Jackie is ushering for a performance of Chippendale Dancers at a hall she sometime videotapes at. I think that means she gets in free in return for leading a few hyperventilating women to their seats. She had the chance to do this six months ago, but we had plans with some of my friends ( Read more... )

My friend Chris ask me to do a list of my Top Ten scary movies for the Halloween edition of his cable show. As I told his viewers, this is at best a representative sample because I find it impossible to actually narrow it down to that short of a list. But such as it is, here it goes ( Read more... )

I should be getting dressed to go to the wedding of one of my former co-workers who is now one of Jackie's current co-workers. I'm putting it off as usual. If I spend too much time wondering who will be at our table at the reception, I put it off even more ( Read more... )

Kwame Kilpatrick, the Mayor of Detroit, was a guest on a show in our studio today. He had barely gotten in the building when I started hearing, "Is there a microwave here. Is there a microwave ( Read more... )

I picked up my guitar tonight for the first time in at least a year, maybe two. That's sad. Not because I'm any good, though. I've mostly used the guitar as a conduit to songwriting. That's actually the sad part. I've written dozens of songs over the years, mostly when I was in my late teens and twenties. Now I've forgotten all but a few of them. I ( Read more... )

Someone posted a link to this article on what gravenimages calls the motherboard. I thought it was worth passing on.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1793873_1,00.html

I'm not making any editorial comment about this except to say that it amuses me. I just saw a short interview on the local news with former Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca. Lately he has been in a series of TV commercials for the Chrysler Group along with Snoop Dog and Jason Alexander. Lee mentioned that he was a bit embarrassed to reveal that ( Read more... )

This afternoon I was videotaping a groundbreaking ceremony for work and one of the guests of honor was Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. I had set my camera and tripod up at the back of the canopy that served as the speaking area. When the Governor arrived, I popped the camera off the tripod to get some shots of her shaking hands and speaking ( Read more... )

I finally made it up to my friends Tom and Mary's place at Loon Lake this weekend. They had asked me several times before, but I couldn't get away for one reason or another. I have had a lot of good times up there over the years and I hate to go a summer without making it up at least once ( Read more... )

For reasons most will be unable to understand, I've been looking for this picture for a long time. Tonight I found it, but alas, it's not the prime example of my disgruntled, teen-aged sneer that I remembered it to be.

( semi-sneer )