lanny's Blog

  Yes   friends, as always, vacations ends to soon and mine was no exception.  Nothing really wild happened  while I was off for a week.  We all stayed home  and stayed cool  by the pool.  Slept til  8  every morning which is  4-5 hours later than normal and  stayed up late watching tv.  Honestly  what the hell are you people  watching at night.  BORING!!!   I tried watching everything I had heard good things about  and  NOTHING  was entertaining.  I was shocked to learn that  Desperate Housewives was still on the air  my god!!  Give it a rest. 

    Kids watched  Project Runway  ad  nauseum, seasons  1-4  ran  the whole time I was off.   Shear Genius is back and so is  Flipping  Out!    Watched LOTS of baseball.  So much so my family nearly  called  work to have them page me back to the newsroom  so they would not have to keep stepping over my  bloated  carcaus  parked in the den on the counch.  

   All in all I LOVE spending time with my family.  They are so  cute and so entertaining  and   so much fun.   I kept  up with the  blogging  and read  lots of blogs  throughout  the  vacation.  

  But it's all over now  and I found my self  re-introducing myself to co-workers who I felt I haven't seen in  2 weeks.  Alas, summer,  we knew you well!!!    

In just a few    minutes I will be live on the air  from  along  290  with our  web chat  on    everyoine;s  favorite  topic......."  stay-cations."   I just finished my  1 week  "  stay-vations "  and it was great.  Spent lots of time  with the family and friends.  Mostly out in the pool. 

    Catch the live chat and tell me  about your plans for a "  stay-cation." 

  Folks may as well  tune out  Don Imus  if  ya'll are going to get  offended  every time the man opens his mouth.  He is paid  HUGE  bucks to be offensive  and that's what he is going to do.  He is paid to deliver a product!   Howard Stern  is paid  millions to deliver a product at any cost!  

   Let go, tune out, and shut up  already.  If you don't like what you hear then  change channels.  Rude things are said about people all day long  on every street corner in every town.  He just happens to be on the network.   

     That's   right.  I needed help.  I started out  with remote control   firmly gripped  in my hand.  I pre-set  the channels  on  4  for the Astros, and  34  for Rice.   Feeling great  about  2 great games on  Father's Day was more than I could  stand.  I was so psyched.   And here is where the story  turns  south.

     One by one, the Yankess start scoring  with naree  a  defense  from the Stros.  Change channels  to  34..........Fresno St.  was up  7-0  in the  3rd.......I quickly reach for a Motrin.

       Time passes.............Yankess up  now  11-0............Fresno St  up  11--0  in the  5th inning................now I am on the floor looking  for  heavy  pain killers..........Wife even  tries  flipping  on  NBC  hoping  that marathon  U.S. Open would help, but to no avail.  My condition  worsened. 

   Wife calls  medics  when I apparently slipped into a coma  and slithered out of my chair  after  4  agonizing hours of  the worst  baseball beating I have ever seen.    Medics  got me up  with an oxygen mask and a steady morphine drip just in time to see the closing  moments   with the  final score   Yankees....13--0,  and  Fresno St   16---5.   Seeing the distress I was in , the  medics  removed  all life  support  and let me  die  in  semi-peace.    Miraculously  I  cam to  and found that  I had been carried  to my  bed  upstairs.  I'm not sure what happened  next  but  I wound up finding  solace  when   60 Minutes'  Morley Safer  announced  that  the  Danish  are the happiest people on earth because they have little  or no expectations of anything good actually happening to them.

    In the future  when I watch sports, I will  embrace  the  Danes  and go into the games with little or no expectations  of anything good happening to my teams.

   Sad  isn't it!

    Happy  Frickin   Father's  Day.    

                                      ELMER L. "  SONNY"  GRIFFITH

                                              1933-2003

                                    VISIT US IN OUR DREAMS                                              

Yup,

   After several weeks  we are  hosting a live web chat  at  6:30 this morning  which is almost  right now.  We are live from Hermann Park  and our topic is    "  stay-cation."  Join us  won'  t   you!

     Fox News in New York is reporting that  Preparation-H,  used  by  hemmoroid  sufferers  is now the latest club  drug.  Bouncers are telling us  that  young  club men  slather the stuff up to make them look more buff.  Reports are that  Preparation-H  discarded tubes are being found in restrooms  of night clubs. 

    Prep-H  has long been used  to shrink hemmoroihdall  tissue  has also been used by women over the years to shrink puffiness around the eys  and  smooth out  " smokers"  lips.  Now this!    Gives new meaning to  "  roid  rage."   

   So fess up  bloggers  you buff guys  out there really been binge  smearing this stuff on  while giving us the impression that you've been  pumping iron  when in fact, you've been pumping a tube???  

Alright gang,

    Summer  is officially here now that school is out.  What's everyone's plan for the summer?  Anybody taking any trips?  Anybody NOT taking trips  because of  high prices  everywhere you look?  

     the Griffith  clan will be shuttling  children back and forth to  various camps,  ie...cheerleading, dance, leadership, church camp etc........that  and  living out by the pool.   We  used to go to New Braunfels  every year and get a cabin for a week  but  that  won't  be on the agenda this summer.  

  Go Astros!!!!

     Insiders  say  we can expect one more bump at the  gas  pumps  as we head into the Memorial Day weekend.  It always happends.  Gas  companies always  jack up the  price of gas  just in time for summer.  So it's  going to be  a record  high gas price summer  for  all of us.

     I had no plans of  driving anywhere this year.  We  usually  try to head to the hill country  for a week  but  looks like  we won't be going anywhere.  What  about you?  I have been hearing  talk of some folks  flying  because  it's  cheaper than the gas.

     I don't know about you but I am disgusted by all this.  Here we risk our health living  under refineries for fuel and we wind up paying a record high price for gas and oil.  And everything is going up.  Can anyone name  anything  where the price is going down??    I would love to hear about it.

     After all was said  and done,  today's  bloggers  picnic  was wonderful.  So refreshing to meet the faces behind  the  blogs.  Hail to PBMom, hubbie jeff and  Patrick himself  for making an appearance  to all of us.  asksealing  drove down from  Cleveland, Texas with her beautiful girls  to see   the  gang.  Dread-head  did not  dissapoint with his  dread-lockis  and was outstanding to visit with.     Foehammer and his family  were a  riot  and  their daughter was just  beautiful.  They had been to a  ceremony  to mark the end of school down at Minute Mai9d Park.  MsAugustine  drove in from Porter  with her dog  and that was  really great.  WE love  the dogs. 

    Thanks to all who came  and  so sorry to those who had  to back out.  It was so nice to hear from the bloggers  and  inspirational to know how  much bogging means to them.

    I will elaborate later  cause I just got  in from my daughter's  banquet so I am  pooped.       More on this later  but right now, I've got to go to bed.

    Love to all bloggers.  We'll do it again soon.

Lanny

     If you haven't  seen the video of  veteran anchorwoman  Sue Simmons  letting the  F   bomb  fly  on live tv this week  then you need to stop right now  and go to  you tube  and enter  her name. 

    The  NBC anchor at  the NBC flagship station in New  York City  lets  one  rip  during a live tease  promoting their  11 o'clock  news.  She said  she and her co-anchor  had been taping  promos and teases   OFF  air  to be used  later.  Said she didn't know  she was  HOT  when she let the   bomg  fly.    Watch it and you be the judge.

   As a broadcaster  anytime  you are wearing a mic and are in front of the camera  you  keep a  civil  tongue in your mouth  because you never know  when someone   in the booth  might  punch up your  mic  without your knowledge.   I don't think there is ANY excuse  for  her  on air   F-word.  Having said that I have   known to curse like  a  sailor  and  have  always kept it clean for the cameras  though that  wasn't the case on radio.

   Years ago at our rock and roll auction  when I was  with KLOL  we were live in the Summit  with  rock stars on stage auctioning off their  guitars for charity.  It was about  10 o'clock at night  and I thought our  radio broadcast was over  when I  too let the F bomb fly out across the  radio air waves.    Granted this was a  rock and roll station with rockers  listening in who thought it was a riot.  I was not aware that we were live of course until after I said it............then I wanted to crawl in a hole.    As professionals  we aren't  supposed to  cause the F.C.C to even glance our direction, let along  fine us.  We  weren't fine and I  kept my job   because  I honestly  thought the radio portion of the show was over.

    So what's your thoughts on this?  I don't think she's  going away, she's been there for  25 years.   Yet the Howard Sterns and Don Imuses  get  fined, banned, and or  fired for their  bits.             

The Ron Stone family has released  this information on funeral arrangements.

Visitation will take place Thursday  evening from 5-8 PM at the George H. Lewis and Sons Funeral Home on Bering near  San Felipe

Funeral services are set for  11 AM  Friday at   Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church on Memorial. 

A private burial is scheduled later that day. 

Condolense books are set up at the funeral home  now and will be there  til  Friday.