I have been enjoying Ken Burns’ “Country Music” series on PBS quite a bit this week. It’s a tremendous deep dive into every era of country music…the chapter I watched last night included sections on Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis as “rockabilly” challenged traditional country music in the 1950s. As I’m sure you can … Continue reading Music Cities USA!
I promise I will go back to actual…you know…writing. But I just had to do one more of these. Continue reading Hot Dog Goes To A Concert!
Two years ago this week I was doing something that I had always wanted to do: I was taking the California Zephyr train from Denver to Chicago. I got a genuine sleeper car and everything, and it was truly one of my all-time favorite travel adventures. Just for the heck of it, I brought along … Continue reading Hot Dog And Wenty Ride The Choo-Choo
Today on CBS News “Sunday Morning” they had a profile of Donny and Marie. The legendary sibling duo has been selling out dates at the Flamingo in Vegas for years, but this November they’re drawing their Vegas residency to a close. Marie, it seems, is becoming a panelist on the CBS daytime series “The Talk.” … Continue reading Donny, Marie, and Partial Nudity
In the summer of 2010 Dave Kuskie and I did a special episode of our “Dog and Pony Show” using my real-life trip to a Nebraska Broadcasters Association convention as a springboard to our fantasy version. In our fictional trip, Dave comes with me and we end up stealing a man’s identity (and his hotel … Continue reading The Annotated “Road To The Broadcasters Convention”
As promised (threatened?) here are more headlines I wrote for AP wire entertainment stories in the early days of Panhandle Post: Continue reading More Silly Headlines
TPIR stands for “The Price is Right.” (In case that isn’t clear.) I think Drew Carey is a fine host. He’s certainly better today than he was his first couple of years. I’d have chosen Marc Summers for the job-he was a great host on “Double Dare” and actually interned with Barker on “Truth Or … Continue reading 10 Things I Miss About The Bob Barker Era of “TPIR”
To start right out, I owe Kalin Krohe a tremendous apology. Kalin, as News Director, churns out an inconceivable amount of content for our company’s website, panhandlepost.com. Kalin frequently seeks my counsel on stories he’s working on; headlines are often discussed. My mantra to Herr Pressheim is “Headlines should be short! Snappy! Word economy lad, … Continue reading Headline Writer Makes Feeble Attempts At Humor (Chapter One)
I love writing and producing commercials for Arby’s. For one thing, food is a great subject–everybody eats, and everybody gets excited about where to go for lunch. It’s a fun topic. Over the nearly two decades that I have been “the Arby’s guy” for radio stations in Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana, many of … Continue reading Arby’s 3-Of-A-Kinds
I got a letter today encouraging me to join “Nextdoor”, an online network for jes’ good ol’ neighborinos to chat about what’s going on in our neck of the woods. Isn’t that dandy? The letter also promised lots of info on the site regarding “crime and safety issues.” The irony is delicious. No….no, the irony … Continue reading Neil Sedaka Sings “Right Nextdoor To A Scammer”
