It looks like the Winston-Salem Journal is getting ready to launch more blogs and they’re looking for ideas about what they should be blogging about.  Here are some suggestions, although I doubt they’ll be welcome:

• Where in the World is Vernon? – A blog that covers the escapades of our local gadfly Vernon Robinson.  I think this fits under the category "if it bleeds it leads."
• What’s Your Church? – A blog that disects the peculiar local custom of asking people what their church is rather than the more ubiquitous US custom of asking what someone does.
• Where in the World are the Democrats? – A blog that identifies the three or four democrats that live within an hours drive of Winston-Salem and don’t work at the newspaper or within a school system (this includes universities).  Dixiecrats don’t count either.
• The Nuts on Peanuts – A blog for the thriving "Peanuts" fan club that obviously exists in the area based on the number of people who sent in irate letters about the venerable comic strip being replaced.  This despite the fact that it’s been in re-runs longer than President Bush has been saying "nucular."
• Chicken Pie – For newcomers and carpetbaggers there’s not enough information on where to find the best chicken pie.  From what I can tell you have to know someone who knows someone who’s great-aunt fixes a hundred a week in her vintage 1956 gas stove.  And she’ll sell them to you for $4 each but you have to pick them up.  We need a guide on how to find these culinary saints.

That oughtta do it for today.