Each morning as I make my way to Radio City for another morning broadcast, I am accompanied by passing vehicles, the occasional dog bark, and…that’s about it. Sometimes a jogger or dog-walker will greet me and I will croak out a “Good morning.” But mostly it’s just me and what Paul Harvey referred to as … Continue reading The Kindness Of Strangers
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
