Wow... what a way to live :)

[gopunk]

this is like something out of a movie

from wsj (sorry they make you subscribe so no link):

ARLINGTON, Va. -- More than 500 reporters cover the Pentagon. One is Raymond Cromley, sole representative of Cromley News Service.

Mr. Cromley, 91 years old, has a cubicle in the Pentagon press room outfitted with an old Royal typewriter without a ribbon, a 1971 World Almanac and 17 toothbrushes in a plastic cup. At Pentagon press briefings, he scribbles notes on 3-by-5 index cards that fit neatly into his shirt pocket. His picture hangs on the wall with those of all the other Pentagon correspondents.

Mr. Cromley hasn't written a story in years. "He's been here longer than I have," says Glenn Flood, a Pentagon public information officer since 1978. "Though I can't say I have ever really worked with him on a story. I am not sure any of us have."

Mr. Cromley shuffles through the Pentagon in goggle-eyed glasses and a frayed sweater. He drives himself there each morning from his home in nearby Alexandria, Va., in a 20-year-old yellow Mercedes-Benz sedan and swims laps at the Pentagon Officers Athletic Club. He checks the stock tables in the newspapers piled in the press room and collects the daily press releases. Index cards filled with his scrawl pile up on his desk. But his typewriter goes unused. So far as anyone can tell, including Mr. Cromley, he wrote his last column in 1996, though it isn't clear that even that short piece on the federal budget was published anywhere.

Stories about Mr. Cromley's past abound at the Pentagon. One employee insists he's a millionaire several times over. Another says he was a member of the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. Yet another says Mr. Cromley was blacklisted during the Red Scare. He says none of that is true, and that he has always been a Republican.

Bryan Whitman, who oversees the Pentagon press operation and assigns cubicles and press passes, says he hears occasional suggestions that Mr. Cromley's cubicle and press pass be revoked because the reporter no longer reports.

"I don't know for a fact that he's not writing and I don't really want to know," Mr. Whitman says. "As far as I am concerned, he is a working journalist employed by Cromley News Service."

 

[SWirth86]

That news source couldn't find anything better than that? Sad.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: SWirth86
That news source couldn't find anything better than that? Sad.

huh? there's more to the story, like the guy's life... i just didnt' feel like pasting it all.

 

[sohcrates]

oooh...*I* live in alexandria , va too

 

[etalns]

I found it interesting

What do some people have against news stations not reporting just violence, sometimes it's good to take a peak at the more interesdting things in life that'd oft go un-noticed.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Qosis
I found it interesting

What do some people have against news stations not reporting just violence, sometimes it's good to take a peak at the more interesdting things in life that'd oft go un-noticed.

exactly. it is a good change of pace

 

[CasioTech]

whoa, maybe i'll live like that one day

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Reminds me of my current job. Can't remember the last time I did any real work.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Why does Milton from Office Space come to mind?

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: lirion
Why does Milton from Office Space come to mind?

Reminds me of me in high school...