I guess there is just no way to put this delicately. I think everything potentially is fodder for humor. Period. Blame it on my upbringing, tainted from that very first season of SNL. Raise yo hand if you remember the operatically trained Garrett Morris singing “I gonna get me a gun and shoot all the […]

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“This just in … Michael Jackson flung the casket open, hopped on top, did a backward flip to the floor and moonwalked across the stage to launch his new worldwide comeback tour … obviously the greatest publicity stunt in like forever, man.” That’s why he is called The King (of Pop) … Made ya look!

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Back in the newspaper days, it was a blast to write a headline — extremely limited space, yet the writer had to grab the reader’s attention.  Billboards in advertising … another example. Then came Twitter. It’s sort of like headline writing, with much less impact.  But it is fun — 140 characters at a time […]

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I’ll never forget where I was and what I was doing when I heard the news that Michael Jackson was dead. No wait … I better write it down. I was using Wi-Fi at Starbucks, as I am prone to do. More specifically, I was trading e-mails with an attorney about trademark issues, and beating […]

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Even though numerous eye witnesses said they spotted funnel clouds, there was a wait of several days. Finally … yes! … the weather service said it was official. At least five tornadoes reared their heads in North Texas the other day. Luckily, most of the damage was only flooding, as opposed to wholesale destruction. So, […]

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If Rat Packer Dean Martin can sing about it, then I can blog about it. “Abilene, Abilene.” On the first day of my first Wi-Fi blog, I watched my son throw a no-hitter for his high school baseball team. A great day of baseball proved to be the perfect beginning for a wonderful trip.

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Roadtrips just got a lot better.  Gone are the days when you may have used a bungee chord to tie down a small TV and a DVD player on a beer cooler in the back of the family truckster, for the kids to occupy they minds. CruiseCast released this news:

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The Dirty Jobs gig continues … and today is all about me and my creature comforts — or lack thereof! Okay … so like I bought what I thought were the most awesome work boots to get me through this season of manual labor and supplemental cash flow. But little did I know … My […]

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Both of my readers may have noticed that the blog posts are few/far between lately. My bad! I am supplementing the blog with more “Dirty Jobs” type work. Man, sometimes I think it may have been easier if I had chosen “Shark Week” rather than Dirty Jobs in order to emulate a TV phenom. This […]

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Every journalist loves a road trip. Or at least they used to. Most of them read On The Road or they grew up watching Charles Kuralt, who made Winnebagos cool before John Madden. So, when I did an 18,000-mile road trip to 43 cities to write about Wi-Fi a few years ago, it was “a […]

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