We’ve been doing this for three years now. That’s right, the beginning of 2009 rings in the start of the fourth year for your favorite magazine by Murfreesboro, for Murfreesboro, about Murfreesboro.

Those who were MTSU freshmen just coming into town when The Pulse first rolled off the press are now seniors (if they’re not total slackers, that is. Ha!).

I noticed the home on Hamilton Drive across from the one we featured last issue with the brilliant Christmas light display synchronized with music is for sale. I wonder if the carols and the traffic and the bright lights were too much for the neighbors across the street?

Will Ferrell’s character from Elf needs to move in there. He’ll be up all night every night drinking syrup and taking in the light show just outside his bedroom window.

Everyone in Tennessee has NFL playoff fever as the Titans get ready for their home game.

But why even show up to Indianapolis for the final game of the regular season if you’re not going to put up any more of a fight than that?

I think Jeff Fisher is going to give me some playing time in the next meaningless game. Send me on a route over the middle. I’ll do whatever it takes to be a Titan for a “meaningless” game. You can’t do much worse than 0 points, eh?

I’m still lobbying for an ice rink in Murfreesboro. That’s the one thing this town is missing. Until I have the capital to put up, it’s all talk from me, but like I told the Chamber, I’ll write columns in support.

I’ll have to admit, the story of someone finding 97 $1,000 bills in a bathroom is far fetched, especially without the lucky real owner coming forward.

Does anyone even know who’s on the $1,000 bill?Ronald McDonald? Elvis Presley?

Hey, I found 42 $10,000 bills the other day. They had Weird Al Yankovic’s photo on them.

Look, I was just joking when I said this crazy bailout trend should come inject some cash into the newspaper industry, but it looks like someone’s taking me seriously up in Connecticut.

What about 5.25” floppy disks? Funny little derby hats? You don’t see those items hardly at all anymore, and they’re a vital part of the American experience. We must stimulate those industries along with every other obsolete one in the country.

I’ll be waiting on my check and will be properly stimulated when it comes.

Peace,

Bracken Mayo, Editor in Chief