"The problem with being my age is everybody thinks you're a father figure, but you're really just the same asshole you always were." — Newspaper editor Bernie White in the Ron Howard film The Paper
The McConnell Essays
Terry McConnell
Followers
Blog Archive
About the author
- Terry McConnell
- Palm Springs, California, United States
- Terry McConnell is the best-selling co-author of the book I’d Trade Him Again: On Gretzky, Politics and the Pursuit of the Perfect Deal, about the former owner of the Edmonton Oilers, Peter Pocklington. It was published in hard cover by Key Porter Books in 2009 and in paperback the following year. Terry was a columnist and editorial writer for the Edmonton Journal for 12 years and in that time became one of that city’s most widely read journalists. Born in Ingersoll, Ontario, near London, Terry studied journalism at Mohawk College in Hamilton, then landed his first job as a sportswriter in suburban Dundas in 1973. He eventually returned to the family business in Tilbury, near Windsor, and later purchased his family’s two newspapers, the Tilbury Times and the North Essex News in Belle River, and launched a third, Shoreline Week, in nearby St. Clair Beach. His newspapers won more than 100 awards for newspaper excellence, and Terry was also recognized for his editorial and column writing and for community initiatives. Today, Terry lives in Palm Springs, where he works as a communications consultant and biographer.
True, and the loss of the... sophistication? of Playboy and its like is pard of what I call the Dumbing Down of America. But on another tack--buying the magazine in your local neighbourhood drugstore reminds me of another small town in the late '60s. Several girls from the general area ended up in residence, and we used to gently tease one girl about her father being indirectly responsible for many of the unplanned teen pregnancies of the area. No, he wasn't some sort of pervert. He was the friendly grandfatherly pharmacist in the only drugstore in town. How could a boy go to the counter to get condoms, or a girl bring in a prescription for that new stuff, the Pill, with this nice person, looking similar to Santa Clause out of uniform and beard, welcoming you. Nope. Hence, the unprotected sex, and "it was all his fault!"
ReplyDelete