I just got off the phone with Pappy Wentworth. Aka “Big Dave.” I had been chatting with my sister Johanna about the likelihood of my not traveling home for Christmas this year. But talking to Dad about it, and hearing him agree that this was not a good year to do it, put a finality … Continue reading Home For The Holiday (Easter Perhaps. Or Memorial Day.)
This little tradition started on MySpace, was transitioned to Facebook, and now rests on the ol’ blog. The first year I did this I was 33 years old, so I wrote 33 things for which I was thankful. I’ve added one new thing each year, and this year’s is at the bottom. A lot changes … Continue reading The Thanks Giving, 2020
It’s Friday night and I am not board-opping a football game! (Hemingford’s season came to an end yesterday so I am out of the button-monkey business until next season, or until some unforeseen technical imbruglio pulls me back to the console.) So tonight I am getting friendly with my new laptop. In 2011 (or possibly … Continue reading New Laptop!
Here we have two blog posts in one. I do this because I’m not sure I have enough to say about either topic to fill a decent post. So here we go. ____________________________________ It’s been a while since I posted some of my commercial work. A major part of my job at Radio City in … Continue reading Commercials, and “You Blockheads!”
Dear Jason Patrick, Here is the story of how your Uncle Wenty and your Uncle Kalin went to see your Dad and Mom get married. (Kalin and I aren’t really your uncles, and we aren’t really brothers. But I love Kalin like a brother, and we fight like brothers, so it’s close enough.) I have … Continue reading The Wedding of Pat and Courtney, as Told By The Best Man
Considering that they have known me for over a combined 60 years (not dollars), my friends Pat Adriance, Kalin Krohe and Jason Hager have probably figured out by now that movies are not my prime form of entertainment. I’m a TV guy, and a radio guy, and yes there are a lot of movies I … Continue reading “Hocus Pocus”: I Saw The Damn Thing
Any holiday centered around candy is bound to be a favorite of mine. Add in the excuse to do mediocre impressions of James Stewart, Cary Grant, Paul Lynde, Grandpa Munster, and Orson Welles….well, it’s irresistible! Halloween Safety Tips were one of multitudes of “tag messages” our radio stations used to sell. We did a LOT … Continue reading Halloween Safety Tips
In Hemingford, Nebraska there is a wonderful pizza place called Village Pizza. An old radio friend and I had lunch there a month or two ago and I was impressed with their supreme pie. Sampling the product always stimulates the creative process. At least when the product is edible or potable (know your Word Power®). … Continue reading Pizza! And Commercials!
50 years ago this weekend, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” premiered on CBS. My Facebook feed is clogged with tribute articles that all repeat the same factoids, like how Mary Richards was originally going to be a divorcee but CBS thought viewers would believe she left Rob Petrie. Classic episodes are recalled, like “Chuckles Bites … Continue reading Love Is All Around
At the very end of 2018, I returned to work from Christmas vacation and had a very stressful day or two. There was just a lot of stuff piled up and some minor office drama on top of it…and I noticed my left eye was twitching. Just a little facial tic of the variety lots … Continue reading Botox Boy
