Aging extravagantly … birthday blog #3
Whoo hoo! My day just keeps getting better and better. I’m receiving an extravagant number of wonderful birthday messages from so many people. Call me goofy, but
Beethoven on a birthday … birthday blog #2
A few weeks ago, a man invited me out on a date for April 4th,
Intruder at the bird bath … birthday blog #1
I’m one of those wacky people who LOVE their birthdays. I don’t really care that much about getting older (just don’t ask me how much older I’m getting! ;)) but I do care about having fun on April 13th. Which, by the way, is also the birth date of my adopted felines, Einstein, Coco, and […]
Survival strategies of the wackiest
Oh, BIG apologies all ’round for my slacker-tude in posting (not posting actually) lately. Um, I’ve been trying (and I use that word optimistically) to figure out how to SURVIVE in a world gone mad. Yes, mad! Damn. Is it just me or is everybody scrambling?
MC on WSLR tonight — call in or pledge to support your local community radio!
So, yes, WSLR, Sarasota’s community radio station is conducting fund raising! I’ll be a guest on the Louisiana Gumbo Show at 7:45 tonight — Sunday, April 5th. Just for about a half-hour, I think, unless we’re deluged with callers and pledgers, then they might ask me to stay through 9 p.m. I’ll be chatting about […]
The perfect outing on April Fools Day … laissez-faire … lazy fairy … laissez-aller!
Oh, if there really are magical-power-imbued fairies running around loose in Sarasota, they’ll tap me with their magic, star-tipped wands and clear my calendar for tomorrow night so I can go catch the closest thing to the real thing
Petty thievery
I’ve got a good friend. He’s a great guy. Pretty honest, pretty decent human being. Recently we were hanging out together … doing our usual nonstop talking. We were having a blast … up until the moment he was showing me photos from his recent trip on his laptop computer. My friend segued from showing […]
Sarasota Magazine/BIZ 941 “restructuring” … when does the bleeding in local media stop?
Jiminy cricket. When does the bleeding in Sarasota’s media world stop? Word I heard from the street earlier today that Jeff Lawenda, former Executive Publisher of Sarasota Magazine and BIZ 941, had been let go — was just confirmed in a telephone conversation with Tiffany Soukhaphaly at the magazines’ offices. “We’ve had a restructuring,” Tiffany […]
Remembering Ardren
Tonight, around 5:30 p.m., the Pelican Press newspaper was tossed from a car driving by, and landed in my driveway. From somewhere in the recesses of my mind, for some reason, I thought “Oh, good, I get to read Main Street Beat.” As soon as the thought came into my head, of course, it rushed […]
Still using plastic bags? … enough already!
If you’re still using and accepting plastic bags when you shop — I really can’t imagine why. With all the information at our fingertips, it’s almost criminal to continue this destructive, irresponsible behavior.