Episode 8 is up and running! MEDIA WAR STORIES – BEHIND THE SCENES TALES FROM MEDIA’S FRONT LINES – EPISODE 8 As we recover from COVID and its lingering effects, I’m glad we managed to keep going and have a new show… Read More ›
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MEDIA WAR STORIES, EPISODE 8
It’s showtime again. Last week, Garry was not perfect but has come a long way. He’s not at 100% — if indeed at our ages we are ever at 100% — but he can talk normally, isn’t coughing much and… Read More ›
SHARING AS FEBRUARY ENDS
Sharing My World -2-27-2023 I’m feeling very guilty because we ran out of birdseed. The birds keep coming back to the feeder and I have nothing to give them. Food IS on the way, but I don’t know if it… Read More ›
WAR STORIES: BEHIND THE SCENES STORIES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF MEDIA – PART 2
Produced by the amazing Tom Curley, with Garry Armstrong, legendary news reporter. Behind the scenes, Marilyn Armstrong, as General Dogsbody & Serendipity Producer. Would you believe I forgot to take pictures — again? I also forgot to turn off the… Read More ›
IF THIS ISN’T SERENDIPITY, I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS – by Tom Curley
This blog is about serendipity. Not because it’s on a blog called Serendipity, Seeking Intelligent Life On Earth (the last part is asking a lot). It’s about actual serendipity. The dictionary defines the word Serendipity this way: “The occurrence and… Read More ›
QUESTIONS OVER COFFEE
Question Time Over Coffee Questions – Season One Interesting questions — and since I’m giving my wrist a rest today — or trying to — it’s a good time to answer questions. What ways are you adopting to save on energy… Read More ›
OPINION: THE WASHINGTON POST
This is a very good article and a serious warning about what our world will look like unless we get up and out and massively and collectively vote. However confused and messed up Democrats are, they are trying to create… Read More ›
BASEBALL AND A NATION IN DISARRAY – GARRY ARMSTRONG
I’ve been travelling down Memory Lane recently, far from the madding crowd of reality. The stark reality of the January 6th hearings, reality that resembles the madness of movies like “Seven Days In May”, “The Parallax View” and “The Manchurian… Read More ›
FROM THE BOSTON GLOBE
Date: June 24, 2022, 5:53 PM So I guess if any of my young relatives get pregnant, and a serious situation develops, they should just walk down the street and ask random strangers what they should do. Mind you, these… Read More ›
ANOTHER “DUH” CONVERSATION ON GUN CONTROL – GARRY ARMSTRONG
It was an innocent quick trip to the local supermarket. Two or three items and I would exit the place. I was wrong on so many levels. My fast dash down a shopping lane was quickly stopped. Passage was blocked… Read More ›
FLASHBACK FRIDAY ON SATURDAY: A PORN STAR, A PLAYMATE, A PLAINTIFF AND A GUY NAMED PECKER WALK INTO A BAR – By TOM CURLEY
FLASHBACK FRIDAY ON A SATURDAY So the bartender says “What is this? Some kind of joke?” The answer is, yes and no. It’s not a joke. It’s reality. In so far as reality has become a bigger and bigger joke… Read More ›
SHARING THE WORLD? MAYBE WE SHOULD SHARE LESS?
SHARE YOUR WORLD 3-14-2022 There are days when I feel there’s too much sharing going on. Today, after neglecting my email for just a day and a half, I had more than 500 emails, most of them news from either the… Read More ›
WAR?
Talk about going back to the olden days. Wow, we are on a roll! Watching news tonight was a return to the 1950s when we were hiding under our desks so the A-bomb wouldn’t hit us. Even as a child,… Read More ›
NOR’EASTER FELLS THE LEGEND By GARRY ARMSTRONG
Mother Nature came through on the heels of the frantic predictions of a whopper storm. Skeptical New Englanders are watching the snow fall faster than the numbers on Wall Street after another week of gridlock on Capitol Hill. What’s the… Read More ›
American Perception – Gordon Stewart
Originally posted on Views from the Edge:
Introduction A recent Minnesota Poll sent me back to the “draft” file to retrieve John M. Miller’s one-page commentary reflecting on results of a Pew Research Center poll asking where people get their…
WHAT’S YOUR SOURCE?
Fandango’s Provocative Question #134 I would like to point out that there’s plenty of room between “I believe everything I hear because my sources are impeccable!” and “I think I have a sufficient selection of news sources so that mostly, I’m… Read More ›
NEWSY TRUTHS
Fandango’s Provocative Question #120 It’s a really good question and one which we actually bat around in this house, probably because Garry spent his life as a television reporter and I did some time reporting too. It was easier back in… Read More ›
HITTING THE WALL – GARRY ARMSTRONG
Anchoring was my Achilles heel. I was never good at it. I shared my grief with the late Tom Ellis who was a good friend and a wonderful anchor. Tom allowed, “You gotta be yourself and go with the flow.”… Read More ›
TO PROTECT AND SERVE – Garry Armstrong
Policing in the United States is a hot button issue, particularly policing in minority communities. The George Floyd case is but one of many police-involved incidents that has cast a harsh light on the disparate way law and order is… Read More ›
IT ENDED AS IT BEGAN: THE T@%$# IMPEACHMENT REDUX
I wish that T&%$# Impeachment II had ended with a surprise, but it didn’t. It ended better than I thought it would. The really most frustrating moment was Mitch McConnell’s diatribe against T&%$# after the trial. Basically, the jury, aka… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 