Archive for November, 2005
The Early Morning Type
I’ve always wondered what would happen if my alarms failed to go off at 3:06 am and 3:07 am respectively. Not that I was actually interested in doing a real, live test, but everyone on our morning team has slept in at least once…except me. I don’t brag about this but, hey, it’s just a [...]
Read More..>>Review: Movin’ Out
It sounds impossible, pretentious and kind of stupid when you explain it in a sentence: a story told with no dialogue (through interpretive dance!) of the Vietnam war’s effect on America, set to the songs of Billy Joel. But one vocalist and one dancer make it something worth seeing.
From our vantage point in the second [...]
Celebrity Rant Classics
On the best of Stern this morning, they replayed a bit involving some ravings and rantings by Judy Garland, ostensibly as the faded star was telling her life story to a transcriber or ghost writer. It was hilariously sad, as the bitter actress and singer waxed on (and on) about all of those she felt [...]
Read More..>>Sexiest Man Alive ‘05
Matthew McConaughey is People’s Sexiest Man Alive. Really? Discuss.
Years ago, when I was doing talk at CHML, McConoughey was the big breakthrough actor in the movie A Time To Kill. So that year, for my Midday Goes To The Oscar’s Special, I got Jeff Lumby (then on mornings at Y95) to voice my “arrival” to [...]
Idiot Nearly Gets Dad Killed
A stranger learned a lesson in snap judgments at the expense of my Dad.
Jack (my Pop) was in an accident the other night. He ran into some guardrails after swerving to miss a deer and he’s actually very lucky to be alive. (So is the deer!) His pick-up ended up wedged with a buckled door [...]
