Make it stop

*yawn*
*stretch*
*shake out the kinks*

And... Monday?! Whoa. And, whew. Just goes to show, you spend the weekend... imbibing ...and find yourself Monday morning with either a stale blog or a hot-off-the-press-and-ready-for-distribution Arcata Eye. Although, speaking of stale, while the print edition of Arcata's most mildly objectionable rag is as full of creamy-goodness-with-a-kick as Pacific Rim's Wasabi Sauce, the site offers one lone news story from last Tuesday's issue.

Not that we're unwilling to fork over the dollar. Or nickels and pennies as the case may be.

But back to the boozing. Unlike the bar-hopping Terrence McNally, perhaps Nathan Rushton saw too many ugly drunks during his former bartending stint... Perhaps the reins at the ER are simply too tight and the days of a journalist keeping a flask in his desk are, sadly, long gone. But we at the NCP think -- barring a predeliction toward alcoholism -- ol'Nate could use some liquid inspiration. Maybe he'd be funnier. Maybe he'd be sharper. But this whole writing about nothing thing? Not working.

We're sure the young and earnest Mr. Rushton is immensely likeable. He can write a news story. Today's about the bees? Good stuff. Much like the T-S' immigration stories from last week, it's a local angle on a national problem -- in this case, a national mystery.

So we wonder, does the ER require a little slice of life from all its reporters? 'Cause just like the colored jeans on Casual Fridays, not everyone can pull'em off.