Funny column from Phil Luciano today. He tries to sum up a list of Peoria people and institutions using just six words.
I thought I’d turn the tables a bit on Mr. Luciano:

Poor man’s Rick Baker. VERY poor.
Snideness isn’t real talent? Who knew?
Column subjects based on junk email.
Dishes it out, can’t take it.
Doesn’t realize White Sox [...]

Here’s a few links via the Journal Star:

Phil Luciano shares a quandry many will face on Feb. 5: Which party ballot should he pick up for the primary election? Lots of people want to vote for either Clinton or Obama for the Democratic presidential race, but want to chose from among John Morris, Jim McConoughey [...]

After a bit of an absence, I’m back with new links from the Journal Star:

Peoria Heights is going to spend $5,000 on its share of a study to see how a trail could be build along the existing Keller Branch rail line. It’s a step in the right direction, although I doubt that rabid trail [...]

Phil Luciano has jumped on the Bradley University Soccer bandwagon. He admits it. He doesn’t care. He finds the whole three-victories-away-from-a-national-championship thing absolutely riveting:

Saturday night at home, with the team playing in Maryland, I kept dashing to my computer, desperate for updates. College soccer scores are hard to find, especially mid-game.
And when the [...]

Today’s links via the Journal Star:

That Phil Luciano is such a wit. This time, he mines the obit pages for comedy gold. Is there nothing he cannot cut and paste into a column?
The bravely anonymous editorial writers of the award-winning (snicker) Journal Star editorial page has released its opinion on disease-causing viruses. They are opposed.
In [...]

Today’s links, unless otherwise noted, are via the Peoria Journal Star:

CityLift has reached a tentative agreement with it’s union bus drivers. There’s no word on this article on whether or not the “ringleaders” of sick out will be rehired. I would certainly hope so.
Peoria native Hal Fritz received a flag commemorating the Congressional Medal of [...]

Phil Luciano tells of a violent schoolyard fight that sent one child to the hospital. He wonders why kids don’t follow the rules that they did when he was a kid. My two cents: I don’t recall being in many of the kids of friendly spats Phil seems to recall. I recall having to [...]

Poor Phil Luciano has been taking a lot of hits from this online journal of news and opinion recently. I haven’t been too critical (I don’t think) but some of my commenters have been brutal.
So the question is: What can I do to make it up to Phil, and his cohort on WMBD 1470, Jamie [...]

Aesthetics. That’s a one-word way to say that some things just don’t look good. Trouble is, each person has their own standards.
My mother, for example, gets all bent out of shape when she sees people cooking on a BBQ on their front lawn or even on their front porch. She decided a looooong time ago [...]

Less than a week after delivering probably his best column ever — a spot-on perfect smack down on the foolish folks who think a history of Peoria museum will bring in tourists from all over the state if not the entire nation — Phil Luciano writes about how he doesn’t understand how his refrigerator works.
My [...]

There’s no way in Hell the powers-that-be will allow Phil Luciano to continue working for Peoria’s one and only daily newspaper after the spot-on slap-down he delivered today about the $65 million Museum Square project:
Think of it this way: Peoria is about the same size as Allentown, Pa.; Evansville, Ind.; and Waterbury, Conn. Would you [...]

JS columnist Phil Luciano interviewed Congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth, and makes note of her stay in Peoria with the National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 106th Aviation Regiment.
The article takes a respectful tone toward Duckworth, considered a rising star in the Democratic Party because of her record as a wounded-in-action Iraq veteran.
But I also seem to recall [...]

We’re going to be getting another hour of Jamie Markley and Phil Luciano on WMBD 1470 every day. I consider that good news by itself. Even better we’re getting an hour less of Sean Hannity. In fact, he’ll be on for onely one hour ever day. Why they don’t dump the clown all together is [...]

Yeah, that’s a harsh headline, but I figure that since Phil Luciano is going to open today’s column with blanket generalizations, I will too.

Like Phil Luciano, I find the Journal Star’s obituaries much more readable and interesting than they were before they opened them up to more reader supplied details about the subjects’ lives.