Cooking school crashes into Jeffersonville home, and the paper is right there to baste it.

File under: Muscle memory, although "atrophy" is a more appropriate word.

It should come as no surprise that on the day after cooking school, the paper still is busy promoting it. This lends regrettable credence to a friend who predicted (or was it a prophecy?) ...

Don't you realize you'll soon see -

"The Return of The Son of The Cooking School"?

"Due to the recent success, we've decided to repeat the classes so those who couldn't attend … "

He's right, and we're probably doomed to another six months of irrelevance while waiting for the 'Bama pensioners to approve a New Albany beat reporter, but let's stumble forward with this:

PHOTO: SUV crashes into Jeffersonville home

But how did it get there without a driver? Did it roll across town?

Now, if I were to stroll up to the mayor's car and douse it with red paint, I'm guessing the banner wouldn't read "Paint can vandalizes mayor's car."

Or, to be more topical: "Kitchen utensils fashion the perfect souffle."

Although maybe they did. After all, never second-guess Bill Hanson's journalism auto-pilot.

233 days (cooking school!) since New Albany had (cooking school!!) a News and Tribune city (cooking school!!!) reporter.

Ye gods, at last ... after tonight, it's over.

But first, some exclamation point abuse.

By the way, did you know that in British English it's an exclamation mark, and in American English an exclamation point?

Later in the year, or next year, or whenever it is that the CNHI newspapers get together to hand each other awards -- do they do it quarterly? -- the Golden Spatula winner in the category of Misplaced Journalistic Priorities is clear-cut.

Congrats, Bill. You're so very deserving of it. Is it time to resume covering New Albany?

Yet?

Someone just died trying to cross the street, and at the News and Tribune, it's shill-a-minute for cooking school.

Maybe if New Albany had a reporter, he or she could read the Fb feed and get little tidbits of topical news every now and then. As IAH remarked:

But think about how the bottom line of the NT is going to look. Haven't had to pay a reporter for New Albany for at least 7 months and now they are not paying an editor. Add these "great" cost savings to the cooking school income and Mr. Hanson will have a very nice bonus awaiting him for far exceeding his bottom line budget. Let's be happy for him.

154 days since we had a News and Tribune reporter in New Albany, but look: Cooking School! In Jeffersonville!

The web site has lots of information about how to buy things.

How do I buy tickets to a Taste of Home Cooking School show?

Each Taste of Home Cooking School show is locally managed by a media partner. Click HERE to be directed to our “Find a Show” page on the Taste of Home website, where our local media partners provide instructions on how to purchase tickets.

And: it's at a church.

I wonder when we'll have a reporter again? You know, that news thing.