And one more thing, a WARNING-please read

If you are reading this, it might be a good idea for you to read the following flier that I received from my friend, Philip. Now, I, in all the years I have been alive on this earth, have never done meth, in fact, I was a failure (or a success depending on how you look at it) as far as drugs. I just didn't get into them, a guinness stout was always my gig. But I know people (including my son, who got help thank God) that have been involved with it and I have never seen anything more destructive than meth. It is astounding to see what it can do to a person and I have run across many a poor soul that has suffered at the mercy of this drug. I am quite sure it has probably made it's way to Arizona all points in between. I am going to include this flier from the Dept of Public Safety in Nevada for you to see. Click on the Flier to read the information.

A new project I have in mind (like I really have any time for more)

So, anyway, I being your humble, professional 'vidiot', executing my assigned broadcast duties, flawlessly, well, most of the time anyway. I am thinking of starting a message board for Phoenix TV & Radio media. Now, I have been mulling this over for awhile and I've searched for something here in the market, but I haven't found anything yet as in a message board for us TV folk. I would have all the stations, radio & tv included so 'Vidiots' (for my trailer park friends in Fountain, Colorado, that's a TV term combining 'Video', that stuff you see on your tv when you are drinking your Milwaukee's best and watching 'American Idol' or your local favorite, 'Cops' and 'idiot' for, well, I think you probably have a good grasp on that, cos that's why you live in Fountain, Colorado. Don't get upset though, we have own our version, Apache Junction/East Mesa). The definition of a 'vidiot' is anyone who works in TV production and a 'radiot' is someone that works in radio.

Phoenix is rapidly becoming a huge TV market and we have one of the biggest DMA's (that's TV code for "Designated Market Area", or the way they measure the size of a market) in the state for radio, and yeah, I guess TV too. News out of Tucson is that our sister affiliate, KVOA NBC 4, is now going Hi-Def. That means both NBC affiliates in the major markets in Arizona are going to be hi-def.

Now, I am not completely sure if I can do it. I mean, technically I can. I have the space, the template and all the other components, but that will be a big thing to manage along with my blog site. And I might call it TV never sleeps in Phoenix or something. But we have so many media outlets here and many of the people that work at KPNX have worked at other stations or people at other stations have worked at KPNX. We are really a pretty exclusive group (kind of like soliders or police or what have you) and we have our own lingo, English. But, I just think that would be a way for all us 'vidiots' and 'radiots' to talk about our stations and other things. Now, I won't allow flaming of course and would hope that people would watch their language and not use foul words, but hey, we use them all the time when the transmitter crashes, or the Live truck generator won't start, or the damned reporter is too busy putting on their auto body putty in the truck and isn't ready for the live shot. I will see and and will have to talk to my friends and see if we can do that. I will let you know should you be interested. Oh, and by the way, for some fun, click on the link for a unique TV promo example done by our very own Charlie Van Dyke who does our voice overs. This is a perfect example of how TV hypes itself, even though this clip is in jest. But really, we (promotions I mean) in TV tend to overdramatize stories in order to 'tease' the viewer and well, this is just funny anyway;

TVSWEEPSHELL 1.mp3

Haven't heard anything on Buddy, hopefully tomorrow. I am still saying my 'trench prayers' that he is going to be okay. Anyway, gots to work tomorrow so I am going to bed early tonight in order to get up and take care of some business (thank ya, thank ya very much) before I go.

Funny how the mind works...

A tragic story, but still one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. don't know why I am posting this, except I've always liked Viven Leigh, she was just beautiful, even as she got older. Yeah, they don't make 'em like that anymore and certainly not with the class she had.

Buddy Update

For those of you interested in it, I have an update on my Siamese cat Buddy, it's neither good nor bad, but at least it's something. They did exploratory surgery on him earlier today and he came out and is recovering. The assistant on the phone said that he was doing well, though she didn't have any details on what Dr. Johnson found and how that will impact Buddy. I am sitting here waiting, hoping that it's not going to be bad news or at least as bad as I have imagined. I will update this as needed and I hope that it's good news.