More Hoffman fun
Ken Hoffman has been on a roll through the Rita excitement.
I thought I'd throw a few more favorites up from Hoffman. With Chron.com, one never quite knows when entire paragraphs may just disappear after all.
Here was a great observation about the local Congresscritters:
And how come fuel trucks couldn't make it to Houston, but Tom DeLay and Sheila Jackson Lee had no problem getting here? The wrong bags of gas got through.
One local blogger actually implied some of us were racists for noting Queen Sheila's latest mad dash for the cameras (a source of amusement on the Chris Baker show today), although later said blogger wrote that he agreed with everything Hoffman said in the above column. Who needs consistency when the race card can be played, eh? Thankfully, we try to keep things a little more levelheaded here.
In his Q&A column, Hoffman had this good one:
Q: What is to become of all the rides at Six Flags AstroWorld when it closes? Will they sell or give them to other theme parks or will some of them just end up in a pile of scrap metal?
Lori Sloan, Houston
A: The rides will be shipped to other Six Flags theme parks. AstroWorld's problem was, no matter how scary they made their roller coasters, they couldn't compete with the rock 'em, sock' em bumps of Houston's No. 1 thrill ride ... METRO light rail.
Beware of the Danger Train!
There's also this:
I read where Tom Koch is no longer doing a split shift at Channel 13. Now he can spend more time with Tilman Fertitta behind home plate at Minute Maid Park.
Craig Roberts, Houston
A: After 17 years of working the early shift at Channel 13, while pulling double duty at 4 p.m., Koch was given a reprieve. Now he only works afternoons. Tom Abrahams is the new morning guy.
Is that Craig Roberts of Houston sportscasting fame? Probably so. Hoffman knows everybody.
Good for Tom Abrahams getting a crack at mornings. I thought his reporting during the Rita coverage was very steady for KTRK.
I'm sure Hoffman's happy where he is, but wouldn't it be fun if he were to displace noxious Chronicle editorialist and gossip columnist Rick Casey on the metro/state pages? Hoffman's observations on the local scene would be welcome there.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/26/05 04:11 PM | Print |
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