Celebrity Divorces of 2008.

The end of the year brings lists.

Lots of lists.

"Best of" "Worst of" "Most" "Least", etc.

Click here to see the list of all the celebrity divorces from 2008, compiled by blogger and tv writer Ken Levine.

All I can say is....wow!

Happy New Year!!

Out of Practice

Yeah I know...it's been a while.

I was just thinking tonight about a TV show that I believe got cancelled way before its time.

It's a sitcom called "Out Of Practice" starring Henry Winkler and Stockard Channing.

I think it was produced by the same people who did "Frasier" so you'd think it would be a success.

I am at a loss to explain why the show didn't make it.

Here's the first part of the pilot episode. It sets the stage:



Do yourself a favor and search youtube for this show. The quality of some of the clips are a little poor. It looks like it was recorded off a broadcast tv signal. It is SO worth it.

I wonder if we could bring it back. I mean if "Scrubs" can come back, then surely THIS show can too.

A couple of holiday musings.

Can someone tell me why "My Favorite Things" is considered a Christmas song? It's from "Sound of Music" and sung during a summer thunderstorm!!

and...

Does anyone else think it's strange that Woodstock eats a turkey at the end of "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving"?

My Mom's Famous!

So my Mom was out Christmas shopping, and got interviewed by WTHR Channel 13!

You can see the story here!

I'm so proud!

Best Seats Ever!

Friday afternoon my friend Tim calls me to tell me that he's scored primo seats to the Pacer game, and asked me if I'd like to come along.

I tell him, 'sure'.

They were the best seats I've ever had for a professional sporting event.

The tickets said 'row 7', but when we got there, there were no rows 1, 2, or 3.

So if you actually counted the rows, we were more like in row 4.

The seats were so good, I was able to get this pic of Pacers head coach, Jim O'Brien:


Not to mention this nifty pic of Boomer:


Even though the Pacers lost the game, Tim and I had a blast. I'll probably never get good seats like this ever again.

I hope if you get the chance to have nice seats like this for ANY sporting event, you take advantage of it. It is SO worth it.

Working with Jeff Pigeon.

A lot of things happen in radio by being in the right place at the right time.

Well, I got to work with Jeff Pigeon by being able to answer my cell phone at 345 in the morning!

Libby Farr, who is usually Jeff's co-host in the morning, couldn't make it in on Wednesday because she was stuck in early morning construction traffic for over an hour! She called me and asked me if I could make it in.

So I did.

As a result I got to work with "Uncle Pidge".

I had a blast. If you didn't get to hear it, you can listen to a couple of breaks by clicking here.

The Funniest thing that has EVER been on TV!

I promise that this blog won't turn into a 'my favorite youtube clips' blog. But I found one that brought back many memories for me.

The year Johnny Carson retired from TV, I was working as a Store Entertainment Coordinator at the Cattle Company restaurant in Roseville, Minnesota.

We were big on music videos, and played LOTS of them during the evening.

Before the dancing started, I would try to warm up the crowd with unusual video clips that I would come across.

By far, THIS was the most popular clip that I ever played. I had numerous requests for it.

I give you...The Great FLYDINI!

To Boldly Go...

OK so I'm usually about all things Star Wars, but this is kinda cool too.

CBS is posting full length episodes of Star Trek on Youtube.

It's to celebrate the shows 42nd anniversary and to promote the new movie.

Click here to see the episodes already posted.

Radio Formats

One interesting thing about radio is the different formats that are out there. Country, Rock, Oldies, News/talk, Spanish, Sportstalk, Punk Gospel, yadda yadda yadda...

The station I'm working for now, Oldies 101.9, considers an 'oldie' to be from the 60's and 70's.

I applied for a job at a cluster of stations a few weeks ago, the format of the AM station is 'music of your life'. Believe it or not, one of my first radio jobs was working at a station that had that format. I played music from Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Tony Bennett, etc...

The 'music of your life' format nowadays forgoes most of that music and plays stuff from Michael Buble, The Platters, The Carpenters, Pat Boone, Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, and so on....

It's interesting to me that music past a certain date becomes irrelevant, even though it's still great stuff.

I'm a fan of Big Band music, and am sad to not hear a lot of it on the radio anymore. If I ever get on a morning/afternoon drive radio show again, I would love to be able to highlight some of this stuff. Just because it's old, doesn't mean it's not good.

Colts Win!

What a game the Colts played on Sunday against the Texans.

I had pretty much written the game off in the 4th quarter, while listening to the game on my way to work.

In the time it took to get from my car in the parking lot, up to the second floor of the building, The Colts went from being down 27-10, to winning the freaking game!!!

I don't know what you think, but if the Colts name a player of the game, it would have to be this guy...


Go Blue!!