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Smiley Anders has been writing a column six days a week for The Advocate since 1979.
Smiley, who received B.A. and M.A. degrees in journalism from LSU, joined The Advocate in 1973 as business reporter after a 13-year career as a business journalist (he was oil and gas editor of The Shreveport Times and edited business publications for the Louisiana Farm Bureau and Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce).
His column has won first place in the items category of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' annual competition (the Herb Caen Award) on four occasions (in 1985, 1997, 2004 and 2005). He was named the first "Communicator of the Year" in 1975 by the Public Relations Association of Louisiana. He served as president of the Press Club of Baton Rouge in 1976 and 1996.
He is married to the former Katherine Scales. He has two children and six grandchildren.
Send your e-mail items for Smiley’s column to smiley@theadvocate.com or call him at (225) 388-0639.
You mean there’s a guy in Baton Rouge who hasn’t heard of Les Miles? Where’s he been, Mongolia? Well, as a matter of fact. …
Remember our September story about folks in Germantown, Wis., being alarmed to find Louisiana red swamp crawfish in a pond?
After I urged calm at the news that BATS ARE INVADING BATON ROUGE!, I heard from several vampires (pardon me, bat defenders).
Former longtime Baton Rouge resident Dotty Stubbs now lives in Natchez, Miss., but the move north hasn’t lessened her love of the LSU Tigers.
Get smart quick with her device Proud grandpa Allen Fontenot, of Crowley, says granddaughter Avery Harman’s fourth-grade class was given the assignment to write something they had invented (in their imagination).
Dear Smiley: Recently I pulled into the local Popeye’s for a slight “fix” of Louisiana food, and noticed a sign that announced “Cajun Turkeys coming soon.”
As you know, I believe in keeping you informed in a calm and reflective manner. There are just too many paranoid people out there sounding alarms, so I like to think of this column as a place where you can receive vital information in a sober and serious manner. BUT it has come to my attention that BATON ROUGE IS BEING INVADED BY BATS!
Mike “Pretty Boy” Gauthier, of Thibodaux, was intrigued by a recent Advocate article on a study concluding that “better looking people make more money.” Mike says the researcher discussed the possibility of the government offering affirmative action programs for ugly people.
You’ve no doubt heard that the SEC fined Florida football coach Urban Meyer $30,000 for suggesting that the refs missed the late hit on his quarterback Tim Tebow in a recent game.
Patricia Oates says a friend in Salem, Va., told her of a change in the voting method in the recent Virginia election, no doubt due to the H1N1 flu virus.
Some of my favorite stories deal with wayward animals. On Thursday we ran an account of a deer that committed a home invasion. And I recently told of a rooster that hitched a ride into downtown Denham Springs and disrupted traffic.
Dear Smiley: Reading Fern Grush’s game-day menus centered on LSU’s opponents’ mascots reminds me of about 10 years ago. My wife and my daughter (about 9) and I had gone to an LSU-Arkansas game in Baton Rouge the Friday after Thanksgiving.
I’m constantly amazed at the creativity and resourcefulness of my readers. Sometimes I think they should be running the state — a feeling I’m sure most of them share.
Lynda Normand says she and husband Cliff recently had an unexpected visitor at 11:30 p.m. She says a loud crash of breaking glass woke her up.
After all the hoopla over Billy Cannon’s run against Ole Miss in 1959, we get a reminder of another extraordinary event in the LSU-Ole Miss rivalry.
The death of former governor David Treen reminds me of what a gracious man he was. He could appear stiff in his public appearances, especially when compared to Edwin Edwards. But one-on-one he could be surprisingly relaxed and fun-loving.
Gary Couvillion says granddaughter Grace Ann, 4, gets a kick out of going to the LSU campus before a home football game in her Tiger cheerleader outfit.
Dear Smiley: Just had to comment on your readers seeing LSU Tiger gear in foreign places. That’s great, connecting with displaced Louisiana natives. But does that indicate a greater problem?
Talk about bad news on the doorstep … I was shocked and saddened to learn from Wednesday’s Advocate that the feds plan to ban fresh Gulf oysters unless they’re treated.
Jewell J. Chubbuck says a friend sent her a clipping from The News & Observer in Durham, N.C., about how residents of one Durham neighborhood are dealing with speeders.
Elwyn Bocz, of Gramercy, says several years ago a nephew attending Nicholls State University in Thibodaux came home for Christmas break with a friend in tow.
Kathleen Talmadge came across a story about famed New Orleans chef John Besh in the October issue of Men’s Health magazine.
Family built a special store here Here’s an unsolicited plug for an extraordinary book.
Dear Smiley: In the late 1960s, the Air Force sent my friend Bill Brown, who now lives in Boyce, to Northwestern State University to take several classes.
Jackie Upton gets nostalgic about a once-humble item of clothing that now dominates wardrobes around the world: “I remember my first pair of jeans, way before Vogue magazine and Diana Vreeland made them fashionable."
Annabelle Armstrong says, “While driving my granddaughters Rachel and Molly to their home after school, we passed the beautiful new retirement home for nuns, located behind the Catholic Life Center.
