You know What’s Crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The church of the Lone Survivor. It’s Sunday morning and the collection plate is being passed down the couch. I look out the stained glass window of my mind and I see a cloudy day and I am ambivalent. I am hungry, but feel lazy and […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The broadcasting live shot. How many live shots have I done in a quarter century of news gathering? 500? A thousand? 5 thousand? It’s hard to say. I figure I have worked 6,500 news days since 1988. Most days you go live at least once. Sometimes […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ calling 911 for sex. It’s dumb and lazy. It’s like going to the McDonald’s drive through for a prostate screening. I guess you could do it, but why? How horny are you that your best option is 911? Cut your jugular with a pitch fork? By […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Old Man Winter. Geriatric puke face. Just the thought pisses me off. Grey and windy and wet. Get off my lawn you miserable miscreant kids. Old Man Winter. Kiss my ass. Take a hike. Go to hell. We don’t want your kind here. Yeah I said […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. The Pisan. Sure he had the right to tell us he didn’t want to be on TV. Sure he had the right to decline comment. But the way he did it, the amplitude, the aggressiveness, the negative energy he put into telling me this, well it […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. The Manhunt. I’ve been on a hundred in my career. Maybe 500. It’s hard to say. Friday is another day and another manhunt. It all starts at the 2pm at the news meeting. “We want you to look into the killer’s background,” they say. “OK,” I […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. America in Distress. Today I interviewed a man who proudly displayed his American flag upside down on his flag pole. “This country’s in distress,” he told me. I stare at his flag and it’s visually wrong. It gave me the same feeling I get when I […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The CMA awards in Nashville, Tennessee. Music City has a lot of big nights. Honky Tonks never stop slinging beer. There’s always a slide guitar, a cowboy hat, a belt buckle shimmering on lower broad. But Country Music Awards is a monster night. It’s limos and […]
You know what’s Crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Vote 2014. Voting should be as easy the prom queen after 3 beer bongs. Sometimes It’s harder than Russian Sesame Street. I’m a damn American. I sometimes take democracy for granted. Americans expect a peaceful transformation of power and government by representation. But sometimes you remember […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Watching something and wondering if this is the last time you will ever see it again. I wrote this sentence July 2013. “Hey you being anti social?” one dad asked me with a laugh from the edge of the track. That dad screamed that at me […]