Showing posts with label Staff Updates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Staff Updates. Show all posts

Thursday, April 15, 2010

I'm Back In The Saddle Again

Published by Clark Kant, Editor In Chief

I returned to Hermann late last night after spending a week in St. Louis. What an interesting week! I'll write about my experience in a future article.

For right now, I just want to say thanks for all the flowers and cards you sent me. Thanks for all your prayers and well wishes! I also want to thank Jimmy, Lois and Frank for doing an absolute bang-up job during my absence!

I'm back at work today. And I have to say it's great to be ...... "back in the saddle again"!



Clark Kant
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Clark Kant Released From St. Louis Mental Institution

Published by Jimmy Olsun, Night Desk Reporter, Investigative Reporter, Sports Reporter, Weather Reporter and Acting Editor In Chief

Great news everyone!  Clark Kant, my boss and mentor here at Hermann Hearsay, has been released from the St. Louis mental institution where he has been evaluated and treated for the past seven days. 

Clark is too modest to tell you this himself, so I will.  Clark passed all of the mental tests they could think to throw at him!  In fact, Clark received an overall score of 98%.  They say that he is in the 98th percentile of all patients who have ever taken their entire battery of mental tests!  (Jeffy Pooh and Hammerin' Hank, please take note of Clark's high score!) 

Clark would never brag about himself.  And he'll probably chastise me for talking about him in this report.  Knowing Clark and his self-depricating humor, he'll probably tell you, just as he told me last night, that he's "only about a half a bubble off level".

Lois, Frank and I are very happy to have Clark back!  I know that many of our readers are also happy to learn that Clark is back.  Welcome back, Clark!

Jimmy Oldsun
Night Desk Reporter, Investigative Reporter, Sports Reporter, Weather Reporter and Acting Editor In Chief
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Monday, April 12, 2010

Update: Clark Doing Well In The Psych Ward

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, Night Desk, Investigative Reporter, Sports Reporter and Acting Editor In Chief

Clark asked me to pass along to everyone that he is doing just fine!  As you may recall, Clark checked himself into a St. Louis mental institution to begin a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation on Thursday of last week.  The photo on the right was taken of Clark in a group therapy session with four other patients on Saturday afternoon.  Peculiar thing ..... in Clark's group of five, there are four daily online news service reporters.  The other fellow (the one with the beard) is an unemployed nuclear physicist.

This fun-loving group of patients, led by Clark, escaped from the mental institution after their group therapy session on Saturday afternoon and commandeered a couple cabs to give them a ride over to 'The Hill'.  They had a splendid Italian meal at Cunetto's.  Clark says he would highly recommend the
restaurant to our readers.  It seems that Clark is bonding quickly with the other patients at the mental institution.  People seem to like him wherever he goes!

Clark thanks all of our readers who have sent him dozens of text messages wishing him well, and he especially wants to thank The Happy Shoveler who brought him an exquisite cut of prime rib, a baked potato, some au jus, and a fifth of Crown Royal this Sunday evening for dinner!  Clark says the prime rib was absolutely delicious ..... to die for!  And the Crown Royal wasn't bad either!  He told me that the prime rib he had this evening ranks right up there with the best prime rib he has had at a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse.  The baked potato was really good too, but he would have preferred Matt Penning's famous German potato salad.

Clark confided in me that the folks at the institution have conducted electo-shock treatments on him three times thus far.  (Clark says the treatments hurt a little and make him thirsty for Diet Pepsi.)  They have also asked him to look at ink spots and tell them what he sees.  (Clark says they just look like ink spots to him.)  In addition, they have played word association games with Clark.  (Of course, Clark did really well with the word association since he's the #6 journalist in Gasconade County and learned lots of words up at Mizzou's J-School a long time ago when he went to school there.)  Clark feels he is excelling in the group therapy sessions.  He enjoys all of his fellow patients and is making some great new friends!

Clark says to tell Mr. Noedel and Mr. Vonk of CNL that he initially resented their unkind suggestions that he might be mentally unstable.  But now he's glad he listened to them and check himself in for psychiatric evaluation.  He says he's learning a lot about himself and would recommend the experience to them as well. 

We anticipate that Clark will be released on Friday, 4/16 ........ provided, of course, he doesn't pull anymore stunts like escaping from the institution as he and his buddies did on Saturday night!  Clark and his friends are just itching to bust out of the place on Monday afternoon so they can go to the Cardinals' home opener!  Don't let 'em catch you, Clark!

Jimmy Oldsun
Night Desk, Investigative Reporter, Sports Reporter and Acting Editor In Chief
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Friday, April 9, 2010

An Update On Clark .....

Published by Lois Lame, Subscriber Services and Advertising

A number of our readers have inquired about Clark's mental health condition.  We are happy to report that Clark is doing just fine.  He has checked himself into a psychiatric hospital in St. Louis.  For privacy reasons, we cannot give out the hospital's address nor Clark's room number.  Well wishers may make comments and offer their prayers on our website.

That's Clark right there in the photo walking from his hospital room down the corridor to an electro-shock therapy session.

Some of you may not know that Clark was accused of having mental problems by two or three of his most vociferous critics.  Now Clark is a very serious and thoughtful person so this harsh criticism has bothered him immensely.  It particulary hurt Clark that two of his fellow journalist colleagues would criticize him so cruelly and viciously.  Wanting to make absolutely sure that he is not a mental case, Clark checked himself into the psychiatric hospital on Thursday.  He will remain confined there for close observation and therapy until next Friday, 4/16.

Jimmy and I miss Clark and wish him a speedy return!

Lois Lame
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