Kevin Allman

True all across the leadership spectrum.

This is embarrassing.

I’ve got decades of actual journalism experience (Bari has none, just journalism-adjacent) and I would have no business leading CBS News.

“I’m not going to tell you my name!”

“In that case our work here is done. Have a good evening, citizen.”

“People who didn’t know they had insurance”????

Ernie K-Doe vibes and if you know you know

“Helena Morena”?

I don’t think so.

She was very cool! A biker chick, one of Bette Midler’s backup singers, and a talented comedian.

I had lunch with and interviewed Katey when MWC just started.

“Well, I have to start with Peggy’s look — “

“Of course you do! That’s the best part!”

She was charming and down-to-earth.

Reminder that media don’t have to include corporate branding in reporting. Only the festival that got the corporate cashish does.

I’m up to party, carambo, fiesta, but at this age I can’t do it forever

Haven’t really talked about it but undiagnosed acid reflux earned me a middle of the night ambulance ride and a night in the hospital last year.

Did you know the acid could go past your throat and into your eardrums, losing your entire sense of balance? Me either.

It was kind of cool when she busted out “Bad Romance” at Cat’s Meow karaoke, but dancing on the bar at Coyote Ugly and whipping her bra at the crowd disrespected her station.

Can we give up the fiction that, golly, farmers just HATE taking federal subsidies? They take it by the billions every year.

Both the dog and the cat know that hand flash means “That’s all the treats you’re getting for now”

They have not held up well. See also: Richard Ford.

Sorry, Peter.

My favorite thing I ever saw at Gretna Fest wasn’t a musician.

It was a dirtbag teenage Westbank teen splitting a cig with his pregnant girlfriend.

I hope every journalist there heads for the exits.

No idea.

Jeff Lynne at the keyboard:

She’s an evil woman. Okay, that’s good.

Wait —

— she’s also a sweet talkin’ woman.

(Deep sigh)

I guess I have to write two songs.

Damn. Anyone else feel flu-y after the fall 2025 covid shot?

I’m right behind her next week. Can’t wait.

Steve McQueen forever

The Blob, of course

Notice he changed his tie to fit in with his hero’s gold fixation.

Wow — just watched the end of the WDSU sheriff’s debate and Susan Hutson refused to shake Travers Mackel’s hand at the end. Dumb thing to do on camera.

Augusta, Georgia. The airport was next to an open sewage storage and there was a paper mill nearby.

Headline of the Day.

It raises the unsavory question of how he could beat off to this sick material.