“That’s it!” I exclaimed, after walking in and out of the same three rooms for the 4,213,012th time since last March. “I’m getting the hell out of here!” Patrick’s my name. I write greeting cards. I’d like to write the funny ones but so far all I get assigned are the “heartwarming” variety. At least … Continue reading “Bubble Does Vegas”: A Short Story by a Short Author
So, about a year after I moved to Nebraska, Denise Marcoe (then Denise Chase) drafted me into the Main Street Players, Alliance’s community theater group. The first show I did was “The Fatal Fifties Affair”, a murder mystery set at a reunion of a 1950’s sitcom. For many years interactive murder mysteries were our big … Continue reading Gilligan’s Shirt
Watch this video first. It will give you the recreated experience of sitting through something tedious while waiting to get the the point of the evening. The idea to write this entry in the ol’ blogski came about earlier this week. We have a new account executive at the radio station named Kody who is … Continue reading Tonight’s The Night…When I Write About… Awaaaaaaards!
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)
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
This evening I dug out my scrapbook to digitally capture some things for future bloggage. (The whole “digital” thing is partially responsible for my having only one scrapbook with several empty pages. The other reason is that I have led a considerably dull life.) According to The Wikipedia: On January 12, 1987, The Morning Program made its … Continue reading My Visit To “The Morning Program”
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!
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
