As much as I love Walter Matthau, Jack Klugman made Oscar Madison real to me. And while other people are currently reminiscing about "Quincy", I'm thinking more of "12 Angry Men", playing pool with Jonathan Winters on "The Twilight Zone" and the short-live '80s sitcom "You Again!" which helped launch the career of John Stamos.

For as long as I can remember, WLNS has been my favorite news station in the Lansing area, but they have caused me intense anger.

I've aired my complaints with them publicly and privately. In a recent report on the new Ingham County 911 center, they implied in the lead that issues with the center led to three deaths. Nothing in the story supported ( Read more... )

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I'm launching a blog site in about 40 hours. It's crazy but way too much fun. And so far it's way too much me. But I'm working on that ( Read more... )

I took the long way home so that I could listen to the David Rakoff retrospective on "This American Life". It got me teary-eyed.

I read a story recently about a training video instructing people on what to do in case of a workplace shooting. A homeland security expert cited in the story speculates that if someone in the Aurora theater had been armed, they might've shot back and stopped the attack ( Read more... )

If I ever do a band thing again, I want to be like Greg Ham.

My favorite Far Side was when Mike Wallace interviewed the devil.

Some day I'd like to do a cover of "Rainbow Connection" with some Scruggs-style banjo. That would be cool.

Five years later, I can't wait to get back.