This morning something caught my eye.  It wasn’t the fact that the roadwork in Marysville seems to have been mostly finished.  Nope.  That was a nice surprise, but expected at some point.

My workday usually starts with a trip into the newsroom to see what’s new and different.  It’s also a great time to grab the comic section out of the Sacramento Bee.  It’s the only part of the paper that is sure to make me smile these days.

Today when I grabbed the paper I was shocked by what I saw at the top of the page.  As is customary there was a story tease with a picture designed to lure you into the depths of the paper.  There was also an advertising sticker covering the top right corner of the paper.  I grew up in an age that advertising of any kind was forbidden from the front page of a quality newspaper… that wasn’t the shocker!

To my eye it looked like the band One Direction had made a lifestyle announcement!   Here’s what I saw:

Further inspection set me straight.

Then I pulled the ad sticker off and once again I was confused:

My hat’s off to the headline/tease editor at the Sacramento Bee . . . . .