Peoria Journal Star slams Riverfront Musuem Project
In the middle of a fluff piece about local medical school graduates lies this little nugget:
Day, the day they learned where they will spend the next five years as medical residents. The 44 candidates for graduation at the Peoria college tore open envelopes in the banquet room of the Weaver Ridge clubhouse - precisely at 11 a.m. Central Daylight Time. They instantly learned whether they were in the market for a moving van or had five more years ahead of them - like the rest of us residents of central Illinois - watching whether a museum will ever get built on the Peoria riverfront.
Was this little dig intentional or was it an inside joke that forgot to get edited out? Inquiring minds want to know.
March 21st, 2008 at 8:56 am
As soon as I read that I went to the peoriapundits and the Chronicle to see if they had open threads, to comment on it. Like everyone in Central Illinois is just stuck here and only the lucky few get a golden ticket out of town. And while we are stuck here, we all wait with baited breath for a riverfront museum to deliver us from our mundane existance. I am surprised it wasn’t follwed by a Kellar Branch comment, everyone one knows that is what is going to save us all.
March 21st, 2008 at 11:19 am
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I missed this. It is snark worthy of a good blog. Someone on the copy desk was sleeping on the job.
March 21st, 2008 at 11:56 am
Peoria: A thousand roads in, no roads out.Just a glimmer of fading hope for our own cultural jewel perched on a river of sewage.
March 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
[...] off to PeoriaIllinoisan, for catching this gem that I missed in today’s article about med school grads: Medical [...]
March 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
[...] off to PeoriaIllinoisan, for catching this gem that I missed in today’s article about med school grads: Medical [...]
March 21st, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Yeah, they’re not just slamming the museum, but all Peoria residents. The comment implies that there’s nothing to do here in Peoria except watch and wait for the museum to be built. I’ll bet the Civic Center and PACVB love that sentiment being spread about in the paper.
March 24th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Heck no, we don’t just wait for our museum, we talk about PI’s infected foot a whole bunch, and there was the high school basketball tournament. Lots o wild times around these parts. We got us a casino just tother side o the river too.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Heyheyheyhey!!! The Casino is OURS, Duke! You Peoria folks had your shot!