You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Cousin Bowling Night. 20 of us enter the bowling alley in Seaside, California. Like every alley I’ve ever been in, it reeks of foot spray and microwavable pizza. I see a glass display with designer bowling balls. I see mirrors that make the neon seem to […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. Not feeling safe while doing your job. NEWS is a four letter word and sometimes it’s a dicey proposition. News filters into the newsroom that a tornado has touched down in Northern Alabama. Facts are more sketchy than a Ponzi scheme in Africa. “Just go all […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Planting innocent little flowers. As many of you might suspect, I don’t have a green thumb. In fact, I have a black thumb. My thumb is a black widow spider angered by a fire ant pissed off by a rattle snake. My black thumb is the […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ One hen. Two ducks. Three squawking geese. It’s called the announcers test. It was made famous in the 1940’s. I guess radio announcers would warm up their vocal chords by reciting gobbledygook sentences of nonsensical oration. It stretches the lips, the gums and creates crisp dialogue. […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The Wolf of Wall Street. 180 minutes of film making that proves beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Wolf was great, and at times not so great. Wolf was way too long, but at the end I wanted to know more. The film was […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell what’s crazy™ Drastic actions as a result of drastic circumstances. The phone rings. It’s the station I’ve often said, when the station calls unexpectedly, nothing good can happen. “Where are you guys?”, the assignment editor says, a sense of stress in her voice. “I’m in the geographical center of […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Area 51 I was flying over vast stretches of the American West recently. Nashville to Dallas. Dallas to San Jose. San Jose back to Houston. So I had the opportunity to look out the window. “For all the urban clutter, we sure have a lot of […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Morning news self promotion. I can’t speak for NBC or CBS, since I only watch one channel in the morning. But I can comment on Good morning America. Lately it is one part news and 2 parts something that isn’t news. A few weeks ago, it […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The morning text message. I text every morning. For more than a decade, every single day, I text. Every single solitary day, I send out dozens of text messages to 50, 75, maybe 100 or more news contacts. Cops, deputies, city leaders. I instant message chiefs, and […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Being ridiculed by millions of people dumber than you for blowing a million dollars on national TV. And all you had to do was read 3 simple words. Good Morning America devoted an entire segment to it in lieu of other news. I guess flight 370 […]