WLOS week in review

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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After a week’s vacation, we’re ready to start kicking it up a notch. Halloween’s coming. City Council elections are coming. November sweeps are coming. Oh yes, my pretties, can’t you just taste the fun in the air???

This weekend, I’ll be looking for more fall color in the mountains, and I’ll be dropping by the big Brewgrass festival. Hell, I might even check out the Southern Highland Craft Guild Fair, just because I can.

But that’s all for later. Let’s get caught up on a our WLOSer friends.

The Bluntman

Ashvegas has received a series of e-mail jpegs purportedly showing WLOSers modeling Halloween costumes. I’m not quite sure if they’re for real. I’ll let you be the judge. Here’s Larry “the Bluntman” Blunt.

Jay and Silent Bob
The noon news broadcasts were a bit painful to watch this past week, in no small part due to the palpable disdain Bob Cobweb has been showing Jay Seltzer, who is chomping at the bit to take over the noon weather duties. You can just see it.

The awkward silences peppered throughout the weekend came to a head Wednesday, I think, when the prerequisite happy talk was going nowhere. “A lot going on out there in the world,” Jay prompted. Bob mumbled something. So Jay prompted again, with a few words about Hurricane Wilma. Bob perked right up, basically telling Jay to stay off his topic. He said something like, “I’ll have that covered coming up next.” Jay stumbled around for a few more awkward seconds until finally, a commercial.

Le on blind bowlers and no-name musicians
Jon “Punnyman” Le had his normal up-and-down week. He did a solid story about a group of blind bowlers without making fun of them, and managed to edit the tape to look like all they were throwing was strikes, instead of the gutterballs we really know they were tossing down the lanes.

But Le ruined it all at the end of his report with a stupid, needless pun about how, “no matter how many strikes against them” the blind bowlers live on. Le, you infuriate.

Le also continues to confound by profiling no-name, non-local musicians who are half-talents, at best. If you can’t score the big-name musicians that come through Ashvegas on a regular basis, then stop wasting our time.

Friday night, there was some guitarist who plays slap-and-tickle with his beat-up guitar to decent effect. Fine. But why is this a story? If it were a local person, cool. Otherwise, stop it.

One-eyed, half-breed, sorta-friendly wolf caught
WLOSers have been hot on the trail of a reported wolf running loose in the mountains. Cherub Charu told us Friday night that the “creature,” as she termed it for extra-scary effect, had been caught in McDowell County.

Why do we care? The wolf apparently was part wolf, part dog. It had one eye. It was friendly, according to the woman Charu interviewed, who said she’d seen it in the trailer park playing with other dogs. And it was a gray wolf, not a red wolf. We care about red wolves, because they’re endangered.

And Charu never explained how the dog was caught. ??? Thanks for telling us nothing.

Question

When will Scottie2Hottie break out the leather bomber jacket you know he’s just dyin’ to wear? I feel it coming, soon. Very soon.

Did you see…
That stupid bit Diva Darcel and the Bluntman did on the giant snake sitting in the base of somebody’s toilet? They had video, which I guess made it a story. But it was nasty.