And if you must keep talking, please try to make it rhyme. Because your mind is on vacation, and your mouth is working overtime. – Mose Allison As a youth, I devotedly watched NBC’s Today. At around the time when the Hugh Downs / Barbara Walters crew transitioned to Tom Brokaw / Jane Pauley, I [...]
Archive for December, 2010
20 Dec
“Another overbearing, opinionated memo”
For many years, Bud Veazey functioned as a one-man language enforcement agency at WAGA. Despite the futility of the position, he remained persistent and amusing. Recently, he posted a collection of his memos on his Facebook page, which I’ve reproduced below in total. Though a bit voluminous, every word is worth reading and heeding — [...]
12 Dec
Daily No-Show
I have many reasons to resent Justin Gray. I could resent the WAGA reporter for his youth. I could resent his advanced Ivy League education, or his metrosexual fashion sense. I could resent his apparent absence of body fat. But those aren’t the reasons I resent Justin Gray. I resent Justin Gray because in the [...]
6 Dec
Ahead of the weather
“We’re going to get ahead of the weather,” I heard somebody say and yes, I rolled my eyes. I’ve heard it many times before, killed countless hours in live trucks awaiting upcoming storms, forecast to have damaging winds. Because TV shows like Storm Chasers show tornado-tracking folk in just the right place, at the moment [...]
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