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- SkillsUSA Torch Carrier Award – It’s a Major Award June 30, 2014
I’ve always been ambivalent about trophies and plaques and various other tokens of accomplishment designed to live forever on walls and mantles. Unless the memento in question falls into the “major award” category – like The Leg Lamp from A Christmas Story – I prefer to display and cherish my various keepsakes in the garage. Last Friday though, I was ...read more... - OFF THE WALL: Shopkeepers… June 29, 2014
So far, five million people have seen the slightly altered face of a shoplifter I posted earlier this week.
read more... - Fridays with Freddie: Cheeseburger please! June 27, 2014
Used to be a fella could duck into the local diner, grab a burger and get on with his life.
read more... - Keith is Walking the Walk ~ Let’s Help June 25, 2014
Some of you might be familiar with this photo. It was taken a few years ago on a pig farm in Las Vegas.
read more... - CRJ700 and the long line of disappointment June 24, 2014
The woman standing at the back of the plane is about to piss her pants.
read more... - Public Shaming ~ the liquor store inquisition June 23, 2014
Had a spirited conversation last night with some locals down at the liquor store.
read more... - Fridays with Freddie ~ Laundered Jockey’s June 20, 2014
I don’t wear underpants. Partly because I’m a dog
read more... - Looking for people who love what they do June 19, 2014
As some of you know, I’ll be in Kansas City next week, speaking at the annual Skills USA National Competition.
read more... - Mike and the Giant Cyst June 18, 2014
Last night in the bar I met a guy with a cyst on his elbow. Or perhaps it was a boil.
read more... - Gotta Love the Brits June 17, 2014
My producer today is a guy from England. He sounds like I imagine Winston Churchill did after a few bottles of Champagne.
read more... - A Father’s Day al Fresco Fiasco June 15, 2014
I wrote this a few years ago. It’s still mostly true.
read more... - General Mills’ Generous Donation to the mikeroweWORKS Foundation June 2, 2014
I am not a spokesman for General Mills. Neither is my mother. But here at Mom’s place, this morning’s breakfast came in the form of a mixing bowl filled with “Oven Toasted Whole Grain Gluten Free Corn Chex,” courtesy of General Mills. (I’m not sure why all of a sudden people are taking the gluten out of everything edible, but ...read more... - Off The Wall: Quality Time with the Folks June 2, 2014
Josh Johnson writes,
“Hey Mike – I love ya man. But really….put away the laptops at breakfast and spend some quality time with the folks that brought you into this world!”
read more... - Asleep at the Heel ~ Mike’s Sprained Ankle May 31, 2014
If you’re bored, (and even if you’re not,) pour yourself a drink and scroll through the 20,000 comments that follow my previous post.
read more... - Intestinal Mutiny “All Too Human” Revisited May 29, 2014
Hey Mike –
You wrote something last March about almost crapping your pants on the Golden Gate Bridge.
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