I wrote this letter to their Morning Show people – it has to do with journalists sensationalising the news and further proof that journalists are just as corruptible as baseball players with steroids.

Subject Bar:  Your Piece On Steroids on The Early Show
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Folks – here’s an example of sensationalizing the news.
 
On Kell-ee Co-bee-ello’s piece on steroids, there was a part where she brought up the info on the Internet and blogs about T  R  E  N.
 
Her editors – and she – highlighted a passage from a blog that, if read was:
“made me feel like a monster in the gym.”
 
But, to hear Kelly Cobiello say the passage on air, she said:
“It made me feel like a monster.”
 
This is classic sensationalism
 
What she did here was try to sensationalize the issue of steroids and the side effect of “rage.”
 
Why do kids use Steroids?
To Get Bigger, Faster and Stronger – FAST.  For an edge against their competition on their team and opposing teams.
 
Why do journalists sensationalize?
To get their names bigger, faster and stronger – FAST.  For an edge against their competition on their team and opposing teams (in this case team = network(s))
 
Somehow, I’ve made a correlation between athletes and Steroids and “journalists” who sensationalize?
 
When reporting, why not consider the people who are blind and count on the spoken word for the news.
 
The only reason I’ve watched your show is because one of your show’s reporters is the sister of a friend of mine.  But, I really get upset with this nonsense, so, I’m going to stop watching for awhile.
 
Good luck.

1.  The lady with the chimpanzee that attacked her friend.

AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THIS LADY WAS HAVING INTERCOURSE WITH THIS ANIMAL?

2.  Wondering if you’re going to be laid off is tough – but walking on egg-shells during that time is worse.

3.  I’m working with people to set up a website for my radio show.  I’m hopeful that it’ll work out well.

4.  I’ve written a song – I really dig it.  And, so do a few others.  I have someone who asked if he could put a lead guitar sound on it once i send the files.  That’s more than impressive.  I’m honored.

5.  Very sad that we have to have people walking into churches with guns and killing people.  Why?

6.  Economy – well – talk about a wake up call for Wall Street!

7.  Will someone tell Day-Vid Leh-Ter-Man that he is just not funny

8.  I realize that at this time, I’m not willing to bring someone into my life to be a part of my life with my daughter and I and the rest of my family and friends.  I think I’ve just grown tired of the whole thing and like life as it is.

9.  People I know here are struggling mightily with their mortgages.

10.  ____________________________
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Typos on purpose

This TV show draws me in week after week.

Not because the show is good…..it’s not really…..it’s ok…..kinda marginal.

But.  It reminds me of going into Queens to see my Grandparents and my Aunt Mary.

It reminds me going into Brooklyn to see my Grandma and Uncle Alec.

They’re all long gone now and living with God.

I miss them.

I wonder if Liffe on Marrs is Easy…..

I wonder.

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My boss resigned and his last day is Feb 27.  With layoffs looming overhead, I must say, things are not looking too hot right now.

I hope things change in the world and the people stealing everyone’s money.

And, I’m writing a song – no title yet.  Here’s the lyrics for now.

I like to dream in color
Like blue
I want to love in black and white
With you

I like to feel your lips
In the mornin
Caress your breasts
With my lips

When I look up to the sky
See the stars inside your eyes
Awake you’re next to me
You’re the first thing that I see

I like to feel your eyes
Upon me
I like to hold your heart
So softly

I want to feel your breath
Blown on me
I love to kiss your lips
So gently

When your lying next to me
Our hearts are open wide
Nothing’s better
Cant be better
When it’s you and me

Solo

I love to run my hands
Thru your hair
I love to see your eyes
Light the sky

I want to hold you closer
And closer
I want to kiss your tears
Away

Now – I believe I’ve posted this before but, I gotta tell you, it’s one very funny story.

I mean – we’re talking “after-school-special” worthy.

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I remember Feb 14, 1995.

I’d been dating someone for about 4 months.

Our first Valentines Day and you all know what a first Valentine’s Day is like.

That’s right – it SETS THE TONE for all future Valentines Days with this person.

We would celebrate 4 Valentines Days together – but it’s that first one that I always remember.

I knocked on the door.
Her dogs Cocoa and Buckwheat barked.
Her cat Tiger always showed up when I came over.

I pulled out – no NOT THAT – I pulled out the flowers.

You see – I was big on the term “Multi-Tasking.”

So I pulled out…………………..

A HEAD OF LETTUCE!

Yup – A HEAD OF LETTUCE.

I informed her that I was really into multi-tasking and that the ROXY Iceburg lettuce would be her flowers and we’d eat it too.

I made her dinner and all that – but, that head of lettuce will be remembered forever.

I remembered her telling me that when she told her friends about it they all laughed – as did she – but her other comment was that she was speechless and couldnt believe I had done that.

I dunno. I kinda think it was pretty believable.

As a matter of fact.

I believe that most people on my friends list here would say – YEH – I BELIEVE IT.

And, if you’re a believer in karma, then you’ll notice in my listing of Profile fotos the pic of me with a “WICKED” bruise on my leg.

Maybe I got that because of the Valentines Lettuce Story.

Maybe not.

So – I toast you. St Valentines Day from 14 Years Ago.

You are Long Gone – but certainly not forgotton in my annals of memmories.

So – another human being showed he was a real human by giving in to temptation and he happened to win 8 gold medals in the olympics – or something like that.

Hey look – once again – we have heroes who do not fit the mold of  Superman or Aquaman or Wonderwoman – or Isis for that matter.

But, we need to realize that – we are not perfect.
This kid is 23 and while he should know better, he did it anyway.  Only, because he is who he is…it’s magnified 1000%.

We as regular folks get to hide our deficiencies and silliness but he cant.

Dont get me wrong because drug use is serious and I take it very seriously as a person and for my daughter.  He’s 23 and an “adult” and, if I’m the parent, I suggest going to some program that talks about drugs and drug use – I dont know if I’d send him to re-hab – especially when he’s already an adult….even though I know that at 23 I was still a kid.

So, what to do.

As a parent I need to remind myself that I’m not perfect and that others are not perfect and that my daughter doesnt need to be perfect – but – there are some a simple rule to live by – and that’s: 
Do Unto Others As You’d Have them do unto you.

I believe that when people get drunk or high, they want that Euphoric Feeling of being perfect – being God….When I know that just isnt possible.  And, it sometimes becomes a regular happen-stance for those who can’t fight that temptation.

So – there’s my 2 cents. 

If you got this far, the synopsis is:

Heroes are humans and fallible.
We are heroes to others – even if we dont know it.
We need to live by the Golden Rule of “Do Unto Others As You’d Have Done To You.”

My boss informed my co-worker and I that he’s leaving to another position.

A great man.
A great boss.
A great friend to me and our team.

But, it’s the inevitable.

Change.

How am I with change?

Hmmmm – not as good as I used to be.  But, this change will mean a lot to what’s happening with me here at work.

The comfort level changes and then the other questions race thru my head as well – like how does this impact my daughter and I.

I don’t know.

But, we’ll see how this plays out….because….Life does go on.  With or without us.  It does go on.

I went to see a band in DC Saturday Night and getting there was quite a laugh!

So, I drive to the metro stop and park – that’s cool.

Then I got on the train and promptly started playing some game on my phone.

While playing said game, I missed my stop – Metro Center – to get my transfer train.  

It was only 1 stop.

So….I got off and just walked across the “sidewalk” and within 2 minutes, my train came so I hopped on it.

And…..I promptly missed my stop AGAIN.

Hahahaahhahahahahaa.

So….this time, it wasn’t as easy getting to the other train….

I went up the escalator….ran over the “bridge” above the tracks and then….had to run down escalator steps that were going UP!!!!!!

When you’re wearing bi-focals….you can be thrown off a bit with your depth perception. 

No – i didnt fall.

But I did run down the stairs going up and my train came again.  And, I did make it to the show.

The Taxi ride was funny also but, not as funny as my train experience.

I’m sitting here on IM with a woman I work with telling me all the great things I do for my daughter and, I think I needed that.

She wrote to me:
- she gets emotionally happy when she hears me call my daughter at school
- she loves hearing all that I do for my daughter
- she loves that I told her that she needed to stop referring to her step-daughter as someone she didn’t know how to introduce to others and she should ask her if she could forever refer to her as HER DAUGHTER – which led to a HUGE breakthrough in their relationship together which was strained for too long

Thanks Susan – I needed that.

In my mind’s eye
I see the kettle’s whistle blow
At the home of my grandparents
I miss them so

Sometime in the future
It would please me
To return to the times
When Life Was Easy

My little girl is getting “QUITE THE SENSE OF HUMOR.”

At just over 5 yrs 3 months, here’s what I got to experience:

My daughter was on my lap and I needed to get up and so I let her know and so, she put her feet down and I said – “Ok Start Walking.”

So….she started walking….right into a 4 1/2 foot tall speaker and then turned around and said “Daddy – you said start walking so I did.” – and she kept walking into the speaker.

I laughed and said “You have quite the sense of humor little lady.  I now know another one of your tricks.”

She smiled and we both laughed…..and then I told her, “Ok, you can stop walking now.”

It’s a real shame.

Once again, the government hands out money and the money is mis-used in my eyes.

Here the Merryl Lynch CEO is caught having given bonuses – a crazy sum about 5 billion I think I read – and here I am working for a company that will lay people off in a month and there’s talk of pay-cuts also.

What do you do?

The board of Directors for Merryl Lynch approved the accelerated bonuses and they were paid while asking for 20 billion more from the goverment and “CONVENIENTLY” a few days before the merger with Bank of America was finalized.

Are you kidding me?

We’re in an uproar because we’re made aware of corruption and money going out hand over fist in Iraq but, we have this going on here in the US?  Helloooo – we need to look in the mirror.

Money is such a corrupting force in our lives as humans. 

Everything needs a PR Person and a person to explain things and then of course we get the proverbial “I take full responsibility for ___________” or “In hindsight I can see now how that would be like that…..”

Money just ruins everything.