Mike Garwood passed away December 16, 2007. We’ll start with what I wrote on my MySpace blog the very day I heard the news that Mike had died. (Photos added and captioned in 2019.) I’ll see you at the end. I received the call today, this morning, that Mike Garwood had passed away. This was not a … Continue reading Remembering Mike Garwood
This offering is divided into two parts. The first part is humorous (one hopes) stories. The second part is a little different. PART ONE: HUMOROUS (ONE HOPES) STORIES Wook Spoiler Alert. Everybody calls my brother “Chewy” because he is a hirsute fellow who can growl with the best of them. But he was a neither … Continue reading Family Christmas Stories
I have an absurd collection of Christmas special DVDs. “Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas”? Absolutely. “A Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop Christmas”? Hell yes! But I do have my favorites. This list will not include “Charlie Brown”, “Rudolph”, “Grinch” or any of the other beloved perennials that any God-fearing American watches without fail every year. … Continue reading Wenty’s Top 10 Christmas Specials (Not The Ones Everybody Watches…the Rare Ones!)
(Yes, the headline is Muppet-related. But it seemed a more jocular headline that “Poor Poor Pitiful Me, I Am In The Hospital”!” Yesterday was Sunday. The last day of a very abnormal weekend for your humble correspondent. Abormal not because of what I did, because of how I slept. On Friday and Saturday night, I … Continue reading And Now…Radio Klutz Hospital…The Continuing Sto-oo-ry of a Jock Who’s Gone To The Docs
So…it’s Friday night, 1:53am. I am awake. I fell asleep way too early and woke up in time to watch a “Seth Meyers” rerun from before Thanksgiving. Truth be told, this has been a rotten week health-wise. I actually wrote a blog post earlier this week about it, but it turned out so depressing I … Continue reading Late Night Commercials
I’ve said before that when it comes to the health challenges I face, there are good days and bad days. This week has started with two particularly rotten ones. Yesterday and today I’ve had headaches, terrible balance, and slurred speech. Guess which one of these really makes my job difficult? Every commercial I’ve had to … Continue reading Twitch 2: Part 2 of…
This little tradition started on MySpace, was transitioned to Facebook, and from here on will find a home on the ol’ blog. The first year I did this I was 33 years old, so I wrote 33 things for which I was thankful. Since I wrote the original list of 33 I have lost a … Continue reading The Thanks-Giving: 2019
This essay, which I originally wrote for my MySpace blog in 2006, has been slightly edited to update it, and to correct some lousy word choices and phrasing. At this moment I am listening to a one-hour internet audio stream of what people were hearing 56 years ago today, on station KLIF Dallas. This is … Continue reading The Big Day In The Big D
Earlier today on Facebook I tapped into my inner wiseacre and discussed this new anti-drug campaign in South Dakota: The internet, as you can imagine, had a field day with it. And I offered my suggestions for alternate state slogans: -South Dakota: Everything you always wanted in a state. And meth.-South Dakota: Great places, great … Continue reading Marketing: Honestly, It’s Not For Everyone
In July I went to Denver and was told by two crack neurosurgeons that my Chiari malformation did not require surgery. It was reassuring…as close to a clean bill of health that somebody as messed up as I am can get. Ah well…America loves a sequel. I started feeling really lousy earlier this Fall. Some … Continue reading Twitch 2: Electric Bugaloo (Part 1 of…)
