My mother has been gone since 1994. I miss her still.
On Saturday, we walked once again in the Revlon Run/Walk for Women 2012, and it raised money for cancer research; We walk to honor Fran's survival, and our friends and family who have fought the disease, but also to honor Phyllis Simon, who we've missed for 17 Mother's Days now. This 10 seconds of drumming is from the band that greets walkers and runners at the end of the walk every year:
Happy Mother's Day, Mom.
Just one question. What the hell is that thing in the upper left corner of this screen shot from a recent Phillies-Braves telecast from Turner Field?:
It's "Homer," I believe, the mascot the Braves put in because anything connected to the name "Braves" would be, you know, a little racist. Not that it stops them from chopping. But that baseball-head HAS to be the stuff of nightmares for little kids all across the South. Geez, he's disturbing.
While I have a second, there's this, found in David Gleason's invaluable Broadcasting Magazine archive:
That's how WINS in New York addressed ad agency questions about its about-to-debut all-News format. It's not like WINS was the first all-News station; Gordon MacLendon had gotten there first, at XETRA in Tijuana and at WNUS in Chicago -- but it was the first in New York and far more ambitious than MacLendon could afford. People really had nothing to go on, no idea what it would sound like, or whether, as the last question asks, they'd run out of news. 47 years later, they haven't run out.
