Throughout this article I am sharing a few of my favorite somgs requested by listeners over the years. Starting on Monday, KCOW listeners will be hearing a promotional announcement revealing that the final broadcast of “Flush-The-Format Friday” will be Friday April 24th. Since you are a loyal (I assume) blog reader, here is a sneak … Continue reading The Final Flush
Look Ma, No Polyps! Or: Wenty Tries To Tell About His Colonoscopy Without Grossing Everybody Out Did you know that February is National Colorectal Cancer Month? Well, it is. So my timing in getting a colonoscopy is excelllent. (Honestly, I had nothing to do with the timing. My nephrologist (kidney doctor) told me I should … Continue reading Look Ma, No Polyps! Or: Wenty Tries To Tell About His Colonoscopy Without Grossing Everybody Out
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!
(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
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
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
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
I’ve been crying a lot these last couple of days. I cried to my best friend. I cried to my brother. And this morning I spent three hours crying to myself. (I tried to cease my sniffling and sobbing long enough to tell people about the weather, and who sings “Simply Irresistable” and the like.) … Continue reading The Big D
Once a month I get a blood test to make sure my outstanding, super-duper, best of all time kidneys are still doing okay. (I think it helps that I say “Who’s a good kidney? You are! You are!” at least once a day.) I always get a report after the blood test, and God bless … Continue reading Wenty: Now With Less Sugar!
I don’t know why this slice of my life started rolling around my head this weekend. But it did. Everybody has moments of supreme embarrassment. This is one of mine. It was the Christmas season. I was in fourth or fifth grade. (I’m not working very hard to nail it down.) Our music teacher was … Continue reading How Animal Got Me Back On The Horse
