The City of Memphis has Grizzlies fever for the second year in a row! Actually, it's the most exciting of times (outside of the birth of my child and meeting my lovely wife here in Memphis) for me because it makes the city feel good and I get to work with the Grizzlies affiliate station, 92.9 FM ESPN. People love going to these games, watching a winner on TV, and actually seeing something very positive for the city. It's good business for Memphis.
On top of that and all the busy stuff we have going on here at Classic Hits 94.1 KQK (planning our "Made in Memphis" Weekend, Song of the Day for a bunch of FREE concert tickets, and behind the scenes meeting folks in the local community) it's Memphis in May!
Last weekend we had a "pirate" party for my son Jake. It's hard to believe he's already 4! Arlington in April was also last weekend, so my folks from Illinois enjoyed those festivities with us too! Good times.
The highlight of last night's game was meeting Anthony Grant, head basketball coach of the University of Alabama! That....and a Grizzlies win!
Well, March has almost passed and it's time for Easter. Time just rolls!
Something I've decided to do differently this year is use my vacation time earlier in the year. So a couple weeks ago my wife Stacy and I took our anniversary trip to Vegas! I actually used to live in Vegas, so it's some good ole sites and big time events. Typically, I don't enjoy vacations as much unless there's big events. We managed to pack in a UNLV (where I went to grad school) vs. New Mexico basketball game, "O" the Circque DeSole Show at Bellagio where we stayed, and the NASCAR 400 in Vegas on Sunday.
Yes, playing right into the good ole southern stereotypes, but we love NASCAR. But, it kind of evens out if you're talking about staying at the Bellagio and going to see Circque. Great trip. And some good friends as well.
Next up, concert season and Spring Events. Starting with our annual Special Kids fundraiser that I'll be hosting on April 7th. Please come out and support a great charity! Click here for more and I would love to see you on the morning of the 7th for a great charity. It's my 8th year doing it.
My house could be carpeted
instead of tiled and laminated.
All flat surfaces, clothing, furniture,
and cars would be free of hair.
When the doorbell rings,
it wouldn't sound like a kennel.
When the doorbell rings, I could get to
the door without wading through fuzzy
bodies who beat me there.
I could sit on the couch and my bed the way
I wanted, without taking into consideration
how much space several fur bodies would
need to get comfortable.
I would have money and no guilt to go on a
real vacation. I would not be on a first-name
basis with 6 veterinarians, as I put their yet
unborn grand kids through college.
The most used words in my vocabulary would not be:
out, sit, down, come, no, stay, and leave it ALONE.
My house would not be cordoned off
into zones with baby gates or barriers.
I would not talk 'baby talk'. 'Eat your din'.
'Yummy yummy for the tummy'...
My house would not look like a day
care center, toys everywhere.
My pockets would not contain things like
poop bags, treats and an extra leash.
I would no longer have to spell the words
B-A-L-L,, W-A-L-K,, T-R-E-A-T,,
O-U-T,, G-O,, R-I-D-E,, C-O-O-K-I-E
I would not have as many
leaves INSIDE my house as outside.
I would not look strangely at people who think having
ONE dog/cat ties them down too much.
I'd look forward to spring and the rainy
season instead of dreading 'mud' season.
I would not have to answer the question...
'Why do you have so many animals?' from people who will never have the joy in
their lives of knowing they are loved
unconditionally by someone as close
to an ANGEL as they will ever get.
It's been an exciting month with the weather seasonably warmer this year. It's the first year in seven that I can honestly say, "It doesn't really snow in Memphis." Otherwise, that's just not true! But today, on the 27th of February, it's almost 70 degrees and t-shirt weather. My family was playing outside with our son on his playset and BBQing this weekend.
Besides the weather, some of my favorite February events occured and were fun as always!
This weekend, my family went to the Shriners Circus at the Shelby Show Place Arena. The funniest part is how they make it IMPOSSIBLE for parents to leave without buying a $10 "light saber" of some sort before you leave. IMPOSSIBLE.
94.1 KQK sponsored Soup Sunday and it was good to see all our old (and young) friends! Willie B and I had a fun time hanging out with listeners and listening to the Doctors Band.
The Grizzlies are on fire as well, playing well enough to have an 18-14 record at the All Star break. Hopefully, we'll make the NBA Playoffs again and everyone in town and around the region will get GRIZZ FEVER! I've got it! The game we went to a couple weeks ago included a Dante Cunninggam last minute shot to win! It's nice to sit close thanks to our sister station, 92.9 FM ESPN, the station broadcasting the games. We were so close for the game you could see the sweat pouring off our Memphis All Star Marc Gasol.
Looking forward to some vacation time in March, more cool events including baseball, and concert season very soon!
~Brad
Polar Bear: I come in Peace Norbert Rosing's striking images of a wild polar bear coming upon
tethered sled dogs in thewilds of Canada 's Hudson Bay .
The photographer was sure that he was going to see the end of his dogs when the polar bear wandered in.
It's hard to believe that this polar bear only needed to hug someone!
The Polar Bear returned every night that week to play with the dogs. May you always have love to share,
Health to spare,And friends that care
I just loved this........ ........... .... AT 120 DEGREES IN AUSTRALIA , IT WAS SO HOT FOR A WEEK THAT KOALAS WERE ASKING PEOPLE FOR WATER. IT'S NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE.
ONE WENT TO A HOUSE TO TRY TO HIDE FROM THE HEAT AND TO GET A BIT OF SHADE AND HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE OWNER GAVE HIM SOMETHING TO DRINK. IT'S REALLY CUTE.
"Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened."
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
Here are the winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future
6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
9. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
10. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
11. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
12. Glibido: All talk and no action.
13. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly..
14. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
15. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
16. Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.
And the winners are:
1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.
6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.
11. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
12. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.
13. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
14. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there. < /SPAN>
Hello to you again my friend! It's been a while since I've blogged. A couple months have passed and so much has happened over the past 2-months, and it has been good. Last month I became the Program Manager for the station, Classic Hits 94.1 KQK! This puts my job list at: 94.1 Midday Host, 94.1 Program Manager, 92.9 FM ESPN Program Manager, & 92.9 Exec. Producer for Gary Parrish Radio show. Each one of the program jobs is exciting. I'm VERY excited to program 94.1 because of our team, the music, the city and the local success we continue to build on. I get to work with Conley and Karen, Willie, Tom, GK, and a great team. I love being on talking about this music and the Mid-South. On the 92.9 side, it's writing, producing, creating and now working with the Grizzlies! I'm actually going to the first pre-season game tonight.
Personally, it's been a very good time because my son is now at the age where Christmas really means something. Elf on the shelf. Being good for Santa. It's all very fun. He is still scared of Santa based on his reaction looking at the Christmas line at Wolfchase.
I'm also very proud of my wife, Stacy, who recently started a very exciting new job here in Memphis!
With all the work, I'll continue to weave in a blog now and then. But for now, I'll see you on the radio. Thanks for reading. Merry Christmas.
Greetings fellow animal lovers! I write much regarding my cat-buds; "The Great Catsby" and "Puff Kitty"...so Teresa wants equal time for DOGS! (and so does my bow-wow, "Bob Barker"...:-) So THANK YOU Ms. T for sending the below! (It's a great read, but you gotta supply your own KLEENIX!...:-)
I Am Your Dog
i am your dogI am your dog, and I have a little something I'd like to whisper in your ear. I know that you humans lead busy lives. Some have to work, some have children to raise. It always seems like you are running here and running there, often much too fast, often never noticing the truly grand things in life.
Look down at me now, while you sit there at your computer. See the way my dark brown eyes look at yours? They are slightly cloudy now. That comes with age. The gray hairs are beginning to ring my soft muzzle. You smile at me; I see love in your eyes. What do you see in mine? Do you see a spirit? A soul inside, who loves you as no other could in the world? A spirit that would forgive all trespasses of prior wrong doing for just a simple moment of your time?
That is all I ask. To slow down, if even for a few minutes, to be with me. So many times you have been saddened by the words you read on that screen, of others of my kind, passing. Sometimes we die young and oh so quickly, sometimes so suddenly it wrenches your heart out of your throat. Sometimes, we age so slowly before your eyes that you may not even seem to know until the very end, when we look at you with grizzled muzzles and cataract clouded eyes. Still the love is always there, even when we must take that long sleep, to run free in a distant land.
I may not be here tomorrow; I may not be here next week. Someday you will shed the water from your eyes, that humans have when deep grief fills their souls, and you will be angry at yourself that you did not have just "one more day" with me.
Because I love you so, your sorrow touches my spirit and grieves me. We have NOW, together. So come, sit down here next to me on the floor, and look deep into my eyes. What do you see? If you look hard and deep enough we will talk, you and I, heart to heart. Come to me not as "alpha" or as "trainer" or even "Mom or Dad". Come to me as a living soul and stroke my fur and let us look deep into one another's eyes and talk. I may tell you something about the fun of chasing a tennis ball, or I may tell you something profound about myself, or even life in general. You decided to have me in your life because you wanted a soul to share such things with. Someone very different from you, and here I am.
I am a dog, but I am alive. I feel emotion, I feel physical senses, and I can revel in the differences of our spirits and souls. I do not think of you as a "dog on two feet" – I know what you are and who you are. You are human, in all your quirkiness, and I love you still.
Now, come sit with me, on the floor. Enter my world, and let time slow down if only for 15 minutes. Look deep into my eyes, and whisper into my ears. Speak with your heart, with your joy, and I will know your true self. We may not have tomorrow, but we do have today, and life is oh so very short. So please . . . come sit with me now and let us share these precious moments we have together.
Love, on behalf of canines everywhere,
Your Dog
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