Brian Root

Today will be an extremely busy day for @pilotonline.com. Starting … very soon.

I seem to recall promising a Flock story. I am sometimes a man of my word. www.pilotonline.com/2026/10/11/s...

I really hope there is an afterlife, if only so my mom can meet Tim Curry. There is a reason I knew the lyrics to Time Warp before I ever saw the movie.

Feel free to note that I called this more than a year ago.

For the last maybe 35-40 years, hip hop is the only genre that has been consistently innovative.

Deadwood Lost The Wire - it was so cute when people said they were outraged by Season 5. TNG The Expanse Narcos Warrior The X-Files Breaking Bad Picket Fences Dick van Dyke Show Buffy Homicide The Americans Sesame Street

At least we might get a fun They Might Be Giants sequel-song out of it.

I wonder what percentage of people in Hampton Roads have been closer to a shooting than that, without Secret Service protection.

Cult of Personality, by Living Colour. The song itself and I also (to my shame) didn’t know the opening quote was from Malcolm X. Had to ask a professor who said it and he was immediately suspicious of me. 🙂

And now, Old Dominion University. www.pilotonline.com/2026/03/12/o...

Just in time to contribute to the discourse about anecdotal ledes, here is a story that Emma Brown has worked on for quite a while. Maybe give it a look? www.dailypress.com/2026/03/06/v...

Lol just saw a post from someone who says they never read anecdotal ledes. It's like Bluesky knows I'm editing a long story about a man detained by ICE ... with an anecdotal lede. If your attention span exceeds that of a hummingbird, you should give it a look when it posts later today.

It’s going to take more than a former Pizza Hut, imho

Fwiw, the chancellor of William & Mary is former defense secretary Robert Gates. Do with that what you will.

Charlie’s Seafood, on Shore Drive in Virginia Beach. The food was very good - the crab soup was very good - but I remember it so fondly because my grandparents took us there often when I was little. It hits hard when I think about it now.

This story was funny until I got to this sentence, then it became hilarious … Investigators later found matching zip ties in her Maserati SUV.

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

The kind of story/headline you write when the top priority is not making someone mad.

I guess I’m getting old and grumpy but all the major news org stories about Portland seem just … insane. I mean, that city has writers and photographers in it. Hire a couple of them for a week and actually document what is happening there. This is not difficult.

Also he doesn’t use the Oxford comma, which immediately makes me like him.

Before budget meetings @pilotonline.com, we get a rundown of latest google trends. One of today’s is “Nationals and Marlins” and I refuse to believe that game is trending.

For no particular reason, just wanted to mention that one of the aircraft carriers currently under construction is to be named the USS Doris Miller.

Shoot to thrill play to kill Too many women with too many pills

A colt named Journalism is the betting favorite in this weekend's Kentucky Derby. If metaphor carries the day, that poor horse is gonna break down and get boltgunned right to hell in front of millions.

Sooooo, has an (just guessing here) anti-ship missile ever come that close to an American carrier before?

This story is fabulous

There's a scene with Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe and their characters hate each other and it absolutely rules

But can they subscribe to any site that -uses- content from The Association Press? Because that's everybody. ESPN, Variety, Fox News - you name it.

If this is how the humans write, maybe they should let AI do all their push notifications.

they’re on the hunt, they’re after you

veteran journalists encouraging aspiring journalists to enter the field

“On Saturday, Acting Executive Editor Matt Murray told editors that the paper should not cover itself.” lol. Really looking forward to not reading anything from the Post about their next Pulitzer.

@radleybalko.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social You might find this one interesting ... www.pilotonline.com/2024/12/05/r...

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