Saturday, February 28, 2009
Good-Bye to a Legend: Paul Harvey 1918-2009
Today and everyday for this point radio air waves will not sound as good and pure as they once did. Paul Harvey the legendary Newscaster, and talk show host has died, he was 90. His time on this plant was spent refining his craft, and helped shape radio and television journalism to what it is today. He is one of the reasons I love journalism, and went after my degree in it. I dont' want to try to talk about him as if I knew him, but I think we all knew a little bit about Mr. Harvey. Every morning his newscast was insightful and his mid-day second story was touching. I consider myself luck to have lived in an age where he showed us how to report correctly, and use our voice to connect to an audience. As Paul would say... "and know you know the rest of the story".
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Hawaiian Burger for Lunch
OK, so I lied BFD! I am going to talk about what I had for lunch on this blog, b/c 1 I can, and 2 it sums up my a part of my life right now.
So after working from 8am to 1pm I finally thought ok I'm taking a break, and eating some real food. Not the typical WELCOME TO FAST AZZ FOOD JOINT WOULD U LIKE FRIES WITH THAT. No, I saw a themed burger place and went for it, good thing was this was Margaritaville before someone took Jimmy B's idea and turned it into a Corp Chain. So there I am, all my favorite things surround me a little Bob Marley on the jukebox, a Spring Training Game on the TV, a real grill, and of course booze in the blender. The bar stocked with Captain, Crown, Corona, and other booze that streached for as far as the eye could C, but can't touch remember this is a working lunch.
Yet back to the point at hand, it all reminded me of a distant memory of my last trip to the beach. A trip I was able to share with friends, and wish every day could be like that. Yet then I snap back to reality and realize that I'm a broke fresh out of college adult, and every lender in the world wants their money back with interest. (After all it is my generation that will have to save us from the recession before it turns into a great depression) I step outside and see the desert mountains of Arizona on all sides of me, and I remember I'm no longer just 5 hours away from a friend who could BS with me about the one day we retire to a sunny beach front property, No I'm 25 hours from them, but 5 hours from the water that I still can't see b/c tomorrow is payday and after all I owe, I'll be lucky to afford a water balloon.
So what now, as President Obama did say "we must pick ourselves up by our boot straps, and begin the work of rebuilding America". Alright back to work for me for now, granted what i do is nothing that noble for a 8am-8pm job Mon-Sat. Yet it pays the some of the big bills and maybe one day I'll see my friend and that beach again.
So after working from 8am to 1pm I finally thought ok I'm taking a break, and eating some real food. Not the typical WELCOME TO FAST AZZ FOOD JOINT WOULD U LIKE FRIES WITH THAT. No, I saw a themed burger place and went for it, good thing was this was Margaritaville before someone took Jimmy B's idea and turned it into a Corp Chain. So there I am, all my favorite things surround me a little Bob Marley on the jukebox, a Spring Training Game on the TV, a real grill, and of course booze in the blender. The bar stocked with Captain, Crown, Corona, and other booze that streached for as far as the eye could C, but can't touch remember this is a working lunch.
Yet back to the point at hand, it all reminded me of a distant memory of my last trip to the beach. A trip I was able to share with friends, and wish every day could be like that. Yet then I snap back to reality and realize that I'm a broke fresh out of college adult, and every lender in the world wants their money back with interest. (After all it is my generation that will have to save us from the recession before it turns into a great depression) I step outside and see the desert mountains of Arizona on all sides of me, and I remember I'm no longer just 5 hours away from a friend who could BS with me about the one day we retire to a sunny beach front property, No I'm 25 hours from them, but 5 hours from the water that I still can't see b/c tomorrow is payday and after all I owe, I'll be lucky to afford a water balloon.
So what now, as President Obama did say "we must pick ourselves up by our boot straps, and begin the work of rebuilding America". Alright back to work for me for now, granted what i do is nothing that noble for a 8am-8pm job Mon-Sat. Yet it pays the some of the big bills and maybe one day I'll see my friend and that beach again.
Friday, February 20, 2009
First thoughts are not always best.
Alright so I need an outlet and this is going to be it! This blog will not be just a daily journal of how bad my rush hour commute was, or what I ate for lunch. No this will be my insight on events around me, and if it happens to get personal then so be it. Maybe we'll get lucky and with a little practice I'll have the voice of Rick Reilly, or the humor of Calvin and Hobbs. So now that's settled, why should I do this? Shouldn't a recent journalism grad from one of the nations top programs be at some small newspaper making a name for himself in the field. Well in the perfect world maybe, and in that world student loans could be consolidated and affordable to payback.
(Ah you see there is a stroke of genius, instead of banking and lending institutions going crazy like a Chimp in Connecticut they could find the finances to consolidate all of a persons student loans, not just try to drive college students further below the poverty line. I guarantee there is a need for this service, and if I had the means to do this for others like me I would, however my lenders have already taken my lifesaving's and misspent them... Speaking of good ideas, this isn't my only one, you should hear my mass transit idea that uses Bullet Trains on natural energy, but your going to have to pay for the rights to that.)
Now that we are all off and running I hope the next post can be getter then the first. I might even show off my favorite photos, as my photojournalism skills can only do so much with the technology involved and continuously dry desert.
Thanks for reading
-J.J. Gilmore.
©, Josh Gilmore, 2009
(Ah you see there is a stroke of genius, instead of banking and lending institutions going crazy like a Chimp in Connecticut they could find the finances to consolidate all of a persons student loans, not just try to drive college students further below the poverty line. I guarantee there is a need for this service, and if I had the means to do this for others like me I would, however my lenders have already taken my lifesaving's and misspent them... Speaking of good ideas, this isn't my only one, you should hear my mass transit idea that uses Bullet Trains on natural energy, but your going to have to pay for the rights to that.)
Now that we are all off and running I hope the next post can be getter then the first. I might even show off my favorite photos, as my photojournalism skills can only do so much with the technology involved and continuously dry desert.
Thanks for reading
-J.J. Gilmore.
©, Josh Gilmore, 2009
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