Ah, Heritage Days. A week of great food, spectacular live entertainment, unique events for every interest, and great food. (I mentioned great food twice, I know. I stand by it.) Heritage Days is still fun for me every year, even the years when I find myself hosting things more than doing things. So I thought … Continue reading Heritage Days: 5 Likes From The Present and 5 From The Past
Let me tell you a story. On March 6th, 2020 my ol’ buddy Kalin Krohe and I went to Chadron to see singer/songwriter Branson Anderson at the Bean Broker. It was a fantastic evening of great music, great food and drink, and a healthy supply of shenanigans. Branson Anderson at the Bean Broker, 3/6/20. Branson … Continue reading Branson Is Back! (The Musician, Not The Place)
I don’t know how I started making stupid 4th-grade level mockups of album covers with my friend Kalin Krohe as the subject. (Some would say “victim”.) Krohe and I (and our mutual friend Pat Adriance) have been exchanging photohacks for years. In fact, Pat did a blockbuster one just the other day: Kalin has his … Continue reading The Krohe Albums, Book 6
Alternate Titles: “Ass Attack”, “Donkey Wrong”, “Mule Never Forget It!” My friend Tami and I go on all sorts of fun travel adventures. Today we headed for South Dakota. The headline attraction was Wall Drug Store, the touristy mecca that was loaded with goofy photo ops. But first: DONKEYS! Tami, you see, has been visiting … Continue reading Donkey-Maggedon!
Over the years, KCOW’s basement tenant Bob S. Bestos and I have cooked up a lot of radio nonsense. For the last several years our major annual project has been the Halloween special…but in 2015 we created “The Bestos Christmas Yet”, a holiday special which aired on KCOW. I figured Bob was worthy of the … Continue reading The Bestos Christmas Yet
For years and years now, I have been adding to a list of things I am thankful for. I have decided to retire ye olde list; if you are desperate to see it, and the annual updates from the 16 years that followed, it’s here. It’s not that I am no longer thankful; in fact, … Continue reading Thankful For Friends
So, every month I pay a few bucks to an outfit called Dreamhost to host Wentyworld.com. Which I am happy to pay–but I do feel a little regret if I don’t actually generate content for the website. I mean, I’m never going to be one of these people who post new stuff every day. My … Continue reading My Mel Torme Story
Pat Adriance is one of my closest and dearest friends. Last summer when I went home to see the family, Pat and his clan paid us a visit. Pat’s Dad is a retired social studies teacher with a Master of Arts in Political Science. His master’s thesis is now a book: “Nixon, Congress, And The … Continue reading On The Bookshelf: Nixon and Drugs
The first time I saw “The Abbott And Costello Show” was on “The STM Club”, a local kiddie TV show in Syracuse, NY. (The TV station was WSTM, hence the title.) The headliner of the club was Scooby-Doo, and A&C filled most of the second half of the hour. The show was run from grubby, … Continue reading “Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Abboooooooott!”
Today marks Mike Glesinger’s 35th anniversary with KCOW and Eagle Radio. This is a major milestone and an incredible accomplishment in a business where job security is so lousy it’s memorialized in a TV theme song (“Town to town, up and down the dial…”) Gles, you see, has no truck for self-aggrandizement. (I, on the … Continue reading 10 Facts About Gles (Half of Which Are False)
