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Award winning post

Monday, January 28th, 2008

You may have read last week that McDonald's was forced to discontinue a report card promotion where one parent was upset. I would like to point out that 30 years ago I was the recipient of a free McDonald's hamburger due to good grades. To the right is ...

Weekend job changes, in order of revelance…

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

3. (Think like Les Nessman here): The hiring of Ryche Ryche Rodrehgueez 2. Jim Price demoted from his three innings of play by play. The proper thing would really to be to can his never-say-the-score rear out of the radio booth. But this is a good start. There are ...

A year too late, but…

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

My duck escapades of 2006 have finally hit some other parts of the net: foundmagazine.com

Gossip…

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

You know, there just isn't enough links to early 80s promos for bad TV movies. Hopefully, this link will solve that.

The 5 century club…

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

...has been broken by me, in Scrabble, anyway.  I had my first 500+ game over the weekend.  Two bingos and getting at least 60 each out of the 'Q', 'Z' and 'X'.  I'm finally getting decent at this.

CNN, we need to talk…

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

I'm sorry CNN, we're through. And this isn't a case where "it's not you, it's me", no, this one is clearly you. On a moderate news day when you have the former press secretary to the President of the United States saying the latter was involved in outing ...

Airport Roll Call

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Some blogs I occasion (rather than frequent) had a list of airports they have been to. Sounds interesting enough (and these are roughly in order of usage): Detroit-Wayne County Metro Airport: An airport already obsolete by the time it was opened in the late 50s, the new terminal for Northwest/Continental/Delta ...

As required by law…

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

This link contains "forward-looking" statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements regarding the a new ...

And playing left beef…

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Never, ever give people too many options. If you grew up in the Detroit area in the 1970s or 80s, you undoubtedly watched much CBC.  And you saw the commercials for local businesses that were usually public access quality at best.  On the left is a fake ad from last month's ...

Thanks, Matt. Thanks a lot.

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

The picture on the left (or top, depending on your browser width) is me from a 1989 step show (I believe vs. Illinois, I'm the bass drum on the right) during the song Temptation. The picture on the right (or bottom)  is me during this year's (2007) homecoming, also ...