This is going to be one of those “grumpy old man” essays. Winter tends to gin up the grouch in me, even if there’s no snow. I decided a few weeks back to plan a little weekend getaway. Three days and two nights in the Mile High City, the highlight being a live stage performance … Continue reading Does StubHub Make You Feel Like A Schlub? Join The Club!
The above Facebook post sets the stage for what was indeed a very strange evening at Radio City. (Full disclosure: It was actually only a 16-year broadcasting career at this point. I was engaging in a little bombast.) Here, as I tried to explain it to some of my Facebook friends, is what happened that … Continue reading Basketball Bloopers And Blunders
(SFX: phone rings…twice…three times..) JILL: National Weather Bureau, this is Jill, how may I direct your call? WENTY: I would like to inquire about the possibility of weather counseling. JILL: Weather…..counseling? WENTY: Yes. You see, over the last few days our town has experienced 65 mile an hour wind gusts. And as a result of … Continue reading A Foul Wind Doth Blow
On Friday January 13th, 2023 the flu was going around in Alliance Nebraska. One of my co-workers at KCOW was a strong fellow who would probably still come to work if a dog bit his foot off. But on this day, the co-worker took a sick day. This, combined with it being Friday The 13th, … Continue reading My 3rd Anniversary Of Near Death!
2025 was a pretty darn good year. Tremendous in fact! The fact that it ended with me suffering from the Annual Post-Christmas Cold (thanks sick people on the plane!) only slightly tempered my enthusiasm. So here are things I wrote and things I did. March: Hooray For Culver City! And other California locales. I had … Continue reading Wentyworld 2025: The Year That Was
There are Christmas specials and there are Christmas episodes. This is about the latter. I have selected my ten favorite Christmas episodes from sitcom past. I limit this to sitcoms because…well, I like sitcoms. (This stuff isn’t complicated.) Happy Days: Guess Who’s Coming To Christmas In my “Happy Days Epics” series I have noted that … Continue reading Wenty’s 10 Favorite Christmas Sitcom Episodes
Dreams are weird. It’s like “NBC’s Monday Night At Wenty’s Brain”. I get to see a little movie concocted by my subconscious mind, and then maybe I get to wake up and remember it. I’ve written before about my long illness in 2023 that produced absolutely bonkers illusions, fever dreams, ICU PTSD, or whatever you … Continue reading Dream A Little Weird Dream, Or Two
I am a voracious reader. It’s not anything to be proud of because a lot of what I read is nonsense. Comic books, magazines, website articles, and so forth. But I read actual books too. A lot of them! Here are five of my recent favorites: Frank Sinatra Has A Cold by Gay Talese and … Continue reading Five Books I Would Want For Christmas If I Hadn’t Already Bought Them
Ten Phrases That Were Originated By Shakespeare…And Ten That Were Not I believe the premise speaks for itself. But in case there’s any confusion, the great Bard created an incredible number of phrases that are now part of everyday speech. Here are ten of Shakespeare’s finest. “All that glitters is not gold.” “Break the ice.” … Continue reading Ten Phrases That Were Originated By Shakespeare…And Ten That Were Not
Hey, remember when I wrote a book? It was all kinds of fun. I selected choice essays from my blog. I enlisted the genius of my friend Pat Adriance to do some nifty cartoons. I got in contact with a publisher who made my dream a reality. We had a book signing, we had the … Continue reading My year as an author
