People ask me if I’m sane:

“How could this marriage of food really appease?”

But I just scoff at their claims.

The Bellievers aren’t crazies.

They’re just fulfilling their most wild dreams:

Dorito Taco: nacho cheese!

It’s better with sour cream,

The tastes sing together in harmony.

Add tomatoes? Perfect team.

Then when the shell gets crummy

And breaks, good for you. Mini-doritos!

More yummy for your money!

For my blogging class, we're supposed to cover a blog and do a presentation on it sometime during the last part of the year. The blog I'll be following is The Lost Ogle, a local blog which was basically created to lampoon local media and politicians. So... yeah.

George Nigh: The Man, The Myth, The Legend

Photo Credit: Cyn Sheng Ling

Recently I interviewed former governor and UCO president George Nigh for The Vista. Either it was a very refreshing experience from a charming old man or I just got played by a very polished politician...

I'm going to stick with the former.

The way I see it, there are a lot of parts to Mr. Nigh. There's the politician, there's the school president, there's the humorist, there's the husband, there's the conversationalist and then there's the good ole Okie boy from McAlester. And none of these parts are necessarily distinct, rather they're al intertwined into one.

I guess you could say the same thing about all of us, but it was interesting to see it in a person with so many different aspects to him and with such an intriguing past.

Some of the best things he said to me were side comments he made when the recorder wasn't on. I only wish some of the other people I've interviewed could have been as easy to work with as he was.

To view my interview in its entirety, click here.

Guest Lecture By Dave Rhea

Dave Rhea, the multimedia editor at the Journal Record, spoke before my blogging class the other day. I really enjoyed his visit. Though I'm not sure how much I learned about blogging while he was here, there's a lot he said that I could apply to my own journalism career. Rhea arrived at his job in a very different way. He followed a path in music before re-entering the business of journalism. Though I have about 1% as much musical talent as I'm sure he does, it reminds me that I don't have to be directly focused on where I'm going in my life all the time, nor can I necessarily predict where I'll be in ten years, five years, one year or even one week.

Another thing Rhea brought up was the necessity of failure, or rather the opportunity we have as people to learn from our mistakes. Thomas Edison is often quoted as saying, "I have not failed 1,000 times.  I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb." In Rhea's words, you'll never find a safer driver than one who recently was in a wreck. Don't be afraid to be wrong or you'll never know how to be right. Experiment. Be innovative. That's the future of the industry. Who's going to save journalism, the grey-haired editor behind the big desk who barely knows Word or the bright young visionary who embraces the new technology and isn't afraid to take that chance.