The Chris Moeller Archives

Anchorman

I'm sitting in the anchor chair tonight as the rest of the web does my work for me...

We start with a report on the status of TV's best comedy.
"'Arrested Development' rages against the dying of the light." Adam Sternbergh reports from New York.

In commemoration of Pamela Anderson's new series, the FDA has lifted the ban on silicone breast implants. Here's Lauran Neergaard.

Cubs manager Dusty Baker is feuding with the media in Chicago amidst his own comments that he treats players' injuries with "holy water." Our Jay Mariotti cuts loose from the Windy City.

The House of Representatives gives a command performance of Bizarro-Robin Hood. The AP has details.

Finally tonight, a shout-out to music legend Johnnie Johnson, who died this morning at his St. Louis home. Johnson played blues piano, and could be heard on Chuck Berry's early classics, "School Days" and "Back in the U.S.A." He was honored by Berry with the immortal tune, "Johnny B. Goode."
Johnson was born in West Virginia, and came to St. Louis in the 1950s, where he formed his own R&B band, the Johnnie Johnson Trio. He composed much of Berry's music on the piano, then Berry converted it to guitar and wrote the lyrics. Johnson's been called the "founding father of rock-n-roll." He was inducted into Cleveland's "Rock-n-Roll Hall-of-Fame" in 2001.
He died after suffering recently from pneumonia and a kidney ailment. He was 80.

From Des Moines, I'm Chris Moeller.
Courage.

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