The Irony Of It All
Brad Hollerbach is the Director of Information Technology for the Southeast Missourian. His opinions are his own and do not reflect those of the newspaper or its editorial board.
He writes this blog primarily for his own amusement and to parody the absurdities of the world we live in. He lives with his wife and two cats that don't really care for one another in Cape.
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Cape Rolling Out Bloomfield Road Art Trail
Posted Wednesday, August 21, 2019, at 9:19 PM1 -
Donors Pledge Almost Two Grand To Replace SEMO's Possibly Sentient ‘Gum Tree'
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2018, at 6:00 AMThe “gum tree” located at SEMO’s main campus on the hill above the Towers residence halls was heavily damaged in a storm at the end of May and was subsequently removed. The University recently replaced it after creating a crowd funding website which has so far raised $1850 from 52 donors... -
SEMO and The Will To (Become A Consultant) – Part 2
Posted Thursday, June 14, 2018, at 6:00 AMI shared in my last blog that I came across a brief legal ad published in the Southeast Missourian over the Memorial Day weekend... -
SEMO and The Will To Do (You Really Want To See That Legal Notice?) – Part 1
Posted Monday, June 4, 2018, at 6:00 AMMy wife claims I read the papers we get – the Southeast Missourian, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Wall Street Journal – cover to cover. That’s not quite true. I read what catches my eye, and sometimes that is the minutia buried within a page... -
Judge, Jury... Trashman
Posted Friday, June 1, 2018, at 6:00 AMMy trash day in Cape is on Thursday, and for the past few weeks I’ve been a bit apprehensive that it would actually be picked up. This anxiety was due to the fact my street has been under siege in a fashion, having “won” the local Transportation Tax Fund lottery. The 200 and 300 blocks of South Louisiana have been hosting the fine folks from Lappe Concrete Finishing as they systematically destroyed and rebuilt much of the street and adjacent sidewalks... -
Diary of Cape Girardeau Road Deconstruction
Posted Friday, May 11, 2018, at 8:00 AMUpdated May 11, 2018 This is a daily diary of one Cape Girardeau home owner as he lives through his block undergoing "concrete repairs" courtesy of the City of Cape Girardeau Transportation Tax Fund. New entries will be added to the bottom of this blog until the work on his block is completed... -
Trying To Save A Tree From City “Improvements”
Posted Monday, April 30, 2018, at 8:00 AM2 -
Eggs-asperated: A Topic Made For Twitter
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2017, at 12:00 PM1Chickens in Cape. Is there a topic more ready-made for Twitter? I don't think so. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23capechickens&src=typd #capechickens -
Presidential Debate Drinking Game
Posted Monday, September 26, 2016, at 12:00 PMI have never looked so forward to watching a Presidential Debate as I am for this evening's 90 minute throw-down between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the two most despised candidates to ever run for that office. At our house, the beer is cold and the popcorn is ready, but we were missing a drinking game. Here's a start, but suggestions and additions are welcome... -
The REAL Reason The Attorney General Is Trying To Close Down Safe Harbor...
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An Even Better Location For The University...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2015, at 9:26 PM3 -
The Center for Mass Mediaocrity
Posted Wednesday, February 4, 2015, at 8:30 AM1It was announced this past weekend that Southeast Missouri State University is going to be investing in its Mass Media Department by leasing two long vacant floors of a downtown ex-bank building and creating the "Center for Excellence in Mass Media."... -
'Gone Girl' Cat-astrophe
Giving Credit Where Credit Is Doo(Doo)Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2014, at 6:00 AM2The movie 'Gone Girl' is now available from iTunes and since I had a balance in my Apple account and no plans to spend it, I downloaded a copy. I had already seen the movie at the theatre, but because I was an extra, I wanted to see exactly how much I was visible no matter how inconsequential, and if we -- of the background artistry -- got any kind of credit... -
Amazing Restrooms!
Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2014, at 6:00 AM7I was recently filling up my truck at the Mercato convenience store at the intersection of Bloomfield and Mount Auburn, when a message on the business' digital signboard caught my eye. Sandwiched somewhere between advertisements for fuel prices and beef jerky was the following bit of self-promotion:... -
Cape Schools To Spend $16 million
On Dress Code ColorimetersPosted Thursday, July 31, 2014, at 6:00 AM10In order to make sure that students and staff are wearing clothes from the approved color pallette this coming year, the Cape Girardeau School Board has approved purchasing walk-thru colorimeters for all schools in the district at a cost of $16 million... -
Latest "Gone Girl" Movie Trailer Deconstructed;
Cape Locations Appear In Around 50 SecondsPosted Monday, July 7, 2014, at 7:53 PM4NOTE: In the spreadsheet I compiled this breakout in which appears at the bottom, I flagged which scenes were local or likely local. However, I failed to copy that information over to this blog entry, which was the whole point of this blog. Duhhhh! It is there now. -- BH... -
Old Federal Building Has A Parking Perk
Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2014, at 9:17 PM3The old Federal Building finally sold, and I was immediately curious as to what was going to be done with this albatross. The article on this website indicates that the new owner plans to subdivide it into professional offices which made me wonder, how that could be allowed since it has almost no parking?... -
America's Got Crisis!
Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2014, at 6:00 AM1America appears to be facing a crisis of talent, and I feel we must act now and we must act decisively, or China and a horde of other countries are going to leave us in the dust. Now, I'm not talking about our expertise in math and science. We've been trailing China and a bunch of other countries in those areas for years. ... -
The Actual Cost of Charter's $7-A-Month Cable Boxes
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2014, at 6:00 AM11Charter Communications switched to an all-digital cable signal in this area on April 15. This upgrade is being touted as an enormous enhancement to customers, that the freeing of the huge amounts of bandwidth which had been tied up by the old analog signals will now allow customers to have dozens of additional digital channels... -
"Gone Girl" Movie Trailer Deconstructed;
Cape Locations Appear In Almost 30 PercentPosted Monday, April 14, 2014, at 10:24 PM9The first trailer for the movie "Gone Girl" premiered this evening. Of course, since I was a background artist playing a still photographer in the movie, I first wanted to see if I made the cut in the one minute and thirty-seven second clip. I did, twice, at :60 (that's me standing with my back to the street in the doorway of the bar) and at :86 when "the media" is pursuing Ben Affleck's character Nick after he abruptly leaves a candlelight vigil for his missing wife. ...
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