Baller Comes Up Big

Don’t you just love the Baller? If you don’t watch Big Brother, you have no clue what that means. But those of us who waste inordinate amounts of time following the “houseguests” on the CBS reality show hve come to know Adam “Baller” Jasinski over the past 80-some days. Adam won $500K last night in […]

Don’t Stop Believing in Good Music

Normally, I have no problem entertaining myself with the many cable channels we get. For some reason the other day, I decided to explore some of the extras that come along with our Tivo. They had some special feature featuring music videos which I checked out. I didn’t have a lot of interest in a […]

Totally Awesome

I will touch more on this topic in tomorrow’s newspaper column, but I have to sing the praises of “Totally 80s” on VH1Classic. The show runs most mornings, and I like to catch it on weekend mornings. There’s nothing like drinking coffee and watching some of the greatest music videos ever to kick off your […]

Basketball Jones

I have the opportunity to listen to a lot of different things on hour-long commute to and from work. One of my favorite programs is “Elliot in the Morning,” the drive-time show from WWDC in Washington, D.C. A few months ago, Elliot had author Todd Gallagher on to discuss his book “Andy Roddick Beat Me […]

He Shoots and Scores

My neighborhood growing up got cable earlier than a lot of places. I was lucky enough to see the first day of MTV and watch ESPN when it only ran for part of the day. I also had the good fortune of having a channel called MSG. The network now exists as a regional sports […]

Room Service, Please

I had to travel for work this week. I don’t get to do it often so I didn’t really mind leaving my wife and daughter behind for two nights. Besides, I got to stay in a hotel room all by myself. I don’t know why I get such a kick out of having my own […]

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner

Ever since I heard that Kevin Spacey intended to make a movie version of Ben Mezrich‘s book “Bringing Down the House,” I knew I would want to go see it. I really enjoyed the book (even though it is coming under fire for possible made up facts), love Vegas, and just thought it lent itself […]

College Memories Return

When I started looking at colleges a bunch of years ago, I wanted a place where I could wrestle, use my writing skills and set myself up for a job after graduation. I also one other very important criteria – distance. I wanted to move as far from Baltimore as I could. That’s not entirely […]