This has been an unusual week for me. Most of the radio work I do falls under the category of what the BBC calls “light entertainment”. (That’s British Broadcasting Corporation, not Box Butte County.) I host a morning show where I do cheesy impersonations, make semi-humorous remarks and give airtime to a fictional basement-dweller. I … Continue reading Serious Radio, and Serious Idiocy
Hello, and welcome to a Russian doll blog post. Writing within writing within writing. This is 2020, tubby, quarantined, occasionally irritable for no discernible reason Wenty. I was watching DVDs of “Here’s Lucy” this evening (yeah, yeah, your taste in stuff sucks too) and I remembered that I met Lucie Arnaz in 2005. It’s not … Continue reading The Old Time Radio Convention (Always Try To Hook Your Audience With An Exciting Headline)
My friends and I, you see…we make radio shows for fun. At least we did in the Before Times®. I don’t know how much my friends enjoy it, but they indulge old Wenty every once in a while. I wrote this at the very beginning of the Covid-19 spread. I think if we had gotten … Continue reading I Apologize In Advance
In these challengi–nope. In this unusual situ–nope. (It is getting hard to avoid cliches when discussing pandemic times.) Life sucks, and I want to show appreciation for the things that make me happy. So here is something I wrote 14 years ago about my favorite noodle-based lunch food product: This morning, I woke up with Unexplained … Continue reading Ode To Cup O’ Noodle
I did a rotten morning show today. I was in a rotten mood, I couldn’t quite snap out of it and the show was just mediocre as all get out. Usually there’s something to point to with pride in a show that’s otherwise flat. Not today. This show just laid there and died. I don’t … Continue reading Behind Door #3: A Book Review(ish)
Are you there, God? It’s me, Wenty. That’s not exactly an original opening. I thought you were a Director Of Creative Services. Cut me some slack, almighty…uh..you. I’m not handling things very well at the moment. I’m hearing a lot of that. Of course you are! And that’s what makes me feel bad even bringing … Continue reading A Conversation With God
I would actually record and produce this script, but Bob is locked in the basement until this coronavirus thing blows over. (His pet pig Hot Dog and pet chicken Ranchy are also quarantined with him. When I write scripts for these guys I sometimes write dialogue for Hot Dog because Bob and I speak fluent … Continue reading Bob and Wenty Quarantine PSA
I haven’t written much here lately, possibly because–like you–I just haven’t done much lately. I go to work as one of The Essentials®, which I use in jest because there is absolutely nothing essential about playing Cyndi Lauper records and making semi-humorous comments. I don’t think it’s wise for me to write about the virus, … Continue reading Bestos Family Tree
I am not a hoarder in the physical life. I do not save newspapers, trash, random junk. But digitally, I am completely and utterly a hoarder. I save things with no known value or use. But hey! It’s digital! And it all sits in one folder so it LOOKS orderly. Here is a trio of … Continue reading Main Street Players Video Oddities
Larry King used to write a column for the USA Today newspaper consisting of vapid non-sequiturs such as: “That Charlene Tilton sure is a looker”…”Anybody ever wonder what happens to the airplane peanuts people don’t eat?”…”I’m calling it now: The Yankees will win the penant this year…” And so forth. So here’s a grab bag … Continue reading A Larry King “Dot Dot Dot” Column
