From Gannett Blog, we learn that Des Moines Register Editor Carolyn Washburn reportedly sent this note in an email to newsroom employees:

I’m looking for some of you willing to be members of a new fun committee. OK, you can call yourselves whatever you want. But think popcorns Fridays, and the day the hotdog gun came, and the Perry Beeman/Rodney White band performance. We need more stuff like that.

In light of reported job cuts in the near future, the new committee might have its work cut out for itself.

(Here at the Iowa Independent, we’re still looking for an office hotdog gun — whatever that is.)