One of the greatest joys in my life is celebrating a birthday today! 

My daughter Olyvia Rose is 11 today!

Happy Birthday Olyvia, I LOVE YOU and Daddy will see you soon!

Just think, the average price of gas in July 1997 was……

$1.22 a gallon.

John McCain gets attacked by his hand when a reporter asked a question about viagra and insurance.

Only a year after they changed Baseball forever with the purchase of Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees made another buy that would forever change the way the game was watched.  On February 6, 1921, the Yankees issued a press release to announce the purchase of 10 acres of property in the west Bronx. The land, purchased from the estate of William Waldorf Astor for $675,000, sat directly across the Harlem River from the Yankees’ current Manhattan home, the Polo Grounds, which they shared unhappily with the landlord Giants of the National League since 1913. 

I was lucky enough to visit the original Yankee Stadium before the upper deck was added and a complete renovation was completed and the stadium opened April 15, 1976.  I saw such greats like Thurman Munson, Felipe Alou, Bobby Murcer, Rusty Torez, Graig Nettels and Lou Pinella when he was an outfielder.  Yankee Stadium is where I learned all about baseball, being a immigrant kid from England, the only thing I knew about sports was soccer and cricket, which is similar to baseball. 

It’s sad to see it being demolished at the end of the 2008, that is one stadium that in my opinion should have been made into a museum.  The amount of history in sports besides baseball is astounding, the history making Notre Dame game, boxing matches  with Muhammad Ali just to name a few, plus a visit from the pope.

It’s nice to see the The New Yankee Staduim will take some of the history with it when it opens.  If you have never been to a game there, and you are a hard core baseball fan. I suggest you defiantly go there  before the end of era comes in a few months.

Beeker from The Muppets                         Carrot Top

There are three things that happen every year that are stupid and painfull.

One is running with the bulls, someone always gets the horn,

Second is running down a hill in England for a wheel of cheese,

And the third when  Jessie Jackson opens his mouth.

I really didn’t realize how lucky we have it in the Upstate for gas prices until we drove down to Charleston on Saturday to disconnect and plant our happy and now broke asses on the beach.  I saw everything from $3.71 in Greer where I filled up on Saturday, to $4.05 in Isle Of Palms.  The last cheap place I saw was in Columbia at $3.72, so I figured I’d top off there so I wouldn’t have to get shafted paying the piper down there. 

I did all of the hyper gas savings that I could, you know, turning off the engine going downhill,  keeping the windows up for less drag, no extra weight in the car that we don’t need, sorry Mother In-law.  I hope she doesn’t read this.  Seriously, there is alot you can do to squeeze a little more out of a tank and still be able to take the Mother In-law.  Weight is an issue, if you’re on a long trip only take the essentials, around town keep your tank half full.  Easy on the accelerator, you don’t have to show everyone how your fake posi-track works all the time and they say don’t slam on your breaks, I have now idea how that save gas.   Tire pressure check, and usual maintenance should save you about 30% more. 

Next to Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce, George Carlin was defiantly a comedian that we grew up with and can still recite any one of their routines word for word, and got in trouble from our parents for it.  If it wasn’t for Richard and George, there wouldn’t be an Eddie Murphy or Dennis Leary, these comics find that edge and intentionally jump across, then jump back just it to see a reaction.  Nine times out of ten, there were BIG reactions. 

The “Seven Bad Words” masterpiece was so ahead of its time, that it still hold true today.  Carlin premiered this bit to a stunned audience at Milwaukee’s Summerfest in 1972 that got him arrested.

WARNING:  By Clicking play, YOU WILL HEAR ALL of the SEVEN BAD WORDS that are rude, crude, laced with profanity, and funny.

Did you hear, Joan Rivers has been kicked off another show!  This time in the U.K., Joan was on the British version of the View. 

CAUTION, VIDEO CONTAINS PROFANITY!!!!!!! Click at your own risk.

What’s up with Joan’s face, is she trying to look like this,

                                                                           Joan, stick with the Geico commercials!

It’s hard to believe its 15 years ago on July 11 when I went through the “Floods of ‘93” in Des Moines, Iowa.  It was the first time I have ever witnessed the teamwork and pride from people of all types coming together for ONE common goal, to STOP the rising waters.  I was doing my 7 to midnight airshift on 95 KGGO and I got a phone call from a Des Moines cop that turn out to be a lifelong friend.  Mike Moody called me a said that they were starting to sandbag down on Fluer Drive.  Fluer Drive is just outside the Des Moines Waterworks and everybody; I mean EVERYBODY was gathering down there to start sand bagging the water treatment plant for the city that was in imminent danger of being overcome by the Des Moines and Racoon Rivers, and we lost.   Anyway, they needed some music to get people motivated, so   I said that I would come down with the station van after I got off of the air at midnight.  I had no idea what was in store for me and everyone of us in Des Moines over the next two months.

To make a long story short, EVERYONE slept very little those two months, not to mention bathing, because we had No drinking water.  Working in the studio from 7p to midnight, then going down to sandbag and broadcast from Midnight to Noon the next day.  Everyone at GGO worked their butts off to try and keep everyone going.  We may have lost the battle in 93’ trying to stop the water from flowing into the water treatment plant, but we made damn sure that it wouldn’t happen again.  All of the sandbags we filled were dropped by helicopter to raise the levee around the Des Moines Waterworks plant, and would become part of the permanent levee system, and it paid off!

The 100 year flood is back in only 15 years and my friends are going through is again, but thank god, not to that same extent.

The Waterworks plant is holding its own, and the Valley Junction area is high and dry because of the new levee system installed after 93’.  Hard work does pay off, and everyone in Des Moines should be proud that they can raise a glass (of water) that the people of Des Moines can breathe a little easier in the Floods of 08’.