When I joined the Chronicle, a boss asked if I had any ideas for new features. I said, "I've got two. How about if we review fast-food joints where everybody eats every day, in addition to the expensive restaurants where people eat maybe once or twice a year ... usually when somebody else is paying?"CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post hereMy other, brighter idea was a feature where we could help find homes for unwanted dogs.
Most newspapers have a feature like this, but I don't like the way they do it. They'll usually run a little picture of the dog and something like, "Here's Buster. He's a 5-year-old beagle, and if nobody adopts him by Thursday, well, Buster buys it."
They're so boring that I don't know why people even read them. I figured there's a better way of doing a homeless dog feature.
The Chronicle tried it.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
How Pethouse Pets came to be
Ken Hoffman runs us through the history of his fastfood reviews and Pethouse Pets of the week columns:
