Odds are, you haven’t been to Plains, GA on a Sunday morning when Jimmy Carter is teaching Sunday school. Maybe you’ve considered it but have always had something better to do on a Saturday night / Sunday morning. The trek has gnawed at me for much of the last twenty years. I’d see the [...]
Archive for the ‘LAF’ Category
17 Oct
Vernon Jones walks into a bar….
It happened October 4, a Tuesday evening. Three political operative-types were seated with me at Manuel’s at a table in the non-smoking section. The former DeKalb CEO enters the room. Vernon Jones sees us and makes a beeline across the room toward our table. I have, shall we say, a peculiar history with Mr. Jones. [...]
6 Sep
Maya Angelou is right
“Content without context is pretext.”- Rev. Jesse Jackson The longer is sinks in, the more distressed I become about the “drum major” quote on the Martin Luther King, Jr. monument in Washington DC. The creators of that monument took a liberty with the truth that journalists could never take. To do it on a historic monument in [...]
27 Aug
Hurricane checklist
Inspired by a post by Spacey G called Old Field Producer Hurricane Survival Tips (click on it– it’s much more whimsical than this post), here are some useful tips for TV hurricane coverage. It’s too late for Irene, but it’s never too late. 1. Don’t overestimate the severity of a hurricane. That Cat 1 over [...]
7 May
Roger and me
Memorandum To: Roger McDowell, pitching coach, Atlanta Braves From: LAF Re: Getting you right with the world I read, with amazement, accounts of your encounter with baseball fans at San Francisco’s AT&T (or whatever they’re calling it these days) park last month. Mostly, you’re accused of uttering anti-gay slurs; you then capped it by suggesting [...]
5 Feb
No sale
Suspicious Package had a hiccup two weekends ago when I produced a piece that was long on earnest effort, but woefully short on humor. It was a solid concept, poorly executed: Give used-car salesman treatment to a TV live truck. Though some of my coworkers have tried to console me by suggesting the piece was [...]
23 Jan
Mouth of the South
My ill-advised and poorly-executed quest for world domination got a questionable boost last week when WXIA aired the first Suspicious Package segment on Sunday’s 9am news. It’s the video above. Because of its double (or more) entendre qualities, Suspicious Package is the name I sometimes wish I’d used for this site instead of Live Apartment [...]
7 Jan
LAF on TV
Update: It appears they killed my segment Sunday due to — weather, maybe? Despite her better judgment, the bosslady has decided to allow a variation of this blog to appear in a WXIA newscast. Depending on my ability to generate content, the whims of management, the numbers, the research etc., it could be a regular [...]
4 Nov
November’s child
It’s a happy coincidence that my new young ‘un was born November 2, resulting in three weeks of downtime during this month’s sweeps. Tune into 11 Alive during the Thanksgiving holiday and beyond, and you may stumble upon my dazed return to the news biz. My hiatus started Monday, when Mrs. LAF went into labor [...]
27 Sep
Either / or
About a month ago, a man named Joeff Davis rang my cell phone. He identified himself as a photographer with Creative Loafing. “I need to photograph you for our upcoming ‘Best Of’ issue,” said Davis, whose first name is pronounced “johf.” “Does this mean I’m going to be the ‘best of’ something?” I asked. “Can’t [...]
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