50 years ago this weekend, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” premiered on CBS. My Facebook feed is clogged with tribute articles that all repeat the same factoids, like how Mary Richards was originally going to be a divorcee but CBS thought viewers would believe she left Rob Petrie. Classic episodes are recalled, like “Chuckles Bites … Continue reading Love Is All Around
At the very end of 2018, I returned to work from Christmas vacation and had a very stressful day or two. There was just a lot of stuff piled up and some minor office drama on top of it…and I noticed my left eye was twitching. Just a little facial tic of the variety lots … Continue reading Botox Boy
Most of our radio advertising clients have a “general” commercial handy. What makes a commercial “general” is that it can play any day of the year and not sound out-of-date. It’s a good thing to have handy during those little pockets of time when there isn’t a specific sale, event or promotion to advertise. Our … Continue reading Shoe Saga
I’ve decided to write a blog about Earle Hagen. There is probably zero interest in this, but my quarantine weekends are so empty and mundane that writing something–anything–at least feels like hitting my binge-watching brain with jumper cables. I finally finished the massive “Best Of Mayberry” Time-Life DVD set which includes episodes of “The Andy … Continue reading Earle Hagen
I’ve been watching a DVD box set called “The Mayberry Collection.” It features a selection of well-remembered episodes from “The Andy Griffith Show.” There are also discs with episodes of “Gomer Pyle USMC” and “Mayberry RFD”, but I haven’t gotten to those yet. Fans of “Andy” are fortunate in being able to determine within 2 … Continue reading Andy In Color
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!
TCM ran a Carl Reiner film festival the other night. He wrote and directed some pretty amazing movies, but the one in their lineup that fascinates me most is “The Comic.” There’s something just substantially unnerving about this film. For starters, when you pair Carl Reiner (who directed and co-wrote) with Dick Van Dyke, you’re … Continue reading Dick Van Dyke In The Most Depressing Film Ever Made
I imagine everyone has their own less-than-healthy way of dealing with The Quarantine. They say alcoholic beverage consumption is way up. But I don’t drink. What I do is buy way too many books. Like, seriously, I have a pile here of six unread books. And they’re not even culturally significant books. They’re giant coffee … Continue reading Alex Trebek, Arthur Godfrey and Regis Philbin
