SkillsUSA Torch Carrier Award – It’s a Major Award June 30, 2014I’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, 2014So far, five million people have seen the slightly altered face of a shoplifter I posted earlier this week.
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Gotta Love the Brits June 17, 2014My producer today is a guy from England. He sounds like I imagine Winston Churchill did after a few bottles of Champagne.
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General Mills’ Generous Donation to the mikeroweWORKS Foundation June 2, 2014I 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...