Bonjour!
on Nov 18, 2009 in Motorcycle It’s been a whirlwind, as traveling with me always is. I have to say I am proud of Sleeping Beauty for keeping up – in fact a lot of the time she’s dragging ME around! It’s been planes, trains and more trains as we bopped from...

Across the Pond – Manchester Edition
on Nov 11, 2009 in Television Production Stories freelancing Manchester television travel TV Production World Wrestling Entertainment WWE This trip started in Manchester, with a bunch of wise-ass WWE crewmembers standing in front of a bunch of sour faced customs officials. We sat and waited as the sour faced agents ‘activated’ our paperwork. In trips past, we’d walk u...

Across the Pond – Sheffield Edition
on Nov 8, 2009 in Random Blather The show that never ends has landed in Sheffield, UK this week, solidly putting the World in World Wrestling Entertainment. Sheffield is about as nice a place in England as can be found, which means it’s not quite as rainy, damp and cold as Lon...

Flat Stanley Visits The Kingdom of Rhode Island
on Oct 25, 2009 in Random Blather This past week, Fiona and I got to play host. ‘Flat’ Stanley Lambchop arrived in an envelope to the Kingdom of Rhode Island for a visit. He crawled out of his manila travel pouch, and in his unique, high-pitched, two dimensional voice, i...

I’ve Been Everywhere, Man.
on Oct 22, 2009 in Random Blather travel “Come on Frenchy, UPDATE YOUR DAMN BLOG ALREADY!” “Man, you need to write something new! What the hell has been going on lately?” Well, so far in the two and a half weeks that have made up this month, I’ve logged fifteen...

All’s Quiet
on Oct 15, 2009 in Random Blather With another great riding season safely tucked away in the history books, it’s time to plod forward into Fall. Somehow, Summer snuck out of town when nobody was looking, and now there is early morning frost (!) on the motorcycle, and what leave...

Nothing Exciting
on Oct 9, 2009 in Motorcycle Just another week almost in the books, almost time to flip the calendar over once more, and  nothing really mind-shatteringly exciting has happened lately. Right now I’m in Detroit for a two day photography class that I’ve been looking f...

Time Flies
on Sep 29, 2009 in Random Blather Television Production Stories audio engineering freelancing sports production television How long has it been now? Fifteen years? Sixteen? I sat down this morning and tried to figure out exactly how long have I been a part of the never-ending carnival of insanity known as freelance television production. It’s gotten to the point wh...

State Of The Fair
on Sep 24, 2009 in Random Blather Deep Fried Twinkies Oklahoma State Fair For a ten day span in late September, area Walmarts in Oklahoma City experience a massive drop in sales. This yearly phenomenon can only be attributed to one thing – the Oklahoma State Fair! During these ten days, the fairgrounds become the bi...

Last Ride of ‘09 – Ride ‘Til The Tires Fall Off
on Sep 22, 2009 in Motorcycle Ebbetts Pass Lu Fei motorcycle ride ride report Sonora Pass Sometimes things look better in the morning. My rear tire didn’t. It looked a little… tired. I guess all the playing around and fun we’ve had on all the awesome two lane roads with a slightly overloaded bike does have consequences a...